March 2021 Doggerland legislative elections

The March 2021 Doggerland snap election is scheduled to be held on March 27, 2021, to determine the composition of the Doggerland National Assembly. The election was called by Prime Minister-in exile TheOWOTriangle on March 15-16, due to growing instability in the Dogger government. They were successfully deposed following the vote of no confidence conducted against the Triangle Government.

The March election saw a return to the Left with Kenson being sworn in as PM. The IDP and Communist parties both experienced significant gains in their favour, with this being the Communists' first time in third place and four votes away from the top two. While the Liberal Party and Libertarian Party both had significant losses, with the Liberals halving their support and seat total. This election also marked the Communists' first official entry into the governing coalition, outside of the Alliance for National Stability.

Background
Following a successful vote of no confidence conducted on March 16, 2021, Mel formed the Alliance for National Stability as a caretaker rainbow coalition to govern Doggerland between the 17th until the 20th, when former Prime Minister TheOWOTriangle called a snap election. PM Bradley expressed no interest in annulling Triangle's announcement and therefore carried forward with the plan to have the election 3 days after government formation.

The governing coalition later overruled Triangle's mandate and pushed the motion to annull the snap election and reverse it to the 4th Saturday of March, that being the 27th. This proposition was agreed upon by 3 of the 5 parties in coalition, with the AGP not publishing an official statement. This action was widely condemned by both members within the coalition and outside it. The result was a public vote on the matter of pushing the election date back, which is likely to pass the house. While the motion was set to pass, it was decreed by Moose to be delayed to align with the senate elections, which finalized the date to be held on the 27th.

United Left People's Party
While the official party list for the ULPP has 11 people, one of those members of the Party List currently serves as a senator. His reserved seat is therefore officially an NPC reserved in the case that Ottofrog is unable to be re-elected.

Analysis
The Liberal Party dropped the most of the parties, with its seats being halved after the election. Assumedly, this was due to Liberal inaction during the previous Triangle Government. The Libertarian Party received its smallest share of the vote ever at 3%. A probable cause to this was likely because of MapDude's decision to merge with the Civic Union to enter government, and the division internally with individual Libertarian members disagreeing to those results. Barge claimed the decrease was due to the PFP splitting the vote between the Libertarians and the People's Freedom Party.

The United Left People's Party and Communist Party gained seats. The United Left People's Party managed to regain some of the momentum it had once, heading into the election, leading early polls. The Communist Party received its largest share of the vote ever at 17%. The Independent Democracy Party gained seats as well, leading some to dub it a "Beadyslide." This was the IDP's best showing as of yet. Despite this, Beady was quickly ousted from leadership following the announcement of the results from an internal coup.

The Labor-Worker's Party did not gain seats, staying at 14 seats within the parliament. This was shortly dropped to 13 when the SDU was formed, but returned to 14 following its reabsorption. Both the LWP and the ULPP received the exact same amount of votes.

This election marked the entry of both the People's Freedom Party and the Anarcho-Garfieldist Party, both of whom increased their seat totals in Parliament. During early polls, they showed the AGP surpassed the Civic Union in total votes, this later changed as the CU surged later into the day.

Overall, voter participation decreased, dropping around 30 people from last time. There is no verifiable way to tell if this had any bearing on the final results, if it would (because we would not know what parties those people would vote for and the like). This was election had the lowest voter turnout out of all the previous ones held.

Investitures
Parliament is scheduled to reconvene on April 1, 2021. There will be two parliamentary votes on who will succeed Mel and Zebra as Prime Minister and Speaker of the House respectively. The latter of which was because of Zebra's resignation of his speaker to engage in electoral politics.

(Going to set this up as a visual method for whoever PM and Speaker are going to be, don't delete please!)

Reactions
Angered by the prospect of the LWP being in the same government as the Communist Party, OrbitalBuzzsaw immediately splintered off and formed his own party. Named the Social Democratic Union, it was short lived. Only lasting a total of five hours before being re-absorbed into the LWP. This made it the shortest lasting political party in Doggerland, aside from the first Green Party, which never formed entirely as a legitimate political movement.

The IDP was victim to an internal coup by former deputy leader Danni0li, who appointed Moss Boss as his own deputy. Beady was expelled from the IDP as Danni's first decision as leader. The IDP was to be moderated both socially and economically, shifting away from its Beadyist roots. Upon hearing these results, Beady condemned Danni0li and established the Legitimate Independent Democracy Party (IDP (L)) and garnered two members to form a new political force. Since it was late, nobody could acknowledge his statement until the morning. Because of uncertainty over the amount of NPCs granted between the IDP and IDP (L), there was significant inter-party conflict between the two.

Before the results were announced, InsertUsernameHere resigned as the Leader of the Liberal Party, pushing Saber into leadership in the middle of election day. Saber had no interest joining the government, and dubbed himself the Leader of the Opposition shortly thereafter.

Before Kenson was sworn in as Prime Minister, PrisonMike attempted a quick attempt to form a CU minority government. This was ignored.