2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The **Chawosaurian Legislative Elections of 2009** were legislative elections held in late 2009 in which its results were published on December 31, 2009. These elections were set to elect all 600 members of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace for the upcoming 22nd Chawopolis Palace that will set to begin on January 1, 2010. 301 seats were required for a simple majority, and 360 seats were required for a supermajority. These elections were held during the War on Terror, the Great Recession, and the 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic. This is also the second of two elections held during the Iraq War just two years after a surge of American forces into the conflict in 2007 despite the war's unpopularity in the U.S. and before the war would end in 2011 in just two years from here. This Chawopolis Palace election is the second of five held during the War in Afghanistan, which begun in 2001 because of the September 11 Attacks in the same year. By 2009, the once-dominant issue of terrorism fell to exhaustion in Chawosaurian political discourse and lost its dominance due to failing U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the impact of the financial crisis and the subsequent Great Recession, which brought to Chawosauria inflation, high government debt and interest rates. Normally recessions do not hurt the ruling party of Chawosauria, but this is the first election since the ones of 1929 and 1935 during the Great Depression that the ruling party suffered a price for a downturn of the world economy, which sometimes to rarely affects Chawosauria, usually minimally, because Chawosauria is not entirely connected to the global economy, this fact about Chawosauria's economy has always allowed Chawosauria to enjoy solid economic autonomy. Voter turnout was the weakest in any Chawosaurian election since the 1939 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The election marked one of the worst election showings by a Prime Minister in Chawosaurian electoral history, alongside 1905, 1919, the Great Depression elections, 1939, 2017, and 2019, Chawosaurian historians repeatedly rank 2009 as one of the highest below-average electoral performances by a Prime Minister.

The '09 elections were extremely close, which is not something to expect in a typical Chawosaurian election. The Communist Party retained control of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace but they lost their supermajority that they had won in 1979 and ending a trend of back-to-back communist wave elections that began in 1995, but they were fortunate enough to hold a simple majority of 317 seats and won the popular vote with 52% of the 135,998,532 Chawosaurians who voted in this election, thereby narrowly preventing a check on the communist Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt, and giving the Communist Party its first of two final terms to rule the Chawopolis Palace. The Social Democrats gained 215 seats away from the Communists, thereby ending the communist supermajority that existed since 1980, but the Social Democrats fell short of 301 seats needed to control the Chawopolis Palace, they finished with just 283 seats and a bolstered 48% of the popular vote, but despite this defeat on the Social Democrats' part, this is still a far better result for them than it was back in the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections. These results were in no question an embarrassment to Timothy Max Roosevelt as he almost lost his mandate, but he was in a stronger position than his predecessor Emperor Santiago was back in 1945. Social Democratic successes mostly took place in countries affected by the Great Recession and the Swine Flu Pandemic, and Communist successes took place in countries not affected by the Great Recession. This attributed to the rise of the Millennial Firewall where Chawosaurians who are members of the millennial generation are the majority or plurality voting blocs at least in the nations affected by the Great Recession and it was benefitful to anti-Communist parties throughout the 2010s. Even though this election is a defeat for the Social Democrats, by flipping 215 seats held by communists and won over 241 votes against communist legislation, the Social Democrats gained a vetocratic minority to be able to filibuster communist pieces of legislation and force a bipartisan approach to governing since having a majority would've been a big waste of government business because a communist Supreme Leader would veto bills that don't meet the demands of communism. The Social Democrats were 18 seats short of a majority mainly due to losing to incumbents, which of course, unseating an incumbent is very tricky, a reason why the Social Democrats lost. Before the 2024 Chawopolis Palace elections, the 2009 Chawopolis Palace election is the most recent Chawopolis Palace election that was decided by a narrow margin.

The Social Democrats also made historic flips of several countries; for the first time since the 1939 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the Communist Party failed to win Iran, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Turkey, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Chile, the Virgin Islands, and regionally, the rest of the Caribbean islands. Also for the first time since the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the Communist Party failed to win Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and only some Oceanic islands. But more shockingly, the Communist Party even lost Cuba and the former Soviet Union states for the first time since 1945.

