1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The historic results of the **1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections** were published on December 31, 1925. These elections were held to elect all 600 members of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, 301 seats were required for a majority, 360 for a supermajority. These elections were held during the time of socio-economic prosperity in the Roaring Twenties and after the end of the disastrous War in Russia and the subsequent Oslo Trials. Going into the election, all parties risked repeating the same result as the last time, but it would be the UK Liberal Party under Prime Minister Theodore McClellan who would dodge that from happening.

The Chawosaurians from the Liberal Party UK led by the incumbent Prime Minister Theodore McClellan won a vast supermajority of 415 seats to 185 opposition seats in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, 184 conservative seats and 1 communist seat. The British Liberals won the nationwide popular vote by a margin of 84% of the vote. The Chawosaurian faction of the Conservative Party UK had been in control of the Palace since the very first legislative election Chawosauria had ever held and the British Conservatives have never successfully won back control of the Chawopolis Palace ever since.

The Russian Civil War ended on June 16, 1923, when the White Army surrendered to the Soviet Union, thus ending the civil war, and that threatened McClellan's electoral chances because McClellan opposed the new Soviet government, the McClellan administration indirectly had Chawosauria involved in the war by the time he took office in 1920, and when the White Army surrendered to the Bolsheviks, the Russian Civil War was widely seen as a historically embarrassing failure of the McClellan administration. By 1924, the new Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Joseph Stalin, now has complete power over Russia, McClellan was politically humiliated, he looked so weak that he looked beatable. Chawosaurians were also still angry over conservatives' over-compromising with the previous Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, that was a problem that continued to dog the conservatives to the point conservative voters stopped voting, thus losing their faith in politics and giving now-Prime Minister Theodore McClellan an upper-hand advantage. Apparently, McClellan's defeat in the Russian Civil War actually made him looked humbled in the eyes of the Chawosaurian public regardless of how the media (especially the conservative media) portrayed it. That played a big role in his victory in this election. The McClellan administration was accused of war crimes during the War in Russia, after the war ended, the Oslo Trials were argued in 1923 and decided in 1925 and the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria ruled that McClellan was guilty of war crimes, but the Chawopolis Palace failed to impeach McClellan. By early 1925, this election was based on the economy, prejudice, and anti-politician sentiment. The world economy, especially in the United States, was in good shape and it effected Chawosaurians positively, the party leaders, Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson II, Jonathan Déaglán MacAlasdair, Hrothgar Boleslaw, Selahattin Abdullah Mustafa Bedrosian, and the Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace at the time, Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy, were unpopular entering this year. MacAlasdair and Wilson were unpopular because they were redheads, prejudice fueled this election, Speaker MacCarthy was unpopular because of his handling of World War I, his failed attempt to impeach Garfield Webster, and other matters, Selahattin Bedrosian was unpopular due to his role in the Armenian Genocide with the Death of Juliana Emma Bedrosian, Boleslaw was unpopular over the Boleslaw Tax as part of Christianization. Despite the War in Russia, McClellan became widely popular because he gained the glory of being the big guy in charge during a time of socio-economic prosperity during the so-called Roaring Twenties, McClellan gained all the widespread credit for a booming world economy and it had gave him the ultimate ride for a potential landslide victory over his opponents. What's also boosting McClellan's popularity was that he led the successful fight to give women and black people the right to vote in Chawosauria, stimulating the energy and enthusiasm for McClellan. McClellan was not clear on prohibition, but he said he did not support "the current implementation".

