The Elysiumite Progressive Party, more commonly referred to as the Progressive, is a leftist to centre-left political party in the Empire of Elysium that has been described as an alliance of parliamentarian whigs and social democrats. The Party was legally founded in early 2023 as the Progressive-Labor Party through a merger between the Progressive Party and the Social Democratic Party. In April 2024, the original name of the Party was restored.

However, the original Progressive Party was founded in April 2019. Growing out of the falling Democracy Now Party. It's rise was made possible due to the rise of global citizens during the Kyle Smith administration. Soon thereafter it displaced the Vox Party to become the primary opposition party rivalling the Imperial Party, soon thereafter forming a majority in the Grand Senate under it's inaugural Leader and Founder Adam Johnston.

The Progressives and Libertarians merged creating the first 'PLP' the Progressive-Libertarian Party. Tau would serve as party leader before briefly merging with the Democratic Traditionalists to form the Reform Party. After the failure of the Reform Party, Johnston would return to lead the Party working along with Sir Spooky.

In Mid 2020, Johnston became Chancellor alongside the creation of a Republic. During the Republic the Progressives held an unprecedented monopoly on power winning a record breaking 8 consecutive elections aided by former Grand Emperor, now Progressive Executive Leader and Chancellor Robert Smith. The Progressives would be dislodged from their position by a coalition of Kylite democrats and hardline monarchists led by Elliot Doe. The Monarchists and Kylites were able to petition the government to hold two referendums on the restoration of the Monarchy, although the first one failed and the second one succeeded. In the aftermath, the Empire was restored, Robert Smith was returned to a politically neutral head of state and Johnston resigned.

Following a brief three day stint with former Deputy Chancellor Seán O'Neill, Thomas Bainbridge led the Party to defeat in the December 2021 elections. Bainbridge would then defect to the National Democrats causing Johnston to return. The Progressives would continue to decline until January 2023. Reaching a record low of three Grand Senatorial seats. During this time, the Progressive Party and the Social Democratic Party merged creating the second 'PLP' the Progressive-Labor Party.

Progressive-Labor unexpectedly won a tight majority in the May 2023 election returning Johnston to the Chancellorship before returning to the Opposition in September 2023. In March 2024, O'Neill returned to Progressive leadership with Johnston transitioning into the post of Secretary-General. In April 2024, O'Neill and Johnston published a new Party Constitution which restored the name of the party to the 'Progressive Party'.

The Progressive Party currently is the primary opposition party, with them holding 6 out of the 15 Grand Senate seats.

Name and Symbols

Progressive Party
Progressive Party
Governing body	Executive Committee
Secretary-General	Adam Johnston
Leader	Seán O'Neill
Founded	April 24, 2019
Merger of	Progressive Party ; Social Democratic Party
Headquarters	Josephina, Elyria (de jure); Neilston, New Antrim (de facto)
Newspaper	The Liberty Papers
Membership (2020)	40
Ideology	Majority Progressivism; Leftist populism; Social democracy; Parliamentarianism;
Political position	Left-wing to Center-left
Colors	Yellow
Slogan	newProgressive; newElysium
Grand Senators	6 / 15
Imperial Delegates	0 / 40
Regional executives	2 / 5

The name “Progressive” was selected by Adam Johnston due to the primary purpose of the party being to progress Elysium socially and economically. Although other names have been considered including Leftist United, the Progressive Populist, and Populist Party.

The Party has always used the colors yellow and green to represent itself, rather than the traditional colors of red for left wing parties. It’s been stated that green representatives the parties support for green politics, although no official statement has been given on the choice of yellow.

Overtime the party has been represented by two major symbols, the yellow rose and the torch. The yellow rose has been used through the entirety of the parties history, except for when it was in the Progressive-Libertatian Party which used a torch. Through majority of the parties history it has used the same rose, although it was recently changed to a new rose design to be more original. More recently the moose has been used as a Progressive symbol. Popularized as the symbol of the Progressive wing of the big tent NEP, and as a reference to the Bull Moose Party or Theodore Roosevelt.

