User:Legion/Works/Information on next Palmshire general election

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.