Occitanian general election, November 2017

Occitanian general election, November 2017
Turnout	55.73% (▲ 27.73)
President before election; Babou Chkaya; Esquerra!	Elected President ; Babou Chkaya; Esquerra!

The Occitanian general election, November 2017 was the fifth General election of the Popular Union of Occitania. The vote take place on November 22, 2017.

Background

In the Popular Union of Occitania, everybody, occitanian or not, may be a candidate by completing this form. The first closing date for applications was the 1st November 2017. The government has extended this date to November 7.

Electoral system

General elections are held every six months in Popular Union of Occitania. Each party chooses a candidate by "constituency". The party who has the majority of deputies sees its chief become president by a second election. With this system, the President of Occitania is the leader of the Legislative and executive, he is the head of the Vergadering and head of the Government. Thre are four constituencies in Occitania (Midi-Gironde, Iberia, Septemtrio and New World). In addition to these four constituencies, in each federal republic, one person is elected to represent it in the Vergadering. A person can have several mandates.

Vote

The election will takes place on 22 November 2017. In Himeji, Sezentrania and Tagtabazar due to the time difference, the election will take place on 21 November (this prevents the European results from being published before the vote in the this territories). Also, for the citizens living abroad, the portal online will be open from 15 to 21 November.

Candidates and results

In the Constituencies

Midi-Gironde constituency

All-Saints, Babougrad, Lyudi, Maltemps, Medoc, Palmola, Shalom and Verd.

Turnout: 100%

Party	Name of the candidate	Popular Vote (%)	Number of votes cast
Union of the Left (EQ!)	Babou Chkaya	77,77%	7
	Blank Vote	22,22%	2
	Invalid ballots	0%	0

Iberia constituency

Aragon, Bayarri, Carpetania, Monkey Bay, Nata River, New-Ingolstadt and Three Flowers.

Turnout: 69,23%

Party	Name of the candidate	Popular Vote (%)	Number of votes cast
Union of the Left (MON)	Vicent Branchadell	100%	9
Party of Industrialists and Peasants	Lluis Esteve	0%	0
	Blank Vote	0%	0
	Invalid ballots	0%	0

Septemtrio constituency

Highland, Kambagrad, Novolitova, Oslovia and Citizen living abroad.

Turnout: 42,85%

Party	Name of the candidate	Popular Vote (%)	Number of votes cast
Union of the Left (FP)	Jakub Baran	81,81%	9
	Blank Vote	18,18%	2
	Invalid ballots		0

New World constituency

Himeji, Sezentrania and Tagtabazar.

Turnout: 70%

Party	Name of the candidate	Popular Vote (%)	Number of votes cast
Party of Industrialists and Peasants	Juan Cisneros	42,85%	3
Independent	Vladimir Novikov	57,15%	4
	Blank Vote	0%	0
	Invalid ballots	0%	0

In the Federal Republics

Tagtabazar

Turnout: 100%

Party	Name of the candidate	Popular Vote (%)	Number of votes cast
Party of Industrialists and Peasants	Juan Cisneros	100%	2
	Blank Vote	0	0%
	Invalid ballots	0	0%

Three Flowers

Turnout: 64,28%

Party	Name of the candidate	Popular Vote (%)	Number of votes cast
Union of the Left (MON)	Vicent Branchadell	100%	9
	Blank Vote	0%	0
	Invalid ballots	0%	0

Presidential election

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Babou Chkaya	Union of the Left (EQ!)	4	66,67%
	Juan Cisneros	Party of Industrialists and Peasants	1	16,67%
	Vladimir Novikov	Independent	1	16,66%
Valid votes			6	100%
Invalid/blank votes			-	-
Total			6	100%

Campaign

On June 22, the occitanian authorities opened the official campaign for the elections.

On August 14, Babou Chkaya begins its campaign in Shalom. Two days later, he announces that this will be his last presidential campaign.

On October 18, Vicent Branchadell candidate in the Iberia constituency, has create his own party, Montserrat which is allied with Esquerra!. Together, they had created a new coalition: Union of the Left. Fighting Poland joined this coalition too.

Opinion polls

Pollster	Release date	UL	PIP	VN
Pollster	Release date
Bayarri administration	16 Nov. 2017	50%	50%	X