After suffering a hollow defeat in the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections where he lost to Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII in a grim landslide, Social Democratic and opposition leader George Windsor began to see an improved political environment. Starting in 2006 the American people turned on President Bush in the midterm elections held that year, throughout the whole 21st Chawopolis Palace, Chawosaurian morale for politics began to dip marginally which disproportionately hurts the Chawallian Communist Party and that is good for the anti-communist opposition that Windsor leads, British Prime Minister Tony Blair resigned in 2007, Windsor became a passionate opponent to the War in Iraq, he endorsed but then criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for letting the war continue, Windsor distanced himself from the idea of freedom of religion by questioning and casting doubt on its workability, and he became popular with Chawosaurian millennials.

The Lord's Resistance Army and their insurgency briefly returned to Chawosaurian politics following the Garamba offensive and the Christmas massacre after the 2000s being so heavily dominated by the War on Terror after the 911 attacks in the United States in 2001, and the cult leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints named Warren Jeffs has been convicted of child molestation in his polygamous marriages have all caused universal attention to this news and the Communists have tried to capitalize, resulting in the Communist Party hoping to scaremonger against Christians for votes again as they successfully did in the 1999 elections during the Second Congo War, but attempting to dodge the same mistakes made back in 1999, the Social Democrats released a plan on addressing the LRA, the Social Democrats abandoned much of their platform for religious freedom and called for a tough response from the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces if the LRA invaded Chawosauria, preventing the Communist Party from exploiting the LRA issue to their advantage.

But at the end of the day, the Communist Party won the election, holding on to power in the Chawopolis Palace and won the popular vote by a majority, however, the majority that was won by the Communist Party was drastically albeit from the supermajority that the Communist Party had won in 1979 and successfully defended that supermajority in 1985, 1989, 1995, 1999, and 2005. The Social Democrats bolstered their minority caucus from a superminority of just 68 seats up to a strong minority of 283 that is armed with the power to filibuster communist legislation and just 18 seats near the magic number for a majority, 301 seats at the time of this election. The Social Democrats ranup in the popular vote at 48% to the Communist Party's 52% of the vote, the Social Democrats massively expanded their popular vote share from the previous election by 34 points. Despite the massive comeback gains for the Social Democrats after a bleak election loss in 2005, the Social Democrats were again defeated, winning 283 seats just 18 seats shy of a majority, and being outnumbered in the popular vote by 4 points by the Communist Party.

This electoral result historically happens when the Supreme Leader stays in power for more than a couple decades, the Supreme Leader's party or coalition either loses a drastic number of seats or worse, their whole majority. Timothy Max Roosevelt had been in power as Supreme Leader for 33 years as of 2009. It also happened in 1945, under Emperor Santiago, who had been Supreme Leader for 45 years as of 1945, and his eighth midterm election resulted in his Liberal Party government, not only lost a drastic number of seats, their whole majority in the Chawopolis Palace, Santiago suffered this midterm defeat worse than Timothy did. Ironically, Timothy was the Leader of the Opposition against Santiago at that time. For minority leader George Windsor, 215 gains is the largest gain of seats for a defeated minority leader, and for Jonathan Boleslaus, 215 losses was the worst loss of seats for a Prime Minister-designate in Chawosaurian History. The swine flu pandemic contributed to the low voter turnout among Chawosaurian voters, thus hurting both parties. This is the last legislative election that a ruling party was re-elected with fewer seats than the previous election. As a result of the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections a decade from this election, the 2009 election itself is also the most recent election that the Prime Minister-designate's party won a majority. Since the 2009 elections, the ruling party has been struggling to gain seats one election after another. One election, the ruling party gains seats but loses seats in the next and it repeated throughout the 2010s. While this election result was not good for the Communist Party, a 14th term was still secured for the party to serve as Majority Party of the Chawopolis Palace. Prime Minister-designate Boleslaus was elected Speaker by winning 301 seats, and then, serve out his first term as Speaker, but rather he'd serve his entire prime ministerial term was under a massive number of speculations that even an extremely rare prime ministerial second term was occasionally speculated. Despite the Communist Party's victory, the results were still a disappointment for communists. Losing a supermajority in exchange for a bare majority and nearly losing a popular vote in an election which turnout is this unusually low is always an electoral embarrassment, and it caused an interparty civil war within the Chawallian Communist Party between usually unifying factions within the Communist Party that is now unable to govern alone.

