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

See: List of Electors

Eligible to vote are adult members of the Order of the Holy Lakes who are registered to vote.

Registration is automatic for all potential electors except for:

• those without registered birth year (and who have not been active or proven their age)
• those who will turn 100 or older during the year of election
• those whose IRL controller have been inactive in the past six Norton years.

Registration for those not automatically registered is effected by informing the Commander of the Order of the Holy Lakes of birth year (for point 1) and proof of life for points 2 or 3. This must occur before the end of 1744.

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

Ayreonist List (A)

The Ayreonist List broke away from the Traditionalists in 1743 citing political differences in the two subfactions of the United Ayreonist–Traditionalist List.

Programme

• More democracy
• Reinstitution of a democratically elected lower chamber of the legislature
• Ayreonist greenism ("the green must be conquered")
• Any democratic country wishing to join the Order may
• All realms must be democratically governed

Electoral List

1. Ingrid Djupvik
2. Jennifer Meerkatze
3. Juliaĵ u-Malik Óma-ó-Täó
4. Leonor Ravenscroft
5. Kikkan Metrasan
6. Lillan Pitt av Svett

Conservative List (C)

1. Takashi Tonugawa
2. Hiroto Tonugawa
3. Seiji Tonugawa
4. Esuta Tonugawa
5. Priya Patil
6. Aryabhatta Tavade
7. Maya Farrah
8. Indira Sinha

Humanist List (H)

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

Draconic Humanist List (D)

The Draconic Humanist List formed its own standalone list in 1743 AN, citing some differences with the Humanist List, mostly regional in nature.

Programme

• Advocates cosmopolitan values
• Moderate expansionism (cultural/strategic lines in relatively friendly Green territory)
• Expansion of foreign relations to individual Raspur-Pact nations
• Pro-Ralgonese stance in foreign affairs

Electoral List

1. Emperor Anarion of the Imperial Federation

Traditionalist List (T)

Programme

• Traditional Hurmu values
• The territory of the Order should only extend to territories with a long, historical alignment with Hurmu and Hurmu's values
• Current constitutional order is more or less fine; somewhat skeptical of Phineonesia's place in the Order.

Electoral List

1. Velibor Jovanović-Smičić
2. Áþamé Issèla Mari Vâstra
3. Greta Mondosdottra
4. Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito
5. Carol Caspian Wythe
6. Malachi Wythe al-Osman de la Gardie
7. Lystasia Steerswick
8. Enhei
9. Nikolaj Jovanović-Smičić
10. Sechigu

Verionist List

Programme

• Generally: Free Trade, critical of mass militarisation, pro-centralised government, sometimes a bit opportunistic

Electoral List

1. Jacob Utherion Lewis
2. Philippe Dubois
3. Howard Waldforth

Results

See also: IRL results

Turnout

Turnout in this election was 98.94 percent, up 21.29 percentage points since last election.

	N (1745)	Percentage (1745)	Diff (n, 1745-1733)	Diff (%p, 1745-1733)
Electors	1418	–	-166	–
Ballots cast (Turnout)	1403	98.94%	+173	+21.29
– Of which valid	1403	100.00%	+176	+0.24
– Of which abstentions	0	0.00%	-3	-0.24

List vote

List	Abbr.	Votes	Percentage	Diff (%p; 1745-1733)	Seats	Diff (seats; 1745-1733)
Traditionalist	T	377	26.87%	new	4	new
Conservative	C	330	23.52%	+17.49	3	+2
Humanist	H	324	23.09%	-19.05	3	-3
Ayreonist	A	209	14.90%	new	2	new
Verionist	V	102	7.27%	+1.97	1	±0
Draconic Humanist	D	61	4.35%	new	1	new
Ayreonist–Traditionalist	U	0	0.00%	-46.54	0	-6

Senators-elect

Ayreonist List (A)

1. Ingrid Djupvik (returnee)
2. Jennifer Meerkatze (new)
3. Juliaĵ u-Malik Óma-ó-Täó (first alternate)

Conservative List (C)

1. Takashi Tonugawa (re-elected)
2. Hiroto Tonugawa (new)
3. Seiji Tonugawa (new)
4. Esuta Tonugawa (first alternate)

Humanist List (H)

1. Alexander Amirzadeh Augustin (new)
2. Javier Husayn (new)
3. Emil Josef Tarjeisson (new)
4. Sigmundr Birgir Tarjeisson (first alternate)

Draconic Humanist List (D)

1. Anarion (new)
2. Esuta Tonugawa (first alternate)

Due to the list ending with Anarion, a recalculation was necessary to determine who the first alternate would be. In this instance, the first alternate would be taken from the next-in-line in the Conservative List.

Traditionalist List (T)

1. Velibor Jovanović-Smičić (re-elected)
2. Áþamé Issèla Mari Vâstra (returnee)
3. Greta Mondosdottra (new)
4. Malliki Castanucci Nur Pinito (re-elected)
5. Carol Caspian Wythe (first alternate)

Verionist List

1. Jacob Utherion Lewis (re-elected)
2. Philippe Dubois (first alternate)