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

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

United Ayreonist–Traditionalist List

1. Ingrid Djupvik
2. Catherine Wythe
3. Velibor Jovanović-Smičić
4. Malachi Wythe al-Osman de la Gardie
5. Lystasia Steerswick
6. Adasyr Miloon Enujohanenion
7. Enhei Ayreon-Kalirion
8. Mikhail Maksimilianov-Shvinnskiy
9. Lyudmila Eduardovna
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Manifesto

• Foreign affairs:
  • A more outward-looking foreign policy
  • Relations with all countries.
  • Deeper relations with Lac Glacei over the future of Eesdeheito.
  • 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 remains 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.

Verionist List

1. Deiniol (Daniel) Verion de Montford
2. Legolas Verion
3. Sirithil, Lady Laegel
4. Malik Knuutsgaarð
5. Eleonoora Luuk
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9. Kristofer u-Malik
10. Kiilu Aabooð
11. Johannes Knuutsgaarð
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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%