1949 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election

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The **1949 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial Election** was a contingent election that was held on October 31, 1949, to elect the Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria. The incumbent was Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, and he wanted a second term but due to his really decisive defeat in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, Emperor Santiago and his administration did not think Bismarck would possibly be reelected to a second term.

Bismarck's chances of clinching to a second term looked weak because he had to overcome the political agony of a lack of enthusiasm amongst anti-communists and a Communist Party majority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace that was elected in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections in a landslide. Garfield Lucas Webster II, the son of Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, was the favorite to replace Bismarck as a candidate for the prime ministership against the Communist Party, who could systemically snatch the prime ministership for themselves. Garfield Webster Sr lobbied for his son's election to the premiership, but Garfield II declined the job, which shocked everyone, even Bismarck.

A very competitive race, there were also other anti-communist candidates: Ludovico Valerio Belcastro, Leonardo Amadeo Bresciano, Jacob Tyler Berks, Joseph Wallace Berks II, Samuel Wharton Burton, Johnathan Franklin Walsingham III, Wilhelmus A.M. Van Valkenburgh, Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem II, Garfield Lionel Belshaw, Carolus Bourbon, Nicholas Mickey Winslow III, Shailendra V.K. Balakrishnan, Thomas Jefferson Blakeley, Nicholas Wilfrid McClellan, Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie VI, and Jonathan Layton Wellesley II. Though no black prime ministerial candidates, Timothy Max Roosevelt (Native American) and Shailendra Balakrishnan (South Asian) are the only two prime ministerial candidates without predominately white ancestry. Another Webster named Charles Lionel Webster (A first cousin once removed to Prime Minister Webster) also tried out for the premiership, but he was dogged out by a smear campaign by Bismarck. Other Websters: Gelasius Leo Webster, Ronald MacKenzie Webster, and Minister of Education Olympia Valeria Webster had also threatened Bismarck.

Speaker Timothy Max Roosevelt was clearly the front runner for the prime ministership because even if the emperor nominates an anti-communist, that nominee would likely be voted down by a communist-controlled Chawopolis Palace and will take charge at filling the vacancy of the prime ministership by electing Timothy Max Roosevelt to serve as Prime Minister (which never happened before in Chawosaurian history that a supreme leader's prime ministerial nominee is rejected by the palace and the palace intervenes to fill the prime ministership).

Bismarck finally clinched the nomination by Emperor Santiago, and he used his mafia and blackmailing skills to convince moderate communists to vote for him for a second term. Bismarck won enough votes to win a second term, which no prime minister was able to win since Frederick William Schwartz in the late 19th century. Webster turning down the prime ministership enjoyed conservatives who wanted to keep the prime ministership, but frustrated liberals who wanted Bismarck out but also didn't want a communist to take over the premiership.

Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII went on to lose 60 seats to the Communist Party in the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections, thus weakening the comeback from his 1945 defeat.

## Background and Situation

> *Main articles: 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections and Nomination Attempt of Garfield Lucas Webster II*
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### Bismarck's Landmark 1945 Election Loss

    Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII lost control of the Chawopolis Palace to the Chawallian Communist Party that was led by Timothy Max Roosevelt in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections following the final end of World War II. According to exit polls released on December 31, 1945, the Communist Party won 358 seats (two seats close to a supermajority), in a gain of 321 seats, which is more than enough to capture a simple majority (301 seats needed for a majority). The Communist Party won the popular vote, 90.5% of Chawosaurian voters voted for communist candidates.

Prime Minister Bismarck's caucus finished with 139 seats and 5.4% of voters who voted for Bismarck's partisan candidates. Bismarck suffered a loss of 178 seats, and he underperformed in the popular vote from his 1939 share by 22.6% lower. The 1945 election result was a blistering defeat for Bismarck, he was mentally traumatized as were the anti-communists, and the emperor himself, who did not anticipate a communist victory because it has never happened before. No question the media was shocked. This election result would go on to set the anti-communists back by 71-years.

Bismarck was the first Prime Minister to lose direct control of the Chawopolis Palace by failing to finish at first place because Prime Minister Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson lost most control of the Palace in the 1905 Chawosaurian legislative elections, but he finished at first place, helping him retain little control of the Palace. Bismarck lost in one of the most colossal fashion ever suffered by a Prime Minister, and with that, Bismarck had to face a really angry anti-communist base and an angry anti-communist coalition who are skeptical that he is the best man to face the Communist Party in the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

The immediate aftermath of the 1945 election made Prime Minister Bismarck politically vulnerable; already unpopular, his approval ratings amongst anti-communists collapsed as well. The Chawosaurian faction of the U.K. Conservative Party, which had alot of Nazis in it after the war, and whose presence in the Chawopolis Palace badly scandalized the Chawosaurian government and the anti-communists themselves, turned on their leader of 25 years, Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy. MacCarthy and the Tories were so badly defeated in 1945 that they finished third, they lost seats for the first time in 20 years, and MacCarthy desperately begged for his job, but his desperate pleas have only worsened his already worsening position, and he was swiftly given the boot in 1946. MacCarthy's fate made Bismarck deeply afraid, and he had self-isolated himself to reflect and figure out to save himself.