McClellan gained 232 seats from 183 to 415, and he won 84% of the popular vote, increasing from 48.1%. MacCarthy lost 85 seats, Wilson lost 56 seats, and MacAlasdair lost 90 seats, another seat was lost, Hrothgar Boleslaw defected from the Canadian Conservative caucus, and formed his own caucus, which nobody joined, he lost reelection. MacAlasdair and Wilson were both attacked as "ginger freaks" by McClellan, MacCarthy, Bedrosian, and Boleslaw, these racist attacks resonated with voters, ironically McClellan was attacked for his blonde hair, that also resonated with the voters' anti-blonde sentiment, in the previous election, McClellan underperformed in the popular vote by 5.1% because of voters' refusal to vote for a blonde person. McClellan won this election by a landslide, winning 415 to all 185 opposition seats, and 84% of the popular vote. McClellan's performance was a greater one. This realignment was in power for 20 years until being permanently reversed by the Communist Party led by Timothy Max Roosevelt in the 1945 midterm elections, where the Liberals lost 178 seats, and their rival party, the Tories, lost 143 seats, in a 321 seat swing, the Chawopolis Palace realigned to the Communist Party and stayed under Communist control for 71 years until the 2017 legislative elections.

After 1945, the Chawosaurian factions of the U.K. Conservative Party and the U.K. Liberal Party formed a bipartisan alliance led by Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII to oppose Communist Party rule over the Palace, but no name, no official alliance, and it never had any success, not even at gaining seats, the alliance was purely destroyed in the 1965 midterm elections, and the former Palacians who were either Liberals and Conservatives have either retired or died. After the fall of the presence of the Chawosaurian factions of the two British parties in the Palace in 1965, the U.K. Liberal Party dissolved in 1988, and its former members, along with the former members of the U.K. Social Democratic Party, founded a new party, a replacement for both the UK Liberal Party and the UK Social Democratic Party, this party became known as the Liberal Democrats, and today, in British politics, the Liberal Democrats have very little success in British elections, they drastically lost ground in the 2015 U.K. General Elections after forming an alliance between them and the U.K. Conservative Party after the collapse of the 13-year Labour government in the 2010 U.K. General Election. The U.K. Conservative Party still exist, and they now, as of 2019, the ruling party of the United Kingdom since the 2010 elections.

Theodore McClellan remained as Prime Minister until 1929, and he died in 1957. Jonathan MacCarthy remained in office until he died in office in 1995, and his grandson, Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III, became Prime Minister in 2020, Selahattin Abdullah Mustafa Bedrosian was replaced by Jedediah Azariah Danilovich over the Death of Juliana Emma Bedrosian, and Malcolm Wilson Jr, Jonathan MacAlasdiar, and Hrothgar Boleslaw, all left office after being defeated by McClellan, and Wilson and MacAlasdair died shortly before the 21st century, Boleslaw died in 1945 of an STD.

Since the 1925 elections, legislative elections have always favored the popular vote. The 1919 Chawosaurian legislative elections is the last legislative election that the winning party fails to win the popular vote.

This was the only six-party election until the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

## Context

On January 1, 1920, Prime Minister Theodore A. McClellan inherits from his predecessor a world in utter peril following the end of World War I, a huge civil war in Russia, an influenza pandemic, and global unrest, McClellan saw his Republican Party rode on a wave of the red scare into the 1920 U.S. elections, inspired, McClellan, who was too concerned about the rise of left-wing revolt around the world, involved the Empire of Chawosauria into the Russian Civil War, thus starting the War in Russia against Chawosaurians who supported the Bolsheviks out of fear that pro-Bolshevik Chawosaurians who inspire a similar uprising of that in Russia. However, the war was a failure for Chawosauria, not only because the Bolsheviks are about to successfully take over Russia, but Chawosaurian Bolsheviks were successfully defeating the Chawosaurian Imperial Army. Because of the results of the war, McClellan became unpopular and he was forced to surrender to the Bolsheviks and withdrawal all troops from the war after his draft was revoked by the Chawopolis Palace. By losing the exact war that he started, he looked too weak for run a political party to victory in this upcoming election, and the U.K. Liberal Party became even more unsure with McClellan as their leader when McClellan's native party back at home in America, having suffered a beating in the 1922 U.S. midterm elections, while Republicans still won the American elections which it's rare given a sitting Republican President not up for election, seeing a Prime Minister's home political party performing horribly by losing seats and votes in that Prime Minister's home country just takes away the energy around that Prime Minister.

