3rd North Ahjeezistan General Election

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The second general election was held on 7 October 2006. The Prime Minister was Lord Shackleford.

Results

Third North Ahjeezistan General Election, 7 October 2006
Party Leader Seats Gains Losses Net Gain/Loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/-
  Social Democratic Lord Shackleford 118 2 0 + 2 54.1% 48% 266,564,812 + 1.7%
  Liberal Lord Rarton 45 0 7 - 7 20.6% 21% 99,122,105 - 13.5%
  Conservative Lord Rarton 33 0 1 - 1 15.1% 16% 75,521,604 - 2.9%
  Green Lord Shackleford 20 5 0 + 5 9.1% 11% 51,921,102 + 33.3%
  Liberal Democratic The Hon. Virginia Halley 2 1 0 + 1 .9% 3% 14,160,300 + 100%

There were 472,010,026 valid votes cast.

The Social Democratic-Green alliance won 138 seats; the Liberal-Conservative alliance won 78. The Liberal Democrats won 2 seats.

The great success of the third general election was the left-wing Green Party. They added 33% of their seat share and almost a quarter of their vote share. They drove the Social Democrats to the left and increased their representation in the Lord Shackleford's Cabinet; Labour Minister the Hon. Charles Yungtiàr, a Social Democrat, was replaced by Green Lord Healey.


Preceded by:
2nd general election
North Ahjeezistan General Elections
7 Ocotber, 2006
Followed by:
4th general election