2000 Monsilvan senate election

2000 Monsilvan senate election

12 August 2000
All 65 seats in the Senate 33 seats are needed for a majority
Registered	31,102,393
Turnout	25,920,734 (83.34%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Zou Qing Han Fu Wu Jinghua Party FDP RNP Liberal Leader's seat Amking District 9 Nanyan District 1 Meixian District 3 Seats won 30 27 8 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 11,897,617 10,757,105 3,188,250 Percentage 45.9% 41.5% 12.3%
Leader of the Senate before election Zou Qing Freedom and Democracy Party Leader of the Senate after election Zou Qing Freedom and Democracy Party

The 2000 Monsilvan senate election was held on Saturday 12 August 2000 to elect members of the Senate for the 37th Parliament of Monsilva. The election was important for all three parties in the senate after the scandal with Liberal Party leader and acting Prime Minister Kong Tsai earlier in the year which had lead to Suen Shi-huang returning to the role of prime minister and having to threaten the Liberal Party with ending the coalition if they didn't remove Kong as leader of the party. Both the FDP and Liberal Party feared that they may lose many seats while the RNP was hopeful that it could make a comeback. However the results of the election showed that the public were much kinder to the situation than many politicians had predicted, with surveys showing that the resignation of Kong Tsai from the Legislative Assembly was sufficient action for many people who had criticized his actions as acting Prime Minister.

The FDP remained at 30 seats, while the RNP lost 1 seat to the Liberal Party. The RNP's loss of seats despite being the only party in the senate not involved in the scandal is often correlated with the arrival of the controversial Ning Liao as leader of the party in 1997. All 65 seats in the senate were up for election, and as tradition, the election took place at the same time as the 2000 federal election.

Candidate parties

See also: List of political parties in Monsilva

Below is a list of parties that ran candidates for the 2000 election:

Name			Ideology	Senate leader
	Freedom and Democracy Party		Social democracy	Zou Qing
	Reformed National Party		Conservatism	Han Fu
	Liberal Party		Liberalism	Wu Jinghua
	Green Party		Green politics	Fang Delun
	Cheng I		Conservative Buddhist democracy	Tao Yuanjun
	Social Democratic Party		Social democracy	Fu Wen
	Unite Party		Unionism (removal of federal system)	Zhu Qiao
	Party of the Emperor		Monarchism	Luó Zemin
	Alternative for Monsilva		Fascism	Luó Peizhi
	Revive Monsilva		Monsilvan nationalism	Tan Zedong
	Monsilvan Communist Party		Communism	Xie Bojing

Results

Government (30)
  Freedom and Democracy Party (30)

Opposition (27)
  Reformed National Party (27)

Crossbench (8)
  Liberal Party (8)