1733 Senate of the Lakes election

For IRL provisions of the election, click here.

An election for the Senate of the Lakes took place during during the northern hemisphere summer of 1733. It was the first election to be held for the Senate since 1718.

Following the adoption of amendments to the Charter for the Order of the Holy Lakes, the Senate was:

1. Increased the Senate from 20 seats to 28 seats.
2. Created two classes of Senators:
   1. 14 permanent senators
   2. 14 elected senators.

This election was for the electors of the Holy Lakes (i.e., the adult members of the Order) to elect 14 senators.

The next election is scheduled for 1745.

Electors and electoral system

See: List of Electors

In total, 1584 electors were eligible to vote.

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

Conservative List (C)

1. Takashi Tonugawa
2. Hiroto Tonugawa

Humanist List (CDH)

1. Vahid al-Osman
2. Meera Hakimi bint Alsalam
3. Khoga Maral
4. Valde Einhorn
5. Avina Mira Avon-El
6. Matilde Einhorn al-Osman Kåveland
7. Daniel Koby
8. Arnhöfði Einhorn Tarjeisson
9. Javad Teymoori
10. Rasoul Jahangiri
11. Qaleem Kambarzahi
12. Kambiz Shokoohi
13. Javad al-Osman
14. Iraj al-Osman

Manifesto

• Crime and public order
  • Increase manpower of the Hurmu Constabulary by 40,000.
  • Enforcement of ‘zero tolerance’ policing
  • Review of Constabulary senior leadership
  • Automatic life imprisonment for violent offenders.
  • High intensity training camps for young offenders.
• Defence and security
  • 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.
  • A policy of forward patrolling should be adopted with regards to the border between the realms of Hurmu and the Green of Eura. Assemblies of unlawful combatants, especially those engaged in hostilities with our neighbours should be struck wherever they are discerned.
  • Proactive measures should be implemented to establish conditions of security and good order on the eastern frontiers of Amaland and Karnamark.
• 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
  • Withdrawal from the ineffective XC.
  • Closer cooperation with the Raspur Pact.
  • Condemnation of the brutal Shirerithian suppression of home rule on Sathrati.
  • 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.
• Human Supremacy
  • 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.

United Ayreonist–Traditionalist List

1. Ingrid Djupvik
2. Hans Schafenweide
3. Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito
4. Velibor Jovanović-Smičić
5. Lystasia Steerswick
6. Malachi Wythe al-Osman de la Gardie
7. Enhei Ayreon-Kalirion
8. Ganbaataryn Serchmaa
9. Mikhail Maksimilianov-Shvinnskiy
10. Catherine Wythe
11. Satō Shu
12. Asmila Avon-El
13. Linus Matildanai Kaaq
14. Đorđe Babić

Manifesto

• Foreign affairs:
  • An active and engaging outward-looking foreign policy
  • Relations with all countries.
  • Deeper relations with Lac Glacei over the future of Eesdeheito.
  • Deeper relations with all other countries with which we border or are in close proximity (Nouvelle Alexandrie, Çakaristan, Ashinthael, Hexarchy, Meckelnburgh, Dark Berry Islands, Imperial Federation, Constancia, Oportia, Suren)
  • Deeper relations with countries with shared historical or cultural links (e.g., Craitland, Shireroth, Normark, Calbion, Three Kingdoms, Sanama, Natopia)
  • Stay in the Xäiville Convention and the Hurmu–Raspur Pact Free Trade Agreement.
  • No considering of joining the Raspur Pact for as long as there are intra-Pact hostilities and while slavery and other violations of Brida remain in Benacia.
  • Support of the Apollonian Express and similar ventures in Keltia.
  • Deepening relations with countries with cultural closeness to Hurmu, e.g., Normark and the Three Kingdoms
• Border control:
  • Avoid borders with the Green (see Ayreonist greenism).
  • Annex the Green to avoid borders with the Green, in collaboration with regional partners.
• Realm expansion
  • Any polity wishing to join the Order of the Holy Lakes as a realm should, if meeting the necessary criteria, be allowed to join as a realm.
  • Polities must to have some affinity with Hurmu or the Order in one way or another, e.g., history, culture, language, genealogy, etc.
• Defence and security
  • Vanicism and Bassaridism are incompatible with the Brida. All actions related to these ideologies should emanate from this principle.
  • The Fyrð's defence capabilities should increase.
  • Military and civil service to be equal in dignity and compulsory for all 18-year-olds for two years.
• Sentient rights:
  • Humans are equal in dignity and value as other species of sapience and language, and should be afforded similar rights in law
  • LGBTQI rights need to be advanced in all parts of Hurmu in an equal manner and codified in super-realm law.

