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1876 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-26T09:18:11Z

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1876 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1872
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1880 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1880
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 4 February 1876
| registered = 14,395,921
| turnout = 80.7% ({{increase}} 2.4%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg|James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Walter Robinson]]
| colour1 = 4cbb17
| leader_since1 = 1872
| party1 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Havant (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Havant (CM)]]
| last_election1 = 54 seats, 25.3%
| seats_before1 = 57
| seats1 = '''178'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 124
| popular_vote1 = '''4,491,425'''
| percentage1 = '''38.7%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}} 13.4%
| image2 = [[File:Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| colour2 = 1155cc
| leader_since2 = 1870
| party2 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Cantonment (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Cantonment (BC)]]
| last_election2 = '''194 seats, 42.8%'''
| seats_before2 = 190
| seats2 = 114
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 80
| popular_vote2 = 4,143,072
| percentage2 = 35.7%
| swing2 = {{decrease}} 7.1%
| image3 = [[File:Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg|Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader3 = [[Peter Humboldt]]
| colour3 = ffc132
| leader_since3 = 1872
| party3 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat3 = [[Tavistock Calvinsweald (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Tavistock Calvinsweald (DM)]]
| last_election3 = 99 seats, 29.9%
| seats_before3 = 100
| seats3 = 52
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}} 47
| popular_vote3 = 2,616,127
| percentage3 = 22.5%
| swing3 = {{decrease}} 7.3%
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| before_party = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| after_election = [[Walter Robinson]]
| after_party = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
}}

The '''1876 Tumbran federal election''' was held on 4 February 1876 to elect the members of the 4th House of Representatives of Tumbra. The elections were held alongside elections for the President of the Federal Republic, and for half of the Senators to the Senate, the upper house of the Federal Parliament. Although elections for the House were not due until May, Prime Minister Henry Makepeace decided to synchronise the elections for the House and other elections to reduce public expenditure spent on logistics. With the economy mired deep in a depression caused by the Crisis of 1874, the incumbent Liberal government lost its bid for re-election after a single term, the first of four times in Tumbran history this would happen. The populist Centre-Agrarian Party, led by Walter Robinson, won the election on a platform of fiscal expansionism to combat the worst effects of the crisis, which had been exacerbated by a refusal by the government to get the Tumbran dollar off the gold standard. The Federalists, led by Peter Humboldt, continued their decline that had began at the previous election, while the left-wing Radical Party increased its seat count from three to six in the wake of the economic malaise.

While the economic crisis and sluggish recovery dominated the election campaign to the extent that this election has been described as a single-issue election, other issues such as secularism, industrialisation, and foreign policy were briefly mentioned, while the continuing integration of the seven Western states was also a campaign issue in the west. Robinson's victory on a populist platform was seen as politically polarising, with his party's majority in Parliament only being built off a small victory in the popular vote. This would be the second and last time a party in third place before the election would win a federal election outright. Despite also promising to take Tumbra off the gold standard once in office, Robinson found it politically challenging to do so once in power, leading to both a prolonging of the economic crisis until the last year of his term. This would also cause a major split within the Centre-Agrarian Party itself, with the Commonwealth Party, led by Richard Jackson, splitting off from the Centre-Agrarians in 1879 and ushering in the Second Party System, a highly competitive multi-party system which operated more like a two-party system in practice.

== Background ==

Prime Minister Henry Makepeace entered office after the 1872 election with a mandate for anti-corruption and sound economic management, aiming to reduce the huge deficits that the federal government had racked up in the first decade of its existence. Makepeace's Cabinet, a single-party government staffed solely by Liberals, embarked on several reforms to strengthen oversight over corruption, and engaged in basic civil service reform, increasing the number of posts that were filled by the nascent civil service examinations while reducing the number of posts filled by patronage appointments. Makepeace also further empowered the Attorney-General's Office to investigate claims of corruption, something that his Attorney General, Sidney Kimball, would use to persecute those involved in the East-West Affair.

More controversially, Makepeace embarked upon a program of relative austerity, with his government's 1873 budget presented in March, presented by Treasurer Nathaniel Leadbitter, cutting back severely on subsidies for farmers. Leadbitter presented the program as one that would create the conditions for a government of "moral fortitude," characterised primarily by one that did not run deficits. The Centre-Agrarian Party, which had been relegated to the status of third party in the previous election, came out strongly against the budget's austerity, signalling a shift towards a more economically populist platform in the hope that they would be able to re-gain the support they had lost in the 1872 election. Now led by former party president Walter Robinson, the leader would rehabilitate disgraced former leader James Pearce's image and invite him back into the fold of the Centre-Agrarian leadership by making him the party's main campaigner over the opposition of supporters of former leader Francis Whitelaw. Still relatively popular despite the scandal of his illegitimate child a few years earlier, Pearce would become the party's strongest speaker in the House of Representatives and led the opposition to the Liberal budgets, which more often than not were tacitly approved of by the supposed main Opposition party, the Federalists.

The Federalists had found themselves in disarray after their 1872 election loss, and was further sapped by the indictments of former ministers Elijah Short and Clarence Chase, depriving the party of heavy hitters with name recognition. With former prime minister William Butler immediately resigning as Leader of the Federalists after the election, the party was rudderless and effectively leaderless for the first six months of the new Parliament until they coalesced around the leadership of Peter Humboldt, who had been relatively untouched by the scandals that had engulfed the Butler cabinet. Humboldt initially saw himself as a transitory leader until former vice president Ralph Davidson could secure a seat in the House and take over the leadership, but that plan was curtailed when Davidson suffered a stroke in 1874 and was forced to immediately retire from public life. Seeing himself as temperamentally unsuited for the post of Leader of the Opposition, he attempted to step down in favour of the more fiery and effective Leonard Everett, the son of renowned politician Dalton Everett, but this plan was stopped by other party leaders who disliked Everett's willingness to speak out and criticise party policy he did not agree with. Everett took this as a slight against himself, but remained friendly with Humboldt, and the event has been described as one of the reasons why Everett left to jointly form the Commonwealth Party in 1879. Thus Humboldt found himself continuing as Leader of both the Federalists and Opposition, despite being seen as not aggressive enough by the party's backbenchers, who were discontented at his mild-mannered, conciliatory approach they saw as ill-fitting for the post of Leader of the Opposition.

Politically, it was a complicated time for the Federalists, who had essentially surrendered the moniker of Official Opposition to the Centre-Agrarians in substance, if not in name. This was by virtue of the fact that the party essentially supported the Liberals' economic plank of austerity and limited government. It was only their latent support from the 1868 election and entrenchment of incumbents, along with the unpopularity of the Centre-Agrarians in the 1872 election, that had retained them 99 seats as they fell out of power; it was quickly apparent that by 1876 the Federalists were largely a spent force, with their main cause and difference between them and the Liberals being the issue of protectionism and free trade. The most strident evidence of this ideological similarity was when the Liberals introduced the Gold Standard Act late in 1873, which put the Tumbran dollar on the gold standard. The act passed through the House with every single Liberal and Federalist in attendance voting in favour of the Act, leaving only the Centre-Agrarians and Radicals to oppose the act.

The Gold Standard had been a centrepiece of Liberal economic policy, with the party campaigning on the currency being pegged to gold as being the quickest way for Tumbra to achieve fiscal neutrality, which was seen as a moral imperative at the time. However, barely a year after the Act's passage, the Kingdom of Fiorre, a major economic power, dumped its silver reserves on the market in order to buy gold. The shrinkage of liquidity, an expected effect of putting the economy of the gold standard, resulted in a major shortage that the economy was not prepared to deal with. In May 1874, the resulting panic resulted in several major banks failing after bank runs, with the effect that the two biggest banks in Tumbra at the time — the McLaren Bank and the Williams Bank — had effectively become central banks in the immediate fallout of the crisis.

The subsequent economic crisis depressed economic growth and sent inflation skyrocketing, destroying the Liberals' then-promise for sound economic management. Farmers and rural areas were most severely hit, as well as the West, where the Liberals were strongest, interrupting the region's ongoing attempts to integrate into the rest of the Federal Republic. Despite the clear link from the economic crisis to the decision to place Tumbra on the gold standard, the Liberals refused to repeal the gold standard, arguing that doing so would represent a betrayal of their own principles. They also insisted that the economy would self-correct in time, but refused (and were additionally constrained by the gold standard) to issue help to the poorest in society. It took an intervention from Montgomery Hill, the country's foremost economist, as well as the McLaren and Williams banks acting in tandem, for the government to amend the Act to allow for a devaluation of the currency to take place, which slightly eased the economic crisis. By the time of the election, however, the recovery was sluggish, and whether or not Tumbra would end its short-lived experiment with the gold standard was now the primary campaign issue.

== Campaign ==

By the middle of 1875, it was widely accepted that the Liberals would not be re-elected. They were still seen as the most viable party on the right of Tumbran politics, however, which looked to save them from political oblivion. Makepeace would focus his campaign on the advancements made by his government in the realm of governance, focusing on his anti-corruption efforts and the establishment of the Ministry of Home Affairs, a new ministry that was focused on federal policing and immigration. The ongoing crisis had severely hit their credibility, but there were signs of life in the economy by late 1875, something eagerly seized upon by supporters. Makepeace stuck generally to safe seats and places where he knew he would receive a generally good reception, leaving the campaigning in difficult areas to his surrogates. The Liberal campaign, which relied heavily on their existing campaign infrastructure, was widely seen as a strong one given the existing political headwinds, something that would eventually be reflected by the popular vote.

The populist image of the Centre-Agrarians had been bolstered by the economic crisis, to the extent that the party briefly considered renaming itself the Populist Party in preparation for the elections. James Pearce's speech in the House of Representatives debating the 1875 budget, in which he outlined a list of individuals and groups the Centre-Agrarians saw as responsible for the crisis, was widely reproduced in pamphlet form along with a list of actions the Centre-Agrarians would take to supposedly take on the ongoing economic crisis. Pearce's name recognition was such that many thought that he, and not Walter Robinson, was in line to become Prime Minister if the party won the elections, but Pearce, thankful enough for Robinson rehabilitating his image, never had designs on the leadership himself. In return, Robinson promised him the powerful Finance portfolio, allowing him to push through whatever economic policies Pearce would come up with. During the campaign, Pearce's image was just as, if not more, prominent than that of Robinson's, and he was the one who undertook the national speaking tour, while Robinson mainly focused on the north-east of the country due to his advancing age at the time.

The election was widely seen as a two-horse race between the Liberals and Centre-Agrarians, with multiple unscientific projections by non-partisan newspapers projecting a near-wipeout of the Federalists. These projections, however inaccurate, spooked many Federalist MPs into stepping down rather than face defeat, leaving their already vulnerable seats even more vulnerable to a loss to either of the two major parties. The remaining Federalist voters were also susceptible to appeals from the Liberals on tactical voting, with the Liberals running advertisements in some open seats that a vote for a Federalist candidate could very well give the Centre-Agrarian Party a two-thirds majority in the House. While the prospect of the Centre-Agrarians winning 233 seats was always remote, the lack of proper opinion polling and psephology meant that nobody really knew who would win.

The Radical Party had been majorly strengthened by the ongoing economic crisis, allowing them to both broaden their appeal and properly organise themselves outside of the South-east of the country. While they were still likely only to win a small number of seats, their unashamedly left-wing rhetoric brought them support outside their home regions, and the party was able to run candidates in more than half of the seats up on offer. Still led by David Collins, the party advocated for a massive expansion of state capacity, and called for the establishment of a central bank to avoid needing to rely on private banks to provide liquidity for the economy.

Both major parties essentially campaigned only on the continuing economic recovery, with the Liberals pointing to the first sign of the economic recovery as proof that they were more than adequate as economic stewards and painting the Centre-Agrarian economic plank as dangerous and untested, while the Centre-Agrarians argued the Liberals had failed to steward the economy and only a radical change in how the country was governed could mark a quick return to how the economy had been before.

== Results and aftermath ==

The Centre-Agrarians won a small overall majority in the House of Representatives. The party gained 124 seats, reversing almost all of its losses it had suffered in its 1872 campaign, and won a majority of seats in the seven western states. The party won at least a plurality of seats in sixteen of the twenty-five states. Despite a convincing win in the seat total, its victory in the popular vote was much narrower, only winning the popular vote by approximately 250,000 votes. The small margin of victory led to comment from the Millsburgh Chronicle that Robinson's majority was built on "shifting sands" and that he would be unable to implement some of his more radical reforms, a prediction that would turn out to be surprisingly prescient over the next four years.

The Liberals lost eighty seats from their total in the previous election, but their primacy over the right-wing of Tumbran politics was confirmed by the election result. The party could also take solace in its narrow popular vote defeat, proving that its support was at least more sticky than the Federalists'. Makepeace would resign as Liberal leader following the election result, and while contemporary reviews of his premiership would excoriate his role in the exacerbation of the financial crisis, critical reassessments of his premiership in the twenty-first century have led to his premiership becoming slightly more well-regarded for his small expansion of state capacity and for his anti-corruption reforms. His reputation within the Liberal Party has remained consistently high.

The new Cabinet, led by Walter Robinson and staffed entirely by Centre-Agrarian politicians, would take office shortly after the election. He would extend an offer to Anthony Yardley, the Minister for Western Affairs, to stay on, but Yardley would decline and retreat from frontline politics in the aftermath of the election, while remaining as Senator for Lormark. James Pearce, as promised, was named Finance Minister, but Robinson frustrated Pearce by putting off some of his more radical economic reforms, citing a need to not spook already-fragile investor confidence.

The minor Radical party would celebrate massive gains in the election, winning three additional seats to double their seat total to six. The party added an additional seat in Severn, winning the seat of Tidmouth Northern, as well as gaining a seat in the states of Straton and Westmond.

=== Results ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Walter Robinson
| 178
| {{increase}}124
| 4,491,425
| 38.68
| {{increase}}13.34
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Henry Makepeace
| 114
| {{decrease}}80
| 4,143,072
| 35.68
| {{decrease}}7.07
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | Peter Humboldt
| 52
| {{decrease}}47
| 2,616,127
| 22.53
| {{decrease}}7.34
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | David Collins
| 6
| {{increase}}3
| 361,126
| 2.04
| {{increase}}1.07
|-
| colspan="3" | Total
| 350
|
| 10,796,390
|
|
|}

=== Results by state ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|-
! style="text-align:left;" |
! style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Federalist
! style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Liberal
! style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | Radical
! style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Alexandria
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Georgia
| 2
| 10
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 13
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 25
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bechor
| 7
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 22
| 15
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 44
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Finnley
| 6
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 16
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFC132;" | 4
|
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 3
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 13
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Napier
| 5
| 21
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 27
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 53
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| 6
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Grantfeldt
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 14
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Marlsbruhe
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 3
| 8
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
| 2
| 25
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Dartmoor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 1
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 7
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 10
| 2
| 20
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
| 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 8
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Lormark
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 2
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Turvenal
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 1
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 9
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 3
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| 1
| 12
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 52
| 114
| 178
| 6
| 350
|}

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1876 Tumbran federal election

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1876 Tumbran federal election

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1876 Tumbran federal election

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2033 Tumbran federal election

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| election_name = 2033 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| previous_election = August 2029
| previous_year = [[August 2029 Tumbran federal election|August 2029]]
| election_date = 23 July 2033
| next_election = [[2037 Tumbran federal election|2037]]
| next_year = 2037
| seats_for_election = All 650 seats to the Tumbran House of Representatives
| majority_seats = 326
| turnout =
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| leader1 = Stephen Williams
| colour1 = 0065f1
| party1 = Liberal/National coalition
| leader_since1 = 20 May 2025
| leaders_seat1 = Yarwood (NP)
| last_election1 = '''318 seats, 38.5%'''
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| percentage1 = 42.16%
| swing1 = {{increase}}3.65%

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| leader2 = Bertram Andrews
| colour2 = CC0000
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| leader_since2 = 18 November 2029
| leaders_seat2 = Serrapince Rainford (BC)
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| popular_vote2 =
| percentage2 = 36.61%
| swing2 = {{increase}}3.32%

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| leader3 = Cressida Granger
| colour3 = 00b140
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| leader_since3 = 5 March 2029
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| seats_before3 = 57
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| seats3 = 21
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}36
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| percentage3 = 13.35%
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| leader_since4 = 13 July 2025
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| seats4 = 14
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| percentage4 = 6.11%
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2037 Tumbran federal election

