2022 United States of Quentin Presidential Election
| 2022 Quentinian Presidential Election | ||
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| Turnout: 81.2% | ||
| 130 Electoral Votes, Candidate with Most Electoral Votes Wins | ||
| <-- 2018 ・ 2026 --> | ||
| Candidates | ||
| Environmentalist Party | ||
| Nominee | Clint Toll | |
| Home State | Snowland | |
| Running Mate | Gretchen DeArmant | |
| Electoral Vote | 49 (38%) | |
| Popular Vote | 201,930,998 (33%) | |
| Fundamentalist Party | ||
| Nominee | Alexa Holcomb | |
| Home State | Kahoot Area | |
| Running Mate | Dean Carnum | |
| Electoral Vote | 46 (35%) | |
| Popular Vote | 240,975,752 (40%) | |
| Mild RePublican Party | ||
| Nominee | Rajesh Muduganti | |
| Home State | Kumar Area | |
| Running Mate | Steve Shamji | |
| Electoral Vote | 31 (24%) | |
| Popular Vote | 113,569,136 (19%) | |
| Election | ||
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| Other Candidates | Matthew Welsekxa (FRL) Jane Beeventhox (GLB) Jace McNeil (RCP) | |
| Previous President | Kyle Lovestington | |
| Elected President | Clint Toll | |
The 2022 Quentinian election process began in 2019, when President Kyle Lovestington of the Mild RePublican Party declared that he would not run for a fourth term, opening up the field for the first new Mild RePublican candidate since 2010. The Mild RePublican presidential nomination was secured by Rajesh Muduganti after the Mild RePublican primaries on March 15th, 2021, defeating Avanti Athavale, Steve Shamji, and Patrick Winslow for the nomination. The Fundamentalist primaries on March 15th resulted in the nomination of Alexa Holcomb, after she defeated Tim Follingworth, Dean Carnum, and others in a landslide nomination victory. Finally, the Environmentalist primaries, also on March 15th, resulted in the nomination of Clint Toll for President, in a close race between Toll and challenger Gretchen DeArmant. The party conventions held in late May made these results official.
Campaigning and major issues in the 2022 election focused largely on the controversy over the composition of the United States of Quentin Congress, with many groups and candidates pushing for more representatives and a shorter time span between changing the composition of the House of Bureaucrats. The only main group opposing these reforms was Governor Muduganti and the Mild RePublican party. Other campaign issues focused on the politics of Paladinia, including policies after the Asperian Roofball War as well as the 2021 Paladinian State of Emergency. Former President Kyle Lovestington did not endorse any candidate over the course of the election, a break from party tradition. Further, the campaign had a major theme of a reduction in interventionism by the United States of Quentin in world affairs, with the Freelance Party candidate Matthew Welsekx pushing for this reduction as a major platform of his campaign. Due to this main theme, Welsekx performed well in the election, drawing close to the voting total of the Muduganti ticket. Examples of Quentinian interventionism, according to candidates, included the Hei Hei Hatvist terrorist campaigns, increased aggression in the Venturian Union by Quentinian representatives, and intervention in both Paladinian and Kalsomonian affairs during the Lovestington administration, contrary to general historical trends of non-interventionism in the country.
On December 7th, Clint Toll won the election with a close victory over both Muduganti and Holcomb, with Holcomb finishing second and Muduganti third. Additionally, Freelance candidate Matt Welsekx came in fourth, garnering nearly 50 million votes and four electoral votes from Tantallegara. Toll secured his victory by gaining a majority of votes in the PEC, and also garnering nearly a third of the popular vote. Toll swept both the Kahoot Area and Long Beach Island in the PEC, and also won half of Tantallegara's electoral votes, which was a major victory for the campaign. The campaign's five votes from the Desert Area, however, really secured the victory, as it was the first Environmentalist victory in the state since the 1966 presidential election. Turnout at the election was higher than average at 81%, and more voters were eligible than ever before in the nation's history. Additionally, Toll's victory led to Gretchen DeArmant becoming the first woman GTNEC of Jumange ethnicity in history.
Notes
a. Matthew Welsekx of the Freelance Party won 4 electoral votes from the state of Tantallegara.
