40th Adorian Presidential Election

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## Electoral System

The President of Adoria is directly elected using a two-round system for a four-week term, with no term limits.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Adorian Constitution, the president must be elected by an absolute majority of valid votes. If no candidate succeeds in passing this threshold in the first round, a second round of voting is held with the two candidates who received the largest shares of the vote. If the runoff ties than the President elected by the National Assembly.

In order to be registered to contest the election, a candidate must be an Adorian citizen for at least 3 weeks, and have collected at least 10 voters' signatures by themselves and be between 30 to 70 years old.

## Nominations

Following Lich and DANIEL!, Nepo would become the 3rd President to unexpectedly leave the server mid-presidency. This would make VP Bjorn the new President who would publicly declare he had no interest in running for re-election.

Prime Minister3 November 2021 – 16 November 2021
President of Adoria2 August 2022 – 31 August 2022

With this a vast field of candidates would make themselves known. The first to enter the race would be Otto Von Oldrich who was widely popular yet had never ran for President before. His running mate would be Meow Zedong who at the time was a KAB member. Earthly who had also never ran before but strongly considered to in the 23rd and 27th presidential elections would choose to finally run. He had originally chosen Noot Noot! as his running mate but would replace him with Sinpar after Noot proposed a controversial gender bill that nearly collapsed the 90th Government.

CSM leader Ethan would consider a campaign with KAB's Arjona as his running mate but in the end would decide against it to consolidate CSM's voter base under Earthly. StarsBees&Axolotl would plan a satirical campaign with Fmr. VP Some Random Guy as his running mate but StarsBees would unexpectedly leave the server to better use his time on irl activities.

The KAB had originally planned to endorse a Ethan/Arjona ticket while also propping up an inactive Shuzi/Seafox ticket to act as a comedic spoiler. With a CSM/KAB ticket no longer on the table the KAB would double down on Shuzi and plan on fully endorsing him but Shuzi had grown too busy during the holiday season to run so a Seafox/Arjona ticket would be ran instead. At the time of election Seafox had even become KAB leader.

Lastly, ALRP Leader Baron would also run and with M Leader DANIEL! as his VP. While Von Oldrich was widely viewed as the clear frontrunner, this election would be praised nonetheless for being so multipolar and competitive.

At the time of election Otto Von Oldrich had sent **443** messages in the last 30 days, Baron had **550**, Seafox had **59**, and Earthly was at **636**. This would be the first time a presidential debate was held since the 33rd presidential election, a decent 7 months ago. The debate would be widely positively received especially for its wackier moments such as Carlos Montiel attempting to assault the debate moderator SoleSol. A VP debate would also be planned but would be cancelled due to scheduling issues if it had been held it would have been the first VP debate since the 21st presidential election, 1.5 years ago.

## Results

The 40th presidential election would begin on December 28th 2022, along with the 91st general election. Otto/Meow would be endorsed by the SDP, Seafox/Arjona by the KAB, Earthly/Sinpar by the CSM, and Baron/DANIEL! by the ALRP. While M forgot to endorse Baron correctly they would still whip for him. Following its conclusion it would take 27 hours for Round 1 results to be released on December 31st 2022. At only **12.13%** this would surpass recent elections in being the newest lowest turnout for a presidential election up to this point. This would be the first time time since the 28th presidential election that the lead candidate received less than 40%.

On January 1st 2023, the runoff would begin held between Otto/Meow and Baron/DANIEL!. Baron would now hold the endorsements of the KAB and M while the CSM would choose to not endorse any candidate. After the runoff concluded it would take only a brief 59 minutes before results were released on January 2nd 2023, alongside the 91st general election results. Turnout would be **11.65%**.

## See Also

* Presidential Elections
* 91st Adorian General Election
* 39th Adorian Presidential Election
* 41st Adorian Presidential Election