### Bismarck's unpopularity and reelection chances

Prime Minister Bismarck's public image was tarnished by the results of the 1945 elections for the Chawopolis Palace. Bismarck's approval ratings plummeted from 39% in 1945, to even lower numbers from 1946 to 1949. 88% of anti-communists, both liberal and conservative, believe Bismarck should not stand for another parliamentary election, similar polls showed that 86% of anti-communists are "deeply concerned" about letting Bismarck compete in another parliamentary election because of the fear that he'll lose again to the Communist Party. Polls had also showed that 76% of anti-communists want to see a liberal replace Bismarck, hoping that a liberal leader could defeat the Communist Party. Amongst conservatives, 57% of them wanted Bismarck to stand down. Broadly, anti-communists have lost faith in Bismarck and they desired someone else to replace him and challenge the Communist Party to an extend that Bismarck could not.

By 1949, Bismarck's approval polling was at 32% and disapproval polling at 59%. This made capitalist politicians feel uncomfortable with a second Bismarck prime ministership. Many people associated with Bismarck told him that with a Communist Party-controlled Chawopolis Palace stands in his way to cruise to a rare prime ministerial second term, Bismarck was suggested to start looking into retirement plans and/or post-prime ministerial career options.

A prime ministerial second term is extremely hard to clinch, the last Prime Minister to have had a second term was Frederick William Schwartz, and no Prime Minister had ever went even close to a second term ever since. Prime Minister Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson was denied a second term because of his similarly humiliatingly performance in the 1905 Chawosaurian legislative elections and his native party suffering a shellacking in the 1906 British parliamentary elections. Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster was denied a second term because he contracted the flu during the 1918 flu pandemic. Prime Minister Theodore McClellan declined a second term because of the backlash against his party in the U.S. as a result of the Great Depression. And Prime Minister Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X too declined a second term because he didn't felt prepared for the newly broken out second world war following the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland.

So with history not on Bismarck's side, his chances of a second term were widely seen as really slim. Calculations were low, and a big Communist majority in the Chawopolis Palace that don't look like they would ever bend over to Bismarck's demands even in a willy nilly situation.

Emperor Santiago wanted to replace Bismarck, the emperor was extremely angrily disappointed in Bismarck for losing to the communists in the 1945 elections in a big way, and there were already tensions between Bismarck and the emperor, whose nomination for the prime ministership Bismarck really needs in order to face election by the Chawopolis Palace (which are controlled by communists).

Skeptical of Bismarck, the emperor looked to other candidates, but former Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster groomed his eldest son Garfield Lucas Webster II to take over as Prime Minister to build a political dynasty and carry on his legacy. Prime Minister Webster suggested the emperor to nominate his son, Garfield Lucas Webster II, who just returned home to the United States from the Pacific War (Pacific part of World War II). Emperor Santiago was impressed with Garfield Webster II's recent military credentials, and started vetting him for his nomination for the prime ministership.

Bismarck saw this as a threat. The Bismarck family and the Webster family are among the biggest of enemies, and Bismarck felt threatened by the idea of a WWII veteran for Prime Minister because of the popularity it would bring to the Websters. Bismarck supported an Axis state, while the Websters supported an Allied state. The allies were the ones who won the war. The Communists were also threatened as well, because the United States had ended the war with its two atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, forcing the Empire of Japan, which was the last of all Axis states to stand alone, to surrender to the United States, thereby effectively ending the war. The communists' poster child state, the Soviet Union, sided with Hitler in the beginning of the war, and then though eventually forced to realign with the allies, still played a low role in the war. The USSR did however invaded Berlin, thus ending the Nazi threat to Europe, but the entire second world war continued.

Even though Garfield Webster II will not be Prime Minister if the emperor nominated him because he'd be blocked from becoming Prime Minister by a strong communist majority, it is still feared among communists that Webster being on top of the 1949 Coalition Party ticket for the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections will actually help the anti-communists win back the Chawopolis Palace from the communists, and if the anti-communists were reelected in the 1955 Chawosaurian legislative elections with Webster continuing on as the leader of the Coalition Party but would have to serve as Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace due to an anti-communist majority, Webster would be in a strong position to easily become Prime Minister by January 1, 1960.

Garfield Webster II was also a New Deal Democrat from the United States who sharply avidly supported U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, that was another reason Bismarck hated Webster, Bismarck feared Webster would bring the ideals of the New Deal over to Chawosauria, and that would probably mean racial equality in Chawosauria. While Roosevelt's New Deal didn't bring racial equality to a segregated America, many African-Americans still benefited from the New Deal, resulting in the exodus of black voters from the Republican Party (the party that freed the slaves) into the Democratic Party (the party that originally supported slavery and subsequently segregation).

