1984 Monsilvan senate election

1984 Monsilvan senate election

11 August 1984
All 60 seats in the Senate 31 seats are needed for a majority
Registered	29,304,928
Turnout	25,826,433 (88.13%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Wen Zhu He Bao Tang Liling Party RNP FDP Liberal Leader's seat Xishanjia District 2 Bazhong District 3 Wuzhong District 2 Seats won 34 23 3 Seat change Popular vote 14,514,455 9,762,392 1,291,322 Percentage 56.2% 37.8% 5.0%
Elected Leader of the Senate Wen Zhu Reformed National Party

The 1984 Monsilvan senate election was held on Saturday 11 August 1984 to elect members of the first Senate for the 33rd Parliament of Monsilva. This was Monsilva's first senate election and therefore determined Monsilva's first senate. The election inaugurated Wen Zhu as Monsilva's first Leader of the Senate as well as giving his party, the Reformed National Party, the biggest majority in a Monsilvan senate so far. Alongside the RNP entering the first senate was the Freedom and Democracy Party with 23 seats and the Liberal Party with 3 seats.

All 60 seats in the senate were up for election as there was no previous senate. The election taking place at the same time as the 1984 federal election began the tradition for senate elections to take place at the same time as federal elections.

Candidate parties

See also: List of political parties in Monsilva

Below is a list of parties that ran candidates for the 1984 election:

Name			Ideology	Senate leader
	Reformed National Party		Conservatism	Wen Zhu
	Freedom and Democracy Party		Social democracy	He Bao
	Liberal Party		Liberalism	Tang Liling
	Labor Party		Democratic socialism	Yu Qingsheng
	Party of the Emperor		Monarchism	Yang Shanyuan
	Alternative for Monsilva		Fascism	Luo Wencheng
	Revive Monsilva		Monsilvan nationalism	Shao Tingguang
	Monsilvan Communist Party		Communism	Fu Donghai

Results

Government (34)
  Reformed National Party (34)

Opposition (23)
  Freedom and Democracy Party (23)

Crossbench (3)
  Liberal Party (3)