Another wikibox from this TL. I'm tempted to do a series of these to show provincial elections by year like how the US gubernatorial election pages on the real Wikipedia are handled.
The 2019 Chinese provincial elections were elections held over the course of 2019 to the legislatures of the Chinese provincial governments. In 2019, elections took place in the provinces of Guangdong, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Jilin and Qinghai as well as to Tianjin City Council (the city's provincial-level government). Going into the election, five of these legislatures were held by the Progressives and four by the Kuomintang.
The elections held this year saw a series of consistently strong performances from the left-wing Progressive Party against the governing Kuomintang. The Progressives retained control of all five provinces with Progressive-led governments up for re-election, and won control of Hubei for the first time since 2003 and of Tianjin City Council for the first time ever. Following the Guangdong provincial election on July 5th, the province electing a Progressive-led government resulted in the Kuomintang controlling fewer provinces than the Progressives for the first time since the latter party was founded.
The Jiangsu provincial election on October 25th (the last of the year) saw the only non-Progressive win of the year, as the Economic Liberal Party took control of a second provincial government, having been in power in Shaanxi since 2016. As a result, the Kuomintang lost every election where they controlled the provincial government beforehand, and for the first time since 2009 and only the second time since China adopted its current political system they did not control any of the legislatures contested in a year's election cycles.
In terms of the overall popular vote, the Progressives only came 3.3 percentage points ahead of the Kuomintang, mostly due to their relatively low vote compared to the Kuomintang in the populous provinces of Guangdong and especially Jiangsu (the Progressives finished a distant third in the latter) and the proportional electoral systems of four of the five provinces they controlled before the election stymieing their ability to win commanding majorities of the vote in said provinces (though besides Jiangsu, they finished first and were the largest party in every provincial election in 2019).
The 2019 Chinese provincial elections were elections held over the course of 2019 to the legislatures of the Chinese provincial governments. In 2019, elections took place in the provinces of Guangdong, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Jilin and Qinghai as well as to Tianjin City Council (the city's provincial-level government). Going into the election, five of these legislatures were held by the Progressives and four by the Kuomintang.
The elections held this year saw a series of consistently strong performances from the left-wing Progressive Party against the governing Kuomintang. The Progressives retained control of all five provinces with Progressive-led governments up for re-election, and won control of Hubei for the first time since 2003 and of Tianjin City Council for the first time ever. Following the Guangdong provincial election on July 5th, the province electing a Progressive-led government resulted in the Kuomintang controlling fewer provinces than the Progressives for the first time since the latter party was founded.
The Jiangsu provincial election on October 25th (the last of the year) saw the only non-Progressive win of the year, as the Economic Liberal Party took control of a second provincial government, having been in power in Shaanxi since 2016. As a result, the Kuomintang lost every election where they controlled the provincial government beforehand, and for the first time since 2009 and only the second time since China adopted its current political system they did not control any of the legislatures contested in a year's election cycles.
In terms of the overall popular vote, the Progressives only came 3.3 percentage points ahead of the Kuomintang, mostly due to their relatively low vote compared to the Kuomintang in the populous provinces of Guangdong and especially Jiangsu (the Progressives finished a distant third in the latter) and the proportional electoral systems of four of the five provinces they controlled before the election stymieing their ability to win commanding majorities of the vote in said provinces (though besides Jiangsu, they finished first and were the largest party in every provincial election in 2019).