Bismarck opposed racial equality, he supported instead white supremacy. Webster was privately a racist, but he confirmed that he would support measures moving towards racial equality if he were Prime Minister. The civil rights movement in the United States is about to steam up with WWII black veterans being disrespected by white civilians, and Webster criticized these discriminatory acts as "un-American". Capitalist minority members of the Chawopolis Palace representing Chawosaurian electoral districts in the Southern United States (all of whom are white, Southern Democrats) felt alienated by Webster's remarks, and demanded the emperor not to nominate Webster. Webster lost support from southern members of his own party.

Emperor Santiago traveled to Anchorage, Alaska (Alaska was not a U.S. state until 1959), to offer Webster the nomination. Prime Minister Webster tells his son that the emperor was coming to Anchorage to offer the prime ministership to him, and tried to convince him to accept it when the emperor gets here.

### Webster Declines the Nomination

Webster had a meeting with the emperor at his home in Anchorage. There, Emperor Santiago offered Webster the prime ministerial nomination for election by the Chawopolis Palace. Webster told the emperor that the communists in the Chawopolis Palace will not elect him as Prime Minister, and said this nomination may be a waste. Webster's wife Eleanora McClellan-Webster tries to convince him to take the nomination. The meeting ends with Webster undecided. Prime Minister Webster and Eleanora tries to convince Webster to take the nomination, but notices that he is constructing a family with Eleanora. An incoming child with Eleanora, and already Webster has three sons: Garfield III, Chester, and Thomas. Webster asked his catholic priest on rather he should take the nomination or stay with his family, the priest suggested that he should listen to God, and God would sent his suggestion by Webster feeling what he should do rather than thinking what he should do.

Webster felt from his heart that he should stay with his family, so he called the emperor and told him that he will not become Prime Minister. After Webster hung up, the emperor was paralyzed. Webster rejecting the nomination to the Prime Ministership was met with shock and disbelief, especially among liberals. Progressives were rallying around Webster, but Webster declining the nomination divided the progressive movement, giving the conservative Bismarck a unifying advantage over the progressives. Webster declining the nomination caused a large and competitive field of progressives to fight for the emperor's nomination while right-wingers were rallying around Bismarck.

## Challengers to Bismarck

The anti-communists were incredibly frustrated, angry, distraught, and disillusioned with Bismarck for losing the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections to an actual far-left communist party. Bismarck's defeat was so bad that he was the first non-communist leader and Prime Minister to lose a parliamentary election to an actual communist party, it was incredibly abnormal in Chawosauria at that time period, showing how incredibly embarrassing his defeat was.

Because of this, anti-communists demanded a new leader other than Bismarck, someone who could truly challenge a new Communist Party parliamentary majority in the upcoming 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections. Bismarck's very own defenders conceded that Bismarck may not be the right person to face the Communist Party in the 1949 elections, and that it might be time for a change in direction away from Bismarck.

An anti-communist leader who is a liberal becomes a much desired alternative to the conservative Bismarck, which made Chawosaurian conservatives feel a sense of insecurity because of the notion that they are seen as not strong enough compared to their liberal counterparts to stick it to the Communist Party, conservatives fought back by demanding Bismarck to step down, telling him that he is too toxic for the conservative movement and that it is time for a new conservative face to take the lead, this angered Bismarck and declared that he is not stepping down, prompting a civil war between conservatives who support and oppose Bismarck.

Chawosaurian liberals felt a sense of flattery at the notion that they are seen as popular alternatives to face the Communist Party, the face of the Chawosaurian liberal and progressive movement was too obvious for all sides: Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie VI, and liberals and even several strongly anti-Bismarck conservatives rallied around MacKenzie, and MacKenzie could not reject the offer.

### Major Challengers

Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie VI was a universally wanted candidate for Prime Minister, clearly regretting the 1919 rejection of Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie VI, though he did ran again, but his age was a problem, he would be nearing 90 if Lochlainn D. MacKenzie had successfully became Prime Minister on January 1, 1950. Lochlainn D. MacKenzie was widely declared "too old to serve" and he was ultimately never given the nomination.

Bismarck and his conservative administration knew that Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie was a threat, Lochlainn MacKenzie was popular amongst liberals and conservatives, who believe MacKenzie's brand of politics could win them the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and Bismarck argued that he has experience dealing with the Communist Party, but he is hammered by the fact that Bismarck was the one who lost to the Communist Party. Bismarck tried to promise that he would avoid the same mistakes that he made in 1945, but these pleas fell on deaf ears, making it clear that anti-communists wanted a new leader.

