January 2022 Doggerland legislative elections

Doggerland voters went to the polls on January 16, 2022, to elect 100 members of the National Assembly of Doggerland.

Party Events
The USL changed its leader from Cali Shepard to Emmanuel Luciana. NCU leader George Buchannan resigned and his deputy Joseph Carson replaced him. Liberal leader Louis St Laurent resigned and was replaced by Christiaan Vaan Riet. Some members of the SDP and LP left their former parties and created the Progressive Libertarians, of which Seth Woods and Aron Paxton were elected co-leaders.

Government Events
The coalition for hope was largely uneventful following the coalition chaos. Patterson resigned halfway through his term and St Laurent took over for the remainder. President Avery Wagers was found to have broken the law by the Legal Council but was acquitted by the national assembly. The senate elections saw the left keep their majority as the freedom alliance gained two members. The Noardlan elections resulted in a UN-Ian-NUP government

Aftermath
The Civic union doubled in size from 8 seats to 16, their second best result in history. The USL and FA started to make rebounds following continuous decline for months. The SDP fell another 7 seats down to just 15. The NCU began to fall from historic highs down to 12 seats, and the LP lost 5 seats, down to just 11. The ASS halved in size from 4 seats to just 2, the GLM neither shrunk nor grew, and the PL entered the assembly with 6 seats.

Following the election a right wing coalition between the LP, CU, FA, and NCU was formed, the first of its kind. The budget saw the New Reform Bill and Defense of Unions bill repealed without senate approval, which prompted several budget votes, motions, amendments, referendums, and other acts by both the left and the right to either stall or speed up the budget vote. The predecessor to the NRB, the DRB, failed once in the assembly because the right voted nay, then failed in the senate because the left voted nay.