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2037 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| previous_election = 2033
| previous_year = [[2033 Tumbran federal election|2033]]
| election_date = 26 June 2037
| next_election = [[2041 Tumbran federal election|2041]]
| next_year = 2041
| seats_for_election = All 650 seats to the Tumbran House of Representatives
| majority_seats = 326
| turnout =
| image_size = 160x180px

| image1 = File:Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
| leader1 = Bertram Andrews
| colour1 = cc0000
| party1 = Labour
| leader_since1 = 18 November 2029
| leaders_seat1 = Serrapince Rainford (BC)
| last_election1 = 285 seats, 36.61%
| seats_before1 = 285
| seats_needed1 =
| seats1 = '''332'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}47
| popular_vote1 =
| percentage1 = '''42.36%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}}5.75%

| image2 = File:Scott_Walker_March_2015.jpg
| leader2 = Max Young
| colour2 = 00ced1
| party2 = United
| leader_since2 = 1 April 2037
| leaders_seat2 = Carrington (GA)
| last_election2 = 327 seats, 42.16%
| seats_before2 = 327
| seats_needed2 =
| seats2 = 291
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}}36
| popular_vote2 =
| percentage2 = 42.28%
| swing2 = {{increase}}0.08%

| image3 = File:Bill_Morneau_2015.jpg
| leader3 = Michael Berkeley
| colour3 = 00b140
| party3 = Alliance
| leader_since3 = 15 September 2033
| leaders_seat3 = Wilmington (ST)
| last_election3 = 21 seats, 13.35%
| seats_before3 = 21
| seats_needed3 =
| seats3 = 14
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}7
| popular_vote3 =
| percentage3 = 7.52%
| swing3 = {{decrease}}5.83%

| image4 = File:Official_portrait_of_Kim_Leadbeater_MP_crop_2,_2024.jpg
| leader4 = Johanna Browne
| colour4 = FFD500
| party4 = Moderate
| leader_since4 = 8 September 2033
| leaders_seat4 = Roselands (ST)
| last_election4 = 14 seats, 6.11%
| seats_before4 = 14
| seats_needed4 =
| seats4 = 9
| seat_change4 = {{decrease}}5
| popular_vote4 =
| percentage4 = 6.25%
| swing4 = {{increase}}0.14%

| image5 = Official_portrait_of_Christian_Wakeford_MP_crop_2.jpg
| leader5 = Justin Spearing
| colour5 = 980000
| party5 = Social Democratic
| leader_since5 = 29 May 2025
| leaders_seat5 = Palling (CM)
| last_election5 = 3 seats, 1.77%
| seats_before5 = 3
| seats_needed5 =
| seats5 = 3
| seat_change5 = {{steady}}
| popular_vote5 =
| percentage5 = 1.23%
| swing5 = {{decrease}}0.54%

| map_image =
| map_size =
| map_caption = 
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = Lawrence Newell
| before_party = United
| after_election = Bertram Andrews
| after_party = Labour
| ongoing =
}}

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2033 Tumbran federal election

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2033 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| previous_election = August 2029
| previous_year = [[August 2029 Tumbran federal election|August 2029]]
| election_date = 23 July 2033
| next_election = [[2037 Tumbran federal election|2037]]
| next_year =
| seats_for_election = All 650 seats to the Tumbran House of Representatives
| majority_seats = 326
| turnout =
| image_size = 160x180px

| image1 = Ulf_Kristersson_in_2018_Swedish_general_election,_2018_(cropped).jpg
| leader1 = Stephen Williams
| colour1 = 0065f1
| party1 = Liberal/National coalition
| leader_since1 = 20 May 2025
| leaders_seat1 = Yarwood (NP)
| last_election1 = '''318 seats, 38.5%'''
| seats_before1 = 318
| seats_needed1 =
| seats1 = 327
| seat_change1 = {{increase}}9
| popular_vote1 =
| percentage1 = 42.16%
| swing1 = {{increase}}3.65%

| image2 = File:Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
| leader2 = Bertram Andrews
| colour2 = CC0000
| party2 = Labour
| leader_since2 = 18 November 2029
| leaders_seat2 = Serrapince Rainford (BC)
| last_election2 = 258 seats, 33.1%
| seats_before2 = 258
| seats_needed2 =
| seats2 = 285
| seat_change2 = {{increase}}27
| popular_vote2 =
| percentage2 = 36.61%
| swing2 = {{increase}}3.32%

| image3 = 2019_Pamela_Rendi-Wagner_%2832995117698%29_%28cropped%29.jpg
| leader3 = Cressida Granger
| colour3 = 00b140
| party3 = Alliance
| leader_since3 = 5 March 2029
| leaders_seat3 = Penhurst (WA)
| last_election3 = 57 seats, 20.3%
| seats_before3 = 57
| seats_needed3 =
| seats3 = 21
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}}36
| popular_vote3 =
| percentage3 = 13.35%
| swing3 = {{decrease}}7.02%

| image4 = File:Tavish_Scott.jpg
| leader4 = William Boyd
| colour4 = FFD500
| party4 = Moderate
| leader_since4 = 13 July 2025
| leaders_seat4 = Tamworth (MB)
| last_election4 = 12 seats, 5.2%
| seats_before4 = 12
| seats_needed4 =
| seats4 = 14
| seat_change4 = {{increase}}2
| popular_vote4 =
| percentage4 = 6.11%
| swing4 = {{increase}}0.85%

| image5 = Official_portrait_of_Christian_Wakeford_MP_crop_2.jpg
| leader5 = Justin Spearing
| colour5 = 980000
| party5 = Social Democratic
| leader_since5 = 29 May 2025
| leaders_seat5 = Palling (CM)
| last_election5 = 3 seats, 1.3%
| seats_before5 = 3
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| seats5 = 3
| seat_change5 =
| popular_vote5 =
| percentage5 = 1.77%
| swing5 = {{increase}}0.44%

| map_image =
| map_size =
| map_caption = 
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = Stephen Williams
| before_party = Liberal/National coalition
| after_election = Stephen Williams
| after_party = Liberal/National coalition
| ongoing =
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1872 Tumbran federal election

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1868 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1868
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1876 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1876
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 3 May 1872
| registered = 13,788,493
| turnout = 78.3% ({{decrease}} 2.7%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| colour1 = 1155cc
| leader_since1 = 1870
| party1 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Cantonment (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Cantonment (BC)]]
| last_election1 = 74 seats, 24.0%
| seats_before1 = 74
| seats1 = '''194'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 120
| popular_vote1 = '''4,615,457'''
| percentage1 = '''42.3%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}} 18.0%
| image2 = [[File:Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg|Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[William Butler]]
| colour2 = ffc132
| leader_since2 = 1870
| party2 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Springham (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Springham (AX)]]
| last_election2 = '''139 seats, 35.3%'''
| seats_before2 = 139
| seats2 = 99
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 40
| popular_vote2 = 3,224,882
| percentage2 = 29.9%
| swing2 = {{decrease}} 5.5%
| image3 = [[File:Michael_Hicks_Beach,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-84.jpg|Michael_Hicks_Beach,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-84.jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader3 = [[Francis Whitelaw]]
| colour3 = 4cbb17
| leader_since3 = 1871
| party3 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat3 = [[Bayleigh, Calham, and Rywood (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Bayleigh, Calham, and Rywood (KE)]]
| last_election3 = 106 seats, 32.7%
| seats_before3 = 134
| seats3 = 54
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}} 80
| popular_vote3 = 2,735,805
| percentage3 = 25.3%
| swing3 = {{decrease}} 7.4%
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[William Butler]]
| before_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| after_election = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| after_party = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
}}

The '''1872 Tumbran federal election''' was held on 3 May 1872 to elect the members of the 3rd House of Representatives of Tumbra. Held amidst several corruption scandals affecting the incumbent Federalist-Liberal government, the Federalists, the senior party in the government, were swept out of office. Their junior coalition partners, the Liberals, led by Deputy Prime Minister Henry Makepeace and which had been relatively untainted by the scandals engulfing the Federalist Party, won an absolute majority of seats and were able to govern alone. For the Liberals, this election consolidated their political control over the newly-ascended Western states, with the party winning 37 of the 50 seats in the region. The opposition Centre-Agrarian Party, beset by infighting, lost major ground and fell to third place in the election, losing over half their members in a result attributed to tactical voting.

The result of this election has been described as unique for being one of two times in Tumbran history where a party has gone from third place to first, the other being in 1876 when the Centre-Agrarians reversed their losses to win the election. This election, however, has been the only one in Tumbran history where a junior coalition partner won an election and formed government in its own right. The election result saw the beginning of a long historical process of the Liberals assuming primacy over the right-wing of Tumbran politics over the Federalists' early electoral dominance, eventually culminating in the merger of a moribund Federalist Party into the Liberals in 1900.

== Background ==

In the intervening period since the last election, all three of the major parties had changed their leaders. Federalist leader and Prime Minister Richard Barker had retired in 1870, citing exhaustion and a disinclination to continue. Following the 1868 election, political violence had broke out in the north-western states, particularly from members of the True Westerners who had not supported their party's merger into the Centre-Agrarians and whom continued to agitate for a reversal of the Tumbran annexation of the west. Barker was particularly worried about how this would affect national unity, particularly amongst the remaining minority of the population which held latent pro-monarchist sympathies, despite the monarchy having been overthrown twenty years prior. The low-level insurgency that spread across Marlsbruhe and Grantfeldt took a toll on Barker's health, and the continued budget deficits run by the federal government were a major political issue of the day. When the insurgency had largely been pacified in 1870, with the capture and subsequent execution of rebel leaders on charges of treason, Barker decided it was an opportune moment to step down.

Barker would be succeeded by William Butler, who had served in Barker's cabinet as Minister for the Army. Butler had been one of the leading faces in the pacification of the west, was generally popular and had become the most recognisable member of Barker's cabinet after the Prime Minister himself. He saw off challenges from Treasurer Benjamin Northcote, Postmaster-General Jacob Yarborough, and, most notably and surprisingly, former vice-president Ralph Davidson, one of the nominal founders of the party who had lost his bid for the presidency in the 1870 election against Michael Turner and who was now seeking a return to partisan politics.

Liberal leader Alexander Henderson stepped down from his own role as Deputy Prime Minister in 1870, though in contrast to Barker's resignation, he had not wished to leave the role. However, a poor 1868 election result had meant that the Eastern wing of the Liberal Party had long since lost confidence in his leadership, and they were looking for someone who could lead the party to an election victory, rather than agreeing to being a junior partner in a coalition. While Minister for Western Affairs Anthony Yardley, who had also served as the last President of the Western Tumbran Republic, was courted by party leaders, he declined, citing that for him to assume the role just two years after joining the party would be inappropriate. The party eventually settled on Henry Makepeace, who had spent the last six years as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Makepeace, who was only 44, had always been seen as a future Liberal leader, though most had expected him to only become leader in the 1880s. However, he was popular with the public, and had made regular high-profile trips overseas to build up diplomatic relations with other countries, something that pro-Liberal newspapers were always eager to report in their columns. Makepeace had personally been reluctant to relinquish the Foreign Affairs portfolio, resenting having to focus on domestic policy, but simultaneously saw himself as the only Liberal able to lead the party to an electoral victory. He assumed office as Deputy Prime Minister five weeks after Butler became Prime Minister, the two having agreed to renew their coalition agreement until the end of the term.

Centre-Agrarian leader Samuel Lightfoot had himself stepped down in 1869, citing a desire to renew the leadership of the party. Much to his deputy leader, Francis Whitelaw's, chagrin, Lightfoot endorsed James Pearce, a young leader of the party who represented a seat in the north-eastern state of Napier, a region that other party leaders decided the party needed to make inroads in if it was to topple the Federalist-Liberal monopoly on power. Further angering Whitelaw, Pearce had saw fit to leave the former deputy leader out of his shadow cabinet, after Whitelaw actively campaigned against Pearce in the backroom discussions that had led to the latter becoming the leader of the party. Whitelaw had considered quitting politics, or splitting from the Centre-Agrarians, but privately resolved to stay on and wrest the leadership from Pearce by any means necessary. Two years later, when it came to light amongst party elders that Pearce had fathered a child in an illicit relationship, Whitelaw struck, despite Lightfoot privately persuading his former deputy that doing so would ruin the party. When the story went public, in no small reason due to people affiliated with Whitelaw spreading the rumour, Pearce stepped down in disgrace and Whitelaw assumed control of the party unopposed. Some derided this, however, deeming Whitelaw taking the reins of the party at that point as arranging deckchairs on a sinking ship. The method in which Whitelaw had strongarmed his way to the leadership had left him vastly unpopular with the public, but with Pearce out of the picture, there were no other Centre-Agrarians with enough national heft to lead the party.

Not long after Barker took office in January his government was beset by scandal. Commerce Minister Elijah Short and Minister for Public Works and Railways Clarence Chase were implicated, along with several other Federalist MPs, in the East-West scandal. This scandal saw the construction of the first national east-west railway from Hesham to Fontwell via Hoxford be taken up by a private corporation, the Central Esportivan Railway Corporation, which had bidded for and won the contract, overcharge the federal government for the bill. The company, however, had been invested in by Short, Chase, and the related personalities; after receiving the dividends from the overcharging, additional bribes had been made to create a regulatory environment friendly to the CERC and unfriendly to Holtzmann, who were their main rivals and who lost the contract to construct the Hesham-Fontwell railway. Short and Chase resigned, but remained as MPs, while investigations began.

When the furore from the East-West Affair died down in May 1870, a new scandal emerged when it was revealed by Federalist-unfriendly presses that Butler's private secretary, Kingsley Wilson, had been attempting to sell access to the Prime Minister for interviews to Federalist-friendly papers at the height of the East-West affair to try and paper over the scandal. Wilson resigned in the immediate aftermath, but there were now questions over how much Butler was attempting to launder his reputation amongst the eyes of the public. Butler's credibility nosedived in the aftermath, and was not helped by him attempting to nominate William Brown, an academic at Guildholm University with no previous public office, to the Federal Constitutional Court in February. To do so, however, Brown had to have occupied some public office beforehand, so the Federalist-controlled Senate attempted to confirm him for a judgeship at a lower federal court for a few days, before confirming him as an Associate Justice. When the Liberals got wind of the plan, they voted against Brown being confirmed to the Federal Constitutional Court, and Brown withdrew his nomination after a contentious few hours. In the aftermath, some Federalists considered forcing Butler to resign and replacing him with Ralph Davidson, who was still relatively popular despite his loss in the presidential election two years ago. A Davidson premiership, however, would undoubtedly spell the end of the coalition between the Federalists and Liberals, as the former vice-president was anathema to the latter party.

By this point, Makepeace was furious with Butler, and let him know as much in their private correspondence, where he threatened to resign from Cabinet and take the Liberals out of the coalition. He would eventually back down after being persuaded by party leaders who saw the party giving up two relatively influential portfolios, including the particularly valuable Foreign Affairs portfolio, as a mistake. Butler offered to give Makepeace a bigger role in governing in secret, essentially turning them into co-prime ministers for the last nine months of the coalition agreement. Makepeace would agree in secret, but in public he would aggressively court public opinion and distancing himself from the Federalists in the aftermath, writing opinion pieces in Liberal-friendly newspapers that were tantamount to the early release of their election manifesto. The 1871 budget, passed in February, was essentially written by the Liberal Party, but was unpopular enough that the Federalists had to carry the blame for the various cuts that dragged the budget deficit down to a manageable level. It was widely acknowledged by both Federalists and Liberals that the eight-year governing agreement between the two would not continue, and that Makepeace would be making a play directly for the office of Prime Minister.

== Campaign ==

When Parliament was finally dissolved in March, both parties in the governing coalition declared they would not enter another coalition with the other. The Liberals, under Makepeace, were generally judged to have the better organisation at this point in time; they had spent the previous four years building up their organisational knowledge in the Southwest, and replicated their tactics in the East. Their strong focus on anti-corruption and sound economic management, together with their emphasis that they had some form of governing experience, played well with the public which had largely tired of the Federalists' scandals, yet which were unwilling to vote for the unpopular Centre-Agrarian Party.

The Liberals would end up dominating the campaign; even the most stridently pro-Federalist and pro-Centre-Agrarian newspapers would be forced to acknowledge reality and accept that the Liberals were likely to win the election. The columns written by Makepeace were widely syndicated as campaign material as the Liberal platform; he would also embark on an tour of the nation (while stridently avoiding the Hesham-Fontwell railroad, which he deemed "tarred by the sins of corruption and which shall not receive my Patronage until the circumstances of its construction are investigated.") He called for a persecution of Short and Chase, while managing to sidestep questions on how close he had been to them and why he had not been aware of their corruption.

The Centre-Agrarians largely floundered in their campaign. Their numbers had been boosted by their merger with the True Westerners shortly after the 1868 election, but they struggled to make their policies clear and party infighting largely dominated discourse surrounding their party. Their support in the West, which was regarded as softer than their support in the east, had evaporated, and several True Westerner MPs who had joined the party upon its merger chose to contest their seats as independents, in the belief that the party name was a drag on their personal fortunes. Underfunded and unpopular, the party racked up debts which severely curtailed their ability to spread their message through the newspapers, which were the main method of campaigning in the 1870s; surrogates were also reluctant to show up for them.

The small, left-wing Radical Party had attempted to latch onto the unpopularity of both the Federalist government and the Centre-Agrarians to try and gain popularity. They were now led by David Collins, one of the three Radical MPs who had been elected in 1864 and who largely continued the tactics the party had utilised for its two previous electoral campaigns. This time, they fielded fifty candidates, twenty-three of whom were independents who wrote in to the party and were officially endorsed by the party after the end of nominations.

