1751 Senate of the Lakes election

An election for the Senate of the Lakes is scheduled to take place during during 1751. 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.

The election was initially scheduled for 1757, but the Senate resolved on 6.X.1750 to hold early elections.

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 1750.

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

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

• Juliaĵ u-Malik Óma-ó-Täó
• Ingrid Djupvik
• Oskar Aabooð Tol
• Mätildä Keĵinz
• Ahmad Hasanzadeh
• Nama u-Serk
• Andre u-Malik
• Leonor Ravenscroft

Conservative List

Electoral list

TBA

Draconic Humanist List

Electoral list

TBA

Humanist List

Electoral list

TBA

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

TBA

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

Incumbents not running for re-election

None so far announced.