1929 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The results of the **1929 Chawosaurian legislative elections** were published on December 31, 1929. These elections were held to elect all 600 members in the Chawopolis Palace, 301 seats needed for a majority, 400 needed for a supermajority. These elections were held just after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, held in the first days of the Great Depression.

In the elections, the Liberals retained their supermajority, but lost 50 seats to Jonathan MacCarthy's Conservative Party. The Liberals lost 50 seats because of the Bismophobia against Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X because of the fact that he was a member of the Bismarck family, and although being a Progressive, he was still despised by 66.7% of voters who voted in this election. This was the last time until 1989 that a supermajority parliament was successfully defended in a parliamentary election, but with way fewer seats than the previous parliamentary term. It would also be the last time until 2009 that a Jewish person (religious or secular) would lead a Chawosaurian parliamentary caucus.

Another left-winger was taking over the Prime Ministership, and the Conservatives wanting to avoid the same mistakes that they made during the Webster years becomes an agenda and a campaign promise for the conservatives going into this election, but still having a deal with a depressed conservative base, thereby reclaiming a majority becomes a complicated task, especially due to a massive landslide loss in the previous election in 1925 to Prime Minister Theodore McClellan and his UK Liberals. A member of the publicly unpopular Bismarck family, Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X was seen by conservatives as a vulnerable opponent though he'd still become Prime Minister rather the conservatives reclaim a majority or not. Prime Ministers are nominated by a Supreme Leader and confirmed by the Chawopolis Palace usually before an election, and that Prime Minister serves a near 10-year term., the Prime Minister just act as a party leader of whatever party of his choice.

The first-time incumbent U.K. Liberal Party ran into difficulty as it faces a vulnerable quest for reelection due to the 1929 Wall Street crash and the subsequent Great Depression that went with it. The 1929 Chawopolis Palace election becomes the first recession election in Chawosaurian history because the Great Depression had an impact on Chawosaurians too, and traditionally, it is rare for an incumbent party or officeholder to win reelection in a recession, causing major concerns for the U.K. Liberals. Making matters complicated for Liberals, Prime Minister Theodore McClellan decided not to accept a second term as Prime Minister, thus erasing the advantage of an incumbent Prime Minister for a governing party leader.

Among the ranks of a communist movement in Chawosauria, the USSR Communist Party removed its leader, Selahattin Abdullah Mustafa Bedrosian, due to Bedrosian's scandalous role in the Armenian Genocide, Bedrosian had to step down and he was replaced by Jedediah Azariah Danilovich, a Russian communist from the newly established Soviet Union, which was then a minor nation.

In the general election, the British Liberals led by Bismarck retained a supermajority despite losing 50 seats in the Chawopolis Palace and narrowly led in a near popular vote tie, which surprised alot of people because it is rare for a governing party to hold on to power in a recession. The British Conservatives led by MacCarthy gained 50 seats and finishing up with 200 seats, but came 6 seats short of ending the liberal supermajority and 67 seats short of reclaiming a majority. The Soviets didn't see a change in seats but did finished third place at over 30% of the popular vote.

The Liberals successfully defended their supermajority because of the fact that their supermajority was so massive that incumbency advantages of first-time incumbents of all sides were stronger as tends to be in every election where an incumbent is on the ballot. The 50 seats changing hands took place in parts of Chawosauria where the Great Depression was much worse. The Soviets didn't see a change in seats because of the unpopularity of communism among Chawosaurians at this time period, but the Soviets riding on a 28 point surge in popularity in the polls was because of the global recognition of Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin. The British Conservatives had a more disappointing finish, gaining 50 seats in parts of Chawosauria where the economic conditions of the Great Depression among Chawosaurians are far worse, but clearly not enough to even ending the liberal supermajority.

The main autopsy is that the conservatives' charisma was starting to fade away among a still-depressed conservative base. This is the first time since 1909 that the conservatives gained seats. It turns out that Chawosaurians were already voting before the stock market crash in October, Chawosaurians vote in October to December, till the polls close on December 30, and the results were reported to the public on December 31st. If voting had just begun in November or later before December 31st, the liberal losses would've been straight up massive.

