Elections in Kozdenen

Kozdenen regularly holds elections for the lower house of the Grand Boule, its supreme legislative authority, every 6 months. There are only irregular elections for positions in the Signory - the upper house - and none for any executive positions, which are selected by and from the membership of the Signory. Snap elections are permitted under "exceptional circumstances"; this does not affect the standard electoral calendar.

Common Council elections

Electoral system (2025 - March 2026)

Common Council elections made use of the Borda count voting system, a ranked choice system wherein scores are assigned to candidates based on the number of first-choice votes, second-choice votes, etc. they receive. However, for Common Council elections this iwascombined with a more typical method of proportional representation, specifically a largest-remainder method using the Hare quota.

Voters ranked up to three preferred parties, not individual candidates; Koz elections make use of a closed party-list system. Once the Borda count scores for each party are tallied up, these scores are then inputted into the largest-remainder method as substitutes for votes. Until 2026, 27 seats were then apportioned based on each party's Borda score, with the final 9 being awarded to the most successful party as bonus seats. From the January 2026 election onwards, the size of the Common Council was doubled from 36 members to 72, and the country was split into constituencies corresponding to the provinces and the wards of the City of Kozdenen. Each constituency was apportioned an equal amount of seats, with the remainder being assigned to Savdenen, which functions as a host for bonus seats. There is a 10% electoral threshold in place, i.e. parties must attain at least 10% of the total Borda count score in a given constituency to gain representation on the Common Council.

Electoral system (present)

Reforms were passed on March 30 to overhaul the Common Council electoral system again, following complaints of the Borda PR method being opaque. The Republic is now split into a number of multimember constituencies (currently 36), each assigned either 2 or 3 seats. A largest-remainder method using the Droop quota is used to apportion seats to parties within each constituency, with there being no electoral threshold. Each province is further awarded 2 or 3 bonus seats, whichever is closer to 1/8 of the number of constituency seats in the province. Kozdenen maintains a closed party-list system, and there is no compensatory mechanism for underrepresented parties.

The reforms also reorganised local administration, merging local councils into the Common Council itself; every provincial council is a regional compartment of the wider Common Council, or viewed another way the Common Council is comprised of all of the provincial legislatures. This makes national and provincial legislative elections one and the same.

July 2025 election

Background

Doge Peleṽa Thoa-Saevakki announced the creation of a democratically elected lower house for the Grand Boule on June 16 in response to public pressure, with the existing body to become an upper house known as the Signory. This plan was approved by the Grand Boule on June 27, with the elections themselves to be held at a later date following a grace period for now-legalised political parties to be registered. The election was ultimately held on July 8 following a one-week campaign period.

10 parties were registered in preparation for the July 2025 election.

Results

Party for the Republic, the party backed by Saevakki, won 54% of first-choice votes, winning the vast majority of seats due to this and strong second- and third-choice support, including the 9 bonus seats awarded to the most successful party.

Common Council (July 2025)

Party		Votes by ranking			% 1st	Seats	+/-	Platform
		1st	2nd	3rd
	Party for the Republic	152	42	97	53.52	23	New	Conservatism, state capitalism, pro-Saevakkism
	Heart of Our City	47	42	33	16.55	5	New	Social democracy, economic interventionism
	Liberal Action	34	30	20	11.97	4	New	Laissez-faire libertarianism
	Green Party	13	24	25	4.58	0	New	Green politics, social liberalism
	New Kozdenen	8	34	15	2.82	0	New	Right-wing populism, national conservatism, Gulfscepticism
	The Architect's Union	7	61	29	2.46	4	New	Conservatism, Koz Rite fundamentalism, Gulfscepticism
	National Responsibility	6	20	19	2.11	0	New	Seholist democracy, social liberalism, antimilitarism
	Struggle for Keezhʉ Maaiṽa	6	1	3	2.11	0	New	Ultranationalism, irredentism, Gulfscepticism
	Lavender Party	6	1	2	2.11	0	New	LGBT rights, environmentalism
	Koz Communist Party	5	14	14	1.76	0	New	Communism, left-wing populism, Gulfscepticism
Total valid		284	269	257	100.00	36

January 2026 election

Background

This election was the first to take place after the passing of the Terrafirma bill, which not only reformed the administrative structure of Kozdenen but also its electoral system. Since the last election, the Lavender Party was dissolved and merged into the Green Party, while four new parties were established: the Evil Party, Tomo, Party for the Rights of Clans, and the League of Free Gulf Peoples.

