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Revision as of 18:11, 10 May 2015

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

Lucerne

Nova England

Results

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


Preceded by:
2010
General elections in Mercury Followed by:
2016