Draft:2023 Ljetzan general election

2023 Ljetzan general election

Unknown: Ljetzan
10 June 2023
All 15 seats in the Landtag 10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	100%
Party Leader % Seats ± Ljetzan Democrats Amalie Bauer 33.33 5 New Christian Union Torsten Neugebauer 66.67 10 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Chancellor before Chancellor after Peter I (as regent) Indipendent Konrad von Staufen Christian Union

General elections were held in Ljetzan on 10 June 2023 to elect the 15 members of the Landtag. The Christian Union (CU) won ten seats, with the Democrats receiving just 5 votes, 5 less than the CU.

Electoral system

The 15 members of the Landtag are elected by open list proportional representation from two constituencies, Oberland with 8 seats and Unterland with 7 seats. Voters vote for a party list and then may strike through candidates they do not wish to cast a preferential vote for and may add names of candidates from other lists. The electoral threshold to win a seat is 8%. Landtag members sit four year terms. Once formed the Landtag votes to elect a Chancellor who governs through a cabinet of four ministers, who are selected from Landtag members. Voting is compulsory by law and most is carried out by post. Polling stations are only open for one and a half hours on election day. Citizens over 18 years of age who have been resident in the country for one month prior to election day are eligible to vote.

Campaign

The election was seen as a two-horse race. There were only marginal policy differences between the CU and the Democrats.

Election campaigning is largely unregulated and carried out via social media, newspapers and broadcast media. All parties are permitted to post an official campaign video on the websites of the two main newspapers in the country. The elections are the first to be carried out under the Constitutional Law on Payment of Contributions to Political Parties which limited public funding to registered political parties, banned large anonymous donations and required the publication of accounts by parties.

Candidates

Candidates have the same eligibility criteria as voters. Political parties must have the support of 2 voters from a constituency to be eligible to nominate a candidate list in it.

CU	Democrats
Torsten Neugebauer Konrad von Staufen Matteo Börngen Klaudia Kelsen Emanuel Schützenberger Chris Haarmann Klaudia Kelsen Fabian Brunke Melanie Dreyfuss Daniela Schwarzman	Amalie Bauer Theodor Ransmayr Georges Baur August Von Ljetzan Laura Müller

Results

The CU and the Democrats both received a good number of votes. The result was close between the top two parties with the CU initially reported to have received just 5 votes more than the Democrats; in later results, the gap was marginally wider at 10 votes.

A total of 15 ballots were cast, resulting in a 100% Voter turnout. The vast majority (90%) of ballots were cast by post. The results were described by local media as some of the most exciting in history.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Christian Union	10	66.67	10	+0
	Ljetzan Democrats	5	33.33	5	+0
Total		15	100.00	15	0
Valid votes		15	100.00
Invalid/blank votes		0	0.00
Total votes		15	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		15	100.00

See also

• Landtag
• Konrad von Staufen
• Christian Union
• Ljetzan Democrats
• Ljetzan