1899 Chawosaurian direct election

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The **1899 Chawosaurian Direct Election** was the first Chawosaurian direct election ever held in Chawosaurian history, held on various dates from December 31, 1898 to January 31, 1899, just before the 1899 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The election was held just immediately after the Chawo-Wolfsberg War, after the election, Emperor Santiago forbitten future direct elections until his retirement in 1975, when a 1975 Chawosaurian direct election was held to replace the aging Emperor Santiago.

Johnathan A.B.L. Santiago Alexandria of the Liberal Party UK was elected Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria at age 28, by a double-digit margin though he didn't run his campaign, but others done it for him, because of Santiago's lack of intellect. Alexandria won the election, defeating Timothy McDonald with 54% of the popular vote and 535 electoral votes in the electoral college, which this election in Chawosaurian history in which the electoral college was used on the same day of the election. Despite Alexandria's victory, the UK Conservative Party won a supermajority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace.

There was a threat brought by the possibility that the rising-star leftist and labor union advocate, Garfield Lucas Webster, may run for the monarchy with the alliance from the Social Democratic Federation, the Fabian Society, and the Independent Labour Party. The Santiago campaign wanted socialism outlawed to prevent a working-class rally around Webster, and little do the Santiago and McDonald campaigns know, that Webster is gonna successfully rise to power in his successful campaign in the 1901 Socialist Republic of North America presidential election, and the prime ministership of Chawosauria in the 1909 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election.

Liberals such as Ulysses G. Bellows, Thomas L. Wallace, Theodore McClellan, Charles Lee Oakes IV, Jonathan Denzel Munzberg IV, Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie V, Spyridon Athan Bakirtzis, Thomas Elliott Rawlings, and among other liberals have opposed Johnathan Alexandria for the nomination due to his lack of experience. The Conservative nomination was tested between Timothy McDonald and Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson, and McDonald won the nomination, and Alexandria quelled a challenge from Bellows, Wallace, McClellan, Oakes, Munzberg, MacKenzie, Bakirtzis, and Rawlings, to snatch the liberal nomination.

Living under the Liberal-Conservative Party establishment, Chawosaurians were living under a mandatory two-party system, making them choose between the Liberals and Conservatives. The Liberals were likely to be chosen over the Conservatives.

## Background

The Chawalliankalitan Empire collapsed in the Chawo-Wolfsberg War, and the Westminster Agreement assimilated the newly established Empire of Chawosauria into the Orbian World, and Westminster gained quasi-influence into Chawosauria's new government. Queen Victoria (a) became Empress of Chawosauria.

## Candidates

### The Liberal Nominee

The Liberal Candidate
 Nominated

The Liberals nominated Johnathan Alexandria for Supreme Leader.

#### Fight for the Liberal Nomination

List of Liberal Candidates for the Nomination
Saranac Lake, New York, USA
 Thomas Lothian Wallace
 Charles Lee Oakes IV
 Spyridon Athan Bakirtzis
Athens, Greece
 Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie V
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
 Theodore Alois McClellan
 Jonathan Denzel Munzberg IV
 Shailendra Vira Kerala Balakrishnan
Mumbai, British India

TBD

## Results

Results of the 1898-1899 federal election
 Total Votes

Santiago won the delegates and the popular vote, winning North America, China, and some places in Asia and Africa. While McDonald won most of Asia, Europe, some places in Africa, and Australia (nationwide). The voter turnout was small, and the Liberals and the Conservatives from the United Kingdom had won their seats, it was a hung parliament in the Chawopolis Palace. The election was during the Imperial Era, with Europe and Asia, and also the United States, attempting to take each other over.