4th North Ahjeezistan General Election

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The fourth general election was held on 9 October 2006. The Prime Minister was Lord Shackleford.

Results

Fourth North Ahjeezistan General Election, 9 October 2006
Party Leader Seats Gains Losses Net Gain/Loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/-
  Social Democratic Lord Shackleford 147 29 0 + 29 67.4% 56% 281,002,518 + 24.5%
  Liberal The Rt. Hon. Mark Weicker 31 0 14 - 14 14.2% 19% 95,340,140 - 13.5%
  Green Lord Shackleford 22 2 0 + 2 10.0% 14% 70,250,629 + 10.0%
  Conservative The Rt. Hon. Mark Weicker 18 0 15 - 15 6.8% 10% 50,179,021 - 45.4%
  Liberal Democratic The Rt. Hon. Virginia Halley 0 0 2 - 2 0 1% 5,1007,902 - 100%

There were 501,880,212 valid votes cast.

The Social Democratic-Green alliance won 169 seats; the Liberal-Conservative alliance won 49. The Liberal Democrats won none.

This was the second landslide election in North Ahjeezistan's history, after the first. The Social Democrats swept opposition safe seats, defeating Lords Burnswick and Rarton, former leaders of the opposition; Liberal Democratic leader Virginia Halley; and three shadow ministers. They came within one hundred of defeating Mark Weicker and the shadow ministers of finance and diplomacy. For the first time the Greens bested the Conservatives and for the second time the Social Democrats captured more than half the popular vote on their own.

The scale of the left's victory is generally attributed to the finalized Tenantry Reform Act, which doubled turnout among peasants, and the Factory Bill, which crushed the Liberal Party in North Ahjeezistan's urban centers permanently (in the future, the urban right was to be lead by the Liberal Democrats).


Preceded by:
3rd general election
North Ahjeezistan General Elections
9 Ocotber, 2006
Followed by:
5th general election