== Results and aftermath ==

The Liberals were swept into office on a swing that surprised even Makepeace. Later analysis showed that the Liberals were the beneficiary of tactical voting from both disaffected Federalists who did not wish to see Centre-Agrarians in government, Centre-Agrarians who detested the corruption in the government and who were turned off by Whitelaw, and Western supporters who flocked to the party in the aftermath of the pacification of the West. The Federalists fielded candidates in all fifty western seats, but none of them were elected. The strength of the Liberal victory in the popular vote can largely be put down to huge margins in the seven western states, who were initially afraid of the Federalists acting as spoilers in the region, but this proved to be not a concern in the final vote.

Makepeace would assume office as Prime Minister the following week, naming the first single-party cabinet in Tumbran history. Butler would resign as party leader and be replaced by Peter Humboldt, who had become Commerce Minister after Elijah Short's resignation, and who was now given the task of rebuilding the shattered party. Whitelaw, now in charge of a rump caucus of just fifty-four MPs, would be forced out of the office of Leader. Walter Robinson, who had served as the party's president and was amenable to both the Whitelaw and Pearce wings of the party, was named as his replacement.

=== Results ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#15C;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Henry Makepeace
| 194
| {{increase}}120
| 4,615,457
| 42.75
| {{increase}}18.74
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | William Butler
| 99
| {{decrease}}40
| 3,224,882
| 29.87
| {{decrease}}5.46
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Francis Whitelaw
| 54
| {{decrease}}80
| 2,735,805
| 25.34
| {{decrease}}7.37
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | David Collins
| 3
| {{steady}}
| 220,246
| 2.04
| {{increase}}0.34
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Total
| style="text-align:right;" | 350
| style="text-align:right;" |
| 10,796,390
|
| style="text-align:right;" |
|}

=== Results by state ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! State
! style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#FFC132;" | Federalist
! style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Liberal
! style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | Radical
!
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Alexandria
| 5
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 6
|
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
|
|
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Georgia
| 9
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 11
| 5
|
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Keybrook
| 3
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
| 4
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Raleigh
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 2
| 2
| 2
|
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
| 3
| 4
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 4
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bechor
| 14
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 24
| 6
|
| 44
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Finnley
| 3
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 13
|
|
| 16
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 2
| 2
|
|
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Marcato
| 5
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 7
| 1
|
| 13
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Napier
| 13
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 35
| 5
|
| 53
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 3
|
|
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| 1
|
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Grantfeldt
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 9
| 5
|
| 14
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Marlsbruhe
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 9
| 3
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Clearmont
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 15
| 6
| 2
| 2
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Dartmoor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 3
| 3
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Severn
| 7
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 8
| 4
| 1
| 20
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 7
| 1
|
| 8
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Lormark
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 4
| 1
|
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 2
| 1
|
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Turvenal
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| 1
|
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Gamaliel
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 2
|
| 1
|
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Iswilyn
| 4
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
| 2
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Westmond
| 4
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 6
| 2
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
| 12
|-
| Total
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 99
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 194
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 54
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 350
|}

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April 2029 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T14:24:20Z

Tumbratumbles:

{{Infobox election
| election_name = April 2029 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| previous_election = 2025
| previous_year = [[2025 Tumbran federal election|2025]]
| election_date = {{Start date|2029|04|06}}
| next_election = August 2029
| next_year = [[August 2029 Tumbran federal election|August 2029]]
| seats_for_election = All 650 seats to the Tumbran House of Representatives
| majority_seats = 326
| turnout = 91.9%
| image_size = 160x180px

| image1 = Ulf_Kristersson_in_2018_Swedish_general_election,_2018_(cropped).jpg
| leader1 = Stephen Williams
| colour1 = 0065f1
| party1 = Liberal/National coalition
| leader_since1 = 20 May 2025
| leaders_seat1 = Yarwood (NP)
| last_election1 = 213 seats, 34.1%
| seats_before1 = 213
| seats1 = '''310'''
| seat_change1 = '''{{increase}}97'''
| popular_vote1 = '''30,625,601'''
| percentage1 = '''39.1%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}}'''5.0%'''

| image2 = Official portrait of Keir Starmer crop 2.jpg
| leader2 = Michael Kirkland
| colour2 = CC0000
| party2 = Labour
| leader_since2 = 9 September 2027
| leaders_seat2 = Newgate (BC)
| last_election2 = '''365 seats, 38.6%'''
| seats_before2 = '''364'''
| seats2 = 284
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}}81
| popular_vote2 = 28,376,206
| percentage2 = 36.2%
| swing2 = {{decrease}}2.4%

| image3 = 2019_Pamela_Rendi-Wagner_%2832995117698%29_%28cropped%29.jpg
| leader3 = Cressida Granger
| colour3 = 00b140
| party3 = Alliance
| leader_since3 = 5 March 2029
| leaders_seat3 = Penhurst (WA)
| last_election3 = 31 seats, 10.3%<ref>Taken from the combined total of the Green Party and Progressive Party at the previous general election</ref>
| seats_before3 = 31
| seats3 = 40
| seat_change3 = {{increase}}9
| popular_vote3 = 13,623,992
| percentage3 = 17.5%
| swing3 = {{increase}}7.2%

| image4 = File:Tavish_Scott.jpg
| leader4 = William Boyd
| colour4 = FFD500
| party4 = Moderate
| leader_since4 = 13 July 2025
| leaders_seat4 = Tamworth (MB)
| last_election4 = 21 seats, 8.4%
| seats_before4 = 21
| seats4 = 11
| seat_change4 = {{decrease}}10
| popular_vote4 = 3,311,849
| percentage4 = 4.5%
| swing4 = {{decrease}}3.9%

| image5 = Almedalen_7_July_2016_68_(27907007150)_(cropped).jpg
| leader5 = Alan Spalko
| colour5 = 000080
| party5 = Conservative
| leader_since5 = 21 December 2020
| leaders_seat5 = Nottingham (GA) ''(lost)''
| last_election5 = 15 seats, 4.6%
| seats_before5 = 15
| seats5 = 2
| seat_change5 = {{decrease}}15
| popular_vote5 = 942,663
| percentage5 = 1.2%
| swing5 = {{decrease}}3.4%

| image6 = Official_portrait_of_Christian_Wakeford_MP_crop_2.jpg
| leader6 = Justin Spearing
| colour6 = 980000
| party6 = Social Democratic
| leader_since6 = 29 May 2025
| leaders_seat6 = Palling (CM)
| last_election6 = 3 seats, 1.9%
| seats_before6 = 3
| seats6 = 3
| seat_change6 = -
| popular_vote6 = 884,726
| percentage6 = 1.1%
| swing6 = {{decrease}}0.8%

| map_image = 2029apriltumbranelection.png
| map_size = 500px
| map_caption = Map of Tumbra showing popular vote by state. As this is an IRV election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by state but instead via results by each seat.

| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = Michael Kirkland
| before_party = Labour
| after_election = Michael Kirkland ''(interim)''
| after_party = Labour
| ongoing = no
}}

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[[Category:Tumbra]]
[[Category:Elections]]

1868 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T14:24:15Z

Tumbratumbles:

{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1868 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1864 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1864
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1872
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 24 April 1868
| registered = 13,370,463
| turnout = 81.0% ({{increase}} 4.0%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox.jpg|William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Richard Barker]]
| colour1 = ffc132
| leader_since1 = 1864
| party1 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Hulbury (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Hulbury (BC)]]
| last_election1 = '''133 seats, 42.7%'''
| seats1 = '''139'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 6
| popular_vote1 = '''3,828,155'''
| percentage1 = '''35.3%'''
| swing1 = {{decrease}} 7.4%
| image2 = [[File:Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Wis - NARA - 525971 (cropped).png|Hon._Timothy_O._Howe,_Wis_-_NARA_-_525971_(cropped)|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Samuel Lightfoot]]
| colour2 = 4cbb17
| leader_since2 = 1864
| party2 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (CM)]]
| last_election2 = 100 seats, 31.9%
| seats2 = 106
| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 6
| popular_vote2 = 3,544,267
| percentage2 = 32.7%
| swing2 = {{increase}} 0.8%
| image4 = [[File:Charles Sumner Brady-Handy.jpg|Charles_Sumner_Brady-Handy|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader4 = [[Alexander Henderson]]
| colour4 = 1155cc
| leader_since4 = 1864
| party4 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat4 = [[University of Couno (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|University of Couno]]
| last_election4 = 64 seats, 24.1%
| seats4 = 74
| seat_change4 = {{increase}} 10
| popular_vote4 = 2,601,585
| percentage4 = 24.0%
| swing4 = {{decrease}} 0.1%
| image5 = [[File:Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Brady-Handy_(1).jpg|Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Brady-Handy_(1).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader5 = [[Sam Richmond]]
| colour5 = f36c21
| leader_since5 = 1868
| party5 = [[True Westerner Party (Tumbra)|True Westerners]]
| leaders_seat5 = [[Millsburgh Boroughs (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Millsburgh Boroughs]]
| last_election5 = ''Did not exist''
| seats5 = 28
| seat_change5 = {{increase}} 28
| popular_vote5 = 677,214
| percentage5 = 6.3%
| swing5 = ''New''
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| before_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| after_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| after_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
}}

The 1868 Tumbran federal election was held on 24 April 1868 to elect the members of the 2nd House of Representatives of Tumbra. These were the first elections in Tumbran history to take place with all twenty-five states due to the merger of the Western Tumbran Republic into the Federal Republic of Tumbra early in the year. Consequently, the House of Representatives was expanded by fifty seats to allow for Western states to be properly represented. The governing Federalist Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Richard Barker, again won a plurality of seats, but did not win an outright majority. The Federalists therefore re-entered a coalition government with the Liberals, who were led into the election by incumbent Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Henderson. This election is notable for being the only one that the True Westerners Party, a party opposed to the Western merger into Tumbra, contested. Led by former Governor of Grantfeldt Sam Richmond, the party won 28 of the 50 seats added for the seven western states.

== Background ==

The Federalist-Liberal coalition government, which spanned ten ministries, had largely spent its term building up state institutions and managing the construction of the capital city of Straton. Outside the issue of free trade and tariffs, the coalition government was largely in agreement on most issues of policy, and both parties had come to an agreement to leave the current consensus on trade — high tariffs on nascent industries with free trade on agricultural products — untouched. The government positioned itself as a manager of business "which private interests could not stand to manage on behalf of our Nation," and was largely reluctant to interfere in the operations of the free market.

The Barker-Henderson government has been seen as a conservative government in its outlook. Fiscally, the government spent its term focusing mainly on paying off large debts that had been incurred by individual state governments during the United States era, while appropriating a new line of credit through the establishment of the First Bank of the Federal Republic. This would incur a large short-term political cost from more conservative elements of both coalition members' parties, and there was a minor split in the Federalist Party over the issue. Led by Andrew Lippincott, the short-lived Unionist Party advocated for no state-sponsored bank, arguing that it was "manifestly an appearance of government corruption in a state-sponsored corporation." However, when it became clear that the issue had no long-term impact, the Unionists merged back into the Federalists.

The government ran balanced budgets for the first two years of its term, but ran minor deficits in the third year, leading to the opposition Centre-Agrarian Party to decry the government's "profligate spending," something it would eventually use in its election campaign. The Radicals, while a minor presence in the House and which constantly struggled for attention in the government presses, said that the government's spending did not go far enough, and called for the establishment of a social security net to protect workers which had their jobs displaced by the ongoing industrialisation of the country.

The last year of the coalition government, however, would be dominated by the issue of the western merger. The Western Tumbran Republic, which had broken away from the old Empire of Tumbra and refused to join the United States of Tumbra, was now in an extremely bad financial situation and was unable to pay off its debts. Elections two years prior had given the Democratic Party supermajorities in both chambers of the Western Republic's legislature, and was widely interpreted as a mandate to negotiate to join the Federal Republic. A five-person negotiation team, comprising Barker, Henderson, Foreign Minister Henry Makepeace, Treasurer Benjamin Northcote, and Commerce Minister Elijah Short conducted negotiations, with an agreement for the Western Republic to merge into the Federal Republic on January 5, 1868. The eventual annexation was ratified via supermajority vote in both houses of the Federal Parliament in August 1867, with the three Radicals joining the government in the House vote. The Western vote fell upon similar party lines.

After the annexation vote concluded, however, it was revealed by the press that part of the conditions for the western states to only have the same amount of autonomy as the other eighteen states in the Federal Republic (as opposed to a greater amount of autonomy, which was what the Western negotiation team wished the seven states to have) was for the Federal Republic to additionally assume all debts of the Western Republic. The Centre-Agrarians latched upon the agreement, and castigated the federal government for its perceived recklessness, turning debates on the 1868 Budget into a "circus," with frequent disruptions to debates in the chamber for running a massive deficit. The Government, on the other hand, argued that the plan to unite all Tumbrans under a single flag "could not be quantified in debt and credit". Ultimately, the 1868 budget, which ran a large deficit to cover the costs of Western integration, was agreed to on a party-line vote.

In the West, those who were vehemently opposed to annexation gathered under the banner of the True Westerners Party. Angry that their seven states had not been given a higher level of autonomy as the eighteen eastern states, they decried the merger negotiations as one of a betrayal of Western identity. Led by the last Governor of Grantfeldt, Sam Richmond, the True Westerners would argue for the general concept of "Western autonomy" in the Federal Republic, but offered little concrete proposals on how said autonomy would be obtained, and had few proposals otherwise. Still, the anger felt in the west was enough to give the party enough support to worry those in Straton that the merger would be short-lived.

== Campaign ==

While publicly accepting that their parties were going to contest against each other, Barker and Henderson spent the last few months before the election campaign planning how best to ensure that either one of their parties would win the election. Sensing widespread antipathy toward the Federalist brand in the west of the country, Barker essentially conceded the seven western states to Henderson's Liberals by not fielding any Federalist candidates in any of the fifty new seats. This, while seen as a short-term tactical plan to deny the True Westerners representation by consolidating the pro-merger vote, would eventually be the first step to giving the Liberals a virtual stranglehold over the region for the next hundred years. The Liberals briefly considered spinning off their western branches into a satellite party, adopting the Unionist name that had briefly surfaced in Tumbran politics a few years earlier, but eventually decided to contest in the western states under their official name.

The Federalists would concentrate their campaign resources in the east of the country, campaigning on the government's achievements over the last four years while running defence on the government's fiscal record, promising that a return to sound financial management would occur in the second term of any Federalist or Federalist-led government. Arguments to national unity with regards to the annexation of the Western Tumbran Republic were popular, and largely offset any anger in the east about the perception of the high cost of the merger. The Liberals, meanwhile, contested less vigorously in the east, while focusing most of its resources in the west. Liberal leader Alexander Henderson essentially campaigned exclusively in the south-west, promising that the Liberals were best-placed to give the Southwest a voice. An endorsement from the last President of the Western Republic, Anthony Yardley, essentially solidified Southwestern support for the Liberals, considering that the Southwest had also been the most eager to join the Federal Republic.

The Centre-Agrarian Party sought to shore up their coalition of agrarians and centrists by appealing to the urban poor, which had voted for the Federalists in huge numbers and which helped them come out on top against the Liberals in 1868. It held high hopes of displacing the Liberals as the second-largest party in the population-rich north-east. They fielded candidates in all of the western seats, and actively campaigned in the region. However, it adapted its campaign message for the region, campaigning on increased devolution for the region and targeting its urban regions, instead of accusing the incumbent government of financial profligacy.

The True Westerners, given the advantage of being able to concentrate their campaign resources exclusively on the West, saw a speaking tour by Sam Richmond across metropolitan areas in the region. Richmond was able to effectively marshal western anger, particularly in the more affluent northwest, and while he never called for re-independence, several candidates run by the party explicitly endorsed the idea of Western re-independence, or if the Southwest was unwilling to leave the Federal Republic, at least a secession of the three northwestern states of Grantfeldt, Marlsbruhe, and Caduke. The idea generated controversy in the southwest, which subsequently closed ranks around the Liberals.

The Radicals stuck largely to their hyper-local campaigns. Still largely a southeastern-based party, the party only fielded 24 candidates — an increase of five from the last election — but welcomed and endorsed independent candidates who wished to run under the Radical banner. Thirteen such candidates were endorsed in this way. The cause of the Radicals was boosted by the explicit endorsement of Gerald Evander Gerritsen, who stumped for the Radicals on the campaign trail, now that he was not running for the nonpartisan office of President.