### Other challengers

* Wolfgang Adrian Van Belleghem
* Shailendra V.K. Balakrishnan
* Joseph Wallace Berks Jr.
* Ludovico Valerio Belcastro
* Leonardo Amadeo Bresciano
* Jacob Tyler Berks
* Samuel Wharton Burton
* Johnathan Franklin Walsingham III
* Wilhelmus A.M. Van Valkenburgh
* Wilhelmus Adrian Van Belleghem II
* Carolus Bourbon
* Nicholas Mickey Winslow III
* Thomas Jefferson Blakeley
* Jonathan Layton Wellesley II

Wolfgang Adrian Van Belleghem was implicated in the Chawopolis Palace Nazi scandals, so him becoming Prime Minister was clearly not going to happen.

### Potential

Olympia Valeria Webster, Minister of EducationRonald MacKenzie Webster, Member of ParliamentGelasius Leo Webster, Member of ParliamentSamantha A. Montgomery, Imperial SenatorGarfield Lionel Belshaw, DoctorGarfield Lucas Webster, former Prime Minister of the Empire of ChawosauriaJonathan Déaglán MacAlasdair, former Member of ParliamentJoseph Wallace Berks, CEO of Berks IndustriesPeople, such as Minister of Education Olympia Valeria Webster and former Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, were speculated to become candidates. Olympia Webster did not run because she was a woman, and Garfield Webster did not run to become Prime Minister again because of his incredibly advanced age. Garfield Belshaw did ultimately ran for the Premiership, but it was a failed bid.

Feminists in Chawosauria, noticing the power of Olympia Webster, wanted her to run for Prime Minister, and the Chawosaurian general public did not take issue with a woman running for an imperial leadership position, and the Communist Party was afraid that a woman party leader could mobilize Chawosaurian women to the polls, and had Olympia ran and been successful, she would have been the first woman Prime Minister in Chawosaurian history as well as the second from the Webster family to become Prime Minister.

Former Prime Minister Garfield Webster shut down speculation that he would run for Prime Minister again, saying "Why the hell would I ever wanna be Prime Minister again ...in my 90s?". Had Webster became Prime Minister again, he would've been the first Prime Minister in Chawosaurian history to take a non-consecutive term and a second term that is non-consecutive, and he also would've been the first Prime Minister in Chawosaurian history to die in office because Webster ultimately passed away five years later of brain cancer. Also ultimately in 2022. another former Prime Minister, Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII, did became Prime Minister again in the age of 72, that made him the first Chawosaurian Prime Minister ever to reach a non-consecutive second term and the first since Bismarck to reach overall term number two. Adding the years of MacAlasdair's second prime ministership to the years of his first prime ministership from the entire 2000s, MacAlasdair is one of Chawosauria's longest serving Prime Ministers after Schwartz and Bismarck, who both served half a century.

Despite being in his late 80s, Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie VI announced his bid for the nomination for Prime Minister, and he proved to be a significant threat to Bismarck that his younger and American cousin Lochlainn Wilkie dropped out, Lochlainn Wilkie endorsed Lochlainn Dowling MacKenzie, and Scottish Chawosaurians rallied around the other MacKenzie as a result.

## Declined to be Prime Minister

Former Speaker and Leader of the Opposition, Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy, was the first ever to decline a prime ministerial bid for 1949 for "clear and obvious reasons". which surprised no one given how poorly he performed in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections and what happened to him afterwards. Prime Minister Bismarck's predecessor, Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X, also a distant cousin, rejected a comeback prime ministerial bid because of the post-WWII Germanophobia at the time. Due to old age, former Prime Ministers Garfield Lucas Webster and Theodore McClellan rejected calls to seek the Prime Ministership again.

### Former Prime Ministers

* **Garfield Lucas Webster** - *3rd Prime Minister of Chawosauria from 1910 to 1919*.
* **Theodore McClellan** - *4th Prime Minister of Chawosauria from 1920 to 1929*.
* **Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X** - *5th Prime Minister of Chawosauria from 1930 to 1939*.

### Others

* Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy - *Speaker of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace and Leader of the Opposition*
* Garfield Lucas Webster II - *WWII Veteran of the United States*.
* Jonathan Franklin Starlington IV - *Chawosaurian Senator*.
* James Ezra Wesley VII - *former Coal Miner*.
* Joseph Wallace Berks - *CEO of Berks Industries*.
* Jedediah Phineas Sturgeon - *Society and Culture Minister*.
* Emiliano Alonso Meléndez - *future Society and Culture Minister*.
* Big John MacAlasdair - *Chawosaurian Member of Parliament*.
* Jonathan Athelstan Strathearn - *Political Boss*.
* Leonard Edward Kingsley - *Political Boss*.
* Jonathan Lothian McCloskey IV
* Jonathan Lyndon Barnsley II
* Jonathan Lincoln Barnsley II
* Antonio López de Santa Anna Meléndez - *Socialist Revolutionary*.
* Jonathan Lincoln Whitelaw II - *Chawosaurian Senator*.
* Gordon Lucius Webster IV - *Chawosaurian Member of Parliament*.
* Wilhelmus Adrian Bresciano
* Johannes Klaas Van Belleghem
* Joseph Dylan Starke
* Christian Adrian Van Belleghem
* Josiah Ezra Barnsley
* Charlie Bellows Wallace
* Thomas Lothian Wallace
* Ulysses Grant Bellows - *Minister of Labor*.
* Jacob Dylan Bellows
* Charles Lee Oakes IV - *Chawosaurian Businessman*.
* Charlie Zeus Bellows
* Charles Lionel Berkley
* Eliakim Iosif Bakirtzis