The Oslo Trials didn't seem to help McClellan either, it was argued on October 18, 1923, and was decided on March 18, 1925, and the decision was that McClellan and his administration were guilty of war crimes during the War in Russia, but the Chawopolis Palace voted down an impeachment resolution against McClellan in a vote of 297-303. Prosecution against McClellan was mooted but no action was ever taken against McClellan.

Meanwhile, the Chawosaurian faction of the UK Conservative Party had been in power over the Chawopolis Palace since the 1899 legislative elections but in the 1905 midterm elections, they were reduced to a minority government status, and since the 1905 midterms, they struggled to win even a plurality of the popular vote. While the Tories did regain a majority government in the 1909 legislative elections under the leadership of Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy, as well as outperforming in the popular vote, they still failed to win the popular vote.

When World War I began in 1914, Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster made the unpopular and controversial move to cancel the 1915 midterm elections because of safety concerns for voters during the war, the cancellation of this election backfired epically on Webster when anti-government, anarchist, and pro-democracy riots, often bloody, erupted in Chawosauria nationwide, Webster was given the name *"King Garfield"*, and he was heavily disliked by the end of his term. Webster was accused of authoritarianism when he canceled the election of 1915, and he was mired in scandal when he suppressed death statistics of Euro-Chawosaurians who were killed in the war because he feared a majority or plurality of these Euro-Chawosaurians might have been Jewish, this is the rarest time antisemitism was condemned, extremely rare for a nation that generally accepts anti-Jewish sentiment.

At the end of the war, MacCarthy was widely criticized for not objecting against Webster as part of his responsibilities as Speaker of the Palace, the unpopular MacCarthy led his party to lose their majority government again, losing 47 seats, and the popular vote to the UK Liberal Party's new leader, Theodore McClellan, in the 1919 legislative elections. While MacCarthy didn't fell to minority opposition status, he formed a coalition government between the Chawosaurian factions of the UK Conservative Party and the first-time Canadian Conservative Party. As the conditions of the aftermath of World War I were underway, Russia falling under Communism, Europe suffering through harsh economic conditions, and a booming economy in the United States, the 1925 elections were a referendum on world peace, and under the Conservative coalition government, World Peace after World War I life was bad, a Chawosaurian refugee crisis from Russia, and the enactment of Christianization made things worse for the Tories, in the 1925 midterm elections, MacCarthy was voted out of power to the hands of Theodore McClellan, Prime Minister who just gained the position of Speaker of the Palace, giving him significant power.

The result of the Russian Civil War, at first, deeply threatened McClellan's election prospects, Chawosaurians were never gonna be interested in voting for a commander in chief who has lost a war, especially a war that he instigated. In private, McClellan isolated himself to self-reflect, it is no secret that McClellan learned alot from his Russia debacle, McClellan thought the Bolsheviks would lose given that the Confederates insurrected against the United States, only to still lose the American Civil War, but insurrections did led to success, the United States wouldn't be a country of its own had the British successfully crushed the American Revolution. McClellan notices that the result of the Russian Civil War has made him unpopular, and Emperor Santiago earned McClellan that if he loses the 1925 elections, a resignation would be demanded of him as well as a named successor. To answer to rising dissatisfaction from the public over his presence, needed to make peace with his country, he gave a recorded address to the Chawosaurian people. In the address, he passionately apologized for the Russian Civil War and acknowledged that Chawosauria's involvement was wrong, he gave his condolences to the families across Chawosauria who lost relatives to the war, acknowledges his character flaws, and ask Chawosaurians to look to the future of a prosperous post-war world economy, a now peaceful world, and the excitement of the roaring twenties. Chawosaurians generally decided to give him another chance and the days continue to progress, Chawosaurians became satisficed with a booming world economy, a wave of social changes, and a more stable world. McClellan was forgiven for the War in Russia and becomes popular again. Adding to McClellan's popularity, he gave women and blacks in Chawosauria the right to vote in 1924.