== Results and aftermath ==

=== Results ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:left;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | Richard Barker
| 139
| {{increase}}6
| 3,828,155
| 35.33
| {{decrease}}7.38%
|-
| style="background-color:#4cbb17; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Samuel Lightfoot
| 106
| {{increase}}6
| 3,544,267
| 32.71
| {{increase}}0.84%
|-
| style="background-color:#1155cc; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Alexander Henderson
| 74
| {{increase}}10
| 2,601,585
| 24.01
| {{decrease}}0.10%
|-
| style="background-color:#f98129; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | True Westerners
| style="text-align:left;" | Sam Richmond
| 28
| {{increase}}28
| 677,214
| 6.25
| {{increase}}6.25%
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | Henry Sheares
| 3
| {{steady}}
| 184,202
| 1.70
| {{increase}}0.39%
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="3" | Total
| style="text-align:right;" | 350
|
| 10,835,423
|
|
|}

In the east, the results were largely a re-run of the 1864 election, with the Federalists' electoral coalition remaining largely intact, picking up some seats from the Centre-Agrarians over tactical voting from Liberal voters, who had been implicitly encouraged to vote Federalist in seats where the race was between Federalists and Liberals.The Liberals lost twelve of their fifty-two seats in the east, but this was made up for by their twenty-two new seats in the west, and the party maintained their stranglehold on the twelve university seats. Eastern Liberals were still extremely disappointed by the results, and accused Henderson of abandoning them and the cause of free trade. The backlash was thought to be one reason why Henderson voluntarily stepped down as leader in 1870, faced with a loss in support from the remaining eastern Liberals. The Federalists, due to their decision to forgo contesting in the west of the country, saw a severe dip in their popular vote percentage, even if the total number of raw votes they won increased from 1864.

In the west, meanwhile, the decision of the Federalists to step aside from contesting seats there was widely deemed to have saved the merger of the west into the east. While the True Westerners won twenty-eight of the region's fifty seats, the Liberals won more seats than the True Westerners in five of the seven states. The True Westerners swept all fourteen of Grantfeldt's seats and won seven of Marlsbruhe's twelve seats, but only won six of the twenty seats on offer in the south-west. While Richmond alleged electoral fraud caused by voters being transported from the east of the country to the west, no such evidence was found.

The Centre-Agrarians, who had been hoping for major gains, would be disappointed; while they gained six seats overall, and made minor gains in the most populated states of Napier, Bechor, and Georgia, they failed to make headways against the government. The party won over seven hundred thousand votes nationwide from the last election, but that was largely due to the party fielding an additional fifty candidates in the West, none of whom won any seats. The presence of the Centre-Agrarians also served as a spoiler candidate in many Western seats, with around seven seats won by the Liberals that would have been otherwise won by the True Westerners without a Centre-Agrarian candidate. While this served to prove an initial stumbling block for relations between the two parties, both parties were soon convinced that working together was the only way to provide a unified opposition to the Liberals in the west, and the True Westerners merged into the Centre-Agrarians six months after the election.

With no party winning a majority of seats, the Federalist-Liberal coalition was re-constituted along the same balance of Cabinet departments as in the first government. Richard Barker was re-elected as Prime Minister, with Alexander Henderson as Deputy Prime Minister; the Federalists and Liberals split the cabinet departments six to two again, with the Liberals holding the Foreign Affairs and Navy portfolios. An additional ministry being created to manage Western integration into the country, known as the Ministry of Western Affairs. Out of deference to the Liberals' strong position in the region, they were given control of this additional ministry; they chose to appoint the last President of the Western Republic, Anthony Yardley, to the position. Yardley had been appointed as a Senator for the state of Lormark following the election, and joined the Liberal Party upon his ascension to Cabinet.

=== Results by state ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
|-
! State
! style="background-color:#ffc132;" | Federalist
! style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | Liberal
! style="background-color:#4cbb17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="background-color:#f98129; color:#ffffff;" | True Westerners
! style="background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | Radical
! style="text-align:left;" | Total
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Alexandria
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
| 2
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Georgia
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 13
| 1
| 11
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Bechor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 21
| 9
| 14
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 44
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Finnley
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| 4
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 16
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 11
| 1
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 13
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Napier
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 28
| 10
| 15
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 53
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 6
|-
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 1
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 4
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | Grantfeldt
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | 14
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;" | 14
|-
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | Marlsbruhe
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 5
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | 7
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 9
| 3
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Dartmoor
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 6
| 5
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| 20
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 8
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Lormark
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Turvenal
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|- style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 4
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|- style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
| Total
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 139
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 74
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 106
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 28
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 350
|}

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2025 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T14:22:51Z

Tumbratumbles:

{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2025 Tumbran Federal Election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| previous_election = 2021
| previous_year = [[2021 Tumbran federal election|2021]]
| election_date = {{Start date|2025|04|04}}
| next_election = Next
| next_year = [[April 2029 Tumbran federal election|April 2029]]
| seats_for_election = All 650 seats to the Tumbran House of Representatives
| majority_seats = 326
| turnout = 91.7%
| image_size = 160x180px

| image1 = Gavin_Newsom_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
| leader1 = Kenneth Everett
| colour1 = CC0000
| party1 = Labour
| leader_since1 = 15 February 2014
| leaders_seat1 = Timbourne South (NP)
| last_election1 = 391 seats, 42.0%
| seats_before1 = 368
| seats1 = '''365'''
| seat_change1 = {{decrease}}23
| popular_vote1 = '''30,423,986'''
| percentage1 = '''38.6%'''
| swing1 = {{decrease}}3.4%

| image2 = 2020-02-14_Christian_Lindner_(Bundestagsprojekt_2020)_by_Sandro_Halank–2.jpg
| leader2 = Peter Lindner
| colour2 = 0065f1
| party2 = Liberal/National coalition
| leader_since2 = 1 June 2021
| leaders_seat2 = Chatham (IL)
| last_election2 = 191 seats, 35.3%
| seats_before2 = 184
| seats2 = 213
| seat_change2 = {{increase}}22
| popular_vote2 = 26,877,149
| percentage2 = 34.1%
| swing2 = {{decrease}}1.2%

| image3 = [[File:Thomas_Mulcair_2015_(cropped).jpg|90x90px]] [[File:2019-01-23-Katja_Kipping-Maischberger-1533.jpg|90x90px]]
| leader3 = Robert Ford and Anna Palmer
| colour3 = 29D356
| party3 = Green
| leader_since3 = 31 May 2007 (Ford) 14 May 2018 (Palmer)
| leaders_seat3 = Serrapince Broadford (BE) (Ford) Couno Grove Hill (NP) (Palmer)
| last_election3 = 20 seats, 7.0%
| seats_before3 = 20
| seats3 = 23
| seat_change3 = {{increase}}3
| popular_vote3 = 6,699,582
| percentage3 = 8.5%
| swing3 = {{increase}}1.5%

| image4 = File:Annegret_Kramp-Karrenbauer_2016_(cropped).jpg
| leader4 = Hannah Slater
| colour4 = FFD500
| party4 = Moderate
| leader_since4 = 27 April 2016
| leaders_seat4 = Couno Ports (NP)
| last_election4 = 28 seats, 9.1%
| seats_before4 = 28
| seats4 = 21
| seat_change4 = {{decrease}}7
| popular_vote4 = 6,463,126
| percentage4 = 8.4%
| swing4 = {{decrease}}0.9%

| image5 = Almedalen_7_July_2016_68_(27907007150)_(cropped).jpg
| leader5 = Alan Spalko
| colour5 = 000080
| party5 = Conservative
| leader_since5 = 21 December 2020
| leaders_seat5 = Nottingham (GA)
| last_election5 = 17 seats, 5.0%
| seats_before5 = 17
| seats5 = 15
| seat_change5 = {{decrease}}2
| popular_vote5 = 3,625,656
| percentage5 = 4.6%
| swing5 = {{decrease}}0.4%

| image6 = Katie_Porter_Official_Portrait_(cropped).jpg
| leader6 = Mandy Ellis
| colour6 = ffb2f5
| party6 = Progressive
| leader_since6 = 3 March 2023
| leaders_seat6 = Caldwell North (CA)
| last_election6 = ''Pre-founding''
| seats_before6 = 24
| seats6 = 8
| seat_change6 = {{increase}}8
| popular_vote6 = 1,473,908
| percentage6 = 1.8%
| swing6 = ''New party''

| image7 = 2017-03-26_Oskar_Lafontaine_by_Sandro_Halank–3.jpg
| leader7 = Peter Saunders
| colour7 = 980000
| party7 = Social Democratic
| leader_since7 = 18 July 1994
| leaders_seat7 = Maxwell (CM)
| last_election7 = 3 seats, 1.6%
| seats_before7 = 3
| seats7 = 3
| seat_change7 = -
| popular_vote7 = 1,521,199
| percentage7 = 1.9%
| swing7 = {{increase}}0.3%

| image8 = Simon-Bridges-Free-Crop.jpg
| leader8 = George Dempsey
| colour8 = 800080
| party8 = New Democratic
| leader_since8 = 15 June 2023
| leaders_seat8 = Mayfield (SE)
| last_election8 = ''Pre-founding''
| seats_before8 = 8
| seats8 = 1
| seat_change8 = {{increase}}1
| popular_vote8 = 1,165,393
| percentage8 = 1.5%
| swing8 = {{increase}}1.5%

| image9 = William_F._Buckley,_Jr._1985.jpg
| leader9 = Ian Coghlan
| colour9 = ff9900
| party9 = Christian Union
| leader_since9 = 1 April 2024
| leaders_seat9 = Not contesting
| last_election9 = ''Pre-founding''
| seats_before9 = 0
| seats9 = 1
| seat_change9 = {{increase}}1
| popular_vote9 = 410,977
| percentage9 = 0.5%
| swing9 = {{increase}}0.5%

| map_image = 2025tumbranfederalelection.png
| map_size = 500px
| map_caption = Map of Tumbra showing popular vote by state. As this is an IRV election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by state but instead via results by each seat.

| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = Kenneth Everett
| before_party = Labour
| after_election = Kenneth Everett
| after_party = Labour
| ongoing = no
}}

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[[Category:Tumbra]]
[[Category:Elections]]

1864 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T14:22:43Z

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1864 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| ongoing = no
| previous_election =
| previous_year =
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1868 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1868
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|300 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 151
| election_date = 25 March 1864
| registered = 10,949,772
| turnout = 77.0%
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox.jpg|William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Richard Barker]]
| colour1 = ffc132
| leader_since1 = 1864
| party1 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Hulbury (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Hulbury (BC)]]
| seats1 = '''133'''
| seat_change1 =
| popular_vote1 = '''3,602,889'''
| percentage1 = '''42.7%'''
| swing1 =
| image2 = [[File:Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Wis - NARA - 525971 (cropped).png|Hon._Timothy_O._Howe,_Wis_-_NARA_-_525971_(cropped)|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Samuel Lightfoot]]
| colour2 = 4cbb17
| leader_since2 = 1864
| party2 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (CM)]]
| seats2 = 100
| popular_vote2 = 2,688,459
| percentage2 = 31.9%
| image3 = [[File:Charles Sumner Brady-Handy.jpg|Charles_Sumner_Brady-Handy|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader3 = [[Alexander Henderson]]
| colour3 = 1155cc
| leader_since3 = 1864
| party3 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat3 = [[University of Couno (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|University of Couno]]
| seats3 = 64
| popular_vote3 = 2,033,848
| percentage3 = 24.1%

| title = Prime Minister
| after_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| after_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
}}

The '''1864 Tumbran federal election''' was held on 25 March 1864, alongside elections for the first President of Tumbra, the first Vice-President of Tumbra, half of the Senate, and state legislatures. These were the first elections to be held for the legislative bodies of the Federal Republic of Tumbra, and were held as the United States of Tumbra was finalising a nine-month transition period to the Federal Republic. All men above the age of twenty-one were eligible to vote, meaning that approximately eleven million out of a population of forty-three million had the franchise. The Federalists, led by Richard Barker, won a plurality of seats, and entered a coalition agreement with the Liberals, led by Alexander Henderson. Four parties were elected; the minor left-wing Radical Party won seven seats, mainly in the south-west, on barely over 1% of the national vote.

== Events leading up to the election ==

Following the 1863 referendum that approved a shift in how Tumbra was governed, from a weak confederation of states to a strong, centralised, federal parliamentary democracy, many personalities from the political spectrum that had endorsed the transition (known as the "Reformists") were expected to contest the election as one party. The Federalist party was established as the new Reformist electoral vehicle, but soon ran into in-fighting, particularly over the issue of free trade. Personal rivalries between members of the Reformist faction also resulted in an untimely split; in particular, the personal animosity between Ralph Davidson and Michael Turner, both of whom had served as Chancellors of the United States of Tumbra, was a key reason why the parties ended up splitting in the run-up to the election. Those affiliated with Davidson would remain in the Federalists, who would adopt an anti-free trade stance, while supporters of Turner would form the Liberal Party, which was broadly supportive of free trade. Outside of the trade issue and some other minor differences, however, both parties had largely similar platforms. As both Davidson and Turner were preparing for vice-presidential campaigns, they remained officially independent due to the requirement of the role for non-partisanship, leaving the organisation of party business to Barker (who was the incumbent Treasurer), and Henderson (the incumbent Minister for Foreign Affairs).

Those who opposed the reformation of the United States into the Federal Republic (also known as Perpetualists) found themselves largely politically homeless. The Perpetualist nominee for Governor of Thornton in the 1862 presidential election, Daniel Thorneycroft, made a perfunctory effort to organise the Perpetualist political forces into a political machine resembling the Federalist organisation, but was not particularly married to the idea of wading into federal politics beyond his brief campaign for President in 1862. It therefore fell upon the small Perpetualist caucus in the Chamber of Deputies and Council of State — the Legislature of the United States — to try and organise the anti-Federalist voters. The caucus, led by their leader in the Chamber of Deputies, Samuel Lightfoot, accepted that the argument against federalism had effectively failed, and decided not to re-tread their arguments against the Federal Republic. What they would instead do was call for a small federal government and one that would devolve powers to the states — effectively a continuation of the United States structure, but within a stronger federal government. There was some debate over the name, with the name of the Republican Party being floated. The caucus eventually settled on the Centre-Agrarian moniker, as a means to signal to prospective voters who the party had been established for, and also to play down their recent history of opposing the Federal Republic; after the passage of the referendum, support for the Federal Republic had grown drastically. Lightfoot was elected as leader in a party-room vote.

A small contingent of left-wing groups met in the state capital of Clearmont, Hesham, to discuss the contestation of the federal election. While they welcomed the establishment of the Federal Republic, having believed that the United States of Tumbra had been fundamentally elitist and anti-egalitarian, they now wished to enter the new Parliament to push for further radical reforms. Under the banner of the Radical Party, the small party elected Henry Sheares, an author and close associate of Gerald Evander Gerritsen, as leader; the party would field 19 candidates across the southwest of the country, whose working-class population they decided was easier to persuade. While the party had initially invited Gerritsen to serve as its leader, he was preparing for a presidential campaign, which meant he could not assume any partisan affiliation.

== Campaign ==

The official campaign period began in February, with the parties eagerly campaigning nationally, taking advantage of the efficiencies of an actually instituted party system. Both the Federalists and Liberals held party conventions to announce their nominees for Prime Minister — the Federalists nominated Barker in Serrapince, while the Liberals nominated Henderson in Bencoolen. Barker and Henderson would embark on national campaigns, speaking in major cities but particularly in the north-east of the country, which was deemed critical for either party's hopes of winning government due to its high number of seats.

Despite the campaign for the House taking place at the same time as that for half of the Senate, Presidency, vice-presidency, and state assemblies, the House election was given pride of place in terms of national prominence, and the newspapers gave it the most attention, to the chagrin of Gerritsen, Turner, and Davidson, each of whom thought that the presidential or vice-presidential election should have been given the highest regard in this matter. Barker and Henderson made the issue of tariffs and free trade the issue of the election, since it was what drove their parties apart in the first place; Barker emphasised that the country's delicate economic situation required protective tariffs, while Henderson campaigned largely on the freedom of goods and trade as part of the liberty that the new Federal Republic promised its citizens.

Both parties largely ignored the Central-Agrarian campaign, which sought to paint both parties as part of a bickering "uni-party" that would eventually merge back into each other after the election. Lightfoot, taking a populist tone, largely toured the rural western states to campaign on the issue of devolution of powers, warning against a federal government that was too powerful. His deputy, Francis Whitelaw, toured the agrarian southeastern states to emphasise the Centre-Agrarian's support for farmers, who formed a powerful voting bloc at the time. Both the Federalists and Liberals did not realise the Centre-Agrarians' effective coalition building until late in the campaign, at which point Liberal leader Henderson conducted a tour of the south-east to attempt to salvage the Liberal weaknesses in the region. Henderson was both aided and hindered by the fact that he was running for the university constituency of the University of Couno. The Liberals were virtually guaranteed all twelve university constituency seats by virtue of their support amongst graduates of the biggest universities in Tumbra, and this freed Henderson up to campaign without worrying about his local race. At the same time, him running for a university constituency harmed his perception amongst southeastern voters, who were largely swayed by the populist campaign of Lightfoot and Whitelaw.

The Federalists, meanwhile, focused their attention on the west in the dying stages of the campaign, with Barker re-treading rhetoric from the referendum as he talked of the benefits of the federal republic as a whole. He embarked on a coast-to-coast trip, from Bencoolen on the southern coast to Ridgewell on the northern coast, in a bid to shore up urban support for Federalists in what the party deemed winnable constituencies.

