1979 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The results of the **Chawosaurian Legislative Elections of 1979** were published on December 31, 1979. These elections were held in the middle of the 1977-83 Zaire Ebola Pandemic, to elect all 600 members of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, 301 seats needed for a majority, these elections were held in the middle of the first five years of Timothy Max Roosevelt's term. Lame-duck Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII and his dead conservative caucus did not participate in this election because of the embarrassment and role in enabling the Zaire Ebola Pandemic that nearly destroyed Chawosauria despite Bismarck's popularity mildly improved because of the pandemic. These elections were the first held in Chawosaurian history after the Vietnam War. These elections were also held during the Iranian Revolution, and the outbreak of the Soviet-Afghan War. This is the first election since 1935 that Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII is not leading a party through a Chawopolis Palace election and the first since 1925 that a Bismarck is not leading a party through a Chawopolis Palace election. This is the first election in 40 years that a Prime Minister has won a Chawopolis Palace election. This is the first Chawopolis Palace election since 1909 in which no parliamentary leader who contested have served as Speaker of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace.

The Communist Party, led by Prime Minister-designate Leonid Ivan Bzovsky, won this election by a landslide majority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace. A landslide margin of 418 seats and 69.7% of both legislative seats and the popular vote, and the Social Democratic Labour Party led by George Windsor lost the election to the Communist Party, winning 182 seats, 30.3% of both legislative seats and the popular vote. The Communist Party gained 81 seats from the Social Democrats, and won a bigger share of the popular vote percentage, growing by 19.4% from the previous election. The Communist Party successes contributed to the popularity of Timothy Max Roosevelt and his communist initiatives such as Section 126, a law that established state atheism and it outlawed religion, unfortunately for opponents of Section 126, the Iranian Revolution sure didn't help at all, the Communist Party successes also reflected the backlash against Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII over his failure to prevent and refusal to manage the Zaire Ebola Pandemic.

The Communist Party, with Timothy Max Roosevelt now Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria, needed a parliamentary leader. Timothy Max Roosevelt nominated Leonid Ivan Bzovsky as Prime Minister which reasons mainly unknown and Bzovsky was easily confirmed to replace Bismarck by January 1, 1980, making Bzovsky the first communist, the first atheist, the first Ukrainian, the first born after and the only born during World War II, the first born in the Soviet Union, and the first born in a communist or socialist state to become Prime Minister, ending 120 years of Christian rule of the premiership and began an era of communist and atheist rule of the premiership for decades to come.

Anti-communist liberals finally got their wish, the conservative Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII will no longer be leading the anti-communists through another Chawopolis Palace election and for a very good reason. Bismarck had proven himself to be one of the worst parliamentary leaders in Chawosaurian electoral history, having lost control of the Chawopolis Palace immediately after World War II in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections and from 1949 to 1965, Bismarck constantly lost Chawopolis Palace elections while losing seats in the process and from 1965 to 1979, Bismarck never truly competed. Bismarck's term as Prime Minister came to an end in 1979 and in the 1979 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election for the anti-communists to select their Leader of the Opposition after communist leader Timothy Max Roosevelt was elected Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria to replace the aging Emperor Santiago in the 1975 Chawosaurian direct election, George Windsor, a new parliamentary leader of a group of social democrats elected in the 1975 Chawosaurian legislative elections and later came together to form the Social Democratic Labour Party of Chawosauria, Windsor was elected Leader of the Opposition unopposed due to the sentiment that they need a center-leftist to deliver better results. When Bismarck left and Windsor got in, hopes were high for George Windsor amongst anti-communists.

1979 however proved to be a pretty messy year for Windsor as he took part in the Chawosaurian Imperial Government's successful coverup of the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown in the United States from the Chawosaurian general public to protect the reputation of the Chawosaurian nuclear industry, prompting backlash from Chawosaurian anti-nuclear insiders. Back at home in the United Kingdom, Windsor's Labour Party led by Prime Minister James Callaghan suffered a defeat to the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 British general election, which was an embarrassment for Windsor. Outside Chawosauria, there was the Iranian Revolution, which saw the U.S.-backed Iranian government being replaced by a more anti-American Islamic authoritarian theocracy, and the rise of the Christian right in the United States, sparking anti-religious anxieties amongst Chawosaurians that were successfully capitalized by the Communist Party, resulting in the passage of Section 126, which outlawed religion in the irreligious majority Chawosauria, giving the Communist Party a boom in the polls and chances in this election.

The Communist Party easily retained control of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, gaining 81 seats from the Social Democrats, regaining a supermajority, and won a landslide victory in the popular vote. It was a 418-182 supermajority changed from a small 337-263 majority, and the Communist Party won 69.7% of the popular vote in an upswing of 19.4%. With this result, the Communist Party will exit the 1970s with unified control of government, holding control of the Monarchy, the Premiership, and a supermajority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, starting with the 16th Chawopolis Palace's entrance to power on January 1, 1980.