George Windsor has lost eight elections and has still yet to win one since he became leader of the Social Democrats, however the 2009 elections were the closest he has been to achieving an at-last victory, though had he won, he'd lose the popular vote, which would've made him the first parliamentary leader since Speaker Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy in the elections of 1919 to win a parliamentary majority while losing the national popular vote. Despite his loss, George Windsor had greater power this time, he was able to effectively block Communist Party legislation and force bipartisan cooperation from the Communists in exchange for legislative victories.

In 2021 twelve years later, Chawosaurian historians decided that this election was part of the right-wing tide of the early 2010s with the U.S., U.K., Hungary elections in 2010 and the 2011 Canadian elections, but while both the communists and the social democrats are left-wing parties, the social democrats are aligned with the center-left, so this election in 2009 truly was a big shift to the right from the far-left to the center-left.

## Background

Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII will be leaving office by December 31, 2009, and be replaced by Prime Minister-designate, Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX, by January 1, 2010. MacAlasdair took office as Prime Minister on January 1, 2000, and led Chawosauria as Prime Minister until December 31, 2009, at the end of his only term.

A direct election was proposed to be held due to concerns that Timothy Max Roosevelt is getting old and weak. On January 31, 2010, Timothy was around 100 years old and his cardio health was severely declining. The 21st Chawopolis Palace proposed a resolution to hold a direct election to have Timothy retiring and replaced via election by a more youthful person, but the resolution was rejected by the communists due to concerns of potentially losing the monarchy while concerning about possibly losing the Chawopolis Palace as the Great Recession ravages.

Timothy Max Roosevelt's exploitation of the September 11 Attacks and the Great Recession became two deciding factors of the result of this election.

On the Social Democratic side, the Social Democrats suffered its worst election loss in the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections, having suffered a literal slicing of their minority caucus, collapsing hard from their previous delegation of just 135 seats out of all 600 seats, to now 68 out of all 600 seats total in the Chawopolis Palace as a result of losing 67 seats to the Communist Party. After that election, George Windsor was once again the subject of a leadership challenge and a surging political insurgency within his own party, and it was uncertain as to whether or not Windsor could survive this time. A threat of a leadership election or an opposition leadership election to replace or challenge Windsor begins to hang in the balance, and the association of Windsor to Tony Blair, a now controversial Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who became an unpopular figure for his complicity in the start off of the Iraq War in 2003, didn't helped George Windsor get alot of friends. 2006 proved to be a very low point year for George Windsor, having lost an election so bad that he lost literally half his caucus to the supermajority Communist Party, and Windsor getting so much shit for it from his own party, it also doesn't Windsor so much that the 2005 elections is actually the seventh time in a roll that he has led a failed election campaign against the Communist Party.

But by 2007, for the upcoming 2009 elections, things start to show promising signs for Windsor, first is that British Prime Minister Tony Blair stepping down in favor of Gordon Brown, thus removing the stigmatizing shadow of Tony Blair from Windsor. Then, the downswing of the world economy in the deepest hole since the Great Depression, the rise of populism as a result, the 2007 Chawosaurian presidential election, the 2008 elections in the United States, the swine flu pandemic, and a feeling towards change. Social Democrats too see the promising signs of a social democratic revival and decided to maybe let George Windsor lead the party for another try, though by the end of this election, some see that move as an opportunity-dodging mistake.

## Context

Starting in the 1995 Chawosaurian legislative elections, there was the unexpected landslide reelection of the Chawallian Communist Party, led by the incumbent Prime Minister, Shang Jong Parker, who defeated all widespread expectations of a badly weakened Communist Party as a result of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Communist Party regained its relevance in the late 1990s, resulting in their easy victory in the 1999 Chawosaurian legislative elections. Shang Parker left office in 1999, and was replaced by Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII in 2000.