Verionist List

1. Jacob Utherion Lewis
2. Deiniol (Daniel) Verion de Montford
3. Juan Enrique de Asturia y Verion
4. Samuel u-Malik
5. Legolas Verion
6. Anduriël ab Eathel
7. Sirithil, Lady Laegel
8. Malik Knuutsgaarð
9. Rania Lucius
10. Kolman Sarj
11. Mari Verion de Montfort
12. Johannes Knuutsgaarð
13. Martiina Kreek
14. Kristofer u-Malik

Manifesto

• Centralized Hurmu ruled directly by the Order of the Holy Lakes
• End to the legislative autonomy of the realms
• Critical of Raspur Pact
• Support of Calbion
• Laissez-faire, deregulated capitalism throughout Hurmu, but where the Order of the Holy Lakes may charter companies for various purposes.
• Free trade with all countries and with the green.
• Acknowledgement of Hurmu's Shirerithian/Elwynnese/Benacian history

Projections

It is notoriously hard conducting opinion polls for such a special group as the membership of the Order of the Holy Lakes. However, attempts have been made based on straw samples and analysis of previous electoral patterns.

10.I.1733

Published in the Times of Huyenkula.

	P.	E.	T.
U	3	5	8
H	4	4	8
C	2	4	6
P	2	0	2
V	0	1	1
X	3	0	3

20.III.1733

• U: 36%
• H: 29%
• C: 26%
• V: 7%

Results

See also: IRL results

Turnout

	N (1733)	Percentage (1733)	Diff (n, 1733–1719)	Diff (%p, 1733–1719)
Electors	1584		+377
Ballots cast (Turnout)	1230	77.65%	+68	-18.62
– Of which valid	1227	99.76%	+67	-0.07
– Of which abstentions	3	0.24%	+1	0.07

List vote

	Votes	Diff (votes)	Percentage	Diff (%p)	Seats
United Ayreonist–Traditionalist List	571	+86	46.54%	+4.73	6
Humanist List	517	+138	42.14 %	+9.47	6
Conservative List	74	-187	6.03 %	-16.47	1
Verionist List	65	+30	5.30 %	+2.28	1

Elected

Marked in bold are those who are elected to the Senate. Those marked in italics are alternates, who can take charge of the seat in case of absence, resignation, expulsion, or death of a senator.

United Ayreonist–Traditionalist List

1. Ingrid Djupvik (elected, new)
2. Hans Schafenweide (elected, new)
3. Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito (elected, new)
4. Velibor Jovanović-Smičić (elected, new)
5. Lystasia Steerswick (elected, new)
6. Malachi Wythe al-Osman de la Gardie (elected, new)
7. Enhei Ayreon-Kalirion (first alternate)
8. Ganbaataryn Serchmaa (second alternate)
9. Mikhail Maksimilianov-Shvinnskiy (third alternate)
10. Catherine Wythe
11. Satō Shu
12. Asmila Avon-El
13. Linus Matildanai Kaaq
14. Đorđe Babić

On 16.V.1734, Hans Schafenweide was murdered. His seat became vacant and was filled with the next person on the electoral list, Enhei Ayreon-Kalirion. As such, the first three alternates became as follows:

1. Ganbaataryn Serchmaa (first alternate)
2. Mikhail Maksimilianov-Shvinnskiy (second alternate)
3. Catherine Wythe (third alternate)

On 4.I.1736, Ingrid Djupvik resigned her seat in the Senate. Her seat became vacant and was filled with the next person on the electoral list which was Mikhail Maksimilianov-Shvinnskiy, skipping Ganbaataryn Serchmaa who died in the 1735 sinking of the Biternion. Moreover, Satō Shu and Linus Matildanai Kaaq also died in the disaster. [[As such the first three alternate became as follows:

1. Catherine Wythe (first alternate)
2. Asmila Avon-El (second alternate)
3. Đorđe Babić (third alternate)

Humanist List

1. Vahid al-Osman (elected, new)
2. Meera Hakimi bint Alsalam (elected, new)
3. Khoga Maral (elected, new)
4. Valde Einhorn (elected, new)
5. Avina Mira Avon-El (elected, new)
6. Matilde Einhorn al-Osman Kåveland (elected, new)
7. Daniel Koby (first alternate€)
8. Arnhöfði Einhorn Tarjeisson (second alternate)
9. Javad Teymoori (third alternate)
10. Rasoul Jahangiri
11. Qaleem Kambarzahi
12. Kambiz Shokoohi
13. Javad al-Osman
14. Iraj al-Osman

Conservative List

1. Tonugawa Takashi (elected, new)
2. Tonugawa Hiroto (first alternate)

Verionist List

1. Jacob Utherion Lewis (elected, new)
2. Deiniol (Daniel) Verion de Montford (deceased)
3. Juan Enrique de Asturia y Verion (first alternate)
4. Samuel u-Malik (second alternate)
5. Legolas Verion (third alternate)
6. Anduriël ab Eathel
7. Sirithil, Lady Laegel
8. Malik Knuutsgaarð
9. Rania Lucius
10. Kolman Sarj
11. Mari Verion de Montfort
12. Johannes Knuutsgaarð
13. Martiina Kreek
14. Kristofer u-Malik

Deiniol (Daniel) Verion de Montford had died just before the counting of votes. As such, in the allocation of elects and alternates, his name is skipped.

Composition of the 13th Senate

The Thirteenth Senate will thus be composed of 28 senators, of which 14 will be elected and 14 permanent (named in the Charter):

Faction	Permanent	Elected	Total
Ayreonist–Traditionalist	6	6	12
Humanist	4	6	10
Conservative	2	1	3
Phineonesian	2	0	2
Verionist	0	1	1
Total	14	14	28