1745 Senate of the Lakes election

For IRL provisions of the election, click here.

An election for the Senate of the Lakes are expected to take place during during the northern hemisphere summer of 1745, unless called sooner by the Senate. The Electors of the Holy Lakes (i.e., the adult members of the Order of the Holy Lakes) will elect fourteen of the Senate's twenty-eight seats.

Electors and electoral system

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

Humanist List (CDH)

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

United Ayreonist–Traditionalist List

1. Velibor Jovanović-Smičić
2. A Mallikian
3. A Mondoan
4. Ingrid Djupvik
5. A Ric
6. A Mallikian
7. A Mondoan
8. Enhei
9. A Ric
10. A Mallikian
11. A Mondoan
12. A Ric
13. A Ric
14. A Mallikian