Garfield Lucas Webster II was the first to reject the nomination, and several others followed suit.

## Race for the Emperor's Nomination

### Role of the Supreme Leader

The Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria has the sole authority to nominate the Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria, and in order for that nominee to officially take office, the nominee must be elected by 301 votes in the Chawopolis Palace.
The race for the emperor's nomination was extremely competitive, the incumbent Prime Minister, Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, had to face a large slate of progressive candidates who wanted the nomination, and there are so many big-names out there who wanted the nomination. Applications for nomination were underway and Bismarck wanted to apply, but the emperor was not interested in Bismarck's application. Bismarck had conservatives rallying around him, urging the emperor to re-nominate him. Bismarck won support from the Chawopolis Palace's U.S. Democratic Party delegation from the Southern United States, Bismarck also won support from some Conservative Republicans from the U.S. Republican Party delegation from the United States. Bismarck had no support from the Communist Party USA delegation from the United States.

### Resistance to Bismarck

In the American delegation in the Chawopolis Palace, a liberal bipartisan coalition made up of Democrats and Republicans from the Northern United States joined forces to oppose Bismarck's potential re-nomination, and many Northern Democrats demanded that the legacy of the late President Roosevelt including the New Deal be brought to Chawosauria through a liberal Prime Minister, but while they'll won't ever get a Prime Minister elected and inaugurated on January 1, 1950, they hope to still do so by January 1, 1960. Prominent liberal Republicans from the Northeast included Maine's Samuel Wharton "Sam" Burton, and Johnathan Franklin Walsingham III, both demanded to be the first Republican Prime Minister of Chawosauria since Theodore McClellan, and McClellan couldn't seem to endorse any Republican for Prime Minister due to his personal relations with all of them.

### Slate of Progressive Candidates

#### Joseph Wallace Berks II and Jacob Tyler Berks

From Saranac Lake, New York, two sons of Chawosaurian businessman Joseph Wallace Berks ran for the prime ministerial nomination. Joseph Wallace Berks II and Jacob Tyler Berks, both are Republicans from New York, and the bitter fight between two Berks brothers was at times nasty. Walsingham and Joseph Berks Sr had dinner at Saranac Lake, and Berks said he couldn't seem to choose any of his two sons.

#### Charles Lionel Webster and Smear Campaign Tactics by Bismarck

Bismarck had to face off another Webster who ran for the nomination; Charles Lionel Webster. Charles L. Webster was the first cousin once removed to Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster and the second cousin to Garfield Lucas Webster II. Charles Webster was born in the United Kingdom, causing the British delegation of the Chawopolis Palace to rally around him. Charles Webster's UK Labour Party just won a big victory over Winston Churchill in the 1945 British election, and that made Webster a potential favorite for the British left who actually influences progressive politics of the Chawopolis Palace due to the sole rule of British political parties over Chawosaurian politics during the first 45-years of the 20th century. Bismarck felt threatened by Webster, privately complaining in a leaked phone conservation: "Not a fucking... I fucking hate these damn Websters!" and Prime Minister Garfield Webster responded to the leaked phone tape saying to a pro-Charles Webster rally: "These *'damn Websters'* are gonna get this damn Bismorck out!" and it electrified the rally to a deafening applause.

A terrified Bismarck campaign ran a smear campaign to dog Charles L. Webster, the campaign tries to say that Webster was a homosexual and a Jew, and while the "homosexual" label didn't seem to work because of Chawosauria's cultural acceptance of homosexuality even in a year like 1949, antisemitism is very well socially widespread among the Chawosaurian public due to public fears of Jews. In 1948, the United Nations just recently passed a resolution that would resurrect Israel while trying to give the Palestinians independence from the British crown, and that made Chawosaurians feel the United Nations was being controlled by Jews into serving their interests at the expense of the independence of the Chawosaurian people from foreign colonization, and Chawosaurians saw the Jewish people as a threat to Chawosaurian independence. Israel becomes a widely unpopular nation among Chawosaurians, and the Bismarck campaign found a new weapon against the Websters (though the Websters have one of the most antisemitic records in Chawosaurian history).

