Chawosaurian Legislative Election

In Chawosaurian Politics, a **Chawosaurian Legislative Election**, also known as a **Chawopolis Palace Election**, a **parliamentary election**, or a **legislation election**, is a legislative election where voters elect politicians to serve in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace.

## History

The first legislative election took place in 1899. The U.K. Conservative Party was the first party in Chawosaurian History to have won a Chawosaurian legislative election. The first mid-term legislative election was the 1905 legislative election, Prime Minister Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson's Conservative Party (at the time) lost 313 seats. Garfield Lucas Webster refused to participate in a British party because the Labour Party was banned from the system. During World War I, the 1915 legislative elections were canceled because of the severity of the war, but the 1919 legislative elections were lucky enough to proceed. The 1925 legislative elections was the only legislative election where all six parties participated (under Chawosaurian law, only six parties can participate). In the early 20th century, three parties often participated, but in the later 20th century to the early 21st century, only two parties have participated. In the 1975 elections, the British parties were thrown out of power in the legislative elections, and Chawosauria has banned foreign parties since then.

Chawosauria's two party system between communists and social democrats dominated from 1976 to 2015, and during the 2015 Chawosaurian legislative elections during the Chawosaurian Revolution, the two-party system collapsed, Chawosauria was a one-party state for two years till now in the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections, Chawosauria becomes a multi-party state. Chawosauria was returned to being a two-party state following the 2019 Chawosaurian elections.

## System

### Before 2019

Before 2017, there were only 600 constituencies, 100 of them members of the Imperial Senate of the Empire of Chawosauria. Each party needed 301 seats to win a majority, but a filibuster proof supermajority will require 360 seats. Chawosaurian voters would vote in October and November and the results are not published to the public until December 31st, a day before the next elected government comes to power. Chawopolis Palace elections were held six and four years because of tradition, not by law. The 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections is the last election in which Chawosaurians voted in October and results released in December. The 2015 Chawosaurian legislative elections are the last elections in which 600 seats were contested.

### Since 2019

Starting in the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections, 1,000 seats are up for election, 501 seats to win a majority and 600 for a supermajority. The 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections are the first in which results were recorded and released on the same day in October rather than being recorded in private and released by the end of the year when the votes are tabulated. Much has changed beyond 2019, the Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria was nominated by the Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria and approved by the Chawopolis Palace, but the Premiership (Reforms - Bill 1) Act of 2020 was enacted following the Impeachment of Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III that the Prime Minister is to be nominated by a political party that has representation in the legislative election cycle and must win 50.1% of the popular vote in order to get elected Prime Minister, if that doesn't happen, then the backup plan is the Supreme Leader nominating someone and the prime ministerial nominee must win 501 votes in the Chawopolis Palace to get elected.

## See also

* History of Chawosauria
* Politics of Chawosauria
* Chawosaurian direct election
* List of Chawosaurian Monarchs
* List of Prime Ministers of Chawosauria
* List of Speakers of the Chawopolis Palace