The Radicals ran a hyper-local campaign, focusing their efforts entirely on the nineteen urban and semi-urban seats their candidates were contesting. The party was the only one endorsing Gerritsen for President, and hoped that his coat-tails would at least help the minor party's efforts to win some seats in the election. Henry Sheares and other surrogates embarked on what they termed as a "public house" campaign; making stops at pubs and other places frequented by the working class to deliver speeches exhorting support for the local Radical candidate. They received hardly any press attention from the major papers, only getting attention from sympathetic local papers that were partisan in nature anyway.

== Results and aftermath ==

=== Results ===

{| class="wikitable"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Votes
! %
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132;" |
| Federalist
| Richard Barker
| style="text-align:right;" | 133
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,602,889
| style="text-align:right;" | 44.27
|-
| style="background-color:#4cbb17;" |
| Centre-Agrarian
| Samuel Lightfoot
| style="text-align:right;" | 106
| style="text-align:right;" | 3,544,267
| style="text-align:right;" | 31.87
|-
| style="background-color:#1155cc;" |
| Liberal
| Alexander Henderson
| style="text-align:right;" | 64
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,033,848
| style="text-align:right;" | 24.11
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815;" |
| Radical
| David Sheares
| style="text-align:right;" | 3
| style="text-align:right;" | 110,508
| style="text-align:right;" | 1.31
|-
| colspan="3" | Total
| style="text-align:right;" | 300
| 8,435,704
|
|}

As returns came in, it became apparent that neither the Federalists nor the Liberals had gotten the election result they had wanted. The Federalists ended up as the largest party, winning 133 seats and comprehensively beating the Liberals, who won only 64 seats — a tally that dropped to 52 when only counting geographical constituencies. The Centre-Agrarians won 100 seats, winning pluralities of the seats in the western and southeastern states, serving a major shock to both of the Reformist parties. The Liberals in particular had expected to do a lot better, but by virtue of the first-past-the-post electoral system, lost out to the Federalists narrowly in many north-eastern constituencies, where their vote had been concentrated.

In the immediate aftermath of the election, while initially reluctant, negotiations began to form a Federalist-Liberal government with Barker as Prime Minister. Barker and Henderson had a cordial relationship, having both served in the Cabinet of Oliver Grosvenor, and both had gone to lengths to prevent attacks on each other's character during the campaign. Both ignored private letters from their party's ''éminences grises'' — newly elected Federalist Vice President Ralph Davidson, and his losing Liberal opponent, Michael Turner — demanding they stop negotiations. After two weeks, Barker and Henderson formally entered a coalition to form an executive, with Henderson assuming the role of Deputy Prime Minister. Of the eight other Cabinet positions, the Federalists took six and the Liberals two — the Foreign Affairs portfolio and the Navy portfolio.

The Centre-Agrarians took the election result as a massive success, despite winning less than a third of the popular vote. They took the result as a successful consolidation of voters who had voted to maintain the United States, as well as the rural voters they had reached out to, in a single coalition. Taking advantage of the coalition agreement between the Federalists and Liberals, the Centre-Agrarians maintained their momentum and decried the coalition as the "uniparty" they had campaigned and warned against during the election campaign.

The Radicals, too, took their three seats as a success. While no other party wished to work with them, and they were relegated to the very back row of the Opposition benches in the new House of Representatives, the elected members, including Sheares, were amongst the most frequent speakers in the first Parliament session, and the groundwork was seen as a reason why the party could expand beyond its initial southeastern base in future elections.

=== Results by state ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|- style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
! State
! style="background-color:#ffc132;" | Federalist
! style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | Liberal
! style="background-color:#4cbb17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="background-color:#c80815; color:#ffffff;" | Radical
! Total
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Alexandria
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 9
| 1
| 1
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
| 2
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
|
|
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Georgia
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 12
| 5
| 8
|
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
| 4
|
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
| 2
|
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 4
|
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
| 4
|
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Bechor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 20
| 12
| 12
|
| 44
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Finnley
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| 4
| 2
|
| 16
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 1
|
|
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 11
| 1
| 1
|
| 13
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Napier
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 27
| 12
| 14
|
| 53
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| 1
|
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 8
| 4
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
| 2
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Dartmoor
| 5
|
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 5
| 6
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| 1
| 20
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
|
|
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
|
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 4
|
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 4
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| Total
| 133
| 64
| 100
| 3
| 300
|}

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1876 Tumbran federal election

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1872 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T12:27:54Z

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1868 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T12:25:52Z

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1864 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T12:25:13Z

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August 2029 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T12:23:54Z

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = August 2029 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| previous_election = April 2029
| previous_year = [[April 2029 Tumbran federal election|April 2029]]
| election_date = {{Start date|2029|08|18}}
| next_election = Next
| next_year = [[2033 Tumbran federal election|2033]]
| seats_for_election= All 650 seats to the Tumbran House of Representatives
| majority_seats = 326
| turnout = 87.5%
| image_size = 160x180px


| image1 = Ulf_Kristersson_in_2018_Swedish_general_election,_2018_(cropped).jpg
| leader1 = Stephen Williams
| colour1 = 0065f1
| party1 = Liberal/National coalition
| leader_since1 = 20 May 2025
| leaders_seat1 = Yarwood (NP)
| last_election1 = '''310 seats, 39.1%'''
| seats_before1 = 310
| seats_needed1 = {{increase}} 16
| seats1 = '''318'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 8
| popular_vote1 = '''28,956,214'''
| percentage1 = '''38.5%'''
| swing1 = {{decrease}} 0.6%


| image2 = Official portrait of Keir Starmer crop 2.jpg
| leader2 = Michael Kirkland
| colour2 = CC0000
| party2 = Labour
| leader_since2 = 9 September 2027
| leaders_seat2 = Newgate (BC)
| last_election2 = 284 seats, 36.2%
| seats_before2 = 284
| seats_needed2 = {{increase}} 42
| seats2 = 258
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 26
| popular_vote2 = 24,925,202
| percentage2 = 33.1%
| swing2 = {{decrease}} 3.1%


| image3 = 2019_Pamela_Rendi-Wagner_%2832995117698%29_%28cropped%29.jpg
| leader3 = Cressida Granger
| colour3 = 00b140
| party3 = Alliance
| leader_since3 = 5 March 2029
| leaders_seat3 = Penhurst (WA)
| last_election3 = 40 seats, 17.5%
| seats_before3 = 40
| seats_needed3 = {{increase}} 286
| seats3 = 57
| seat_change3 = {{increase}} 17
| popular_vote3 = 15,317,243
| percentage3 = 20.3%
| swing3 = {{increase}} 2.8%


| image4 = File:Tavish_Scott.jpg
| leader4 = William Boyd
| colour4 = FFD500
| party4 = Moderate
| leader_since4 = 13 July 2025
| leaders_seat4 = Tamworth (MB)
| last_election4 = 11 seats, 4.5%
| seats_before4 = 11
| seats_needed4 = {{increase}} 315
| seats4 = 12
| seat_change4 = {{increase}} 1
| popular_vote4 = 3,959,580
| percentage4 = 5.2%
| swing4 = {{increase}} 0.6%


| image5 = Official_portrait_of_Christian_Wakeford_MP_crop_2.jpg
| leader5 = Justin Spearing
| colour5 = 980000
| party5 = Social Democratic
| leader_since5 = 29 May 2025
| leaders_seat5 = Palling (CM)
| last_election5 = 3 seats, 1.1%
| seats_before5 = 3
| seats_needed5 = {{increase}} 323
| seats5 = 3
| seat_change5 = -
| popular_vote5 = 1,000,798
| percentage5 = 1.3%
| swing5 = {{increase}} 0.2%


| image6 = File:EPP_Summit,_10_March_2022,_Paris_(51929654226)_(cropped).jpg
| leader6 = Derrick Atkinson
| colour6 = 000080
| party6 = Conservative
| leader_since6 = 13 April 2029
| leaders_seat6 = Havant (CM)
| last_election6 = 2 seats, 1.2%
| seats_before6 = 2
| seats_needed6 = {{increase}} 324
| seats6 = 2
| seat_change6 = -
| popular_vote6 = 932,374
| percentage6 = 1.2%
| swing6 = -


| map_image = August_2029_Tumbran_Election_Result.png
| map_size = 500px
| map_caption = Map of Tumbra showing popular vote by state. As this is an IRV election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by state but instead via results by each seat.


| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = Michael Kirkland ''(interim)''
| before_party = Labour
| after_election = Stephen Williams
| after_party = Liberal/National coalition
}}

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Template:Tumbran federal elections

2026-05-25T12:20:15Z

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|name = Tumbran federal elections
|title = {{flagicon|Tumbra}} Federal elections in [[Tumbra]]
| bodyclass = hlist
| state = {{{state|autocollapse}}}

| group1 = [[List of Tumbran House of Representatives elections|House of Representatives elections]]
| list1 =
*[[1864 Tumbran federal election|1864]]
*[[1868 Tumbran federal election|1868]]
*[[1872 Tumbran federal election|1872]]
*[[1876 Tumbran federal election|1876]]
*[[1880 Tumbran federal election|1880]]
*[[1882 Tumbran federal election|1882]]
*[[1886 Tumbran federal election|1886]]
*[[1890 Tumbran federal election|1890]]
*[[1894 Tumbran federal election|1894]]
*[[1898 Tumbran federal election|1898]]
*[[1899 Tumbran federal election|1899]]
*[[1903 Tumbran federal election|1903]]
*[[1906 Tumbran federal election|1906]]
*[[1910 Tumbran federal election|1910]]
*[[1914 Tumbran federal election|1914]]
*[[1918 Tumbran federal election|1918]]
*[[1920 Tumbran federal election|1920]]
*[[1924 Tumbran federal election|1924]]
*[[1928 Tumbran federal election|1928]]
*[[1932 Tumbran federal election|1932]]
*[[1933 Tumbran federal election|1933]]
*[[1936 Tumbran federal election|1936]]
*[[1940 Tumbran federal election|1940]]
*[[1942 Tumbran federal election|1942]]
*[[1943 Tumbran federal election|1943]]
*[[1947 Tumbran federal election|1947]]
*[[1951 Tumbran federal election|1951]]
*[[1955 Tumbran federal election|1955]]
*[[1959 Tumbran federal election|1959]]
*[[1963 Tumbran federal election|1963]]
*[[1965 Tumbran federal election|1965]]
*[[1969 Tumbran federal election|1969]]
*[[1973 Tumbran federal election|1973]]
*[[1975 Tumbran federal election|1975]]
*[[1979 Tumbran federal election|1979]]
*[[1980 Tumbran federal election|1980]]
*[[1984 Tumbran federal election|1984]]
*[[1988 Tumbran federal election|1988]]
*[[1992 Tumbran federal election|1992]]
*[[1996 Tumbran federal election|1996]]
*[[1999 Tumbran federal election|1999]]
*[[2001 Tumbran federal election|2001]]
*[[2005 Tumbran federal election|2005]]
*[[2009 Tumbran federal election|2009]]
*[[2013 Tumbran federal election|2013]]
*[[2017 Tumbran federal election|2017]]
*[[2021 Tumbran federal election|2021]]
*[[2025 Tumbran federal election|2025]]
*[[April 2029 Tumbran federal election|April 2029]]
*[[August 2029 Tumbran federal election|August 2029]]
*[[2033 Tumbran federal election|2033]]
*[[2037 Tumbran federal election|2037]]
*[[2041 Tumbran federal election|2041]]
*[[2045 Tumbran federal election|2045]]
*''[[Next Tumbran federal election|Next]]''

| group2 = [[List of Tumbran Senate elections|Senate elections]]
| list2 =
*[[1864 Tumbran Senate election|1864]]
*[[1870 Tumbran Senate election|1870]]
*[[1876 Tumbran Senate election|1876]]
*[[1882 Tumbran Senate election|1882]]
*[[1888 Tumbran Senate election|1888]]
*[[1894 Tumbran Senate election|1894]]
*[[1900 Tumbran Senate election|1900]]
*[[1906 Tumbran Senate election|1906]]
*[[1912 Tumbran Senate election|1912]]
*[[1918 Tumbran Senate election|1918]]
*[[1924 Tumbran Senate election|1924]]
*[[1930 Tumbran Senate election|1930]]
*[[1936 Tumbran Senate election|1936]]
*[[1942 Tumbran Senate election|1942]]
*[[1948 Tumbran Senate election|1948]]
*[[1954 Tumbran Senate election|1954]]
*[[1960 Tumbran Senate election|1960]]
*[[1966 Tumbran Senate election|1966]]
*[[1972 Tumbran Senate election|1972]]
*[[1978 Tumbran Senate election|1978]]
*[[1984 Tumbran Senate election|1984]]
*[[1990 Tumbran Senate election|1990]]
*[[1996 Tumbran Senate election|1996]]
*[[2002 Tumbran Senate election|2002]]
*[[2008 Tumbran Senate election|2008]]
*[[2014 Tumbran Senate election|2014]]
*[[2020 Tumbran Senate election|2020]]
*[[2026 Tumbran Senate election|2026]]
*[[2032 Tumbran Senate election|2032]]
*[[2038 Tumbran Senate election|2038]]
*[[2044 Tumbran Senate election|2044]]
*''[[Next Tumbran Senate election|Next]]''

| group3 = [[List of Tumbran Presidential elections|Presidential elections]]
| list3 =
*[[1864 Tumbran presidential election|1864]]
*[[1870 Tumbran presidential election|1870]]
*[[1876 Tumbran presidential election|1876]]
*[[1882 Tumbran presidential election|1882]]
*[[1888 Tumbran presidential election|1888]]
*[[1894 Tumbran presidential election|1894]]
*[[1900 Tumbran presidential election|1900]]
*[[1906 Tumbran presidential election|1906]]
*[[1912 Tumbran presidential election|1912]]
*[[1918 Tumbran presidential election|1918]]
*[[1924 Tumbran presidential election|1924]]
*[[1930 Tumbran presidential election|1930]]
*[[1936 Tumbran presidential election|1936]]
*[[1942 Tumbran presidential election|1942]]
*[[1948 Tumbran presidential election|1948]]
*[[1954 Tumbran presidential election|1954]]
*[[1960 Tumbran presidential election|1960]]
*[[1966 Tumbran presidential election|1966]]
*[[1972 Tumbran presidential election|1972]]
*[[1978 Tumbran presidential election|1978]]
*[[1984 Tumbran presidential election|1984]]
*[[1990 Tumbran presidential election|1990]]
*[[1996 Tumbran presidential election|1996]]
*[[2002 Tumbran presidential election|2002]]
*[[2008 Tumbran presidential election|2008]]
*[[2014 Tumbran presidential election|2014]]
*[[2020 Tumbran presidential election|2020]]
*[[2026 Tumbran presidential election|2026]]
*[[2032 Tumbran presidential election|2032]]
*[[2038 Tumbran presidential election|2038]]
*[[2044 Tumbran presidential election|2044]]
*''[[Next Tumbran presidential election|Next]]''}}
[[Category: Tumbra]]

August 2029 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-25T12:18:41Z

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = August 2029 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| party_name = no
| party_colour = no
| previous_election = April 2029
| previous_year = [[April 2029 Tumbran federal election|April 2029]]
| election_date = {{Start date|2029|08|18}}
| next_election = Next
| next_year = [[2033 Tumbran federal election|2033]]
| seats_for_election= All 650 seats to the Tumbran House of Representatives
| majority_seats = 326
| turnout = 87.5%
| image_size = 160x180px


| image1 = Ulf_Kristersson_in_2018_Swedish_general_election,_2018_(cropped).jpg
| leader1 = Stephen Williams
| colour1 = 0065f1
| party1 = Liberal/National coalition
| leader_since1 = 20 May 2025
| leaders_seat1 = Yarwood (NP)
| last_election1 = '''310 seats, 39.1%'''
| seats_before1 = 310
| seats_needed1 = {{increase}}16
| seats1 = '''318'''
| seat_change1 = '''{{increase}}8'''
| popular_vote1 = '''28,956,214'''
| percentage1 = '''38.5%'''
| swing1 = '''{{decrease}}'''0.6%'''


| image2 = Official portrait of Keir Starmer crop 2.jpg
| leader2 = Michael Kirkland
| colour2 = CC0000
| party2 = Labour
| leader_since2 = 9 September 2027
| leaders_seat2 = Newgate (BC)
| last_election2 = 284 seats, 36.2%
| seats_before2 = 284
| seats_needed2 = {{increase}}42
| seats2 = 258
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}}26
| popular_vote2 = 24,925,202
| percentage2 = 33.1%
| swing2 = {{decrease}}3.1%


| image3 = 2019_Pamela_Rendi-Wagner_%2832995117698%29_%28cropped%29.jpg
| leader3 = Cressida Granger
| colour3 = 00b140
| party3 = Alliance
| leader_since3 = 5 March 2029
| leaders_seat3 = Penhurst (WA)
| last_election3 = 40 seats, 17.5%
| seats_before3 = 40
| seats_needed3 = {{increase}}286
| seats3 = 57
| seat_change3 = {{increase}}17
| popular_vote3 = 15,317,243
| percentage3 = 20.3%
| swing3 = {{increase}}2.8%


| image4 = File:Tavish_Scott.jpg
| leader4 = William Boyd
| colour4 = FFD500
| party4 = Moderate
| leader_since4 = 13 July 2025
| leaders_seat4 = Tamworth (MB)
| last_election4 = 11 seats, 4.5%
| seats_before4 = 11
| seats_needed4 = {{increase}}315
| seats4 = 12
| seat_change4 = {{increase}}1
| popular_vote4 = 3,959,580
| percentage4 = 5.2%
| swing4 = {{increase}}0.6%


| image5 = Official_portrait_of_Christian_Wakeford_MP_crop_2.jpg
| leader5 = Justin Spearing
| colour5 = 980000
| party5 = Social Democratic
| leader_since5 = 29 May 2025
| leaders_seat5 = Palling (CM)
| last_election5 = 3 seats, 1.1%
| seats_before5 = 3
| seats_needed5 = {{increase}}323
| seats5 = 3
| seat_change5 = -
| popular_vote5 = 1,000,798
| percentage5 = 1.3%
| swing5 = {{increase}}0.2%


| image6 = File:EPP_Summit,_10_March_2022,_Paris_(51929654226)_(cropped).jpg
| leader6 = Derrick Atkinson
| colour6 = 000080
| party6 = Conservative
| leader_since6 = 13 April 2029
| leaders_seat6 = Havant (CM)
| last_election6 = 2 seats, 1.2%
| seats_before6 = 2
| seats_needed6 = {{increase}}324
| seats6 = 2
| seat_change6 = -
| popular_vote6 = 932,374
| percentage6 = 1.2%
| swing6 = -


| map_image = August_2029_Tumbran_Election_Result.png
| map_size = 500px
| map_caption = Map of Tumbra showing popular vote by state. As this is an IRV election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by state but instead via results by each seat.


| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = Michael Kirkland ''(interim)''
| before_party = Labour
| after_election = Stephen Williams
| after_party = Liberal/National coalition
}}

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*[[Richard Barker|Barker]]
*[[William Butler|Butler]]
*[[Henry Makepeace|Makepeace]]
*[[Walter Robinson|Robinson]]
*[[Leonard Everett|Everett, L.]]
*[[Ross Hargreaves|Hargreaves]]
*[[Thomas Turner|Turner]]
*[[William Rodgers|Rodgers]]
*[[Adrian Parkes|Parkes]]
*[[Peter Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]]
*[[Joseph Lancaster|Lancaster]]
*[[Nathaniel Webb|Webb]]
*[[Quentin Reed|Reed]]
*[[John Hattersley|Hattersley]]
*[[Robert Golding|Golding]]
*[[James Carlton|Carlton]]
*[[George Highbury|Highbury]]
*[[Colin Forrest|Forrest]]
*[[Alistair Everett|Everett, A.]]
*[[Christopher Bradshaw|Bradshaw]]
*[[Peter Carten|Carten]]
*[[Brian Foster|Foster]]
*[[Malcolm Haywood|Haywood]]
*[[Holly Philips|Philips]]
*[[Andrew Rainer|Rainer]]
*[[Edward North|North]]
*[[Peter Roscoe|Roscoe]]
*[[Ian Randall|Randall]]
*[[Darren Hayes|Hayes]]
*[[Kenneth Everett|Everett, K.]]
*[[Michael Kirkland|Kirkland]]
*[[Stephen Williams|Williams]]
*[[Lawrence Newell|Newell]]
*[[Bertram Andrews|Andrews]]
*[[Sandra Campbell|Campbell]]
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Prime Minister of Tumbra

2026-05-25T12:01:21Z

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[[Category:Heads_of_government]]
{{Infobox official post
| post = Prime Minister
| body = the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| native_name =
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| insigniacaption = Seal of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
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| flagcaption = Flag of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
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| imagecaption =
| incumbent = Lawrence Newell
| acting = no
| incumbentsince = 13 June 2035
| department = Government of the Federal Republic of Tumbra Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Office
| style = Prime Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (Tumbra) His Excellency (international)
| type =
| status = Head of Government
| abbreviation = PM
| member_of = Cabinet
| reports_to = House of Representatives
| residence = Federal Prime Ministerial Offices (official residence) Wright House (country house)
| seat =
| nominator = Political parties
| appointer = President of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| appointer_qualified = The President appoints the nominee which is able to get the most votes in the Prime Ministerial election following the first seating of Parliament.
| termlength = No term limit
| termlength_qualified = While commanding the confidence of the majority of the House of Representatives.
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Tumbra]]
| precursor = State Counsellor of the Empire of Tumbra
| inaugural = Richard Barker
| formation = 1864
| deputy = Deputy Prime Minister of Tumbra
| salary = $200,000/year
| website =
| footnotes =
}}
The '''Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Tumbra''' is the head of government of the [[Tumbra|Federal Republic of Tumbra]]. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and legislative branches of the Tumbran government, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the House of Representatives, their party and the electorate, for the government's policies and actions.

The post of Prime Minister was inaugurated by the Constitution of Tumbra, specifically Section VII, which deals with the Federal government. They are, constitutionally, responsible for the "day-to-day running conduct and policy of the State", as directed in Clause 149. To achieve this, the Prime Minister is able to appoint Cabinet Ministers to lead new Ministries (clauses 178 and 179), but there is a limit on how many full Ministers he may nominate (as per clause 179b, the current limit is 25), giving them a total of 26 Ministers (including the PM themself) in Cabinet. To date, the limit has never been reached and the current number of full Ministers is 23. By convention, one of those members is the Deputy Prime Minister, though the office has never been codified in the Constitution.

By virtue of his office, the Prime Minister also serves as the Minister for the Civil Service.

Some observers, therefore, given the Prime Minister's wide-ranging powers, tend to refer to the office of Prime Minister as a "democracy by Premiership", rather than, in as most other parliamentary governments, the primus inter pares of Cabinet. The power of the Prime Minister is afforded to them by the Constitution, and their status as the leader of the party or coalition holding at least a plurality of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

== History of the office ==
The office of Prime Minister was envisioned originally to function as more of a "domestic affairs coordinator", working in tandem with the President, who would have jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs, in a semi-presidential system. Yet, as President Gordon Hamilton was away in the war, and as he refused to allow his Vice President Ralph Davidson to have sway over said affairs, it fell to the first Prime Minister - Richard Barker of the Federalist Party - to juggle the responsibilities of the premiership.

The change to a fully parliamentary system with the Prime Minister in charge of all government affairs was formalised in 1877. In that sense, Walter Robinson was the first proper Prime Minister of the Federal Republic, but he acted as more of a primus inter pares than most of his successors, and all policy decisions made by his Cabinet were done so collectively.

Most principles, however, of the modern Premiership can be dated back to Leonard Everett's first premiership of 1882. While he did consult his Cabinet colleagues when it came to executive decisions, the final decision was almost exclusively made by him, a principle that has existed to this day and was utilised extensively by Malcolm Haywood throughout his sixteen-year Premiership.

==Term of office==
There are no term limits on the Prime Minister's term, save for the election for Prime Minister at the start of every newly convened Parliament; meaning that once appointed and sworn in by the President, the prime minister remains in office until they resign, are dismissed by the President, die, or their successor is elected. To date, only the first and last circumstances have occurred. In practice, under the system of responsible government, the prime minister (by convention) resigns should they lose the confidence of the elected House of Representatives. This can happen if the government loses an important vote, such as on the budget (loss of supply). The PM may also be unseated on a motion of no confidence, though constitutionally these motions must be constructive, requiring Parliament to present an alternative candidate for Prime Minister.

The longest serving Prime Minister was Malcolm Haywood, who served for 16 years and 24 days from 1963 to 1979; the shortest-serving Prime Minister was Peter Carten, who served for 245 days in 1957.

==Role==

Today, the Prime Minister's authority emanates from the Constitution, and from their status as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Clause 176 largely is seen as the principle that guides the Prime Minister's functions, with the sub-clauses guiding the Prime Minister. These sub-clauses are:
# The "responsibility clause" - Clause 176a dictates that the Prime Minister shall be "responsible for and determine the general guidelines of policy." This gives the Prime Minister the legal right to formally introduce policy guidelines that ministers must implement.
# The "independence clause" - Clause 176ai dictates that each Minister has the freedom to run their own departments and prepare their own legislative proposals, so long as they are consistent the Prime Minister's policies;
# and the "cabinet solidarity clause" - Clause 176b enshrines the concept of cabinet solidarity, and ensures that the entire Cabinet settles its disputes within itself.

Clause 177 mandates that the Prime Minister "shall, from time to time, report on the State of the Republic to a Joint Session of Parliament."
This has taken the form of the Prime Ministerial Agenda, which they give at the start of every session of Parliament, which occurs every year in July, unless there has been a general election that year. If there has been a general election that year, the first session of the newly elected Parliament is dedicated to electing a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister. The Agenda is then typically given two or three weeks after the election of the Prime Minister.

The typical content of an Agenda contains the state of the country, as mandated by the Constitution, and then the laws that the government intends to pass in the following year. In the weeks following the Agenda, it is typically debated by Parliament in its response to the Prime Minister. Typically, the failure to carry an Agenda is a huge embarrassment for the Prime Minister, but it is not as serious as failing a vote of no confidence.

Clause 181 empowers the Prime Minister to advise the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections for the House of Representatives. Typically, this is only done when the House votes to dissolve itself (as it did in 1980), for a snap election (as Peter Roscoe did in 2001), or if the House is unable to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister even after the absolute majority requirement for the Premiership is lifted. The last circumstance has never occurred.

Typically, the President allows these dissolutions, but they may be less willing to allow snap elections; most notably, when Peter Roscoe first took office in 2000 following a constructive vote of no confidence, he attempted to immediately call for a general election, but was rebuffed by then-President Hazel Moore on the grounds that he had the numbers to become Prime Minister; therefore no election was needed. The incident coloured Moore's last year of her Presidency - she eventually granted a dissolution in 2001 - and was widely seen as the reason why Stephen Trew triumphed over Vice President Desmond Lewis in 2002's presidential election.

The Prime Minister also has great influence over nominations to political posts that require Senate confirmation. However, the Prime Minister does not influence the President's pick for the twenty-five Governors (who serve as representatives of the President, and are effectively their surrogate) of the states.

== Election mechanism ==

The election of a Prime Minister is typically the second order of business in a new seating of Parliament, after the election of the Speaker. The procedure for the election of a Prime Minister is outlined in Article 167 of the Constitution, where a candidate - which by convention is the leader of the largest party or coalition, unless the Prime Minister is the incumbent and wishes to be re-nominated - is nominated by the most senior member of that member's party, and his name put up to the Speaker. The Speaker then puts the candidate to a vote; should the Prime Ministerial candidate garner a majority of the total votes cast (including abstentions) then that person is said to be elected as Prime Minister and is subsequently sworn in by the President in front of the whole House of Representatives. The House is then adjourned, following some remarks by the Prime Minister.

Should nobody be able to get an absolute majority of votes, following the third election for Prime Minister, the criteria changes to exclude abstentions - meaning the prospective Prime Minister just needs to secure more "yes" votes than "no" votes to take office.

Should the Speaker deem there be no prospect of any Prime Ministerial candidate being selected, the Speaker shall recommend to the Prime Minister (in a caretaker capacity) to seek a dissolution of the House, on the grounds that there "is no possible government formed". To date since the founding of the Republic, no such election has occurred because of this.

This electoral procedure also applies should the House fail to pass any government budget; at which time the office of Prime Minister is immediately declared vacant, with the incumbent serving in a caretaker capacity until they are either re-elected or a new Prime Minister is selected. Should a new Prime Minister be selected, the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister will take place typically the next day, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Straton.

Additionally, should the post of Prime Minister fall vacant due to resignation, death or otherwise, new elections will be held in accordance to this procedure.

=== Votes of No Confidence ===

According to Clause 168 of the Constitution, votes of no confidence must be constructive - i.e. they must present an alternate candidate for Prime Minister and secure an absolute majority of those voting in the subsequent election for Prime Minister. Unlike the election for Prime Minister, such a vote pits the incumbent Prime Minister directly against their challenger. Should the challenger win, the Prime Minister is obligated to resign and advise the President to swear in the winner of the vote of no confidence.

To date, only one vote of no confidence has been carried, in 2000 - when Peter Roscoe won 267 votes to the incumbent Edward North's 233 votes.

==Privileges==
[[File:NYSCapitolPanorama.jpg|thumb|right|The Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton]]
[[File:Chequers_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Wright House, Bechor]]
The Prime Minister is afforded two official residences; the Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton, which were built in 1997, and Wright House on the outskirts of Serrapince, Bechor. Before 1997, the Straton residence of the Prime Minister was located at 36 Hampton Drive. That location has since been gazetted as a historical monument; plans are underway to either refurbish the house and make it available to the Prime Minister again, or open it up to the public as a museum. Former Prime Minister Darren Hayes remarked in 2015 that "[the Prime Minister] living where [they] work makes it such that [they] are unable to escape the job...it would be nice to re-open the house so that [they] can have a place to stay after finishing work, instead of retreating upstairs." Current Prime Minister Kenneth Everett has made no public statements on the status of the house; he has reportedly been unhappy with staying at the Prime Ministerial offices.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the use of an armoured car, and shared use of two official aircraft with the President and Vice President. The Federal Police also provides constant security for the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the usage of the prefix "the Right Honourable", and should they die, they are afforded a state funeral, with their casket lying in state in the Main Wing of the Federal Parliament building.

