Mercury general election, 2013

The Mercury general election of 2013 was held in June 2013 to elect the second Mercurian Parliament. Voting took place in 240 constituencies, each electing one representative, using the instant-runoff voting system.

Overview

This was the first general election since Mercury's claims of Nova England and Lucerne. The National Party held a comfortable majority after the previous election. Three parties contested 236 out of the 240 seats, excluding those of the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and two seats in Lucerne. Independent England, a party set up by Charles Tudor after the controversial blocking of The Name Act (2013) by the Mercurian Parliament, was a nationalist party seeking to gain Nova English independence.

Nationwide parties

• National Party – led by Joe Foxon, the incumbent President. The National Party held a comfortable majority of 82 coming into the election.
• Mercurian Labour Party – led by Mary Lipton, officially the opposition party in the previous Parliament.
• Conservative Party – led by James Cardley.

Lucerne

• Faatasi le Nuu – led by Suivai Umataua, the majority party in the Fono le Lusa. The party's two representatives only vote on issues concerning Lucerne.

Nova England

• Independent England – led by Charles Tudor, came into the election with 29 seats won under the name Conservative-Royalist Party following the 2012 Nova England by-election.

Results

137

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Government (137 seats)

Opposition (103 seats)

	Political party	Leader	Candidates	Votes	Elected	Gain/loss	% of votes	% of seats
	National Party	Joe Foxon	238	3,137,104	137	−6	56.8	57.1
	Conservative	James Cardley	238	900,261	39	+9	16.3	16.3
	Mercurian Labour Party	Mary Lipton	238	839,507	36	+5	15.2	15.0
	Independent England	Charles Tudor	39	519,169	19	−8	9.4	7.9
	Independents	–	40	127,031	5	0	2.3	2.1
	Faatasi le Nuu	Suivai Umataua	2	†	2	0	–	0.8
	Speaker	Alan Barlow	1	17,326	1	0	0.3	0.4
	Deputy Speaker	Peter Cornell	1	15,491	1	0	0.3	0.4
Total			795	5,355,889	240	Turnout		71.6%

† – Elected by Fono le Lusa

Seats by state

	Political party	Deacon	Lucerne	May	Mercury	Nova England	Nova English Korea	Taylor	Tow Law	Total
	National Party	4	0	38	46	8	1	24	16	137
	Conservative	9	0	4	13	1	0	7	5	39
	Mercurian Labour Party	0	0	9	10	3	6	5	3	36
	Independent England	0	0	0	0	16	3	0	0	19
	Independents	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	5
	Faatasi le Nuu	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
	Speaker	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
	Deputy Speaker	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Total		13	2	51	73	29	10	37	25	240

Election of the President

	Political party	Candidate	Round 1	Status
	National Party	Joe Foxon	166	Elected
	Conservative	James Cardley	72	Defeated
Totals			238

Preceded by: 2010

General elections in Mercury

Followed by: 2016