1988 Monsilvan senate election

1988 Monsilvan senate election

13 August 1988
All 60 seats in the Senate 31 seats are needed for a majority
Registered	29,824,395
Turnout	25,985,995 (87.13%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Wen Zhu He Bao Tan Lin Party RNP FDP Liberal Leader's seat Xishanjia District 2 Bazhong District 3 Weishi District 2 Seats won 33 23 4 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 14,292,297 9,952,636 1,741,062 Percentage 55.0% 38.3% 6.7%
Leader of the Senate before election Wen Zhu Reformed National Party Leader of the Senate after election Wen Zhu Reformed National Party

The 1988 Monsilvan senate election was held on Saturday 13 August 1988 to elect members of the Senate for the 34th Parliament of Monsilva. This election saw the second-largest proportion of the senate under the control of one party, with the largest being the preceding 1984 senate election. The Freedom and Democracy Party exchanged a seat in Amking with the RNP for another seat within the state while the RNP lost a seat to the growing Liberal Party.

All 60 seats in the senate were up for election, and as is tradition decided after the 1984 election, this election took place at the same time as the 1988 federal election.

Candidate parties

See also: List of political parties in Monsilva

Below is a list of parties that ran candidates for the 1988 election:

Name			Ideology	Senate leader
	Reformed National Party		Conservatism	Wen Zhu
	Freedom and Democracy Party		Social democracy	He Bao
	Liberal Party		Liberalism	Tan Lin
	Labor Party		Democratic socialism	Yu Qingsheng
	Unite Party		Unionism (removal of federal system)	Dai Guo
	Party of the Emperor		Monarchism	Yang Shanyuan
	Alternative for Monsilva		Fascism	Yu Shunyuan
	Revive Monsilva		Monsilvan nationalism	Shao Tingguang
	Monsilvan Communist Party		Communism	Wei Fu

Results

Government (33)
  Reformed National Party (33)

Opposition (23)
  Freedom and Democracy Party (23)

Crossbench (4)
  Liberal Party (4)