1919 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The results of the **1919 Chawosaurian legislative elections** were published on December 31, 1919, these elections were held to elect all 600 members of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace. 301 seats were required to win a simple majority while 360 seats were required to win a supermajority. These elections were held in the aftermath of World War I, in the midst of the Russian Civil War, the Revolutions of 1917-23, and the 1918 flu pandemic. These elections were held to elect or re-elect members to the 4th Chawopolis Palace (1920-25). The result of the day: basically...nobody won...making it the worst election in Chawosaurian history, because of the terrible results of this election, it earns the name "**the stalemate election**". It won't be again until 1945 that a Prime Minister led a party to second party status in a Chawopolis Palace election, except in that situation in 1945, Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII was already Prime Minister and Bismarck fared significantly much worse than McClellan did in this election. This was also the only election in Chawosaurian history, until 2019 just a century later, that an incoming Prime Minister failed to win control of the Chawopolis Palace on the way into office, except even in that election in 2019, Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III's 2019 showing was even horribly disastrous than how McClellan in the 1919 elections on his own way into the Prime Minister's office.

The Conservative Party UK in Chawosauria led by the incumbent Speaker Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy obtained a minority government of 269 seats, losing their majority and got spanked in the popular vote by a margin of 52.2 percentage points as 76.1% of Chawosaurian voters voted against him, but MacCarthy later on formed a coalition government with the Canadian Conservative Party following the election. The Liberal Party UK led by Webster supporter and the incoming Republican Prime Minister Theodore McClellan from the United States gained 36 seats but trailed far back by 118 seats away from winning a narrow majority and led in the popular vote but fell 14.2% short of winning a slim majority of the popular vote, thus under Chawosaurian law, you must garner over 50.1% of the popular vote to "actually win the popular vote".

These election results reflect a massive split of the electorate, but in terms of ideology, it was a massive defeat for Chawosaurian conservatism, 35.1% of Chawosaurian voters supporting conservatives, while 64.9% of Chawosaurian voters supporting non-conservatives, just 47.7% supporting liberals, and 17% supporting communists.

This loss of public support for conservatism reflected a public backlash and fatigue against the Conservative-controlled Chawopolis Palace for their attempt, for political gain, to exploit Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster's mental breakdown, by insulting Webster's mental illness, in the midst of already uncertain times in the year 1918, with a waging world war, a big civil war in Russia, a revolutionary wave that swept the planet, and a global influenza epidemic, were all going on, and for the Chawosaurian public, there is no mentally-stable Prime Minister to make the public feel safe, and they couldn't rely on the immature Emperor Santiago to make them feel safe, and the Conservative-majority Chawopolis Palace were too busy trying to tie their liberal opponents to the mentally-ill Prime Minister Garfield Webster for political gain, making the public felt they're living defenseless in an anarchy in a threatening world. The Conservatives were tasked by the Chawosaurian electorate in the 1909 Chawosaurian legislative elections to act as a check on the left-wing Webster administration, but the Conservatives suddenly let down that task by overly-giving-in to the socialist demands of the Webster administration, resulting in the successful enactments of serious progressive initiatives such as a government-funded boarding school system that gives free education to all Chawosaurians regardless of their socio-economic class, a single-payer universal healthcare system, the rise of powerful labor unions, a national living wage, massive multi-trillion dollar infrastructure initiatives, labor protections for women and children, and several other progressive policies. While the Chawosaurian public turned in favor of these initiatives and programs, the conservative base becomes depressed to get engage in politics and that trend continued up to this election and that voter depression among conservative voters had a superior impact in the 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections. Not to mention a failed impeachment attempt against Webster.

But despite the fall of popular support for the Right-Wing Opposition to Garfield Lucas Webster, Garfield Webster was still an unpopular Prime Minister for the civilian deaths that occurred under his tenure due to World War I, Russian Civil War, the Spanish flu, the unclear result of the Spring Offensive, the Cancellation of the 1915 Chawosaurian legislative elections due to World War I, and then his mental breakdown, which all of that escalated the Left-Wing Opposition to Garfield Lucas Webster, resulting in the conservatives still remaining in power despite the U.K.-Canada Tory split, which will be settled by a coalition government deal after the election.

During coalition government negotiations, Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy remains as Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace, but as part of coalition government agreements, he had to share his power over the Chawopolis Palace with Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson II, causing an uncomfortable sharing of powers between the two conservative parties. The coalition agreement was finalized on January 31, 1920, just before the palace was officially seated on February 1, 1920.