The election results were a disappointment for the anti-communists as they now have no power in Chawosauria and will for decades to be the powerless opposition and when Windsor failed, the now out-of-power right-wing tauntingly said "now the center-left of us now have to deal with a Bismarck of their own" and the Chawosaurian press would feel the same sentiment. The Communist Party will retain a supermajority until the 2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections and control of the Chawopolis Palace until the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the Communists will hold the Premiership until 2020 when Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III takes office, and the Communists will hold the Monarchy until 2016 when Abooksigun Eluwilussit takes over. A new communist party replaced the old communist party in 2018 and gained unified control of government in 2020 under Shang Jong Parker's leadership.

Though not necessarily a rebuke to George Windsor who had a fine approval rating of 53%, his loss of 81 seats, according to exit polls, represents a rebuke to Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII for his roll in enabling Ebola to break out in Chawosauria and transition into an apocalyptic pandemic. Bismarck was widely criticized for doing nothing to prevent this pandemic when the first Chawosaurian Ebola cases from Zaire were given to him by Chawosaurian doctors who were sent to investigate an outbreak of a virus among these Zarian Chawosaurians. These same Chawosaurian doctors were sent home by Bismarck because of his refusal to give medical treatment to these Zarian Chawosaurians because most of them were black, and he believed Ebola only affects black people. Bismarck was eventually proven wrong when these doctors who contracted Ebola started spreading it from Chawosaurian seaports and airports, causing the Ebola pandemic. This election result serves as a vote of confidence of communism, which now has unified power over the Chawosaurian Government since the 1975 Chawosaurian elections. Chawosaurians wanted to retain the new communist status quo because of the rise of the Christian right in the United States, the Iranian Revolution, both events Chawosaurians believe will lead to intense religious conflict, and the rise of the idea of fiscal conservatism on which Chawosaurians were raised that fiscal conservatism leads to income inequality because it tends to favor of the rich by hurting economic classes that aren't rich and is the death bed of capitalism.

The Communist Party securing an 8th victory and thus, securing an 8th term as the Majority Party. The Speaker of the Palace was decided to be Prime Minister Leonid Ivan Bzovsky on January 1, 1980.

## Background

Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII is retiring by December 31, 1979, and he will be replaced by Prime Minister-designate, Leonid Ivan Bzovsky, by January 1, 1980. Bismarck became Prime Minister on January 1, 1940. He served four terms and then left office on December 31, 1979. The first time since the 1935 Chawosaurian legislative elections that Prime Minister Bismarck didn't run in a Chawopolis Palace election and the first since the 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections that a member of the Bismarck family never led a party through a Chawopolis Palace election.

There are 600 seats total in the Chawopolis Palace. 301 seats needed for a majority, and 360 seats needed for a supermajority. If a party wins 301 seats or more, they become the majority of the Palace. However, there are four houses, the Houses of Commons, Lords, and Representatives, all make up the Parliament, and the 100 members of the separate, independent, and unicameral Senate.

The Majority Party Leader is the Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace, and the Minority Party Leader leads the minority party. However, the Speaker or Minority Party Leader can hold the office of Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria if appointed by the Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria and approved by the Chawopolis Palace.

The incumbents of the day are: Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, who is the lame-duck, and the incumbent majority party is the Chawallian Communist Party, who had been in power since the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections. Leonid Ivan Bzovsky was chosen to replace Bismarck.

## Process

Due to the Ebola pandemic in Chawosauria, mail-in ballots were used. Voting took place in early December and the results were released on December 31, 1979. Chawosaurians vote to elect their elected representatives (MP and Senator) in their local Parliamentary and Senate districts to elect what party to win a majority.

## A Referendum on Timothy Max Roosevelt

The Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria, Timothy Max Roosevelt, had been in office since January 1, 1976, following his landslide election in the 1975 Chawosaurian direct election, and during the 15th Chawopolis Palace, where the Chawallian Communist Party, the party that he led as Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace from 1946 to 1975, is navigating only a majority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, with 337 seats held by Communists and 263 seats held by the main opposition party, the Social Democratic Labour Party of Chawosauria, led by George Windsor.

The Social Democrats hoped to run a unified campaign, and they could've done so with Windsor who is viewed kindly amongst the Chawosaurian public, unlike his conservative predecessor Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, another anti-communist leader who faced Timothy Max Roosevelt several elections until 1969, only to lose to Roosevelt by wide margins.