Progressive Party original logo, used after the party broke off from LPP
Libertarian Progressive Logo
Progressive Party logo until June 2021
Progressive-Labor Party logo used between 2022 and 2024

History

Background

The Progressive Party is currently the oldest existing political party in Elysium, founded April 24, 2019. It was the fourth political party to be created in Elysium with the Democracy Now Party, Vox Party, and Imperial Party all being older than the Progressives. The party was founded by Sir Adam Johnston and Sir Spooky Johnston. Pre-Republic

Early Progressive Party

The early Progressive Party rapidly rose to power, and in the first Grand Senate election won a majority, though the Imperial Party maintained control of the Chancellorship. While the party had planted itself as one of the two major political parties it’s time controlling the Grand Senate would not last.

In the second Chancellor and second Senate election’s the Progressive candidate for Chancellor, first Progressive to run for said office, Xavier Jackson lost badly to the incumbent Kyle Smith of the Impeiral Party. Kyle Smith also caused down-ballot victories for the Impeiral Party resulting in a hung parliament within the Grand Senate. Furthermore the Progressive Party was involved in a scandal in which Adam Johnston, Chairman of the Progressives and Progressive Senate Leader, helped lead the Kingdom of Salibaic to becoming independent from Elysium. This action was considered unpatriotic by the highly nationalist voter base.

After his defeat Xavier Jackson left the Progressive Party to found his own reformist party, although it never gained traction. The defeat of Jackson also hurt Progressive electoral victories in the Grand Senate, which was lost by Progressives. Furthermore in the next election the Progressive-Communist unity ticket came in third place, the only time since the founding of the party it came in third place in a Chancellor election.

Progressive-Libertatian Party

After a string of defeats the Progressive Party and upandcoming Libertarian Party formed a big tent Progressive-Libertatian Party of Elysium in order to combat what they saw as a overgrown Imperial Party. In the third Chancellor election while the new party wasn’t able to defeat Chancellor Kyle they nearly took back control of the Grand Senate and got Tau to become the Deputy Chancellor of Elysium.

The new Progressive-Libertarian Party would become more left wing after a hardline democratic socialist group of supporters joined in mass, leading to Adam Johnston gaining more power within the Party. Furthermore Kyle Smith aburtbly resigned from his office as Chancellor and as such Libtarian Progressive Tau Smith became Chancellor. Tau nominated Adam Johnston to become Deputy Chancellor which succeeded.

In the fourth Chancellor election and forth Grand Senate election a wave of pro-Democratic Traditionalist (the name for the new imperial party) swept the nation and as such the Progressive-Libertarians lost the majority of their Grand Senate seats and Tau was re-elected by a margin of one vote. Furthermore Tau nearly lost to an independent politician, Chris Miller, who positioned himself as a supporter of the monarchy and conservativism.

Toward the end of his second term Chancellor Tau hit an approval rating of 15%, to this day a record low within Elysium, and as such announced he would not seek re-election. Furthermore the popular Kyle Smith was back and led the Imperial Party to a landslide victory in the fifth Chancellor election with over 65% support in a field of 5 candidates. Among these candidates was Adam Johnston (Progressive) who came in second place with around 25% of the vote.

After Tau

Tau would, soon before the Chancellor election, merge the Progressive-Libertarian Party and Democratic Traditionalist into the Reform Party. This action angered the ProLib Parties base and as such Adam Johnston and Spooky Johnston, leaders of the former Progressive Party, led a walk out of the Reform Party before the first convention was even held and create a new Progressive Party.

The new Progressive Party saw success winning back traditionally Progressive strongholds such as Elyria which soon sent a double Progressive delegation to the Grand Senate once more. Furthermore the Grand Senate became a hung parliament once more and as such Adam Johnston, using a coalition, became Senate Majority Leader.

After being elected three times Kyle Smith, who felt it was time for new leadership, retired and Adam Johnston was Senate Majority Leader became Chancellor. Adam Johnston would see through the course of his term the death of the Reformist for got pulled into a merger with the Progressive Party, creating the New Elysium Party which Adam led.