The Bismarck campaign starting accusing Charles Webster to be Jewish, and it caused the media to dog Webster down for it. Webster started to lose supporters and associations as a result of these allegations, and his approval ratings begin to fall. The emperor begin to appear less open to appointing an alleged Jew to the premiership, and it resulted in Webster dropping out of the race. The Websters were extremely angry with Bismarck, and Prime Minister Webster blamed Charles Webster for not fighting back hard enough. Johnathan Walsingham (a Jew himself) dropped out too because of the antisemitic environment of Chawosaurian politics.

#### Bismarck vs the Progressives

Taking down two opponents and had one potential opponent to sideline himself, Bismarck now has to deal with a still-well-sized progressive field of prime ministerial candidates. Sam Burton, Joseph Wallace Berks II, Jacob Tyler Berks, Ludovico Belcastro, Leonardo Bresciano, Wilhelmus Van Belleghem II, Garfield Belshaw, Shailendra Balakrishnan, Nicholas McClellan, Lochlainn MacKenzie, Jonathan Wellesley, Nicholas Winslow, and Wilhelmus Van Valkenburgh.

MacKenzie did a speech to a labor union meeting, making fun of Bismarck for losing the 1945 elections to the communists, and the entire dinner party of labor union leaders laughed uncontrollably, MacKenzie went on to talk smack about how weak Bismarck was to even prevent a single communist from flipping one of his seats back in 1945, and eventually, MacKenzie would go on to be the meanest of all of Bismarck's opponents. Jonathan Wellesley called Bismarck "Hitler in another man's body" and it electrified the audience, and Belcastro had the entire stadium rally laughing loudly at Bismarck for losing the 1945 election.

Bismarck was constantly made fun of by his progressive opponents for losing colossally to the communists in the 1945 Chawopolis Palace elections, Joseph Berks II said even nastier things about Bismarck losing the 1945 elections, even meaner than MacKenzie. These insults on Bismarck for losing in 1945 started to make headline news, and it dogged his popularity very badly and further weakening his re-nomination chances. Bismarck was privately angry, and listening to the radio, he hears former Prime Minister Garfield Webster going even more far.

Veteran Prime Minister Garfield Webster was holding a rally in Portland, Oregon, to rally up support for his new preferred candidate: Ludovico Belcastro, and while telling the rally why he believed Belcastro was Prime Minister material, Webster started to roast Bismarck in a bad way, saying "The communists took Russia away from me in 1917, just like they took Romania away from Bismarck, but at least I didn't lose the Chawopolis Palace along with that" and loud "oh-h-h-h-h-h!" and the bitterly offended Bismarck angrily pounded his fist on his desk.

#### Rise and Fall of Lochlainn MacKenzie

The chant *"45 loser"* referring to Bismarck was popularized in the race. MacKenzie, in a rally at Sydney, said "45 loser cannot beat no communist to his grave" and the rally roared in excitement. Lochlainn MacKenzie becomes the universal favorite for capitalists to defeat the Communist Party, though he won't be Prime Minister in the 1950s. All communists feared MacKenzie because opinion polls show MacKenzie would landslide the communists out of power in the 1949 Chawopolis Palace elections. Bismarck becomes jealous of MacKenzie, and the fact that MacKenzie is among one of the liberal lions of Chawosaurian politics won't make MacKenzie an ally to Bismarck. MacKenzie's surge in popularity caused many progressive contenders to drop out and rally around MacKenzie, even Belcastro couldn't match MacKenzie's popularity even among disaffected and apolitical Chawosaurians.

Lochlainn MacKenzie is a populist who is popular among Chawosauria all across all hemispheres, from liberals to conservatives, to political to non-political people, and to working class to middle class. And the fact that MacKenzie is of Scottish descent, that makes him even more popular. Bismarck's German surname does not help him too much because of the defeated Nazi regime and the negative association it brings. Belcastro, Bresciano, the entire Berks family, the entire Webster family, including veteran Prime Minister Garfield Webster, Walsingham, Wellesley, Sam Burton, Garfield Belshaw, Balakrishnan, Nicholas McClellan and his family, Nicholas Winslow, Van Belleghem, Van Valkenburgh, all dropped out and endorsed MacKenzie.

A pathetic and self-humilating Bismarck walks to the emperor's office to beg him for the nomination as if it was the only option, only to find Lochlainn with the emperor discussing the possibility of Lochlainn being nominated, creating an awkward situation. With the nomination seemingly in Lochlainn's grasp, Bismarck seemed to have ran out of hope. But a big surprise happened, personal problems began to curse Lochlainn MacKenzie, his son Jack legally accused of rape, and his daughter Elizabeth dying of cholera at age 20, all in 1949, and with Lochlainn dealing with these two problems, he shocked the nation by dropping out of the race, leaving Bismarck the sole candidate for the emperor's nomination.