## Context

In the 1975 elections, the Communist Party gained a government trifecta that they will keep until 2016. Although the Communist Party gained control of the monarchy from Emperor Santiago, the last Capitalist emperor, the Communist Party lost 263 seats to the newly emerging social democrats. Timothy Max Roosevelt, the new Communist ruler, has used his unified Communist majority to purge Christians, strictly enforced new Labor laws, and implemented Communist ideas. Timothy set up to dismantle and reverse Christianization, reverse and brought down conservative policies that were successfully enacted by Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, prevented the passage of the anti-homosexual sex bill called the Buggery Act of 1976 by censoring and oppressing it, and weakened the power of Conservatives in Chawosauria.

Chawosauria had an Ebola pandemic that swept the entire empire. Known as the Zaire Ebola Pandemic, overwhelmed Chawosauria, its society, politics, and destabilized the entire empire with school shutdowns, businesses shutting down, and the economy shutting down as well. The death toll was devastating as the pandemic lasts from 1977 to 1979.

In the beginning of this election season, the pandemic ended on time, the public gave the Communist Party credit for the end of the pandemic, and the empire holds Bismarck responsible for not preventing the Ebola pandemic due to a false and racist belief that Ebola would only affect Black Chawosaurians.

The Chawosaurian Government passed Section 126, which outlaws religious belief and practice in public in Chawosauria in 1976, and it lasted until the late 2010s. The Iranian Revolution painfully embarrassed arguments supportive of freedom of religion and damaged criticism of state atheism. The Iranian Revolution solidified support for state atheism and the Communist Party that favored state atheism was bolstered to win and the idea of state atheism as a communist concept made communism popular for the upcoming decades leading to the 21st century.

As the Iranian Revolution pursues, supporters of religious freedom were deeply worried that the Iranian Revolution really could bolster support for state atheism, and weaken support for religious freedom. Another threat to the concept of religious freedom is the rising Religious Right in the United States, where the legalization of abortion in the United States decreed by the Supreme Court of the United States in *Roe v. Wade* in 1973, the newly emerging LGBTQ Rights Movement that erupted from the Stonewall Riots a decade earlier, sparked outrage in the Christian community in the United States throughout the whole 1970s decade, resulting in the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment. Christians in America started to see a leader in Ronald Reagan, a former Governor of California who began his career as an Actor. Reagan ran a campaign of social conservatism in America as he runs for the Republican nomination for President in the 1980 U.S. presidential election to run against the incumbent President Jimmy Carter. Meanwhile in Chawosauria, Chawosaurians seeing the rise of religious conservatism in both the United States and Iran made Chawosaurians believe religious freedom only leads to intense religious conflict and the majority religion feel entitled to either political over-representation and/or oppressive political rule at the expense of the objecting minority religions who also believe they're entitled to equal political representation. Chawosaurians have not supported the idea of allowing people to practice or believe in a religion since then.

Chawosaurians have supported communism because of their hatred for religion because of religious conflict, and their hatred towards capitalism because of conflict between rich and poor. Chawosaurians see communism as a solution to both conflict, and the Chawosaurian people reelected the already ruling Communist Party is because they believe keeping the Communist Party in power means preventing religious and economic class wars.

The Communist Party won the 1979 elections, winning 418 seats, gaining 81 seats from the Social Democrats. The Communist Party also won the popular vote by a wide margin of 69.7% of the vote. The Communist Party gained a supermajority, which would last until the 2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections 30 years from here.

## Results

The Communist Party gained 81 seats from the Social Democrats, the percentages of both the popular vote and the legislative seat breakdown are exactly the same, Bzovsky won 69.7% of the vote and 69.7% of seats in the Chawopolis Palace to Windsor's 30,3% of the vote and 30,3% of seats In the Palace, producing the most representative Chawopolis Palace in Chawosaurian History, the most Democratic result in Chawosaurian History.

Leonid Bzovsky won in a landslide victory, also the most democratic victory for a Prime Minister.

## Analysis

In a time when voting wasn't safe, Chawosaurians postal voted for the Communist Party to continue their majority in the Palace due to widespread anger towards Bismarck's handling of the Ebola pandemic, fear of Bismarck's conservative candidates, and enlarging support for communism because of the rise of the religious right and corporate-friendly conservatism. The Communist Party won a new supermajority that will last until 2009. It was a 30-year supermajority and they nearly lost it in 1989.

The near 20-year-old freshman MP who is the future Prime Minister and Emperor, Shang Jong Parker, started to emerge as the political superstar throughout the 1980s, and he started to look good for the Communist Party despite wide skepticism that he will ever be Prime Minister or Supreme Leader.

## See also

* Chawosaurian Legislative Elections, 1975 - previous election.
* Chawosaurian Legislative Elections, 1985 - next election.