2030 Australian Federal Election (The EAS Mapper)

The 2030 Australian federal election was held on 23 February 2030 to elect members of the 49th Parliament of Australia. The election had been called following the dissolution of the 48th Parliament as elected at the 2016 federal election. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives (lower house) and all of the 76 seats in the Senate (upper house) were up for election.

The Monarchist Party, led by Prime Minister/King Jack Hustle, lost a third four-year term against the Privatist opposition, led by Privatist Leader you guessed it, The EAS Mapper. Minor parties and independents also contested the election, the most popular of which were the the Coalition, Labour, and the Environmental Party, according to nationwide opinion polls. The teams unsuccessfully defended one House of Representatives seat each.

Australia enforces compulsory voting and uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for the House of Representatives and optional preferential single transferable voting in the proportionally represented Senate. The election was administered by the Australian Electoral Commission.

On the evening of the election, Steve Materson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) calculated that the Privatists had won 75 seats in the lower house, and 39 seats in the upper house, while the Monarchists had won 75 seats in the lower house and 37 seats in the upper house. Materson projected that the Privatists won what seemed to be the last election in all of Australian history, as there was no more elections under Privatist rule. On the morning of 24 February, the ABC projected that the Privatists had won enough seats to gain a majority government. The Privatists claimed a two-seat majority with 114 seats, the Monarchists finished with 112.

The result was considered an great election as polling as now people didn’t need to vote, because there was no elections. It was the first time since 1901 that elections weren’t taking place. The Privatists benefited from a stronger-than-expected showing in NSW.

On election night, The EAS Mapper declared victory and Hustle conceded defeat and declared his intention to leave for the UK, where he planned to make King Charles III Prime Minister of the UK.