## Background

Chawosaurian Prime Minister Theodore A. McClellan announced following the Wall Street Crash of 1929 that he will not accept a second term as Prime Minister nor he would run for a second term in the Speakership of the Chawopolis Palace in the 6th Chawopolis Palace. McClellan is the last of the U.S. Republican Party to serve as Prime Minister of Chawosauria.

The electoral process of the 1929 Chawosaurian legislative elections: all 600 constituencies are contested and a party needs 301 seats to form a majority government, 360 seats needed to form a supermajority government. If no party wins a majority, then the party with the most seats are the ones to form a coalition government with another party or some members of an adversary party. The Prime Minister is not elected in Chawosauria compared to prime ministers in parliamentary states, the Chawosaurian Prime Minister is nominated by the Supreme Leader and confirmed to office by the Chawopolis Palace, and the Prime Minister has the sole option to run as a party leader of whatever political party of his choice to become Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace to control the affairs of the Chawopolis Palace.

Prime Minister Theodore Alois McClellan (Republican from Massachusetts) declined an offered second term as Prime Minister due to fears of the unpopularity of his Republican Party rubbing off on him as a Republican himself. The Republicans established a strong trifecta in the United States following the 1928 U.S. elections, and now that the Republicans are in charge of the United States during the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the Republicans will have loads of eggs on their faces in the upcoming 1930 U.S. midterm elections and subsequently the 1932 U.S. elections with the rise of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his electoral coalition of former Republican voters and traditional Democratic voters...called the New Deal Coalition.

With McClellan's retirement going on, a successor is needed and there is time until December 31, 1929 to prevent a vacancy (filling the vacancy in the prime ministership is systemically complicated). The monarchy decided that to match the current political environment of Great Depression politics, Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X is chosen to succeed McClellan, though McClellan was at first very unhappy with that because he was a Bismarck.

## Context

The campaign starts in 1928, following the Republican victory in the 1928 elections in America, Prime Minister Theodore McClellan was thinking about marching to a second term as Prime Minister and Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace. The British Liberals had been in charge of the Chawopolis Palace since 1926 following their great landslide in the 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and due to a continuing booming post-WWI world economy, it was believed that the British Liberals were heading to another landslide victory.

In the conservative ranks, conservatives now wanted to dodge the mistakes made during the Webster administration, and the likelihood of another decade of liberal rule of the Prime Ministership, the conservatives begin to prepare for that future liberal administration. The Conservative Party U.K. decided that they will straight up be the party of "no" and try to derail that liberal administration if they win a majority.

Traditionally, voting proceeds throughout the whole three months of October to December, then the results were published to the public on December 31, 1929. During voting time after October results were stronger for Liberals, Wall Street crashed on October 29, 1929, and the economy crumbles into a depression, and that greatly concerned the liberals about what the November to December results were gonna say. Historically, incumbent parties or national officeholders don't survive so well in an election in recession time.

December 31, 1929, the election results were tabulated and published to the general public, and the results were a surprise. The British Liberals lost way fewer seats than expected in parts of Chawosauria where the Great Depression hits the hardest, but the British Liberals retained a supermajority of 365 seats (360 seats needed for a supermajority), while the popular vote was tied, the British Liberals narrowly led. Chawosaurians who voted in November to December didn't felt the impact of the depression until the 1930s.

## Results

The British Liberal Party holds a slim supermajority of 365 seats (60.8% of seats in the Chawopolis Palace). Led in the popular vote by the narrowest margin ever with 51,483,365 Chawosaurians voting for them.

## Analysis

The British Liberals retained only a slender supermajority, but retained substantial control due to incumbency. In Chawosauria, it is almost impossible to defeat a first time majority party. But the British Liberals lost 50 seats due to dislike for the Bismarck family and the impact of the 1929 Stock Market Crash but the British Liberals were saved by the timing of the crash and the 1929 elections. Each party won 33.3% of the popular vote, the Communists' 33.3% was a worrying sign for anti-communist insiders.

## See also

* 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections
* 1935 Chawosaurian legislative elections