Elections in Kozdenen
Kozdenen regularly holds elections for the lower house of the Grand Boule, its supreme legislative authority. 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.
Common Council elections
Electoral system
As in all other types of elections prior, Common Council elections make 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 is combined with a more typical method of proportional representation, specifically a largest-remainder method using the Hare quota.
Voters rank 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. 27 seats are then apportioned based on each party's Borda score, with the final 9 being awarded to the most successful party as bonus seats. There is a 10% electoral threshold in place, i.e. parties must attain at least 10% of the total Borda count score to gain representation on the Common Council.
July 2025 elections
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.
| Party | Positions | |
|---|---|---|
| Koz Communist Party | Communism, left-wing populism, Gulfscepticism | |
| Green Party | Green politics, social liberalism | |
| National Responsibility | Si'ihulist democracy, social liberalism, antimilitarism | |
| Heart of Our City | Social democracy, economic interventionism | |
| Lavender Party | LGBT rights, environmentalism | |
| Liberal Action | Laissez-faire libertarianism | |
| The Architect's Union | Conservatism, Koz Rite fundamentalism, Gulfscepticism | |
| Party for the Republic | Conservatism, state capitalism, pro-Saevakkism | |
| New Kozdenen | Right-wing populism, national conservatism, Gulfscepticism | |
| Struggle for Keezhʉ Maaiṽa | Ultranationalism, irredentism, Gulfscepticism | |
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.
| |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes by ranking | % 1st | Seats | +/- | |||
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |||||
| Party for the Republic | 152 | 42 | 97 | 53.52 | 23 | New | |
| Heart of Our City | 47 | 42 | 33 | 16.55 | 5 | New | |
| Liberal Action | 34 | 30 | 20 | 11.97 | 4 | New | |
| Green Party | 13 | 24 | 25 | 4.58 | 0 | New | |
| New Kozdenen | 8 | 34 | 15 | 2.82 | 0 | New | |
| The Architect's Union | 7 | 61 | 29 | 2.46 | 4 | New | |
| National Responsibility | 6 | 20 | 19 | 2.11 | 0 | New | |
| Struggle for Keezhʉ Maaiṽa | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2.11 | 0 | New | |
| Lavender Party | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2.11 | 0 | New | |
| Koz Communist Party | 5 | 14 | 14 | 1.76 | 0 | New | |
| Total valid | 284 | 269 | 257 | 100.00 | 36 | 0 | |