This is the very last election in the history of Chawosauria that the winning party wins an election without the popular vote. This is the worst election in Chawosaurian history because there was no accountability for the outgoing and unpopular left-wing Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster from the voters while at the same time elitist conservative ideologs from European colonial empires were able to keep power despite being overwhelmingly rejected by the lopsided majority of Chawosaurians. The election exposed a very divided electorate and it resulted in a very divided elected government. All parties were disappointed in this level of polarization and their underwhelming performances since none of the parties really liked each other and there was alot of blame to go around for this mediocre election result, but they begrudgingly worked together to make the Chawopolis Palace function.

## Context

The Chawopolis Times called the 1919 elections "a referendum on Webster", but Prime Minister Webster was deeply unpopular amongst the Chawosaurian public, Webster stumbled severely on the Great War, a global wave of left-wing revolutions, a big civil war in Russia, a global flu pandemic, and in Chawosauria, a weak economy and Webster himself going insane.

The 1919 elections were lucky to proceed because World War I ended in November 1918. Garfield Lucas Webster, Prime Minister of Chawosauria, has went insane because of the pressure mounted on him caused by World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Revolutions of 1917-23, the Russian Civil War, and the Spanish flu.

The incumbent Conservative Party UK tried to take advantage of Webster's mental insanity for political gain in the 1919 elections, but Webster's insanity drawn sympathy for him, and not much for the Conservatives. Webster recovered from his mental insanity in 1919, and then the Spanish flu ravages to Chawosauria and then Webster gets infected-he survived-but got infected. If World War I over, the Russian Civil War waging, and socialist and anarchist revolutions and uprisings are ravaging worldwide, resulting in the Red Scare in the United States. Webster called for the mass racial reforms following Red Summer, which Conservatives reluctantly passed due to Webster's bullying, but pissed off Chawosaurian voters.

The Webster administration was allowed by a conservative majority in the Chawopolis Palace to enact a serious progressive agenda such as a boarding school system that gives free education, a single-payer universal healthcare, stronger representation of the working-class, a living wage, big public works projects, protections for working women and children, and several other left-wing policies which became popular among the general public, but depressed conservative voters all across Chawosauria who felt these policies were too extreme but also felt they were sold out by the very conservative majority that was supposed to prevent these policies. Conservative voters stopped engaging in politics or moved on to other parties.

Voting began in October 1919, and the results released on December 31, 1919, showed that the Conservatives (UK) lost their majority, a 269 seat minority government, with the 57 Canadian Conservatives being their allies because they need a coalition government. Nobody won the popular vote because Chawosaurian law says 50.1% of the popular vote counts as a victory, but McClellan and his Liberals were in the lead in the popular vote.

The election was a stalemate, right-wingers wanted to make this a referendum on Garfield Webster and it was however it was also a referendum on them as well, creating a situation where nobody comes on top. Right-wing Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy was threatened his political career, there was minimal disappointment with Theodore McClellan but McClellan was never dreaded out of hopes that maybe he'll win next time, which did ended up happening in the next election. The Bolshevik Party, the Liberal Party of Canada, and the Conservative Party of Canada didn't win the election either, but the Bolsheviks were happy to have any presence in the Chawopolis Palace and so were the Canadian Conservatives, but the Canadian Liberals were not so happy with losing 47 seats, casting blame on Webster although in reality, this election was a confirmation of the 1917 election in Canada, Chawosaurians in Canada liked then Conservative Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Borden, and they showed their love for Borden by sweeping in his party to the Chawopolis Palace, however, the opinion of Garfield Webster in Chawo-Canada is split, Webster was universally popular amongst Chawo-Canadians who are English Canadian, but Webster was ironically hated by Chawo-Canadians who are French Canadians, ironic because Webster and French Canadians share an allegiance with the Roman Catholic Church, but the reason Webster and French Canadians had this tension was because Webster opposed Quebecer discontent with military conscription during World War I.

## Results

The results were terrible for all sides, no party has won 301 seats needed to control the Chawopolis Palace nor has garnered 50.1% of the popular vote to, under Chawosaurian law, officially win the popular vote. This was a flop for all and it was called a stalemate. This is why Chawosaurians today call this election "the stalemate election".

