2021 Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party leadership election

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The **2021 Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party leadership election** was scheduled on Friday, May 7, 2021, to replace the retiring James Dylan Oakes III who was previously elected in the 2020 Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party leadership election following the departure of Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a on December 31, 2019. This leadership election was called as part of the fallout of the Suicide of Joe Walz.

The election was won by Sydney Lucas Webster, a Vietnam War veteran from the United States, grandson of late Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, and lifelong member of the Chawopolis Palace, serving both the Imperial Parliament and the Imperial Senate. Webster won the election unopposed mainly due to name recognition, military service, and the fact that he is one of Chawosauria's most powerful leaders of the ongoing anti-communist opposition.

This leadership election is a indirect election to elect the Leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party following the retirement of James Dylan Oakes III as part of fallout and backlash of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party's questionable handling of the onset of the apparent suicide of party member Joe Walz, who was the MP of the Imperial Parliament of the Empire of Chawosauria who was elected in 2019 to represent Chawosaurians in Frankfurt. Walz gained public fame for his candidacy for Leader of the Opposition during the 2020 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election, in which he lost to the right-wing populist Charles Muskie.

On April 23, 2021, Sydney Lucas Webster finally announced his candidacy for the leadership.

The winner of this leadership contest is set to take over the party on July 1, 2021.

## Background

The Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party and their fusion ticket ally, the Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party, lost control of the monarchy in the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election to the widely popular former Prime Minister and nominee of the Chawosaurian Communist Party, Shang Jong Parker and lost their minority government in the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections to the Chawosaurian Communist Party. Lame-duck Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a, who lost to Shang Jong Parker, led a peaceful transition of power to the Communist Party going into the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government before he was set to depart on December 31, 2019, before the Communist Party takes power on January 1, 2020.

Kalawai'a left no successor for the party, so the party had to elect one in 2020, and then James Dylan Oakes III was the one to lead the party.

## Candidates

### Announced

Sydney Lucas Webster
* Sydney Lucas Webster, Minority Party Leader of the Chawopolis Palace (announced April 23, 2021)

### Speculated Candidates

Juneau Lucas WebsterSamantha MontgomeryJames Dylan Oakes IIIEkewaka Mikala Kalawai'aJonathan Sidney MacCarthy IIIJohnathan Saint Nicholas Montgomery VII
* Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a, former Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria
* Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III, former Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria
* Johnathan Saint Nicholas Montgomery VII
* Juneau Lucas Webster
* Samantha A. Montgomery
* James Dylan Oakes III

## Results

Webster won the election unopposed to become Leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party on May 7, 2021.

## See also

* 2020 Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party leadership election