End of Adam’s term as Chancellor

Adam Johnston was quick to embark on the most ambitious political reform in Elysiumite history and got Elysium to become a republic once more, ending the Empire’s age. Furthermore Adam Johnston oversaw a major uptick in the the economy and in activity which led to Adam Johnston maintaining an approval rating as high as Kyle Smith in the range of the 80-90%.

Formation of the new Progressive Party

On the 19th of June, 2020, the New Elysium Party was dissolved. The first two parties created after the fallout of the dissolution where founded a mere few hours later. First the Liberal Party of Elysium was founded, then followed by the Progressive Party which was founded by incumbent Chancellor Adam Johnston and Senate Majority Leader Sir Spooky. On the 26 the Imperial Conservative Party was founded, which became the primary opposition to the Progressives. While at first the Progressives and Imperial Conservatives remained near one another in terms of membership, upon the creation of the libertarian right Evolutionary Party the Union Democrats crumbled in membership. Furthermore around this time the Communist Party of Elysium merged with the Progressives. In the following election the Progressives won a landslide 58% of the vote.

Since then the Progressives have won two Chancellor elections and every Senate election since the Republic was founded thus far. The Union Democrats (rebranded form of the Imperial Conservatives), acted as opposition until the midway point between the October 2020 and January 2021 elections, when majority of their Senators defected to the new National Conservatives, founded by Elyrian Commonwealth Senator Elliot Doe. The new National Conservatives overtook the Union Democrats to become the second largest party and soon after the Union Democrats merged into the National Democrats.

Structure and Party Government

The parties day to day affairs are overseen by the Secretary-General an elected officer who organizes the party. Party leadership is held between the Leader and Deputy Leader, the presumptive Progressive nominees for Chancellor and Deputy Chancellor respectively. All three officers comprise the Executive Committee.

Regionally, the Progressives operate party branches in every Commonwealth, except Kaiserhof.

Major Executives
Person	Experience	Office
Adam Johnston Senator	Former Chancellor Former Prime Minister of Elysium Former Speaker of the Grand Senate Former Deputy Chancellor Former Minister of Economic Development	Secretary-General
Seán Dagda Senator	Leader of the Opposition Former Deputy Chancellor Senator from Daeltheria Former Prime Minister of Daeltheria Daeltherian Senator (regional) Former Provost of New Antrim	Leader
Maximilian Meister Senator	Former Senator from Serramwen First Minister of Serramwen	Deputy Leader

Regional Parties

The Progressive party has 5 regional parties, one in each region of Elysium.

Party			Party Leader	Ideology	Grand Senators from said region
	Progressive Populist Union	PPU	James Christian	Left-wing nationalism, Syndicalism, New Nationalism	1 / 3
	Daeltherian Progressives	DP	Seán Dagda	Democratic Socialism	1 / 2
	Progressive Lamontist of Greymont	PLG	Isaac Sutter	Left-wing nationalism, Syndicalism	1 / 2
	Ticronvidian Progressives	TP	Nicholas Lokin	Progressivism, Social democracy, Democratic socialism	1 / 1
	Progressive Party in Kaiserhof	PPK	n/a	Populism, Social democracy, Unionism	0 / 1
bgcolor="#FFCF00"	Progressive Party in Serramwen	PPH	Maximilian Meister	Social democracy	0 / 1

Union Links

The Progressive Party and the Elysiumite Congress of Unions are affiliated with each other, with the Progressive Party giving the ECU leadership roles within the Progressive Union Committee, and the ECU endorsing the Progressive Party. The ECU oversees Elysium’s two largest unions the Confederation of Agricultural Unions (CAU) and Civil Servants Union (CSU). Furthermore the Partisan Productions Union, which is in the process of being formed, is led by a member of the Progressives and will likely be an affiliate of the party upon its founding.

As it was founded with the goal of the promotion of left wing policies, the Progressive Party fundamentally considers itself a pro-Union party. In recent months it has created offices with the purposes of unionizing, and helped to organize new unions. Furthermore the party enshrined the right to unionize within the constitution. The party also is Chaired by Jayden Attlee who is founder and president of the Confederation of Agricultural Unions.

