1745 Senate of the Lakes election

1745 Senate of the Lakes election

1745 (1745)
Registered	1418 electors
Turnout	1403 electors (98.94%)
Majority party Minority party   Candidate Velibor Jovanović-Smičić Takashi Tonugawa Alexander Ayreon-Kalirion Party Traditionalist List Conservative List Humanist List Seats won 4 3 3 Seat change new +2 -3 Popular vote 377 330 324 Percentage 26.87% 23.52% 23.09%   Fourth party Fifth party   Candidate Ingrid Djupvik Jacob Utherion Lewis Anarion Party Ayreonist List Verionist List Draconic Humanist List Seats won 2 1 1 Seat change new 0 new Popular vote 209 102 61 Percentage 14.90% 7.27% 4.35%
Chancellor before election Utas Enrique Naian Humanist List Elected Chancellor Marcus Avon-El Myksos Traditionalist List

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 1745.

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 1744.

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)

The Ayreonist List broke away from the Traditionalists in 1743 citing political differences in the two subfactions of the United Ayreonist–Traditionalist List.

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. Jennifer Meerkatze
3. Juliaĵ u-Malik Óma-ó-Täó
4. Leonor Ravenscroft
5. Kikkan Metrasan
6. Lillan Pitt av Svett

Conservative List (C)

1. Takashi Tonugawa
2. Hiroto Tonugawa
3. Seiji Tonugawa
4. Esuta Tonugawa
5. Priya Patil
6. Aryabhatta Tavade
7. Maya Farrah
8. Indira Sinha

Humanist List (H)

1. Prince Alexander Amirzadeh Augustin of Constancia
2. Prince Javier of Constancia
3. Emil Josef Tarjeisson
4. Sigmundr Birgir Tarjeisson
5. Pardis al-Osman
6. Athanasia Katja Kerularios
7. Ekaterini Metaxas
8. Roya al-Osman
9. Matilde Einhorn al-Osman Kåveland
10. Elin Wåhlin
11. Elham al-Osman
12. Daniel Koby

Draconic Humanist List (D)

The Draconic Humanist List formed its own standalone list in 1743 AN, citing some differences with the Humanist List, mostly regional in nature.

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. Emperor Anarion of the Imperial Federation

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; somewhat skeptical of Phineonesia's place in the Order.

Electoral List

1. Velibor Jovanović-Smičić
2. Áþamé Issèla Mari Vâstra
3. Greta Mondosdottra
4. Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito
5. Carol Caspian Wythe
6. Malachi Wythe al-Osman de la Gardie
7. Lystasia Steerswick
8. Enhei
9. Nikolaj Jovanović-Smičić
10. Sechigu

Verionist List

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

• Valde Einhorn (H, senator 1734–1745)
• Avina Mira Avon-El (H, senator 1734–1745)
• Vahid al-Osman (H, senator 1734–1745)
• Khoga Maral (H, senator 1734–1745)
• Meera Hakimi bint Alsalam (H, senator 1734–1745)
• Mikhail Maksimilianov-Shvinnskiy (U, senator 1736–1745)

Results

See also: IRL results

Turnout

Turnout in this election was 98.94 percent, up 21.29 percentage points since last election.

	N (1745)	Percentage (1745)	Diff (n, 1745-1733)	Diff (%p, 1745-1733)
Electors	1418	–	-166	–
Ballots cast (Turnout)	1403	98.94%	+173	+21.29
– Of which valid	1403	100.00%	+176	+0.24
– Of which abstentions	0	0.00%	-3	-0.24

List vote

List	Abbr.	Votes	Percentage	Diff (%p; 1745-1733)	Seats	Diff (seats; 1745-1733)
Traditionalist	T	377	26.87%	new	4	new
Conservative	C	330	23.52%	+17.49	3	+2
Humanist	H	324	23.09%	-19.05	3	-3
Ayreonist	A	209	14.90%	new	2	new
Verionist	V	102	7.27%	+1.97	1	±0
Draconic Humanist	D	61	4.35%	new	1	new
Ayreonist–Traditionalist	U	0	0.00%	-46.54	0	-6

Senators-elect

Ayreonist List (A)

1. Ingrid Djupvik (returnee)
2. Jennifer Meerkatze (new)
3. Juliaĵ u-Malik Óma-ó-Täó (first alternate)

On 23.II.1748, Meerkatze died. The seats were then reapportioned, as follows:

