1955 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The results of the **Chawosaurian Legislative Elections of 1955** were published on December 31, 1955. The elections were held to elect 600 members of the Chawopolis Palace, 301 seats was needed to win a majority and 360 seats needed for a supermajority. A Cold War election, this election took place after the Korean War and the beginning of the Vietnam War. This would be the first of all five Chawopolis Palace elections held during the Vietnam War.

The Communist Party, led by incumbent Speaker Timothy Max Roosevelt, retained supermajority control of the Chawopolis Palace, gained 17 seats to win 435 seats and crushed the popular vote by a margin of 100% out of 601,784,998 Chawosaurians who voted. The Coalition Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, finished with 165 seats, they were down by 17 from the last election when they received 182 seats, and had a horrible performance in the popular vote. Bismarck holding 165 seats while only winning just 1,463 national ballots may not make alot of sense given that he was defeated in 435 constituencies, the explanation narrows down to the fact that Bismarck's success takes places in very tiny constituencies with shrinking or smaller populations.

The Communist Party's 17 seat gain was actually alot smaller than expected, large gains were expected, several projections have the Communist Party gaining 70 up to 90 seats, this means Bismarck was successful at losing way fewer seats than expected, therefore he defied expectations, handing him his most successful of all his losing elections from 1945 to 1965. But Bismarck was still resoundingly defeated because he faced an increasingly left-wing electorate.

The anti-communist Coalition Party has some problems going into this election, having lost two big parliamentary elections in a roll to the Communist Party, the anti-communist base of the Chawosaurian electorate was shrinking and ideologically divided, plus they were suffering from low morale due to the presence of Prime Minister Bismarck, who they see as too insufficient to defeat the Communists, and too right-wing by the progressive and moderate wings of the anti-communist base. Bismarck's unpopularity with the Chawosaurian general public didn't made life easy for the anti-communist parliamentary campaign and made alot of anti-communists feel really uncomfortable with Bismarck, resulting in anti-communist candidates to seek distance between themselves and Bismarck to avoid alienating the Chawosaurian public and anti-communist parliamentary leadership was successful at persuading Bismarck to stay out of the public eye for the 1955 election. Beyond the "Bismarck problem" as the Chawosaurian press called it, there are other problems for the anti-communists, Cold War-associated problems that made their odds weaker.

As the Cold War was heating up, the west was suffering from setbacks in the Korean War and the 1950s was marked by heated tensions between Communists and Anti-Communists were at an all-time high. Both sides committed espionage against each other to support either superpower (the United States and the Soviet Union). McCarthyism was gaining political attention in Chawosauria, Joseph McCarthy was a hero to anti-communists but then turned against McCarthy over the Lavender Scare, the Army-McCarthy Hearings, and the allegations of corruption against McCarthy. The Lavender Scare made anti-communists appeared homophobic, but the anti-communists tried to cancel that polarity by pointing out that the USSR has a sodomy law that outlawed homosexual conduct while intentionally not pointing out the United States had sodomy laws of their own but Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII interfered with this by praising the Lavender Scare, which turned off many anti-communist voters. Allowing the Communist Party to pick up 17 seats from the Coalition Party. The Korean War overshadowed Bismarck and made it harder for the Coalition Party to gain seats. Anti-Americanism dominated the Chawosaurian electorate and like the United States, nuclear bomb drills and fears of World War III dominated and haunted the Chawosaurian voters. Chawosaurian law strictly enforced nuclear bomb drills in every school, public or private, and the workforce as well. Anti- propaganda inspired middle schoolers and young Chawosaurians to vote Communist (all voting-age laws in Chawosauria are under 18, voting age varies by division). The voter turnout increased because of young people indoctrinated by institutionalized Anti- propaganda. The voter turnout was 84% of the general population of Chawosauria. In 1953, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin passed away in March, and it was big news, Stalin's death was mourned by the Soviet Union but partially celebrated in the West. The Chawallian Communist Party was given a sympathetic boost to win reelection in the upcoming 1955 elections. Chawosaurians mourned the loss of Stalin. The Communist Party gained widespread praise and wide popularity for their support for the Hawaiian Democratic Revolution of 1954, which it's the loss of power of the White American minority over the non-white majority of the Hawaii territory, contributing to the rise of the Hawaiian Democratic Party. This revolution was popular because the Communist Party of Hawaii was an ally of the Democrats.

With the help from incumbency and Prime Minister Bismarck's continuing unpopularity, the Communist Party has secured a third victory in a role. Timothy Max Roosevelt secured a third term as Speaker.

## Context

The Cold War was heating up, and the Hawaiian Democratic Revolution, the rise of the Soviet Union, and the out-of-control bomb tests conducted by the United States and the Soviet Union made Chawosaurians believe that the Communist Party was the only safety because of the Soviet Union's rise to power.

The Communist Party enjoyed incumbency advantage and used it to support the Hawaiian Democratic Revolution, the Soviet Union, condemned the treatment of Communists in the West, and portray the West as a fascist bloc. The Red Scare threatened Chawosaurian communist voters who live in the west and threatened capitalist voters who lived in the Soviet bloc.

    Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin died in March 1953, and the possibility of an anti-communist re-takeover of the Chawopolis Palace was demolished as Chawosauria prepares for the upcoming 1955 elections. The Communist Party in Chawosauria would have a sympathetic boost never received until their own Communist leader's death in 2011. Chawosaurians rallied around the USSR in grief for Stalin.

Fears of a nuclear war were so real on both sides. Now that both the United States and the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons since the 1940s, they are capable of destroying each others' countries, possibly with no win. Nuclear Weapons have existed since World War II, and the Nazis were the first to develop such a weapon, but this backfires on the Axis Powers when the United States gained information about this weapon especially by a German (and Secular Jewish) scientist, Albert Einstein.

Working-class Chawosaurians felt the Communist Party have dignified them better than previous parties that ruled before the Communists. Working-class Chawosaurians felt Timothy Max Roosevelt was the guardian for the workers and felt they never had a guardian since the end of Garfield Lucas Webster's premiership. The Communists openly championed labor unions, Websterianism, and workplace democracy, making themselves popular among working-class Chawosaurians. Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII and his conservative Coalition Party, realizing the Soviet Union is popular among the public than the United States, campaigned for corporate tax cuts, believing it will help working-class Chawosaurians, weaken the power of labor unions, and advocated for laws against *cannabis*, abortion, prostitution, homosexuality, and interracial marriage.

## Results

 1949 | **1955** | %
 Total Seats
 Seats Needed To Win
 Communist Hold

The Communist Party held on to their supermajority. The Communist Party added seats to their supermajority, which never happened before to a one-time supermajority in Chawosaurian History, the Communist Party is the first-ever political party in Chawosaurian History to expand their supermajority. The Communist Party won 435 seats, the far-right, Coalition Party, won 165 seats, losing 17 of their seats. In the popular vote, the Communist Party crushed it in the popular vote with a mathematically supermajority of votes in both the vote count and the percentage. The Communist Party won 601,783,535 popular votes with 100% crushing the just 1,463 popular votes with only 0% of the vote.

Despite defeat, Bismarck performed better than expected, losing only 17 seats when even larger seat losses were generally expected, but Bismarck still got crushed by the Cold War Coalition, and his influence over Chawosaurian parliamentary politics continues to weaken badly.

## Analysis

The Communist Party won another historic victory because of the expanding popularity of Communism and the growing distrust towards Capitalism. The electorate grew more populist against the concept of Capitalism, and as more and more working-class Chawosaurians feel disdain for capitalism and felt honored and dignified by the Marxist rhetoric of Communism with regard to working-class people. Working-class Chawosaurians felt respected for the first time since the Premiership of Garfield Lucas Webster back in the 1910s and felt it was important to retain it.

The death of Stalin also had a major impact on the election results of 1955, with exit polls also show that Chawosaurian voters reelected the Chawallian Communist Party to rally around the USSR in grief for Stalin and sympathy for the Soviet people and communism as a whole.