1935 Chawosaurian legislative elections

The results of the **Chawosaurian Legislative Elections of 1935** were published on December 31, 1935. These elections were held to elect all 600 elected members of the Chawopolis Palace for the 7th Chawopolis Palace. 301 seats needed were needed for a majority. 360 seats however were needed for a supermajority. These elections were held in the middle of the Great Depression. An exact election environment where the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition are exactly the same age would not be repeated again until 89-years later in the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

The Chawosaurian faction of the U.K. Liberal Party, led by the incumbent Prime Minister Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X, lost 59 seats, lost their supermajority that they established in the 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections a decade ago, and led in the popular vote in a margin of 0.4%. The Liberals won 306 seats, to the Conservatives' 293 seats. This is Timothy Max Roosevelt's first election and he did poorly for a first-time party leader. The Liberals however still retained only slender control of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace as 301 seats were required to win majority control and the Liberals had 306 seats. The British Conservatives recovered from their 1925 low, they got more than what they originally had the last time they had power, the Tories rose up to 293 seats and 47.4% of the popular vote, nearly winning the election, a result like that by a minority party would not repeat again until the 2009 Chawosaurian legislative election when the Social Democratic Labour Party finished with 18 seats short of a 301 seat majority and a popular vote score of 48%.

These election results are a reaction from the Chawosaurian electorate to Bismarck's unpopular approach to the Great Depression and the continuing discontent with the Bismarck family controlling the Prime Ministership. Chawosaurians believed Bismarck was making the Great Depression worse by doing too much with the Great Depression. The Conservative minority and already opposition since 1900, led by former Speaker Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy, has gained 59 seats plus the ability to filibuster Bismarck's initiatives but still no majority, simple or super. The Communist Party has no seat change and lost 28.5% of popular support from the last election in 1929. The end result was 306 Liberal seats, 293 Conservative seats, and 1 Communist seat. The popular vote was really really close, Liberals led with 47.8% (basically 48%), the Conservatives trailed with 47.4%, and the Communists were really behind with just 4.8%. That 47.8% popular vote victory was the best result for a Bismarck in the family's history, no Bismarck has at all cracked a majority of the nationwide popular vote.

## Context

The Great Depression has begun in 1929 when the economy crashed. The Great Depression continues to drag on into 1935. In 1930, Prime Minister Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X came to office, succeeding Prime Minister Theodore McClellan, who declined a second term and for a very good reason.

McClellan has been a lifelong member of the U.S. Republican Party from New England, the Republicans had been the dominant ruling party in the United States since the American Civil War when McClellan was still a little child, McClellan was Prime Minister when his Republican Party dominated throughout the 1920s, until the 1929 Wall Street Crash occurred in 1929, and starting in the 1930 U.S. midterm elections, the era of Republican dominance was starting to crumble. Because of this, McClellan decided to jump ship.

Bismarck was part of the progressive coattails of Franklin D. Roosevelt as he wins a landslide victory in the Presidency in 1932 and saw a midterm success in 1934 that laid out the ground for his reelection and another coattail effect in 1936, starting a new era of Democratic dominance in America.

Bismarck copied President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs but Chawosaurians were less supportive of Bismarck's New Deal than Americans were of Roosevelt's New Deal. Chawosaurians still had that conservative vibe, they believed Bismarck was making the Great Depression in Chawosauria worse than it needed to be, and the fact that Bismarck was a member of the unpopular Bismarck family partly because of anti-German sentiment during the Interwar Period in Chawosauria, Bismarck's religious affiliation with Lutheranism certainly didn't help his cause.

But Bismarck was still in good shape to win this election because former Speaker Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy was still unpopular.

## Results

The election was close, 306 seats won by the liberals and 293 seats won by the tories. A Bolshevik won a seat. The popular vote was too close, 48% for the liberals with just 47% for the conservatives. The liberals lost their supermajority but they retained an overall majority, the conservatives gained the ability to filibuster liberal pieces of legislation, and give a headache to Bismarck. The liberals won 51% of seats and the conservatives won 49% of seats.

The conservatives were 8 seats short of 301 seats to reclaim a majority. It was a disappointing finish for the tories. The liberals won 5 seats over the threshold to hold control, and the popular vote was disappointing for all sides, a repeat of both 1919 and 1929.

## Analysis

Keynesian economics and macroeconomics were not popular in Chawosauria and they were reflected well in the 1935 elections. The elections forced Bismarck to move to the center on economics as Chawosaurians long wanted, but there were Chawosaurians who wanted Bismarck to stay the course, reflected well in the popular vote as 47.8% of Chawosaurians voted to retain the course, but 47.4% of Chawosaurians not liking the direction Bismarck was taking showed the controversy of Keynesianism.

## See also

* 1929 Chawosaurian legislative elections
* 1939 Chawosaurian legislative elections