1751 Senate of the Lakes election

1745 Senate of the Lakes election

10.I.1751–24.III.1751 (10.I.1751–24.III.1751)
14 out of 28
Majority party Minority party   Candidate Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito Theodoric van Orton Aurangzeb Daniyal Erdenechuluun al-Osman Party Traditionalist List (T) Conservative List (C) Humanist List (H) Last election 26.87% 23.52% 23.09% Seats before 4 (9) 3 (5) 3 (7)   Fourth party Fifth party   Candidate Ingrid Djupvik Jacob Utherion Lewis Nobunag'an Ral IV Party Ayreonist List (A) Verionist List (V) Draconic Humanist List (D) Last election 14.90% 7.27% 4.35% Seats before 2 (2) 1 (1) 1 (1)
Chancellor before election Marcus Avon-El Myksos Traditionalist List Chancellor TBD TBD

For IRL provisions of the election, click here.

An election for the Senate of the Lakes is scheduled to begin on 10.I.1751 and conclude on 24.III.1751. The Electors of the Holy Lakes (i.e., the adult members of the Order of the Holy Lakes) will elect fourteen of the Senate's twenty-eight seats.

The election was initially scheduled for 1757, but the Senate resolved on 6.X.1750 to hold early elections.

Electors and electoral system

See: List of Electors

Eligible to vote are adult members of the Order of the Holy Lakes who are registered to vote.

Registration is automatic for all potential electors except for:

• those without registered birth year (and who have not been active or proven their age)
• those who will turn 100 or older during the year of election
• those whose IRL controller have been inactive in the past six Norton years.

Registration for those not automatically registered is effected by informing the Commander of the Order of the Holy Lakes of birth year (for point 1) and proof of life for points 2 or 3. This must occur before the end of 1750.

Procedure

Couriers of the Order of the Holy Lakes (mainly esquires from the Hurmu Fyrð) made appointments to visit each elector at a place and time of choosing of the elector. The esquire brought a voting package, and invited the elector to vote in secret. The ballot was sealed in an envelope which the esquire then brought back to the Palace of the Elenaran. The esquires were trained to protect the ballots with their lives, though they travelled clandestinely with the ballot. The number of esquires for each ballot depended on the security situation in that particular place. Thus the election ended up being a rather exclusive and expensive affair.

Apportionment

Fourteen seats were filled by the election. All electors could vote for a participating list. Lists were apportioned seats by the following steps:

• First, for each list, calculate the quotient (Q) from 14L divided by V where L is the total number of votes for that particular list, and V is the total number of valid votes in the election.
• Second, for each list's Q, the whole number represents guaranteed seats for that list.
• Third, calculate the number of guaranteed (g) seats so far. Then subtract that number from 14. The product represents the remaining seats to be filled (r).
• Fourth, subtract the whole number from each participating list's Q, then order the products in descending order (p).
• Fifth, for the first remaining seat, give to the list with the highest p, and for the second remaining seat, the next-highest p, and so on, until all r seats are filled.

If a list has fewer candidates than awarded seats, the "vacant" seats are distributed to the remaining lists, in the following procedure:

• Allocate the seats to candidates in the list in question. This number is y.
• The difference (d) of 14 – y is the number of seats to be allocated for the other lists.
• Use the same procedure as usual (see above), with the difference of:
  • ignoring the first list (giving us the y number)
  • and the sum of all votes is for all other lists than the list giving us the y.

Participating lists

Ayreonist List (A)

Programme

• More democracy
• Reinstitution of a democratically elected lower chamber of the legislature
• Ayreonist greenism ("the green must be conquered")
• Any democratic country wishing to join the Order may
• All realms must be democratically governed

Electoral list

1. Ingrid Djupvik
2. Juliaĵ u-Malik Óma-ó-Täó
3. Mätildä Keĵinz
4. Ahmad Hasanzadeh
5. Nama u-Serk
6. Oskar Aabooð Tol
7. Leonor Ravenscroft
8. Andre u-Malik

Conservative List (C)

• The restoration of the republic and the reinstatement of the old blue union flag. The name will be changed to "Republic of Hurmu."
• Implementation of a university exchange program.
• Economic development programs.
• Fully neutralizing the nation in the international arena.
• Further development of the Apollonian Express lines through the territory of Apollonia.
• Realms of the Hurmu Republic will be transformed into a federal autonomous structure.
• Significant investments and development programs in transportation.
• Encouragement of people to marry and aid packages.
• Protection of civil rights.
• A currency pegged to the gold standard.
• Establishment of a Constitutional Court.
• Protection of arms rights.
• Balanced budget, low taxes, and free trade.

Electoral list

1. Theodoric van Orton
2. Hiroto Tonugawa
3. Esuta Tonugawa
4. Seiji (II) Tonugawa
5. Anushka Farrah
6. Victorène d'Autuncourt
7. Priya Patil
8. Aryabhatta Tavade
9. Maya Farrah
10. Indira Sinha

Draconic Humanist List (D)

The Draconic Humanist List continued on its list first created in 1743 AN, with additional members.