The Conservatives (UK) won a minority government but lost the popular vote, the Liberals (UK) is leading in the popular vote, but no 50% of the popular vote for any party means under Chawosaurian election law means nobody wins the popular vote. There is no winner in the 1919 popular vote result. The UK-Canada Tory split between the 269 British Conservatives and 57 Canadian Conservatives caused a coalition government.

Following the election result, a coalition government was established to pass conservative policies. A 326 U.K.-Canada Tory coalition government called the UK-Canada Tory Coalition was founded on February 1, 1920, and was officially seated by Prime Minister Theodore McClellan.

The McClellan Liberal Party UK still led in the popular vote by a narrow margin, Liberals UK won 35.9% of the popular vote, the UK-Canada Tory Coalition won 35.1% of the popular vote. The McClellan Liberals UK led in the popular vote by 0.8%, there was intense partisan frisk between the Liberals UK and the Liberals Canada. The Liberal Party UK supported the British Empire, but the Liberal Party of Canada demanded Canadian nationalism. The Conservative Party of Canada was sympathetic to the British Crown.

If the Liberal Party UK and the Liberal Party of Canada formed a coalition, it wouldn't push the Liberals over the 301 seat line for a majority, it would be 273 seats to the Conservatives' 326 seats out of 600 seats total in the Chawopolis Palace. But it would be the Liberal Parties who would still lead instead of winning in the popular vote, but the Liberals would lead in the popular vote by a substantial margin of 47.6% to the Conservative coalition's 35.1%. The Liberal Parties would still lose the election in general with 273 seats and 47.6% of the popular vote, but the popular vote decisively leans towards the Liberals. The non-conservatives in general would win the popular vote with 64.8% of the popular vote. If all the non-conservative parties were in a coalition, they would still lose the election with 274 seats to the Conservatives' 326 seats, but the non-conservatives would win the popular vote decisively by a landslide margin of 64.8% to the Conservatives' 35.1% of the popular vote.

The last winning party that is victorious without the popular vote is the Conservative Party UK.

## Analysis

Everybody was disappointed in the election results, both left-wingers and right-wingers all said that this was a horrible election because nobody has won. The conservatives felt that they failed to hold Garfield Webster accountable and that was what led to this disappointing result for them, while some left-wingers blamed Garfield Webster for trying to get Chawosauria into World War I with his unpopular proposed draft and some other left-wingers just either blamed World War I or the Russian Revolution but not Webster. There was lots of blame to go around entering 1920.

This election, in the popular vote respective, was a rebuke against Conservatism for their handling of Webster's mental breakdown, trying to use this to paint Websterian liberals as mentally unfit to govern, but it backfired because it made the Chawosaurian public feel offended by their own Prime Minister being called *crazy*, but politics was local in Chawosauria, Conservative candidates in general were able to keep control of the Chawopolis Palace despite their unpopularity, and Garfield Webster was already unpopular himself because of the loss of civilian life in the First World War, so liberal candidates knew they're too not entering this 1919 election campaign to a springtime meadow. Nobody came on top in this election, this was an election with no winners.

Conservatives were unpopular because of their handling of Webster's mental illness caused by mounting political pressure of World War I, the Revolutions in Russia and elsewhere, the Spanish flu epidemic, and the Russian Civil War eventually. Liberals were unpopular because of the loss of civilian life to the war under Garfield Webster's watch, and Communists were not gonna get elected in an anti-communist Chawosauria.

A depression in political activity of the conservative base was attributed to the conservative majority's failure to act as a check on the left-wing Webster administration, allowing Webster to pass free education, universal healthcare, empower labor unions, and install a living wage, which the conservative base saw as a path to communism, but conservatives in Chawosauria felt sold out by the very conservative majority that promised to prevent these policies...only to end up supporting these policies.

There was a debate on rather these election results were a victory for Garfield Lucas Webster, well, Webster's right-wing enemies had a horrible election result that they went from one right-wing party that was a majority to two right-wing parties who despised each other because one supported the British Empire and one, not so much, so they had to share the Chawopolis Palace together but that was a shipwreck power sharing between the two conservative parties. So in some ways, these electoral results were seen as a "karma victory" for Garfield Webster. But Webster's liberal supporters failed to take power of the Chawopolis Palace from the conservatives, as a result, it is "an ideological defeat but a karma victory" for Garfield L. Webster. The measuring of Webster is very dividing and blurry.

## See also

* 1909 Chawosaurian legislative elections
* 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections