The Leftist Assembly election, March 2020

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The Leftist Assembly election,
March 2020
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Overview
Voting 11-14 March 2020
Candidates
Secretary Greylyn,
Llorens
General Assembly Argentigrad,
Delphinium Pulchra,
Kavagrad,
Kongoland,
Podria,
Rhineland Ruhr and Alsace Lorraine,
Wascoitan

The Leftist Assembly election, March 2020 was the sixteenth election in The Leftist Assembly and voting was held from 11 to 14 March 2020. The position of Secretary and seven seats in the General Assembly were available for election.

Llorens was elected as Secretary, and Argentigrad, Delphinium Pulchra, Kavagrad, Kongoland, Podria, Rhineland Ruhr and Alsace Lorraine, and Wascoitan were elected to the General Assembly.

Methodology

Voter eligibility

To be eligible to vote, a nation must be an electoral citizen, which requires that individual to reside in The Leftist Assembly with their World Assembly nation (World Assembly citizen), or to have their World Assembly nation be registered in an affiliated anti-fascist military (Military Voting citizen) or an allied NSLeft region (dual citizen).

Ballots

For the Secretary election, the single transferable voting (STV) system is used, whereby voters rank the candidates in order of their preference. The primary vote of each candidate is then tallied, and the candidate with the least votes is eliminated and their votes preferentially distributed in a repeated process until one candidate achieves a majority. If there is only one candidate, they face a confidence vote instead.

For the General Assembly election, the plurality-at-large voting system is used, whereby voters select up to seven candidates of their preference, equivalent to the available number of seats. The seven candidates that have received the most votes are elected. If there are seven or fewer candidates, they each face a confidence vote instead.

The election moderators were The Final Horseman, South Miruva, and Nottinhaps.

Endorsements

Candidate endorsements are only recorded for nations who have previously served as Secretary or their deputy.

Secretary

Candidate Endorsements
Greylyn Argentigrad
Llorens Cedoria
Kavagrad

Opinion polling

Secretary

Poll source Date(s) administered Sample size Margin of error Results
Cedoria Greylyn Kavagrad Llorens Nottinhaps Podria The Final
Horseman
Unsure/
None
Aros Polling Institute 10 Feb–11 Feb 2020 4 ±48.7% - 0% 50% 25% - - - 25%
Feral Rat Stats 19 Feb–22 Feb 2020 27 ±18.0% 4% 11% 22% 37% 4% 0% 0% 22%
YouLeft 26 Feb–1 Mar 2020 8 ±34.2% - 13% 13% 63% - - - 13%

Results

Secretary

The following were the results of this contest:

Secretary vote
Llorens
  
21
Greylyn
  
20
Source: The Leftist Assembly

As a result, Llorens was elected as Secretary.

General Assembly

The following were the results of the individual confidence votes for each candidate:

Candidate Result
Argentigrad 33-8
Delphinium Pulchra 31-10
Kavagrad 38-3
Kongoland 31-10
Podria 34-7
Rhineland Ruhr and Alsace Lorraine 32-9
Wascoitan 35-6
Source: The Leftist Assembly

As a result, Argentigrad, Delphinium Pulchra, Kavagrad, Kongoland, Podria, Rhineland Ruhr and Alsace Lorraine, and Wascoitan were elected to the General Assembly.