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The Dorvain General Election, 1798 was held on the 27th May 1798 to elect the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Dorvain. Each of the 100 parliamentary constituencies elected one Member of Parliament to Parliament.

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  • The Dorvain General Election, 1798 was held on the 27th May 1798 to elect the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Dorvain. Each of the 100 parliamentary constituencies elected one Member of Parliament to Parliament.
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  • The Dorvain General Election, 1798 was held on the 27th May 1798 to elect the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Dorvain. Each of the 100 parliamentary constituencies elected one Member of Parliament to Parliament. Following unrest at the rule of an absolute monarchy, and the unpopularity of Arnold III at the time, with the growing republican movement potentially leading into civil war, the King decided to create an elected parliament in order to ease the tensions and avert civil war. A parliament was created, with the Commonwealth of Dorvain officially founding the same day of the election. The constituencies were created strongly in favour of the king, with royalist areas receiving an overwhelmingly larger number of constituencies than republican leaning ones. As such, the election was effectively rigged in the royalists favour. All men aged 21 or over were eligible to vote. Two parties competed; The Royalists which supported a strong role for the Monarchy in the nations lawmaking, and the Democrats which supported making the Prime Senator and Parliament the highest authority of the nation. Due to the first-past-the-post voting system and the electoral map strongly in favour of the Royalists, they won a landslide taking 82 of 100 seats, which sparked outrage from the Democrats.
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