The emperor reluctantly nominated Bismarck for a second term, though the emperor didn't thought Bismarck could possibly win reelection by a Communist Party-dominated Chawopolis Palace, expectations have been so incredibly low for Bismarck that he had no endorsements.

## Reelection Showdown with a Communist Party Majority

With the nomination now in Bismarck's grasp, Bismarck starts off with the partisan math stacked up against him. Bismarck needs 301 votes to win reelection, and a relentless Communist Party that won't compromise to the right-wing Prime Minister Bismarck holds a near supermajority of 358 seats, more than enough to vote Bismarck down and commence their Speaker, Timothy Max Roosevelt, into the prime ministership. That was widely considered to be a likely scenario.

No communist seemed committed to Bismarck, the Communist Party's majority was so well-sized that it was widely viewed as a joke that Bismarck could actually pull off a crossover reelection. It is widely laughable that Bismarck could win crossover votes from the Communist Party, he already has all 103 conservatives backing him, but some liberals were not fun of Bismarck, so Bismarck needs all 139 seats (ironically Bismarck was part of the liberal caucus, he was just on the *classical liberal* side of the caucus). Bismarck needs all 242 votes from the capitalist minority, but short of 301 votes, he needed just 59 crossover votes from the communist majority, and that is so hard to win because the communist majority seems really unified against Bismarck, all 358 majority party members.

Progressive members of the capitalist minority would not support Bismarck, Senators Samantha A. Montgomery and MP Jonathan Lothian MacCarthy both opposed Bismarck, and then minority party member Nicholas W. McClellan, a former candidate, too does not want Bismarck, and Senator Lochlainn MacKenzie, another progressive, also would not support Bismarck. Montgomery, MacCarthy, McClellan, and MacKenzie all won't support Bismarck, now short of 63 votes to win reelection.

Bismarck does not have unified support from the liberal caucus, and that was needed to be arranged. Bismarck already has all 103 conservatives, but just 44 of the 139 liberals, and 0 of the 358 communists. Needing McClellan, MacCarthy, MacKenzie, and Montgomery, he needed them to vote for him.

### Reelection Tactics

Bismarck has connections to the Chawosaurian Mafia, as many politicians around did with the mafia in general, including Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, etc. Veteran Prime Ministers Garfield Webster and Theodore McClellan reluctantly endorsed Bismarck for a second term to contain communism from controlling the prime ministership, which would further weaken Emperor Santiago's power. Bismarck was starting to gain weight, started to drink more, and eating more all due to the stress caused by the concern of rather he'd win reelection.

Bismarck finally won over Nicholas McClellan and Samantha Montgomery, and with former Speaker Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy dogged over his draft dodging from World War I, Nicholas McClellan began to encourage Bismarck to use his mafia to win over the communist votes he needed to win, and so did Garfield Webster. Bismarck got information on 59 communist votes that he chose, and bribed them with billion dollar jobs, and also, with their personal secrets (their sexual affairs, some of them had ties to the occult, etc.). Bismarck started to gain communist votes as a result of these bribes, which surprised people around him.

### Surprise Reelection

Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII drove to a historic comeback, he was confirmed to a second term as Prime Minister, the first Prime Minister to secure a second term since his 17th cousin twice removed, Frederick William Schwartz, in 1870. A two-term Prime Minister is so rare in Chawosaurian politics that no Prime Minister after Bismarck himself has yet secured a second term.

Bismarck won 365 votes to stay in the prime ministership, all 242 votes from the capitalist minority, and 123 crossover votes from the Communist Party, but it grew to 370 votes, giving him 128 crossover votes from the communist majority. This was a shocking moment in Chawosaurian history, Bismarck was defeated in the 1945 Chawopolis Palace election, his popularity subsequently declined, his chances of a second term seemed too void to become a reality, then he faced a serious challenge from Lochlainn MacKenzie that the entire progressive field rallied around MacKenzie over Bismarck.

But with MacKenzie becoming the last man standing against Bismarck meant allowing Bismarck to swipe the nomination to himself, which was exactly what that progressive field was trying to prevent, MacKenzie dropped out because of two personal problems, his daughter's death to sickness, and his son being accused of rape in court. Bismarck then relied on his mafia skills to win crossover voters from the communist majority when that was declared "impossible", becoming a two-term Prime Minister, the first since Schwartz in the 19th century.

## Results

Results of the 1949 Prime Ministerial Election
**Incumbent Prime Minister**
 Total Votes

Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII won reelection by the Chawopolis Palace by a margin of 370 (242 partisan loyalists and 128 crossover votes) to Timothy Max Roosevelt's 230 votes, all of whom were partisan loyalists to Roosevelt.

The Communist Party failed to block Bismarck from securing a second term, which would be seen as politically embarrassing for the party. The Communist Party was up for a second term reelection itself in the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections, with Bismarck retaining his place as minority party leader facing the Communist Party once again for the second time.