==List==

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|name = William Butler
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
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|death_year = 1887
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|end_date = 2 May
|end_year = 1872
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{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Henry Makepeace
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''3'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1868
|member_title = MP
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|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1826
|death_year = 1899
|riding = Cantonment, Bechor
|start_date = 3 May
|start_year = 1872
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 1876
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1872
|event1_assembly = 3rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Walter Robinson
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''4'''
|colour = #6aa84f
|leadership = 1874
|member_title = MP
|image = James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Centre-Agrarian Party
|birth_year = 1809
|death_year = 1888
|riding = Havant, Clearmont
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 1876
|end_date = 20 February
|end_year = 1882
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1876
|event1_assembly = 4th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1880
|event2_assembly = 5th
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Leonard Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''5'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1875
|member_title = MP
|image = James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1822
|death_year = 1896
|riding = Timbourne, Napier
|start_date = 21 February
|start_year = 1882
|end_date = 7 August
|end_year = 1886
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1882
|event1_assembly = 6th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ross Hargreaves
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''6'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1880
|member_title = MP
|image = Whitelaw_Reid_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1832
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Kewdale, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 8 August
|start_year = 1886
|end_date = 19 September
|end_year = 1890
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1886
|event1_assembly = 7th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Thomas Turner
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''7'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1886
|member_title = MP
|image = Charles_Stewart_Parnell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1828
|death_year = 1908
|riding = Lakewood South, Severn
|start_date = 20 September
|start_year = 1890
|end_date = 28 December
|end_year = 1895
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1890
|event1_assembly = 8th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1894
|event2_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Rodgers
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''8'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1895
|member_title = MP
|image = 1st_Viscount_Bryce_1902b.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1838
|death_year = 1915
|riding = Hume, Straton
|start_date = 29 December
|start_year = 1895
|end_date = 3 April
|end_year = 1898
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1895
|event1_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Adrian Parkes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''9'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1894
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Deakin_crop.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1836
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Dunsford, Westmond
|start_date = 4 April
|start_year = 1898
|end_date = 6 April
|end_year = 1903
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1898
|event1_assembly = 10th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1899
|event2_assembly = 11th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Fitzpatrick
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''10'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1903
|member_title = MP
|image = Joseph_Chamberlain_MP.png
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1842
|death_year = 1920
|riding = Haworth, Bechor
|start_date = 7 April
|start_year = 1903
|end_date = 12 May
|end_year = 1907
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1903
|event1_assembly = 12th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1903
|event2_assembly = 12th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1906
|event3_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Joseph Lancaster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''11'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1907
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Lyttelton.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1849
|death_year = 1931
|riding = Guillemard Handelwood, Napier
|start_date = 13 May
|start_year = 1907
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1910
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1907
|event1_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Nathaniel Webb
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''12'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1906
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1852
|death_year = 1933
|riding = Kingsbury Central, Georgia
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1910
|end_date = 1 September
|end_year = 1919
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1910
|event1_assembly = 14th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1914
|event2_assembly = 15th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1918
|event3_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Quentin Reed
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''13'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1919
|member_title = MP
|image = J.R._Clynes_LCCN2014717260_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1855
|death_year = 1932
|riding = Lymeswold, Clearmont
|start_date = 2 September
|start_year = 1919
|end_date = 10 July
|end_year = 1920
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1919
|event1_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = John Hattersley
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''14'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1916
|member_title = MP
|image = Calvin Coolidge-by Garo-1923.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1861
|death_year = 1934
|riding = Wimbourne, Dartmoor
|start_date = 11 July
|start_year = 1920
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1926
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1920
|event1_assembly = 17th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1924
|event2_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Robert Golding
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''15'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1926
|member_title = MP
|image = Stanley Bruce 1926.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1952
|riding = Tenningham, Iswilyn
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1926
|end_date = 16 June
|end_year = 1928
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1926
|event1_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = James Carlton
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''16'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1924
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_James_H._Scullin.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1868
|death_year = 1949
|riding = Harwick, Hamilton
|start_date = 17 June
|start_year = 1928
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 1932
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1928
|event1_assembly = 19th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1932
|event2_assembly = 20th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = George Highbury
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''17'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1932
|member_title = MP
|image = Dr._Christopher_Addison_LOC_16027831872_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1960
|riding = Nantwich South, Finnley
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 1932
|end_date = 11 January
|end_year = 1936
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1932
|event1_assembly = 20th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1933
|event2_assembly = 21st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Colin Forrest
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''18'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1935
|member_title = MP
|image = Brendan_Bracken_1947.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1951
|riding = Linden, Hamilton
|start_date = 12 January
|start_year = 1936
|end_date = 7 February
|end_year = 1942
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1936
|event1_assembly = 22nd
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1940
|event2_assembly = 23rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Alistair Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''19'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1940
|member_title = MP
|image = Herbert_Morrison_1947_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1958
|riding = Timbourne East, Napier
|start_date = 8 February
|start_year = 1942
|end_date = 11 August
|end_year = 1951
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1942
|event1_assembly = 24th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1943
|event2_assembly = 25th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1947
|event3_assembly = 26th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Christopher Bradshaw
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''20'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1947
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1881
|death_year = 1972
|riding = Wentworth, Georgia
|start_date = 12 August
|start_year = 1951
|end_date = 31 December
|end_year = 1956
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1951
|event1_assembly = 27th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1955
|event2_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Carten
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''21'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = John Profumo.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1907
|death_year = 1987
|riding = Norramby, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 1 January
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 3 September
|end_year = 1957
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Brian Foster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''22'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = Richard_Nixon,_official_bw_photo,_head_and_shoulders.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1893
|death_year = 1975
|riding = Hereford, Georgia
|start_date = 4 September
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 9 March
|end_year = 1963
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1959
|event2_assembly = 29th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Malcolm Haywood
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''23'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1959
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1910
|death_year = 2000
|riding = Couno Grove Hill, Napier
|start_date = 10 March
|start_year = 1963
|end_date = 4 April
|end_year = 1979
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1963
|event1_assembly = 30th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1965
|event2_assembly = 31st
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1969
|event3_assembly = 32nd
|event4 = election
|event4_year = 1973
|event4_assembly = 33rd
|event5 = election
|event5_year = 1975
|event5_assembly = 34th
|event6 = election
|event6_year = 1979
|event6_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Holly Philips
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''24'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1979
|member_title = MP
|image = Vigdis_Finnbogadottir_(1985).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1939
|death_year = 2026
|riding = Hayford Central, Severn
|start_date = 5 April
|start_year = 1979
|end_date = 12 July
|end_year = 1980
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1979
|event1_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Andrew Rainer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''25'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1977
|member_title = MP
|image = Mulroney.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1938
|death_year = 2022
|riding = Chalfont, Napier
|start_date = 13 July
|start_year = 1980
|end_date = 15 August
|end_year = 1992
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1980
|event1_assembly = 36th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1984
|event2_assembly = 37th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1988
|event3_assembly = 38th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Edward North
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''26'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1990
|member_title = MP
|image = Keating Paul BANNER.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1942
|death_year = 2027
|riding = Clark Central, Finnley
|start_date = 16 August
|start_year = 1992
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 2000
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1992
|event1_assembly = 39th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1996
|event2_assembly = 40th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1999
|event3_assembly = 41st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Roscoe
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''27'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1997
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_John_Redwood_MP_crop_2.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1935
|death_year = 2016
|riding = Hartford, Grantfeldt
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 2000
|end_date = 7 May
|end_year = 2005
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2000
|event1_assembly = 41st
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2001
|event2_assembly = 42nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ian Randall
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''28'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2001
|member_title = MP
|image = Jack Layton-cr bl (cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1949
|death_year = 2029
|riding = Couno Central, Napier
|start_date = 8 May
|start_year = 2005
|end_date = 6 July
|end_year = 2009
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2005
|event1_assembly = 43rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Darren Hayes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''29'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 2008
|member_title = MP
|image = Malcolm Turnbull PM&C.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1955
|death_year = 2037
|riding = Broxtowe, Clearmont
|start_date = 7 July
|start_year = 2009
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 2017
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2009
|event1_assembly = 44th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2013
|event2_assembly = 45th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Kenneth Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''30'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2013
|member_title = MP
|image = Gavin_Newsom_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1968
|death_year =
|riding = Timbourne South, Napier
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 2017
|end_date = 1 July
|end_year = 2027
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2017
|event1_assembly = 46th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2021
|event2_assembly = 47th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 2025
|event3_assembly = 48th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Michael Kirkland
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''31'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2027
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Keir_Starmer_crop_2.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1966
|death_year =
|riding = Newgate, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2027
|end_date = 20 August
|end_year = 2029
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2027
|event1_assembly = 48th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = April 2029
|event2_assembly = 49th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Stephen Williams
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''32'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2025
|member_title = MP
|image = Ulf_Kristersson_on_29_June_2023.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1969
|death_year =
|riding = Yarwood, Napier
|start_date = 21 August
|start_year = 2029
|end_date = 13 June
|end_year = 2035
|event1 = election
|event1_year = August 2029
|event1_assembly = 50th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2033
|event2_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Lawrence Newell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''33'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2035
|member_title = MP
|image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1977
|death_year =
|riding = Cavalsham, Pesvern
|start_date = 13 June
|start_year = 2035
|end_date = 29 June
|end_year = 2037
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2035
|event1_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Bertram Andrews
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''34'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image = Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1980
|death_year =
|riding = Serrapince Rainford, Bechor
|start_date = 30 June
|start_year = 2037
|end_date = 30 June
|end_year = 2043
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2037
|event1_assembly = 52nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Sandra Campbell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''35'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1989
|death_year =
|riding = Couno Langholm, Napier
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2043
|end_date =
|end_year =
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2043
|event1_assembly = 53rd
|accomplishments =
}}

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==Notes==
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{{Infobox official post
| post = Prime Minister
| body = the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| native_name =
| insignia = File:Tumbra_seal.png
| insigniasize =
| insigniacaption = Seal of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| insigniaalt =
| flag = File:Flag_of_Tumbra.png
| flagsize =
| flagalt =
| flagborder =
| flagcaption = Flag of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| alt =
| imagecaption =
| incumbent = Lawrence Newell
| acting = no
| incumbentsince = 13 June 2035
| department = Government of the Federal Republic of Tumbra Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Office
| style = Prime Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (Tumbra) His Excellency (international)
| type =
| status = Head of Government
| abbreviation = PM
| member_of = Cabinet
| reports_to = House of Representatives
| residence = Federal Prime Ministerial Offices (official residence) Wright House (country house)
| seat =
| nominator = Political parties
| appointer = President of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| appointer_qualified = The President appoints the nominee which is able to get the most votes in the Prime Ministerial election following the first seating of Parliament.
| termlength = No term limit
| termlength_qualified = While commanding the confidence of the majority of the House of Representatives.
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Tumbra]]
| precursor = State Counsellor of the Empire of Tumbra
| inaugural = Richard Barker
| formation = 1864
| deputy = Deputy Prime Minister of Tumbra
| salary = $200,000/year
| website =
| footnotes =
}}
The '''Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Tumbra''' is the head of government of the [[Tumbra|Federal Republic of Tumbra]]. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and legislative branches of the Tumbran government, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the House of Representatives, their party and the electorate, for the government's policies and actions.

The post of Prime Minister was inaugurated by the Constitution of Tumbra, specifically Section VII, which deals with the Federal government. They are, constitutionally, responsible for the "day-to-day running conduct and policy of the State", as directed in Clause 149. To achieve this, the Prime Minister is able to appoint Cabinet Ministers to lead new Ministries (clauses 178 and 179), but there is a limit on how many full Ministers he may nominate (as per clause 179b, the current limit is 25), giving them a total of 26 Ministers (including the PM themself) in Cabinet. To date, the limit has never been reached and the current number of full Ministers is 23. By convention, one of those members is the Deputy Prime Minister, though the office has never been codified in the Constitution.

By virtue of his office, the Prime Minister also serves as the Minister for the Civil Service.

Some observers, therefore, given the Prime Minister's wide-ranging powers, tend to refer to the office of Prime Minister as a "democracy by Premiership", rather than, in as most other parliamentary governments, the primus inter pares of Cabinet. The power of the Prime Minister is afforded to them by the Constitution, and their status as the leader of the party or coalition holding at least a plurality of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

== History of the office ==
The office of Prime Minister was envisioned originally to function as more of a "domestic affairs coordinator", working in tandem with the President, who would have jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs, in a semi-presidential system. Yet, as President Gordon Hamilton was away in the war, and as he refused to allow his Vice President Ralph Davidson to have sway over said affairs, it fell to the first Prime Minister - Richard Barker of the Federalist Party - to juggle the responsibilities of the premiership.

The change to a fully parliamentary system with the Prime Minister in charge of all government affairs was formalised in 1877. In that sense, Walter Robinson was the first proper Prime Minister of the Federal Republic, but he acted as more of a primus inter pares than most of his successors, and all policy decisions made by his Cabinet were done so collectively.

Most principles, however, of the modern Premiership can be dated back to Leonard Everett's first premiership of 1882. While he did consult his Cabinet colleagues when it came to executive decisions, the final decision was almost exclusively made by him, a principle that has existed to this day and was utilised extensively by Malcolm Haywood throughout his sixteen-year Premiership.

==Term of office==
There are no term limits on the Prime Minister's term, save for the election for Prime Minister at the start of every newly convened Parliament; meaning that once appointed and sworn in by the President, the prime minister remains in office until they resign, are dismissed by the President, die, or their successor is elected. To date, only the first and last circumstances have occurred. In practice, under the system of responsible government, the prime minister (by convention) resigns should they lose the confidence of the elected House of Representatives. This can happen if the government loses an important vote, such as on the budget (loss of supply). The PM may also be unseated on a motion of no confidence, though constitutionally these motions must be constructive, requiring Parliament to present an alternative candidate for Prime Minister.

The longest serving Prime Minister was Malcolm Haywood, who served for 16 years and 24 days from 1963 to 1979; the shortest-serving Prime Minister was Peter Carten, who served for 245 days in 1957.

==Role==

Today, the Prime Minister's authority emanates from the Constitution, and from their status as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Clause 176 largely is seen as the principle that guides the Prime Minister's functions, with the sub-clauses guiding the Prime Minister. These sub-clauses are:
# The "responsibility clause" - Clause 176a dictates that the Prime Minister shall be "responsible for and determine the general guidelines of policy." This gives the Prime Minister the legal right to formally introduce policy guidelines that ministers must implement.
# The "independence clause" - Clause 176ai dictates that each Minister has the freedom to run their own departments and prepare their own legislative proposals, so long as they are consistent the Prime Minister's policies;
# and the "cabinet solidarity clause" - Clause 176b enshrines the concept of cabinet solidarity, and ensures that the entire Cabinet settles its disputes within itself.

Clause 177 mandates that the Prime Minister "shall, from time to time, report on the State of the Republic to a Joint Session of Parliament."
This has taken the form of the Prime Ministerial Agenda, which they give at the start of every session of Parliament, which occurs every year in July, unless there has been a general election that year. If there has been a general election that year, the first session of the newly elected Parliament is dedicated to electing a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister. The Agenda is then typically given two or three weeks after the election of the Prime Minister.

The typical content of an Agenda contains the state of the country, as mandated by the Constitution, and then the laws that the government intends to pass in the following year. In the weeks following the Agenda, it is typically debated by Parliament in its response to the Prime Minister. Typically, the failure to carry an Agenda is a huge embarrassment for the Prime Minister, but it is not as serious as failing a vote of no confidence.

Clause 181 empowers the Prime Minister to advise the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections for the House of Representatives. Typically, this is only done when the House votes to dissolve itself (as it did in 1980), for a snap election (as Peter Roscoe did in 2001), or if the House is unable to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister even after the absolute majority requirement for the Premiership is lifted. The last circumstance has never occurred.

Typically, the President allows these dissolutions, but they may be less willing to allow snap elections; most notably, when Peter Roscoe first took office in 2000 following a constructive vote of no confidence, he attempted to immediately call for a general election, but was rebuffed by then-President Hazel Moore on the grounds that he had the numbers to become Prime Minister; therefore no election was needed. The incident coloured Moore's last year of her Presidency - she eventually granted a dissolution in 2001 - and was widely seen as the reason why Stephen Trew triumphed over Vice President Desmond Lewis in 2002's presidential election.

The Prime Minister also has great influence over nominations to political posts that require Senate confirmation. However, the Prime Minister does not influence the President's pick for the twenty-five Governors (who serve as representatives of the President, and are effectively their surrogate) of the states.

== Election mechanism ==

The election of a Prime Minister is typically the second order of business in a new seating of Parliament, after the election of the Speaker. The procedure for the election of a Prime Minister is outlined in Article 167 of the Constitution, where a candidate - which by convention is the leader of the largest party or coalition, unless the Prime Minister is the incumbent and wishes to be re-nominated - is nominated by the most senior member of that member's party, and his name put up to the Speaker. The Speaker then puts the candidate to a vote; should the Prime Ministerial candidate garner a majority of the total votes cast (including abstentions) then that person is said to be elected as Prime Minister and is subsequently sworn in by the President in front of the whole House of Representatives. The House is then adjourned, following some remarks by the Prime Minister.

Should nobody be able to get an absolute majority of votes, following the third election for Prime Minister, the criteria changes to exclude abstentions - meaning the prospective Prime Minister just needs to secure more "yes" votes than "no" votes to take office.

Should the Speaker deem there be no prospect of any Prime Ministerial candidate being selected, the Speaker shall recommend to the Prime Minister (in a caretaker capacity) to seek a dissolution of the House, on the grounds that there "is no possible government formed". To date since the founding of the Republic, no such election has occurred because of this.

This electoral procedure also applies should the House fail to pass any government budget; at which time the office of Prime Minister is immediately declared vacant, with the incumbent serving in a caretaker capacity until they are either re-elected or a new Prime Minister is selected. Should a new Prime Minister be selected, the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister will take place typically the next day, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Straton.

Additionally, should the post of Prime Minister fall vacant due to resignation, death or otherwise, new elections will be held in accordance to this procedure.

=== Votes of No Confidence ===

According to Clause 168 of the Constitution, votes of no confidence must be constructive - i.e. they must present an alternate candidate for Prime Minister and secure an absolute majority of those voting in the subsequent election for Prime Minister. Unlike the election for Prime Minister, such a vote pits the incumbent Prime Minister directly against their challenger. Should the challenger win, the Prime Minister is obligated to resign and advise the President to swear in the winner of the vote of no confidence.

To date, only one vote of no confidence has been carried, in 2000 - when Peter Roscoe won 267 votes to the incumbent Edward North's 233 votes.

==Privileges==
[[File:NYSCapitolPanorama.jpg|thumb|right|The Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton]]
[[File:Chequers_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Wright House, Bechor]]
The Prime Minister is afforded two official residences; the Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton, which were built in 1997, and Wright House on the outskirts of Serrapince, Bechor. Before 1997, the Straton residence of the Prime Minister was located at 36 Hampton Drive. That location has since been gazetted as a historical monument; plans are underway to either refurbish the house and make it available to the Prime Minister again, or open it up to the public as a museum. Former Prime Minister Darren Hayes remarked in 2015 that "[the Prime Minister] living where [they] work makes it such that [they] are unable to escape the job...it would be nice to re-open the house so that [they] can have a place to stay after finishing work, instead of retreating upstairs." Current Prime Minister Kenneth Everett has made no public statements on the status of the house; he has reportedly been unhappy with staying at the Prime Ministerial offices.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the use of an armoured car, and shared use of two official aircraft with the President and Vice President. The Federal Police also provides constant security for the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the usage of the prefix "the Right Honourable", and should they die, they are afforded a state funeral, with their casket lying in state in the Main Wing of the Federal Parliament building.