Results

Party for the Republic, the party backed by Saevakki, won 59% of first-choice votes, once again winning the vast majority of seats due to this, including the 9 bonus seats reserved as the Savdenen constituency. Party for the Republic attained the majority of first-choice votes in every constituency except Sorodenen - where they nonetheless received the highest Borda count score - and Taukhoree, which instead saw the League of Free Gulf Peoples as the largest party.

Results (January 2026)

Party		Votes by ranking			% 1st	Seats	+/-	Platform
		1st	2nd	3rd
	Party for the Republic	408	91	263	59.22	45	+22	Conservatism, state capitalism, pro-Saevakkism
	League of Free Gulf Peoples	66	21	20	9.58	6	New	Progressivism, independence or autonomy for minority groups
	Heart of Our City	54	135	93	7.84	10	+5	Social democracy, economic interventionism
	Liberal Action	47	162	79	6.82	9	+5	Laissez-faire libertarianism
	National Responsibility	39	37	44	5.66	2	+2	Seholist democracy, social liberalism, antimilitarism
	New Kozdenen	19	41	27	2.76	0	0	Right-wing populism, national conservatism, Gulfscepticism
	Koz Communist Party	16	12	14	2.32	0	0	Communism, left-wing populism, Gulfscepticism
	Green Party	14	52	45	2.03	0	0	Green politics, social liberalism
	Tomo	14	13	12	2.03	0	New	Progressivism, pan-Gulf federalism
	The Architect's Union	7	95	33	1.02	0	-4	Conservatism, Koz Rite fundamentalism, Gulfscepticism
	Struggle for Keezhʉ Maaiṽa	3	2	7	0.44	0	0	Ultranationalism, irredentism, Gulfscepticism
	Party for the Rights of Clans	2	4	5	0.29	0	New	Anarchism, decentralisation, anti-Saevakkism
	Evil Party	0	2	4	0.00	0	New	Satire
Total valid		689	667	646	100.00	72

April 2026 snap election

Background

This election was called following reforms to the electoral system and local government, and will be held on 6 April. Since the last election, the party system was reorganised, and multiple parties either renamed or dissolved. The dissolutions include The Architect's Union (merged into Party for the Republic), Struggle for Keezhʉ Maaiṽa (merged into New Kozdenen), Evil Party, and Party for the Rights of Clans.

Results

Party for the Republic once again won the majority of seats in the Common Council, but with only just under a third of the total vote. Additionally, this majority was held only by a single seat. All provincial compartments of the Grand Boule had Party for the Republic as their largest party, except for Chielbary (Liberal Action) and Monke (Popular Front).

META NOTE: lore populations used from here onwards, hence the jump from triple-digit vote counts to septuple-digit counts.

Results (April 2026)

Party		Votes	% votes	Seats	+/-	Platform
	Party for the Republic	2,530,939	32.18	47	+2	Conservatism, state capitalism, pro-Saevakkism
	Liberal Action	1,419,378	18.05	20	+11	Laissez-faire libertarianism
	Popular Front	1,212,865	15.42	16	+6	Social democracy, economic interventionism
	League of Free Gulf Peoples	849,490	10.80	7	+1	Progressivism, independence or autonomy for minority groups
	National Responsibility	354,245	4.50	1	-1	Seholist democracy, social liberalism, antimilitarism
	Communists - 'The Builders'	328,261	4.17	1	+1	Communism, left-wing populism, Gulfscepticism
	Green Party	539,251	6.86	0	0	Green politics, social liberalism
	Tomo	410,250	5.22	0	0	Progressivism, pan-Gulf federalism
	New Kozdenen	220,635	2.81	0	0	Right-wing populism, national conservatism, Gulfscepticism
Total valid		7,865,314	100.00	92