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5635 General Elections: Labour-Greens losses majority in Chamber; Conservatives and Liberals makes gains.
August 5635

Fort William - As something that was widely expected by most analysts, the sitting Hall government has retained its majority in the Chamber of Representatives, after a bitter dividing leadership election campaign that left Hall as the sole, undisputed leader of the National Labour Party. Immediately after her victory, Mrs. Hall announced a dissolution of Parliament and elections to be held in the 4th of August, as was, again, widely expected.

Before the election, Mrs. Hall's National Labour Party went in this election with a serious disadvantage compared to her rivals. The Party, although polling first, was still under threat from the Conservative Party of Mr. Weston, who was wholeheartedly taking advantage of both the death of popular former Premier MacGregor and the instability within the National Labour. The decisive factor in this election, according to many, came during the leaders' debate organised by NLB (New Luthori Broadcasting). During this debate, the Prime Minister's incumbency proved to be a boost when defending her administration's records on economic and defence policies, two subjects in which the Prime Minister was constantly attacked by her opponents.

Prime Minister Hall's overall strong performance in the debate seems to have been the deciding factor in the vote of many Luthorians, who threw their hat with the National Labour Party and the Greens, although, the Government still lost its absolute majority in the Commons and will not be able to effectively "govern the House", so to speak. The election saw the Labour Party lose 25 seats and pass from 182 seats in the Chamber of Representatives to 157 seats. While it was a respectable performance from the Prime Minister amid the recent criticism from her own party, the National Labour Party still lost 7.4 pp at the national popular vote. The Labour Party's coalition partners in the Greens lost 5 seats and seeing a loss of support among voters as well, although not as hard as the loss of support for the Labour Party.

The Conservative Party on the other succeeded in taking 10 seats from both the National Labour Party and the Greens, while also losing ground to the Moderates, a centre-right party which won 29 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, picking up seats from both Labour and the Tories. The Liberal Party saw a rebirth, surpassing the Greens as the third-largest party and caucus in the Chamber of Representatives, with 42 seats, finally, the Hosian Democrats secured 14 seats and the Radical Democrats secured 6 seats, down from 17 and 7 seats respectivelly.

Prime Minister Hall thanked the Luthorian public "for their steadfast support", although lamenting the loss of her majority in the lower house, the Prime Minister begun negotiating with other parties to form a new administration with either confidence and supply from another party to the current government or another ministry. Both the Liberal Party and the Moderates have been contacted by the Prime Minister to form a new government. It is speculated that the Conservatives may be trying into forming another government, although the largest stable combination of political parties alongside the Tories is sitting at 190 seats (Conservatives-Liberals-HDA-Moderates), although the prospect of seeing the Moderates and HDA working together is quite laughable at best right now.