After a close race, incumbent President of Libertas Omnium Maximus, Lucas Brown(Con), has won another term as head of the nation's highest office. Despite a huge win for the Conservatives, the Progressive Party and Christian Union also have reason to celebrate.
Winning the race with 124 electoral votes, Brown easily beat out former Chancellor, Edward Banks(Prog), who received only 81 electoral votes. Interestingly, Brown won several urban electoral districts that had been projected to go to Banks or Stevenson(SocDem), possibly indicating a shift in political leanings within the city itself. Stevenson, however, rejected this idea during an interview this morning where he indicated that gerrymandering was the only logical explanation.
In addition to an exciting presidential election, the Senatorial elections were equally noteworthy, with the Progressive Party gaining seats in a significant number of seats in the Senatus Populus, mostly overturning seats held by the Socialist Party. They also flipped the St. Augustine 4th district, which was traditionally held by the Christian Union, winning the seat for the first time since 1992.
In addition to significant gains for the Progressive Party, the Christian Union managed to unseat all five Party of Freedom representatives to the Senatus Terras. Now holding the most seats since their party's inception, the Christian Union will control nearly a seventh of the entire Senatus Populus when the Senate goes back in session, making them the third-largest party in the lower-house.
This election's big losers were easily the Green Party, the Party of Freedom, and the Socialist Party, all of which lost leats in both the Senatus Terras and Populus. Though the Socialist Party's Richard Stevenson did manage to garner 22 electoral votes, those were hardly enough to even give him any hope of winning, especially going up against an incumbent president.