1959 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The results of the **1959 Chawosaurian legislative elections** were published on December 31, 1959. These elections were held to elect all 600 members of the Chawopolis Palace, 301 seats were required to win a majority, and 360 were required to win a supermajority. A Cold War election, this election was the second of five elections held during the Vietnam War, this election was held after the 1958 recession.

The Communist Party led by the incumbent Speaker Timothy Max Roosevelt were reelected to the Chawopolis Palace for the third time for a fourth term. The Communist Party retained their supermajority that they won in the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative election, the Communists won 501 seats to the Coalition Party's 99 seats. Unlike the 1929 Chawosaurian legislative elections and the 1935 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the 1958 recession did not hurt the incumbent Communist Party, but may have hurt Emperor Santiago and Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII's Coalition Party given that they're the party that controls the monarchy and the prime ministership, but the Communist Party's incumbency is a much truer factor as defeating a ruling parliamentary party is a nearly impossible task that significantly fewer parties have succeeded at doing so. Bismarck saw his raw vote share increased from 1,463 votes in 1955, to now 235,000 votes, but his performance is still stagnant in the popular vote and he lost 66 seats, only having bright spots in smaller constituencies with small populations that are also shrinking, which explains his repeated loss of seats.

With these elections held during the first decade of the Cold War, what attributed to the Communist Party's fourth victory was of course their incumbency, but also because of the Soviet victory in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the end result of the Suez Crisis, the Soviet launch of *Sputnik 1*, the Cuban Revolution, and the rising unrest in the United States involving racial segregation in America. The end result of the Cuban Revolution, which meant communism expanded far close to the United States, the leading anti-communist superpower, gave the Communist Party the election. Communism was developing elsewhere in nations close to the Soviet Union which will lead to the United States' retaliation shown in the Vietnam War, but Cuba falling under Communism indicated that the power of the Soviet Union was tightening up. Chawosauria was largely affected by the 1958 recession but it wasn't enough to swing the election in Bismarck's favor. Bismarck's failure to energize the anti-communist resistance for the third time in a role made anti-communists believe conservatism isn't working enough, and Bismarck's unpopularity escalated as he, once again, disappointed the capitalist base with yet another awful defeat to the winning and expanding Communist Party.

After the elections, Bismarck suffered a factional war between the liberal and conservative wings of the Coalition Party over whether Bismarck should be allowed to lead the party in the next election. This is the first of four elections that has led to Bismarck's political downfall. Before, during, and after the campaign, the Coalition Party expressed concerns about Bismarck's unpopularity and this weariness of Bismarck was shared during the campaign amongst anti-communist candidates. Bismarck, having lost his fourth straight election and lost seats for the fourth time in a roll greatly frustrated anti-communists.

Incumbency, the Cold War, and Bismarck's furthering unpopularity decided the outcome again, the Communist Party has secured a fourth victory in a roll. Giving Timothy Max Roosevelt a 4th term as Speaker. The Sino-Soviet Split had a far less impact than communists feared would have, Chawosaurian voters thought the USSR's expansion of communism overshadowed the rift between the USSR and China.

## Context

Soviet aggression against the anti-communist 1956 Hungarian Revolution was the start of the Communist trend in the upcoming '59 elections that will be held in Chawosauria. The Communist Party was just reelected in 1955 mainly because of the death of Stalin, the development of the Cold War, and the expansion of nuclear superpowers.

    Bismarck and the reigning conservative premiership have failed miserably to take back the Chawopolis Palace from the Communist Party in the elections of 1949 and 1955, thus creating a risk ground for a liberal rebellion against Bismarck and his conservative premiership. Liberal figures Garfield Lucas Webster II, James Dylan Oakes, Eliakim Iosif Bakirtzis, and Joseph Wallace Berks threatened to replace Bismarck in the 1959 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election in the Chawopolis Palace, but Bismarck successfully claimed a third term as Prime Minister, which caused great dissatisfaction among the liberal base, causing them to stay home and not vote--again, which is why Bismarck is repeatedly losing election after election since 1945.

Bismarck ran a crappy campaign, running a standard conservative campaign empathizing on deregulation, lower taxes, and traditional family values, which none of which gave Chawosaurian voters as a whole the excitement to vote for him or his party to win more seats. The Communist Party ran on defending the Soviet Union, railing against religious and bourgeoisie rule, and the preservation of labor union rule over Chawosaurian politics, which helped the Communist Party a fourth term.

The Communist Party retained their supermajority of 501 seats to Bismarck's 99 seats, surfing to a gain of 66 seats while Bismarck plummets by 66 seats. In the popular vote, the Communist Party won a total of 681,783,535 votes to Bismarck's 235,000 votes.

## Results

The Communist Party won reelection for the third time, winning a fourth term. The Communist Party won 501 seats, to the Coalition Party's 99 seats, with 681,783,535 popular votes for the Communist Party to the 235,000 popular votes garnered by the Coalition Party. The Communists gained 66 seats from the Coalition Party, thus the Coalition Party suffered a loss of 99 seats.

## Aftermath

Bismarck failed to defeat the Communist Party again, failing to defeat the party for the fourth time, failed to win back the Chawopolis Palace for the third time, both in a roll. Following the election result release on December 31, 1959, Bismarck entered his third term facing a revolt from the liberal wing of his own Coalition Party, Conservatives opposed the liberals' calls on Bismarck to resign and let a liberal take over and face the Communist Party in the next election.

Throughout the 1960s, Bismarck had contentious battles with anti-communist progressives, most threaten to switch to the Communist Party if Bismarck did not resign and appoint a liberal successor. Bismarck was defeated in the '65 elections, losing his last 99 seats, creating an all 600 communist legislature. Bismarck never participated in the 1969 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

## Analysis

The Communist Party's 4th victory in a roll represents the Chawosaurian rally around the Soviet Union due to its appeal to Chawosaurian opposition to classism, religion, and capitalism.

The Sino-Soviet split had a far less impact than people anticipated, it is because Chawosaurian voters voted based on the expansion of Soviet influence, and not because of a rift between two major communist states. The Coalition Party was disappointed that the Sino-Soviet split did not hurt the Communist Party at all.

## See also

* 1955 Chawosaurian legislative elections
* 1965 Chawosaurian legislative elections