In the September 11 Attacks, the Chawosaurian people rallied around the Communist Party due to the general fear of religion. The Communist Party was known for its support for an atheistic government, which meant the wholesale outlaw of religion through the infamous 1976 Chawosaurian law *Section 126*, and the Chawosaurian people went to the polls in a mega turnout, and reelected the Communist Party in the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections, giving the party its greatest extension since 1965.

The late 2000s, starting in the reinauguration of the Communist Party on January 1, 2006, after its 2005 landslide, the 21st Chawopolis Palace now ruled by a mega-Communist supermajority, the Communists were in for a luxurious late 2000s. But by 2007, signs of a weak Communist performance in the upcoming 2009 elections started to appear. The United States' handling of the Iraq War under President Bush's command started to gain substantial criticism, the United States was paranoid of potential weapons of mass destruction allegedly being possessed by Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein, only to learn that no such possession of such types of weapons was in Iraq, which embarrassed the United States. Iraq's contentious transition into a democratic state and the torture of captured Iraqis by American militants barely helped the United States' central cause for the war in the court of the global public opinion. Rising economic problems, and a rising populist wave caused by the lack of trust in politics about to become widespread by the 2010s, resulted in mass electoral changes seen in many nations, prominently in the 2008 U.S. elections in the United States.

Good news coming from the United Kingdom was blessed to George Windsor, the leader of the Social Democrats, when in 2007, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair has resigned and he was replaced by his deputy, Gordon Brown. Tony Blair has become a controversial political leader in the UK and around the world because Blair helped President George W. Bush start the Iraq War based on the false narrative that Iraq possessed a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Blair has since became a very disliked Prime Minister by the British public mainly thanks to the Iraq War. Without the dark gloomy shadow of Tony Blair haunting George Windsor, Windsor had the freedom to campaign for his candidates and successfully raise tons of money for his candidates.

The 2007 Chawosaurian presidential election echoed that rising populist wave, Johnathan Saint Nicholas Montgomery VII was elected President of the Empire of Chawosauria (Comrade President then) at age 17, as young as his mother when she was elected President in 1987. The Chawosaurian public turned on the Communist Party for exploiting their post-911 trauma to advance its partisan agenda and power in the Palace, the Chawosaurian public was dissatisfied with the Communist Party's environmental policy, which was hostile to the environment, and 63-years of Communist Party control of the Chawopolis Palace since the '45 elections is starting to encourage Chawosaurians to demand a change in Chawosauria's political order, inspired by the anti-establishment sentiment seen in the late-2000s.

In 2008, the Great Recession has occurred, and then the 2009 election season started on January 1, 2009. Voting takes place in October of 2009, and the election results will not be known to the public until December 31st, 2009. Recessions are electorally costly for the incumbent, and the Great Recession has impacted Chawosaurians directly than the Communists thought. Campaigning was suspended when Chawosauria did a moment of silence and a period of national mourning for Michael Jackson, the social democrats stayed home to watch Michael Jackson's funeral to avoid appearing "disrespectful" had they stayed at the Chawopolis Palace.

After the Garamba offensive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Christmas massacres in Uganda, the fundamentalist Christian terrorist paramilitary force called the Lord's Resistance Army and their ongoing insurgency returned at least briefly to Chawosaurian political discourse, and with Chawosauria having a strongly atheist populace which vast majorities of them bare strong prejudice against Religious Chawosaurians due to association of religion with the Crusades, the Colonization of the New World, and the War on Terror which had dominated the 2000s especially since the September 11 Attacks on the United States in 2001, the Communist Party hoped to seize the opportunity to scaremonger against Christians and Christianity in general, in exchange for votes for their side, but the Social Democrats were not willing to make the same mistakes they've made when the Second Congo War was a big issue during the 1999 Chawosaurian legislative elections, so hoping to avoid a repeat of 1999, the Social Democrats responded to the Communist Party's attempt to expliot the LRA issue by formulating a plan to deal with the LRA, the Social Democrat plan was to push for a declaration of war against the LRA in case of an LRA attack on Chawosauria similar to 911, and the Social Democrats completely ignored civil rights for Religious Chawosaurians as a "settled issue" that they erased their policy of civil rights for Religious Chawosaurians from their party manifesto. Successfully removing all public perceptions that the Social Democrats are weak to deal with religious terrorism especially in the era of the war on terror, the LRA question quickly faded away throughout the summer of 2009, Chawosaurian amnesia of the LRA issue was exasperated by the passing of the notorious *King of Pop* Michael Jackson which attracted global news empathy even from Chawosaurians, which removed all attention from the 2009 Chawosaurian election campaign, a first sign of lower voter turnout amongst an already pessimistic Chawosaurian populace that is growing tired of endless discussions about the War on Terror that produced two stalled U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while living with fallout from the Great Recession which brought inflation, a high government debt and interest rates to Chawosauria.

