6th Cortes Federales

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The 6th Cortes Federales is the 6th meeting of the Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie, the national legislature of Nouvelle Alexandrie, with the membership determined in its lower house primarily by the results of a general election held in 1718 AN. Its upper house is composed of the nobles of the Federation. The Cortes met for the first time since its creation by the Proclamation of Punta Santiago on 13.V.1694 AN. According to the Proclamation of Punta Santiago, the maximum legislative term of the Cortes is 5 AN years from the preceding general election.

Election

See Also: New Alexandrian general election, 1718

The 6th New Alexandrian general election was held from 1.XIV.1718 AN to 3.XIV.1718 AN. At the election, the Federal Humanist Party became the largest party in the lower house, the Federal Assembly, with a majority of 22 seats.

	Political Party	Leader	Candidates	Votes	Elected	Gain/loss	% of votes	% of seats
	Federal Humanist Party	Paolo Antonio Aguilar	661	55,646,454	354	▼ 35 seats	53.4%	53.6%
	Federal Consensus Party	Alfons Dandela	661	42,382,630	268	▲ 248 seats	40.7%	40.5%
	Social Democratic and Liberal Alliance	Julio Delgado	661	5,062,502	31	▼ 129 seats	4.9%	4.7%
	Independent	N/A	1,322	1,493,972	6	▼ 53 seats (42 from IDG)	1.4%	0.9%
	People's Liberty Congress	Adriana Lopez-Gautier	661	1,089,689	2	▼ 14 seats	1.0%	0.3%
Total			3,966	105,675,247	661	Turnout		56.1%

History

The 1st session of the Cortes Federales began on 4.XVI.1718 AN.

After one round of voting, the Federal Assembly elected Marisa Demeo, an Independent, as Speaker of the Assembly.

The makeup of the 6th session of the Cortes Federales (1718-1723).

See Also

• Cortes Federales of Nouvelle Alexandrie
• Federal Constituent Assembly