2021 General Election
Election Night 2021
"What we have here appears to be the first Conservative majority win since the 1988 election under the Earl of Greenwich, George Bush" - Wolf Blitzer.
"What we have here appears to be the first Conservative majority win since the 1988 election under the Earl of Greenwich, George Bush" - Wolf Blitzer.
The 2021 United Provinces general election was held on Friday, May 28th, 2021to elect 700 members to the House of Commons. However, the selection of Friday proved controversial in certain circles as election day is a bank holiday, and in selecting the Friday, Bakerenforced a long weekend, an act perceived by many as a cynical move to gain public support.
Polls and commentators predicted the outcome would be a second consecutive hung parliament, and leaders from within the Conservative and Labour parties had already begun reaching out to minor parties before the election to discuss supply agreements; Baker and Trudeau had allegedly already agreed to continue the coalition if need. It was these polls that had led to Prime Minister Baker never calling an early election during the coalition government as had been expected. Despite this, the Conservatives outperformed the polls, winning 353 seats and 38.2% of the vote share. Once Elinor Carbone was appointed speaker of the House, this would give the Conservatives a razor-thin two-seat majority in the Commons, allowing them to govern alone.
The Labour Party, led by Julian Castro, who had succeeded Lady Spencer following her resignation after the 2016 general election, saw a decrease in vote share and returned only 290 MPs, their first sub-300 performance since 1983. Labour placed much of the blame on the strong performance of the Green and Whig parties, a sentiment firmly rejected by both, as well as a failure to reclaim lost ground in Quebec against the UdF. Castro would resign the following day, triggering a still ongoing Leadership election. The primaries paused after the attacks on September 21st.
The Union des Francophones, led by outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, saw little change in its share of the vote and managed to pick up another seat in Louisiana. While the surprise Conservative majority meant the end of the official coalition, Trudeau and Baker would agree to a supply and confidence arrangement shortly after the election in exchange for further funding to French schools to shore up the Government position in the Commons.
The Green Party won its highest-ever vote share with 7.4% and its highest seat count, gaining an additional 12 seats. Much of this success was credited to the defection to, and later leadership of, the Party by former Prime Minister Al Gore. Who, as Earl of Carthage, led the Party from the House of Lords. Having entered into a public feud with Castro in 2017 over what Gore saw as a failure to act on environmental issues, he resigned his membership in 2020. He soon after joined the Greens, being named party leader in the December of that year by acclamation.
The Whig Party, though only seeing a minor increase in its voter share, saw a tripling of MPs thanks partly to vote splitting between Labour and the Greens and Mike Thompson's widely praised performance in the second debate. This election would help cement the centrist Whig Party as a significant force in American politics. This fact was made more apparent when it won control of the Province of Connecticut later that October.
The right-wing populist Unity party saw its vote share decline, and its seat count nearly cut in half. This would be blamed on party leader Jim DeMint's vocal support for using military force to achieve the Reunification of the Realm during the debates, a position unanimously denounced by other party leaders. After the election, he refused to resign and had to be removed from the post by a leadership spill in August. He now serves as an independent after being suspended from the Party.
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