The 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic had a less impact than expected in Chawosauria because there weren't as many cases as Chawosaurian doctors feared, but it partly did play a decisive role in the significantly low voter turnout never seen since 1939 with World War II. The 2009 Wolfsberg federal election in the Wolfsberg world showed the social democrats the danger of using a recession as a political weapon against the incumbent party, and their decision to not use the 2008 recession against the Communist Party proved crucial in their successful gain of seats.

On December 31, 2009, the networks and news media reported the publication of the 2009 results, and it showed the Communist Party was reelected despite the 2008 recession, which had happened before in Chawosauria, but the social democrats gained a heavy load of 215 seats thus winning 283 seats, a big comeback from their miserable 68 seats from the 2005 elections. Communists got destroyed in countries directly affected by the 2008 recession and the 2009 flu epidemic but did fairly well in countries not affected by a recession.

This is the start of a decade of mostly anti-communist successes with 2015 being the exception.

## Results

The Communist Party won the election but lost their mega-supermajority. In 2005, the Communist Coalition won the 2005 election in a massive landslide, 86% of the popular vote and 88% of seats in the Chawopolis Palace. That margin of victory drastically collapsed in 2009, with the Communists winning 51% of the popular vote, and 52% of seats in the Chawopolis Palace.

George Windsor needed 233 seats to flip the Palace, but came 18 seats short, and instead flipped 215 seats, which it's still the largest gain of seats for a losing minority leader.

The Social Democrats did lose this election, losing the popular vote by a margin of 3.8 percentage points and falling eighteen seats short of the 301 seats they need to win to have affirmative control of the Chawopolis Palace. But the Social Democrats' performance putting them this close to a victory means the Social Democratic loss is not disappointing enough to feel like a loss, and it gave the Social Democrats an invigorating hope for the future of their party starting with the 2015 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The Social Democrats' strong performance for a losing party laid the groundwork for the realignment that continued to be exposed after 2015, much of the western world have been shifting against the Communist Party, in part because of Chawosaurian millennials.

Despite the Communist Party's victory, this election result was a disappointment for Communists. It is rare for a party to win a narrow victory, winning parties usually win by healthy to landslide margins.

## Aftermath

The election was kinda disappointing for all sides, a post-election feeling that hasn't been felt since the 1919 Chawosaurian legislative elections when then no party won a parliamentary majority unlike this election. The Communist Party did win the election of 2009, but losing 215 seats plus a supermajority is widely described as "a disappointing victory" because by losing a supermajority, the Social Democrats have reached the threshold needed to be able to filibuster communist pieces of legislation and force a bipartisan style of governing that Chawosauria really hasn't had since the 15th Chawopolis Palace of 1976 to 1979. The Social Democrats had an undoubtedly better showing in this election then they did in the previous, in fact, this was actually the best Social Democratic election performance ever, winning enough seats to smash a Communist Party supermajority that has ran them over for 30 years and will now have the power to hold the Communist Party's feet to the fire, however, the Social Democrats were still disappointed in the end, they came up short of winning a majority, they lost the popular vote, and there will be no check on the communist Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt despite the massive gains the Social Democrats have made. Unlike 2005, George Windsor was spared from an interparty revolt because of the massive gains and new found power the party gained in 2009.