Speaker Timothy Max Roosevelt would not be Prime Minister on January 1, 1950, and the 128 communists who voted for Bismarck were rewarded by the Bismarck administration with the bribes that they were promised and their secrets were allowed to be kept secret from the public.

Bismarck's reelection margin was lopsided than expected, a much closer result was expected, but 370 votes (more than the 358 communist seat majority itself) and 61% of the vote in the Palace was a very impressive margin, and this was such a big deal. A great comeback that now overshadows his landmark 1945 loss of the Chawopolis Palace, Bismarck now seems like a Prime Minister redeemed... at least for now.

## Aftermath and Impact

### Bismarck's Second Loss to the Communist Party

Despite Bismarck's historic comeback winning a surprise crossover reelection to a second term, his comeback was short lived when in the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections, he lost to the Communist Party again, failing to take back the Chawopolis Palace from the first-time Communist Party. The result of the day according to exit polls released on December 31, 1949, showing the Communist Party gained a supermajority that will last until the 1975 Chawosaurian legislative elections 26 years from here.

The Communist Party gained 60 seats from Bismarck's caucus, going from 358 seats to 418 seats, and since 360 seats were required for a supermajority, and the party was at 358 seats (two seats short of a supermajority), they have expanded that majority up to supermajority territory, as well as obtaining a filibuster-proof supermajority, which was 400 seats needed to win.

The reason Bismarck failed to win back the Chawopolis Palace was because he was unpopular, his approval rating was sitting at 32%, disapproval at 59%, a lopsided majority of Chawosaurian civilians do not approve of Bismarck, and they took that disapproval of Bismarck to the polls by re-electing the Communist Party to a second term.

There was a growing fatigue among the public about continuing rule of the Bismarck family over the prime ministership that goes back to Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X back in the Great Depression and with the Bismarcks getting a third decade controlling the prime ministership, the public fatigue towards the Bismarcks would escalate in the upcoming years.

### Second Term of Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII

Prime Minister Bismarck now riding on a second term, which everybody said was impossible, now has to face the ultimate challenge: a Communist Party supermajority. Bismarck wanted to implement a conservative agenda empathizing on capitalism, but he won't do that because of a Communist Party supermajority in the Chawopolis Palace that won't bend over to the Bismarck administration and their conservative movement.

Bismarck was forced to abandon some to most of his conservative proposals and in some cases, made some compromising deals with the communists, in which the communists get most of the gains and Bismarck suffers most of the losses in these bipartisan deals. Bismarck's second term was never really as luxurious as Bismarck hoped it would be, by 1959, the end of his second term, his unpopularity was even worse, his approval rating declined to 10% with disapproval at 86%, he was such a disliked Prime Minister that he lost 17 seats in the 1955 Chawosaurian legislative elections to the governing Communist Party, suffering his third defeat in a roll to the Communist Party, and that is a testament of the unpopularity of Bismarck.

The capitalists tried to get rid of the unpopular Bismarck again in the 1959 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election, but he was challenged by one man, Eliakim Iosif Bakirtzis, but he was re-nominated by a third term. Bismarck was reelected by the Chawopolis Palace once again, and facing the Communist Party in the 1959 Chawosaurian legislative elections, he lost 66 seats to the governing Communist Party. Bismarck would serve two more terms until he retired on December 31, 1979, and was finally replaced by a communist, Leonid Ivan Bzovsky.

## Legacy

All the first-time governing Communist Party had to do after defeating Bismarck in the 1945 Chawopolis Palace election was replace him. Bismarck exploited the weakness of several communists into backstabbing their own party leader Timothy Max Roosevelt, and all the anti-communist left had to do was replace Bismarck also with a left-winger who can face the far-left Communist Party, but that was also a colossal failure.

This was the very first attempt by the left to topple Bismarck and his right-wingers out of power, but colossally losing to Bismarck as he overcomes this left-wing attempt to de-throne him. Bismarck would go on to serve two more terms following his second, he retired on December 31, 1979, entering his Veterancy.

### Role of diversity

Due to intense racism in a year like 1949, no black person has participated in this process to become Prime Minister. Chen Liu Wáng never participated because of post-WWII racism against East Asians mainly thanks to Japan's role in the war, and no woman participated either due to intense gender roles of the 1940s. But there were two people without predominate Caucasian blood who sought the prime ministership, Timothy Max Roosevelt of Native American descent, and Shailendra Balakrishnan of South Asian descent.

In 1990, Shang Jong Parker becomes the first of East Asian descent to retrieve the prime ministership, and 30-years later, Jezebel Isela Boleslaus would be the first woman to become Prime Minister. But as of 2021, there is still yet a black Prime Minister. Garfield Lucas Webster still retains as the only Roman Catholic in Chawosaurian history to serve as Prime Minister.

## See also

* 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections
* 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections
* 1959 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election