What's the problem for conservatives was that Chawosaurians were still angry over the conservative 3rd Chawopolis Palace's repeated compromising to the left-wing Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, resulting in still-living progressive policies and initiatives such as a boarding school system by law for all Chawosaurian children regardless if they were rich or poor, and universal healthcare also for all Chawosaurians regardless of their socio-economic class. Behind the scenes, the conservatives compromised to Webster because Webster was blackmailing them, threatening to reveal their incriminating, demoralizing, or just straight up illegal personal secrets to the media thus the public, if they don't play by his rules and support his liberal agenda. Webster ran an espionage operation to spy on conservatives and take pictures of them doing things or participating in activities that would damage their lives if the public...and the law...knew of these activities. Webster's spies bring these photos and other incriminating evidence back to him, Webster writes them down in his "little red book" and uses them as extortion tactics against these conservatives who were caught.

The Russian Civil War and public anger over conservative compromise to the last prime ministerial administration would end up determining the outcome of the election.

## Results

The result was clearly a landslide, winning the Palace by a substantially wide margin, and a landslide in the popular vote. McClellan won 69.2% of seats in the Palace, and 84% of the popular vote. Flipping almost all six continents, probably a 5-1 continent majority, and a relatively high turnout of 715,977,367 Chawosaurians participating in the election. This election result attributed to anger towards Jonathan MacCarthy for not taking a stand against Garfield Webster's illegal censorship of death statistics of Euro-Chawosaurians who were dying in the war-zones of WWI-Europe, and for not standing up to Webster in his unpopular and controversial cancellation of the 1915 midterm elections. MacCarthy, after being Speaker of the Palace for 15-years since 1910, lost his power completely, falling to minority opposition status, and still remain in this position until he resigned as Leader of the Opposition in the aftermath of the 1945 midterm elections.

The U.K.-Canada Tory Coalition lost 142 seats to the U.K. Liberal Party led by Theodore McClellan, disintegrating the coalition from 326 (269-57) to just 184 U.K. Tories in the Chawopolis Palace, a very disadvantaged minority with no ability to filibuster the supermajority party's agenda.

## Analysis

Theodore McClellan is the first Prime Minister (and only until Shang Jong Parker in 1995) to have gained seats in a prime ministerial midterm election. It was a historic election because of this result. McClellan was given a landslide victory, a mandate to govern. 415 seats and 84% of the popular vote, but not a truly representative election result because McClellan only won 69% of seats. Until the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections, Theodore McClellan was the last Prime Minister in the 1919 Chawosaurian legislative elections to have lost a preterm election.

McClellan's loss of Russia to the Bolsheviks actually made McClellan look good in the court of popular opinion of the people because it is said that being defeated is always a humbling experience. The Bolshevik victory in Russia made McClellan look like he was humbled despite the media saying this would hurt McClellan badly. There are other issues that helped McClellan as well, the economy of Chawosauria was feeling the economic recovery in a post-WWI world. McClellan's opponents were unpopular, and he was the only popular leader around.

The world economy and its impact on Chawosauria's own economy, and the mass social changes, including McClellan's widely popular granting to women the right to vote, gave McClellan the ultimatum against his opponents. A famous phrase: *"it's the economy, stupid"*, which was coined in the United States by the Bill Clinton presidential campaign in the 1992 U.S. presidential election 67 years later, applied to the 1925 campaign. Wall Street kept booming and McClellan became widely popular because of the Roaring Twenties.

Conservatives never won back control of the Chawopolis Palace ever again though continued to have conservative Prime Ministers until 1979. Conservatives' fall from grace under Garfield Webster is still being felt in the 21st century.

## See also

* Theodore McClellan - Prime Minister from 1920-29 and winner of this election.
* Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy - Leader of the Opposition from 1910-45, Speaker from 1910-25, and loser of this election.