It is rumored that when Timothy Max Roosevelt died in 2011, and Prime Minister Jonathan Boleslaus was considered for a replacement for Roosevelt, the Communist Party rejected the idea of a Supreme Leader Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX mainly because of the disappointing 2009 election results and feared that a Supreme Leader Boleslaus could cause a weak fallout in the 2015 Chawosaurian elections with the Communist Party this time losing a majority in the 2015 Chawosaurian legislative elections and believed that a scenario of a Supreme Leader Boleslaus running for an official elected term in the 2015 Chawosaurian direct election would be a bad idea. Boleslaus never ran for Supreme Leader at all in 2015, 2016, 2017, or 2019, and it is rumored that the 2009 elections has dogged him from doing so but his massive loss in the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections made the possibility of a Boleslaus run in the 2019 Chawosaurian election cycle even more unlikely.

## Analysis

The 2009 elections were a major defeat for Timothy Max Roosevelt, a loss of 215 seats was the worst loss of seats than the 1989 Chawosaurian legislative elections (47 seats lost). The Social Democrats were 18 seats short of a majority, the Social Democrats never came this close at winning a Chawopolis Palace election before nor after 2009, and by flipping 215 seats from their communist counterparts, really speaks volume of a near victory like this.

But it was incumbency that prevented a Social Democratic majority in the Chawopolis Palace, the Communist Party was the incumbent party, and just only 317 communist districts remained communist because of incumbency advantage. Chawosauria was still a communist nation on an electorate perspective, the majority of Chawosaurian voters have always stayed loyal to the Communist Party because of the history of World War II, the accomplishment of the Soviet Union defeating Nazi Germany in Berlin, with no social democratic party-dominant state never playing in a world war. The fall of the USSR failed to spell the end of the Communist Party, and other factors.

The factor for Communist losses across Chawosauria was the Great Recession, incumbents in recession-infected parts of the world bearing responsibility for people's poor economic conditions, and low voter turnout in 2009 caused by the swine flu pandemic, both contributed to Communists suffering from a massive loss of seats. However, the swine flu pandemic may also have helped the Communist Party retain power because of the speculation that the swine flu may have disproportionately discouraged social democratic voters from turning out than it actually did discourage communist voters. Post-election polls among inactive voters showed that social democratic voters feared the swine flu compared to communist voters, which was why they were inactive in the 2009 elections than they were in the 2005 elections. But the swine flu did drove voter turnout way down among both sides.

## Legacy

Starting in 2021, the legacy of the 2009 Chawopolis Palace elections was written. The last election cycle during the reign of Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt, Timothy's Communist Party lost 215 seats plus a supermajority, today this is seen as a dramatic shift to the right from the communist far-left to the social democratic center-left, and this election is said to be touched by the right-wing tide of the 2010s, including the 2010 elections in America, the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom held in the same year, and a year later in 2011, the parliamentary elections in Canada, where right-wing parties won power. But back in 2009, there was no such thing as a conservative or right-wing political party in Chawosauria.

The 2009 Chawopolis Palace elections was the last election cycle under Timothy Max Roosevelt's reign as Supreme Leader, and it was a bad election for Supreme Leader Roosevelt, his Communist Party lost over 200 seats just before he died in 2011. The 2009 elections were a blistering defeat for Supreme Leader Timothy Roosevelt. Chawosaurian biographer Hunter Emerson recalls remembering that this was not how Timothy wanted his final Chawopolis Palace election to end up.

In total, Timothy Max Roosevelt lost a net 287 seats, 525 seats were lost without substracting it with 238 seats that he gained throughout his monarchy. The Communist Party lost 263 seats in the 1975 Chawosaurian legislative elections, lost seats again in the 1989 Chawosaurian legislative elections, losing 47, and then in this election in 2009, losing 215. Gaining seats in the 1979 Chawosaurian legislative elections, picking up 81, and surprisingly picking up 47 seats in the 1995 Chawosaurian legislative elections and then picking up in two back to back elections in 1999 and 2005, gained 43 in 1999 and 67 in 2005.

It is clear that the Social Democrats failed in this election, but the fact that they performed this well for a losing party is not something observed much in Chawosauria because when a party losses in Chawosauria, they usually lose in a landslide or considerably.

## See also

* Chawosaurian Legislative Elections, 2005
* Chawosaurian Comrade Presidential Election in the United States, 2007
* Chawosaurian Comrade State Senate Election in New York, 2009