Next Palmshire general election

Palmshire general election, July 2014
May 2015 ←	7 November to 21 November 2015
All 6 seats of the House of Commons 4 seats were needed for a majority
Leader	Chris D	Baroness Sarah de la Cueva
Party	Socialist	Swag
Leader since	29 May 2012	20 February 2015
Leader's seat	Blizzardshire	New Cypress Hollow
Last election	3 seats	2 seats
Incumbent Prime Minister
Chris D
Socialist

The next Palmshire general election will be the election to the 8th Parliament of Palmshire. The terms of the Parliament Act, passed in 2012 and amended in 2015, mandate that the election will be held on 7 November 2015 (except in the event of a collapse of government, a two-thirds majority of MPs voting for an early election, or Prime Minister advising the Sovereign to dissolve the Parliament early).

In the general election, voting will take place in all parliamentary constituencies of the Kingdom of Palmshire to elect Members of Parliament (MPs) to seats in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament.

This will be the 7th general election for the Kingdom of Palmshire since 2011, though the resultant Parliament will be the 8th, as the first Parliament, summoned in 2010, did not have elected House of Commons.

Date of the election

Parliament Act

See also: Parliament Act.

An election are usually called following the dissolution of the Parliament of Palmshire. The power to dissolve Parliament is a Royal Prerogative, exercised by the King on the advice of the Prime Minister. The Sovereign had not refused a request for dissolution since 2011; the guidelines under which this might theoretically occur are known as the Lascelles Principles after the British King's private secretary who set them out. As a result, incumbent Prime Ministers often chose to call a general election at a time when they believed they enjoyed a temporary tactical advantage.

An early dissolution could be forced if Parliament voted for one by a supermajority of two-thirds. A government could also lose a vote of no confidence and be replaced on a normal majority of over 50%. When doing so, that Parliament would be dissolved if no new government could be formed within 14 days of a no-confidence vote.

Under the provisions of the Parliament Act 2012 as amended in 2015, an election had to be announced on or before the sixth month anniversary of the beginning of the previous parliament, barring exceptional circumstances. Since the enactment of the 2012 Act, Parliament has never been allowed to expire. The previous general election, held from 24 April to 7 May in 2015, elected MPs to the 7th Parliament; as such, Parliament would expire at the end of 7 November 2015.

Political parties

Main article: List of political parties in Palmshire

External links

Elections in the Kingdom of Palmshire
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