Ideology & Policies

The Progressive Party, while very much an alliance of multiple left wing libertarian ideologies, is dedicated to the eventual goal of Syndicalism. Although in terms of policy the party believes in a gradual approach to syndicalism. The party also has considerable support from libertarian communist and social democrats. The party supports electoralism and unions.

Electoral Performance

Electoral history of the Progressive Party
Election	Date	Result	Numbers	Head of Government post-election
First Senate Election	April 24, 2019	Senate majority formed	3 / 5 ▲ 3	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Second Senate Election	25 July 2019	Hung senate, no faction formed a majority	4 / 10 ▲ 1	Mr. Bubbles (DT)
Third Senate Election	September 15, 2019	Democratic Traditionalist form a majority	2 / 12 ▼ 2	Mr. Bubbles (DT)
Fourth Senate Election	October 22, 2019	Reformist Patty forms a majority	3 / 10 ▼ 1	Kyle Smith (DT)
Fifth Senate Election	January 16, 2020	Forms government with Reformist Party	1 / 10 ▼ 2	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Sixth Senate Election	April 14, 2020	Forms government with Reformist Party	3 / 11 ▲ 2	Sir Spooky (Progressive)
Seventh Senate Election	unknown	Did not participate	0 / 15 ▼ 1	Sir Spooky (NEP’s Progressive Faction)
Eighth Senate Election	unknown	Did not participate	0 / 21	Sir Spooky (NEP’s Progressive Faction)
Ninth Senate Election	July 18, 2020	Majority government formed	12 / 22 ▲ 12	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Tenth Senate Election	October 18, 2020	Majority government formed	15 / 27 ▲ 4	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Eleventh Senate Election	January 18, 2021	Super-Majority government formed	16 / 25 ▲ 1	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Twelfth Senate Election	January 18, 2021	Majority government formed	20 / 34 ▲ 1	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Thirteenth Senate Election	January 18, 2021	Coalition government formed	16 / 33 ▲ 1	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Fourteenth Senate Election	January 18, 2021	Coalition government formed	11 / 26 ▲ 1	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Fiftheenth Senate Election	December 30, 2021	Reduced to opposition	7 / 25 ▼ 4	Elliot Doe (Nationalist Democrat)
Sixteenth Senate Election	May 19, 2022	National Democrats form government	4 / 25 ▼ 3	Elliot Doe (Nationalist Democrat)
Seventeenth Senate Election	September 15, 2022	National Democrats form government	3 / 20 ▼ 1	Elliot Doe (Nationalist Democrat)
Eighteenth Senate Election	January 19, 2023	National Democrats form government	4 / 20 ▼ 1	Elliot Doe (Nationalist Democrat)
Nineteenth Senate Election	May 20, 2023	Forms government with National Democratic Party and Rhinoceros Party	8 / 15	Adam Johnston (Progressive)

Electoral history of the Progressive Party
Election	Result	Numbers	Second Place
First Chancellor Election	Kyle Smith (Imperial) (endorsed by Progressives) wins	80 / 100	FPM
Second Senate Election	Kyle Smith (Imperial) beats Xavier Jackson (Progressive)	5 / 100	Xavier Jackson (Progressive)
Third Chancellor Election	Kyle Smith (Democratic Traditionalist) beats Progressive-Communist Unity Ticket which comes in third.	7 / 100	Christina Nowell (Independent)
Forth Chancellor Election	Progressive Tau wins.	56 / 100	Chris Ramsay (Independent)
Fifth Chancellor Election	Kyle Smith (Reform) beats Adam Johnston (Progressive)	15 / 100	Adam Johnston (Progressive)
Sixth Chancellor Election	Did not participate, Kyle Smith won	0 / 100	Mr. Bubbles
Seventh Chancellor Election	Did not participate, Kyle Smith won	0 / 100	Johann Kümmel (EVP)
First Grand Senate Chancellorship Selection	Adam Johnston (Progressive) won	100 / 100	None
Eighth Chancellor Election	Robert Smith (Progressive) won	83 / 100	Based Baddie (Rhino)

Progressive Party (Elysium)

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