1. Ingrid Djupvik (remained senator)
2. Jennifer Meerkatze (deceased)
3. Juliaĵ u-Malik Óma-ó-Täó (appointed senator)
4. Leonor Ravenscroft (first alternate)

Conservative List (C)

1. Takashi Tonugawa (re-elected)
2. Hiroto Tonugawa (new)
3. Seiji Tonugawa (new)
4. Esuta Tonugawa (first alternate)

Humanist List (H)

1. Alexander Amirzadeh Augustin (new)
2. Javier Husayn (new)
3. Emil Josef Tarjeisson (new)
4. Sigmundr Birgir Tarjeisson (first alternate)

Draconic Humanist List (D)

1. Anarion (new)
2. Esuta Tonugawa (first alternate)

Due to the list ending with Anarion, a recalculation was necessary to determine who the first alternate would be. In this instance, the first alternate would be taken from the next-in-line in the Conservative List.

Traditionalist List (T)

1. Velibor Jovanović-Smičić (re-elected)
2. Áþamé Issèla Mari Vâstra (returnee)
3. Greta Mondosdottra (new)
4. Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito (re-elected)
5. Carol Caspian Wythe (first alternate)

Verionist List

1. Jacob Utherion Lewis (re-elected)
2. Philippe Dubois (first alternate)

Incumbents losing their seats

The following is a list of incumbents, having run for re-election, but who failed to be re-elected:

• Matilde Einhorn al-Osman Kåveland (H, senator 1734–1745)
• Lystasia Steerswick (U/T, senator 1734–1745)
• Malachi Wythe al-Osman de la Gardie (U/T, senator 1734–1745)
• Enhei (U/T, senator 1734–1745)

Composition of the next Senate

By class and faction

Faction	Abbr.	Permanent	Elected	Total
Traditionalist	T	5	4	9
Humanist	H	4	3	7
Conservative	C	2	3	5
Phineonesian	P	2	0	2
Ayreonist	A	0	2	2
Verionist	V	0	1	1
Draconic Humanist	D	0	1	1
No faction	X	1	0	1

Senators

Senator-elect	Faction	Status
Alexander Amirzadeh Augustin	H	Elected, new
Anarion	D	Elected, new
Emil Josef Tarjeisson	H	Elected, new
Greta Mondosdottra	T	Elected, new
Hiroto Tonugawa	C	Elected, new
Javier Husayn	H	Elected, new
Jennifer Meerkatze	A	Elected, new
Seiji Tonugawa	C	Elected, new
Áþamé Issèla Mari Vâstra	T	Elected, returnee (previously, 1598–1599)
Ingrid Djupvik	A	Elected, returnee (previously, 1734–1736)
Jacob Utherion Lewis	V	Elected, re-elected (previously, 1734–1745)
Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito	T	Elected, re-elected (previously, 1734–1745)
Takashi Tonugawa	C	Elected, re-elected (previously, 1734–1745)
Velibor Jovanović-Smičić	T	Elected, re-elected (previously, 1734–1745)
Utas Enrique Naian	H	Permanent
Anastasia	T	Permanent
Anisa Vaykok Nur Pinito	X	Permanent
Eva von Hutten	H	Permanent
Jaya Prabhu	C	Permanent
Kamran al-Osman	H	Permanent
Marcus Avon-El Myksos	T	Permanent
Mohammed bin Ahmad Abdullah Inzun Shah	P	Permanent
Mondo Etzeterra	T	Permanent
Muhammad Furkorn Mat Jeen	P	Permanent
Samira Avon-El Myksos	T	Permanent
Saurabh Farrah	C	Permanent
Sehoshi	T	Permanent
Viric Merrick	H	Permanent

Commentary

Ayreonists and Traditionalists

While the former United Ayreonist–Traditionalist Faction had split into its original Ayreonist and Traditionalist factions, there was not a net gain for the two factions. They previously held 6 elected seats and did so again following this election. Like, in the elections of 1690, 1695, and 1701, the Traditionalist list received a larger voting share than the Ayreonist one in this year's election.

Humanists

In this election, the humanist vote was split between the Humanist List and the Draconic Humanism List. Together, this meant a net loss of 2 seats (1 gain for the new Draconic Humanist list, and 3 losses for the Humanist List).

Conservatives and Verionists

The Verionists held on to their seat with a modest increase in vote share. The Conservatives recovered from their catastrophic election defeat in the previous election (where their vote share went down from 23 to 7 percent). In this election, they received almost 24% of the vote, their second highest voter share in history. Two more senators were voted in than from the previous election, giving the conservative faction in the Senate its largest membership in history.