User:Legion/Works/Information on next Palmshire general election
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Timetable
- Current sitting Parliament of Palmshire may likely be dissolved soon with an election to be follow automatically.
- Only the Prime Minister (currently Chris D can advise the monarch to dissolve the Parliament.
- May be held in late November or early December this year.
- New Parliament may be assembled in late December or early January, depending on timing of election.
- Polling are likely to be held for about 20 days, give or take.
Seats
- There will be 5 seats for VP and 5 seats for AW in elected portion of the Parliament.
- Two types of seats exists: One for towns and one for counties. Towns are defined as any community unit within a world with at least three residents owning lands in it. Counties are any public building worlds in either AW or VP that elects a Member of Parliament.
- Lords of Parliament are not permitted to stand as candidate in election unless they disclaim their peerage title and consequently their peerage seat on Parliament.
- There is no qualification to be a candidate except to be citizen of universe the seat is in (i.e. must be VP citizen for a seat in VP).
- No candidates are obligated to join any existing parties or form one before standing for a seat in election.
VP
- 2 seats for Blizzard City (area immediately around GZ of Blizzard)
- 2 seats for New Cypress Hollow
- 1 seat for Blizzard world, a county covering all areas in that world except for towns already eligible to elect its own MPs.
AW
- 1 seat for AlphaWorld
- 1 seat for AWReunion
Unknown if any towns in AW will elect a MP to Parliament.
Voting qualification
- No people may vote in election unless they own property within area covered by the seat.