Meriadni parliamentary election, 2016

The 2016 Meriadni parliamentary election was held on October 5th, 2016, wherein 60 seats in the Hall of Jarls (~1/3 of the total) were up for election.

Major upsets occurred in Brannsund and Karelstad, where incumbent representatives were defeated by candidates from the Communist Party of Meriad, giving the CPM a record high number of six seats in total.

Coalitions
While the two of the parties in the current governing coalition, the National Democrats and the Conservative Party lost seats overall, a sizeable gain of seats by the Ströstaflanger placed the governing coalition into a majority by a margin of a single seat, with 63 seats in total. The remainder of the Hall is split into two general coalitions: The parliamentary opposition and the non-affiliated parties. The opposition, which consists of the Labour, Social Democratic, and Independence parties, won a total of 78 seats. The non-affiliated Communist Party, Green Party, Isolation Party, and three non-affiliated Jarls, who generally vote with the opposition, retain a total of 12 seats.