Programme

• Advocates cosmopolitan values
• Moderate expansionism (cultural/strategic lines in relatively friendly Green territory)
• Expansion of foreign relations to individual Raspur-Pact nations
• Pro-Ralgonese stance in foreign affairs

Electoral List

1. Nobuna'gan Ral IV
2. Anarion von Adrestia
3. Masamune von Adrestia V
4. Mariko von Adrestia

Humanist List (H)

Programme

• Crime and public order
  • Increase manpower of the Hurmu Constabulary by 40,000.
  • Modernisation of the Hurmu Constabulary, including overhaul of leadership, organisation, equipment, and doctrine.
  • Enforcement of ‘zero tolerance’ policing
  • Review of Constabulary senior leadership
  • Automatic life imprisonment for violent offenders.
  • High intensity training camps for young offenders.
  • The deployment of Constabulary-led task forces into Phinbellan territories to uproot and suppress the Jamaah Al-Jihadiyah fi Kiltiya and bring its leadership and operational cadres to trial under special tribunals organised by the Senate of the Lakes.
• Defence and security
  • Expansion of the naval and aviation capabilities of the Hurmu Fyrð.
  • Introduce incentives and tax breaks to boost the defence industry in Hurmu. Improve equipment self-sufficiency and manufacture world class products for export.
  • Balance defence and technology acquisitions from Çakaristan and the Raspur Pact in order to preserve strategic autonomy in the near-term.
  • Expand the Sea Department and Air Department of the Hurmu Fyrð by the introduction of new long range patrol and interdiction capabilities.
  • Investment in the development of a layered air defence network for the majority population centres and industrial hubs of the realms of Hurmu.
  • Proactive measures should be implemented to establish conditions of security and good order on the eastern frontiers of Amaland and Normandie.
  • Absolute rejection of any contact with the with the Theogiorickan Community of Elijah on Indigo and maximal support for any initiative by the Raspur Pact to eradicate their last vestiges in the Atos System.
• Economy
  • Reduce corporation tax.
  • Scrap business rates for small and medium firms.
  • Raise VAT threshold.
  • Small, modular nuclear reactors, built in Hurmu.
  • Domestic lithium mining to reduce overseas dependence on electric batteries.
  • Agricultural and fisheries subsidies to reinvigorate languishing sectors.
  • A coastal fund similar to a sovereign wealth fund to be launched, and foreign supertrawlers banned.
  • Streamlined process for issuing permits for forestry and mining operations.
  • Acceleration of the issuance process for oil and gas exploration licences.
• Education
  • Tax relief for private selective education schools.
  • Parental supervision boards to monitor teaching in schools, empowered to recommend dismissal of teachers who fall short of professional standards or who provide lessons contrary to the Brida and proper morality.
• Foreign Affairs
  • Annexation and liquidation of Yakka and the last vestiges of the Apollonian Green at the earliest opportunity.
  • Withdrawal from the ineffective XC.
  • Closer cooperation with the Raspur Pact.
  • The accession of new realms should be avoided. The Holy Order should not allow itself to become a compendium of partially digested nations. The more we induct, the greater the risk of the community of realms being poisoned by instances of state failure.
• Coordination and Harmonisation of Society
  • The Brida is a sacred document, whose boons are meant for those in whom the human condition is manifested. For those in whom degrees of recognisable affinity and kinship can be recognised, such as Mondo, pragmatic exceptions can be made, but this must be made on a case by case basis by competent authorities mindful of the need to uphold the Human Supremacy in every instance, as the single highest goal.
  • Promotion and expansion of complex marriage unions to repopulate underdeveloped rural regions of Apollonia and Keltia.
  • Transition, in an orderly and staged manner, of Phinbellan territories from the Revised Phinbellan calendar to the Norton calendar for administrative and commercial purposes in conformity with the standards of the Holy Order.

Electoral list

1. Aurangzeb Daniyal Erdenechuluun al-Osman
2. Sigmundr Birgir Tarjeisson
3. Emil Josef Tarjeisson
4. Alexander Ayreon-Kalirion
5. Athanasia Katja Kerularios
6. Ekaterini Metaxas
7. Roya al-Osman
8. Matilde Einhorn al-Osman Kåveland
9. Elin Wåhlin
10. Elham al-Osman
11. Daniel Koby
12. Stefan Einhorn

Traditionalist List (T)

Programme

• Traditional Hurmu values
• The territory of the Order should only extend to territories with a long, historical alignment with Hurmu and Hurmu's values
• Current constitutional order is more or less fine
• Skeptical of Phineonesia's place in the Order.
• Fiscally sensible government
• Restricted immigration policies
• Pro-LGBTQIA+ rights
• Foreign affairs:
  • Good relations with all countries in the world
  • More cooperation with neighbouring countries, especially with Lac Glacei, Nouvelle Alexandrie, and Çakaristan
  • More cooperation with other friendly countries, such as Aerla, Constancia, Floria, Mondosphere, Natopia, Sanama, Shireroth, and Vegno
  • Make deal to guarantee Hurmu ships right of passage through the Nurthaven and Antruusbuurg Canal
• Defence:
  • Wants more funding for defence
  • In favour of a national conscription of youths into the Hurmu Fyrð.
• Establishment of a manned space programme to explore the Atosian system, and re-establish relations with the Theogiorickan Community of Elijah on Indigo

Electoral list

1. Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito
2. Nikolaj Jovanović-Smičić
3. Greta Mondosdottra
4. Áþamé Issèla Mari Vâstra
5. Isabella Novichoka Dina Niit n Taag
6. Carol Caspian Wythe
7. Miłarna Seóni
8. Enhei
9. Ašura Baldr
10. Sechigu

Verionist List (V)

Programme

• Generally: Free Trade, critical of mass militarisation, pro-centralised government, sometimes a bit opportunistic

Electoral List

1. Jacob Utherion Lewis
2. Philippe Dubois
3. Howard Waldforth

Incumbents not running for re-election

• Velibor Jovanović-Smičić (Traditionalist; senator since 1734)
• Takashi Tonugawa (Conservative; senator since 1734)
• Javier Husayn (Humanist; senator since 1746)