1733 Senate of the Lakes election

For IRL provisions of the election, click here.

An election for the Senate of the Lakes will take place during during the northern hemisphere summer of 1733. It is 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 will, following the election, be:

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

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

Electoral system

Procedure

Couriers of the Order of the Holy Lakes (mainly esquires from the Hurmu Fyrð) make appointments to visit each elector at a place and time of choosing of the elector. The esquire brings a voting package, and invites the elector to vote in secret. The ballot is sealed in an envelope which the esquire will then bring home to the Palace of the Elenaran. The esquires are trained to protect the ballots with their life, though travel clandestinely with the ballot. The number of esquires for each ballot depends on the security situation in that particular place. Thus the election ends up being a rather exclusive and expensive affair.

Apportionment

Fourteen seats are filled by the election. All electors may vote for a participating list. Lists are 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.

Participating lists

Not fully determined yet, subject to change

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

• 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.
• Foreign Affairs
  • Withdrawal from the ineffective XC.
  • Closer cooperation with the Raspur Pact.
  • Condemnation of the brutal Shirerithian suppression of home rule on Sathrati.
• 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%