==List==

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{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Richard Barker
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''1'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1864
|member_title = MP
|image = William_Ewart_Gladstone_(cropped).jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1801
|death_year = 1882
|riding = Hulbury, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 1864
|end_date = 14 January
|end_year = 1870
|assembly_type = Tumbran Parliament
|assembly_short = Parliament
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1864
|event1_assembly = 1st
|event1_note =
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1868
|event2_assembly = 2nd
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Butler
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''2'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1870
|member_title = MP
|image = Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1812
|death_year = 1887
|riding = Springham, Alexandria
|start_date = 15 January
|start_year = 1870
|end_date = 2 May
|end_year = 1872
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1870
|event1_assembly = 2nd
|accomplishments = 
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Henry Makepeace
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''3'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1868
|member_title = MP
|image = Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1826
|death_year = 1899
|riding = Cantonment, Bechor
|start_date = 3 May
|start_year = 1872
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 1876
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1872
|event1_assembly = 3rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Walter Robinson
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''4'''
|colour = #6aa84f
|leadership = 1874
|member_title = MP
|image = James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Centre-Agrarian Party
|birth_year = 1809
|death_year = 1888
|riding = Havant, Clearmont
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 1876
|end_date = 20 February
|end_year = 1882
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1876
|event1_assembly = 4th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1880
|event2_assembly = 5th
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Leonard Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''5'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1875
|member_title = MP
|image = James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1822
|death_year = 1896
|riding = Timbourne, Napier
|start_date = 21 February
|start_year = 1882
|end_date = 7 August
|end_year = 1886
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1882
|event1_assembly = 6th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ross Hargreaves
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''6'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1880
|member_title = MP
|image = Whitelaw_Reid_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1832
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Kewdale, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 8 August
|start_year = 1886
|end_date = 19 September
|end_year = 1890
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1886
|event1_assembly = 7th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Thomas Turner
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''7'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1886
|member_title = MP
|image = Charles_Stewart_Parnell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1828
|death_year = 1908
|riding = Lakewood South, Severn
|start_date = 20 September
|start_year = 1890
|end_date = 28 December
|end_year = 1895
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1890
|event1_assembly = 8th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1894
|event2_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Rodgers
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''8'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1895
|member_title = MP
|image = 1st_Viscount_Bryce_1902b.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1838
|death_year = 1915
|riding = Hume, Straton
|start_date = 29 December
|start_year = 1895
|end_date = 3 April
|end_year = 1898
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1895
|event1_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Adrian Parkes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''9'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1894
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Deakin_crop.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1836
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Dunsford, Westmond
|start_date = 4 April
|start_year = 1898
|end_date = 6 April
|end_year = 1903
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1898
|event1_assembly = 10th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1899
|event2_assembly = 11th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Fitzpatrick
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''10'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1903
|member_title = MP
|image = Joseph_Chamberlain_MP.png
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1842
|death_year = 1920
|riding = Haworth, Bechor
|start_date = 7 April
|start_year = 1903
|end_date = 12 May
|end_year = 1907
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1903
|event1_assembly = 12th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1903
|event2_assembly = 12th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1906
|event3_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Joseph Lancaster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''11'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1907
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Lyttelton.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1849
|death_year = 1931
|riding = Guillemard Handelwood, Napier
|start_date = 13 May
|start_year = 1907
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1910
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1907
|event1_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Nathaniel Webb
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''12'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1906
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1852
|death_year = 1933
|riding = Kingsbury Central, Georgia
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1910
|end_date = 1 September
|end_year = 1919
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1910
|event1_assembly = 14th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1914
|event2_assembly = 15th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1918
|event3_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Quentin Reed
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''13'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1919
|member_title = MP
|image = J.R._Clynes_LCCN2014717260_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1855
|death_year = 1932
|riding = Lymeswold, Clearmont
|start_date = 2 September
|start_year = 1919
|end_date = 10 July
|end_year = 1920
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1919
|event1_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = John Hattersley
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''14'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1916
|member_title = MP
|image = Calvin Coolidge-by Garo-1923.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1861
|death_year = 1934
|riding = Wimbourne, Dartmoor
|start_date = 11 July
|start_year = 1920
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1926
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1920
|event1_assembly = 17th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1924
|event2_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Robert Golding
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''15'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1926
|member_title = MP
|image = Stanley Bruce 1926.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1952
|riding = Tenningham, Iswilyn
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1926
|end_date = 16 June
|end_year = 1928
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1926
|event1_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = James Carlton
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''16'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1924
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_James_H._Scullin.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1868
|death_year = 1949
|riding = Harwick, Hamilton
|start_date = 17 June
|start_year = 1928
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 1932
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1928
|event1_assembly = 19th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1932
|event2_assembly = 20th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = George Highbury
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''17'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1932
|member_title = MP
|image = Dr._Christopher_Addison_LOC_16027831872_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1960
|riding = Nantwich South, Finnley
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 1932
|end_date = 11 January
|end_year = 1936
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1932
|event1_assembly = 20th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1933
|event2_assembly = 21st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Colin Forrest
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''18'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1935
|member_title = MP
|image = Brendan_Bracken_1947.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1951
|riding = Linden, Hamilton
|start_date = 12 January
|start_year = 1936
|end_date = 7 February
|end_year = 1942
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1936
|event1_assembly = 22nd
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1940
|event2_assembly = 23rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Alistair Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''19'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1940
|member_title = MP
|image = Herbert_Morrison_1947_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1958
|riding = Timbourne East, Napier
|start_date = 8 February
|start_year = 1942
|end_date = 11 August
|end_year = 1951
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1942
|event1_assembly = 24th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1943
|event2_assembly = 25th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1947
|event3_assembly = 26th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Christopher Bradshaw
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''20'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1947
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1881
|death_year = 1972
|riding = Wentworth, Georgia
|start_date = 12 August
|start_year = 1951
|end_date = 31 December
|end_year = 1956
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1951
|event1_assembly = 27th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1955
|event2_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Carten
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''21'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = John Profumo.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1907
|death_year = 1987
|riding = Norramby, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 1 January
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 3 September
|end_year = 1957
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Brian Foster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''22'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = Richard_Nixon,_official_bw_photo,_head_and_shoulders.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1893
|death_year = 1975
|riding = Hereford, Georgia
|start_date = 4 September
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 9 March
|end_year = 1963
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1959
|event2_assembly = 29th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Malcolm Haywood
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''23'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1959
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1910
|death_year = 2000
|riding = Couno Grove Hill, Napier
|start_date = 10 March
|start_year = 1963
|end_date = 4 April
|end_year = 1979
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1963
|event1_assembly = 30th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1965
|event2_assembly = 31st
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1969
|event3_assembly = 32nd
|event4 = election
|event4_year = 1973
|event4_assembly = 33rd
|event5 = election
|event5_year = 1975
|event5_assembly = 34th
|event6 = election
|event6_year = 1979
|event6_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Holly Philips
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''24'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1979
|member_title = MP
|image = Vigdis_Finnbogadottir_(1985).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1939
|death_year = 2026
|riding = Hayford Central, Severn
|start_date = 5 April
|start_year = 1979
|end_date = 12 July
|end_year = 1980
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1979
|event1_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Andrew Rainer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''25'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1977
|member_title = MP
|image = Mulroney.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1938
|death_year = 2022
|riding = Chalfont, Napier
|start_date = 13 July
|start_year = 1980
|end_date = 15 August
|end_year = 1992
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1980
|event1_assembly = 36th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1984
|event2_assembly = 37th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1988
|event3_assembly = 38th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Edward North
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''26'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1990
|member_title = MP
|image = Keating Paul BANNER.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1942
|death_year = 2027
|riding = Clark Central, Finnley
|start_date = 16 August
|start_year = 1992
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 2000
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1992
|event1_assembly = 39th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1996
|event2_assembly = 40th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1999
|event3_assembly = 41st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Roscoe
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''27'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1997
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_John_Redwood_MP_crop_2.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1935
|death_year = 2016
|riding = Hartford, Grantfeldt
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 2000
|end_date = 7 May
|end_year = 2005
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2000
|event1_assembly = 41st
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2001
|event2_assembly = 42nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ian Randall
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''28'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2001
|member_title = MP
|image = Jack Layton-cr bl (cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1949
|death_year = 2029
|riding = Couno Central, Napier
|start_date = 8 May
|start_year = 2005
|end_date = 6 July
|end_year = 2009
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2005
|event1_assembly = 43rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Darren Hayes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''29'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 2008
|member_title = MP
|image = Malcolm Turnbull PM&C.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1955
|death_year = 2037
|riding = Broxtowe, Clearmont
|start_date = 7 July
|start_year = 2009
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 2017
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2009
|event1_assembly = 44th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2013
|event2_assembly = 45th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Kenneth Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
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|name = Michael Kirkland
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''31'''}}
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|end_year = 2029
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|event2_assembly = 49th
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{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Stephen Williams
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''32'''}}
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|member_title = MP
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|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1969
|death_year =
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|start_date = 21 August
|start_year = 2029
|end_date = 13 June
|end_year = 2035
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|event1_year = August 2029
|event1_assembly = 50th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2033
|event2_assembly = 51st
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{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Lawrence Newell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''33'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
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|image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
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|birth_year = 1977
|death_year =
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|start_date = 13 June
|start_year = 2035
|end_date = 29 June
|end_year = 2037
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{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Bertram Andrews
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''34'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
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|birth_year = 1980
|death_year =
|riding = Serrapince Rainford, Bechor
|start_date = 30 June
|start_year = 2037
|end_date = 30 June
|end_year = 2043
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|event1_assembly = 52nd
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{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Sandra Campbell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''35'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image =
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|birth_year = 1989
|death_year =
|riding = Couno Langholm, Napier
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2043
|end_date =
|end_year =
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|event1_year = 2043
|event1_assembly = 53rd
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}}

{{Canadian first minister list/bottom
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}}

==Notes==
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| post = Prime Minister
| body = the Federal Republic of Tumbra
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| incumbent = Lawrence Newell
| acting = no
| incumbentsince = 13 June 2035
| department = Government of the Federal Republic of Tumbra Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Office
| style = Prime Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (Tumbra) His Excellency (international)
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| appointer = President of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
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| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Tumbra]]
| precursor = State Counsellor of the Empire of Tumbra
| inaugural = Richard Barker
| formation = 1864
| deputy = Deputy Prime Minister of Tumbra
| salary = $200,000/year
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}}
The '''Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Tumbra''' is the head of government of the [[Tumbra|Federal Republic of Tumbra]]. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and legislative branches of the Tumbran government, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the House of Representatives, their party and the electorate, for the government's policies and actions.

The post of Prime Minister was inaugurated by the Constitution of Tumbra, specifically Section VII, which deals with the Federal government. They are, constitutionally, responsible for the "day-to-day running conduct and policy of the State", as directed in Clause 149. To achieve this, the Prime Minister is able to appoint Cabinet Ministers to lead new Ministries (clauses 178 and 179), but there is a limit on how many full Ministers he may nominate (as per clause 179b, the current limit is 25), giving them a total of 26 Ministers (including the PM themself) in Cabinet. To date, the limit has never been reached and the current number of full Ministers is 23. By convention, one of those members is the Deputy Prime Minister, though the office has never been codified in the Constitution.

By virtue of his office, the Prime Minister also serves as the Minister for the Civil Service.

Some observers, therefore, given the Prime Minister's wide-ranging powers, tend to refer to the office of Prime Minister as a "democracy by Premiership", rather than, in as most other parliamentary governments, the primus inter pares of Cabinet. The power of the Prime Minister is afforded to them by the Constitution, and their status as the leader of the party or coalition holding at least a plurality of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

== History of the office ==
The office of Prime Minister was envisioned originally to function as more of a "domestic affairs coordinator", working in tandem with the President, who would have jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs, in a semi-presidential system. Yet, as President Gordon Hamilton was away in the war, and as he refused to allow his Vice President Ralph Davidson to have sway over said affairs, it fell to the first Prime Minister - Richard Barker of the Federalist Party - to juggle the responsibilities of the premiership.

The change to a fully parliamentary system with the Prime Minister in charge of all government affairs was formalised in 1877. In that sense, Walter Robinson was the first proper Prime Minister of the Federal Republic, but he acted as more of a primus inter pares than most of his successors, and all policy decisions made by his Cabinet were done so collectively.

Most principles, however, of the modern Premiership can be dated back to Leonard Everett's first premiership of 1882. While he did consult his Cabinet colleagues when it came to executive decisions, the final decision was almost exclusively made by him, a principle that has existed to this day and was utilised extensively by Malcolm Haywood throughout his sixteen-year Premiership.

==Term of office==
There are no term limits on the Prime Minister's term, save for the election for Prime Minister at the start of every newly convened Parliament; meaning that once appointed and sworn in by the President, the prime minister remains in office until they resign, are dismissed by the President, die, or their successor is elected. To date, only the first and last circumstances have occurred. In practice, under the system of responsible government, the prime minister (by convention) resigns should they lose the confidence of the elected House of Representatives. This can happen if the government loses an important vote, such as on the budget (loss of supply). The PM may also be unseated on a motion of no confidence, though constitutionally these motions must be constructive, requiring Parliament to present an alternative candidate for Prime Minister.

The longest serving Prime Minister was Malcolm Haywood, who served for 16 years and 24 days from 1963 to 1979; the shortest-serving Prime Minister was Peter Carten, who served for 245 days in 1957.

==Role==

Today, the Prime Minister's authority emanates from the Constitution, and from their status as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Clause 176 largely is seen as the principle that guides the Prime Minister's functions, with the sub-clauses guiding the Prime Minister. These sub-clauses are:
# The "responsibility clause" - Clause 176a dictates that the Prime Minister shall be "responsible for and determine the general guidelines of policy." This gives the Prime Minister the legal right to formally introduce policy guidelines that ministers must implement.
# The "independence clause" - Clause 176ai dictates that each Minister has the freedom to run their own departments and prepare their own legislative proposals, so long as they are consistent the Prime Minister's policies;
# and the "cabinet solidarity clause" - Clause 176b enshrines the concept of cabinet solidarity, and ensures that the entire Cabinet settles its disputes within itself.

Clause 177 mandates that the Prime Minister "shall, from time to time, report on the State of the Republic to a Joint Session of Parliament."
This has taken the form of the Prime Ministerial Agenda, which they give at the start of every session of Parliament, which occurs every year in July, unless there has been a general election that year. If there has been a general election that year, the first session of the newly elected Parliament is dedicated to electing a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister. The Agenda is then typically given two or three weeks after the election of the Prime Minister.

The typical content of an Agenda contains the state of the country, as mandated by the Constitution, and then the laws that the government intends to pass in the following year. In the weeks following the Agenda, it is typically debated by Parliament in its response to the Prime Minister. Typically, the failure to carry an Agenda is a huge embarrassment for the Prime Minister, but it is not as serious as failing a vote of no confidence.

Clause 181 empowers the Prime Minister to advise the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections for the House of Representatives. Typically, this is only done when the House votes to dissolve itself (as it did in 1980), for a snap election (as Peter Roscoe did in 2001), or if the House is unable to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister even after the absolute majority requirement for the Premiership is lifted. The last circumstance has never occurred.

Typically, the President allows these dissolutions, but they may be less willing to allow snap elections; most notably, when Peter Roscoe first took office in 2000 following a constructive vote of no confidence, he attempted to immediately call for a general election, but was rebuffed by then-President Hazel Moore on the grounds that he had the numbers to become Prime Minister; therefore no election was needed. The incident coloured Moore's last year of her Presidency - she eventually granted a dissolution in 2001 - and was widely seen as the reason why Stephen Trew triumphed over Vice President Desmond Lewis in 2002's presidential election.

The Prime Minister also has great influence over nominations to political posts that require Senate confirmation. However, the Prime Minister does not influence the President's pick for the twenty-five Governors (who serve as representatives of the President, and are effectively their surrogate) of the states.

== Election mechanism ==

The election of a Prime Minister is typically the second order of business in a new seating of Parliament, after the election of the Speaker. The procedure for the election of a Prime Minister is outlined in Article 167 of the Constitution, where a candidate - which by convention is the leader of the largest party or coalition, unless the Prime Minister is the incumbent and wishes to be re-nominated - is nominated by the most senior member of that member's party, and his name put up to the Speaker. The Speaker then puts the candidate to a vote; should the Prime Ministerial candidate garner a majority of the total votes cast (including abstentions) then that person is said to be elected as Prime Minister and is subsequently sworn in by the President in front of the whole House of Representatives. The House is then adjourned, following some remarks by the Prime Minister.

Should nobody be able to get an absolute majority of votes, following the third election for Prime Minister, the criteria changes to exclude abstentions - meaning the prospective Prime Minister just needs to secure more "yes" votes than "no" votes to take office.

Should the Speaker deem there be no prospect of any Prime Ministerial candidate being selected, the Speaker shall recommend to the Prime Minister (in a caretaker capacity) to seek a dissolution of the House, on the grounds that there "is no possible government formed". To date since the founding of the Republic, no such election has occurred because of this.

This electoral procedure also applies should the House fail to pass any government budget; at which time the office of Prime Minister is immediately declared vacant, with the incumbent serving in a caretaker capacity until they are either re-elected or a new Prime Minister is selected. Should a new Prime Minister be selected, the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister will take place typically the next day, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Straton.

Additionally, should the post of Prime Minister fall vacant due to resignation, death or otherwise, new elections will be held in accordance to this procedure.

=== Votes of No Confidence ===

According to Clause 168 of the Constitution, votes of no confidence must be constructive - i.e. they must present an alternate candidate for Prime Minister and secure an absolute majority of those voting in the subsequent election for Prime Minister. Unlike the election for Prime Minister, such a vote pits the incumbent Prime Minister directly against their challenger. Should the challenger win, the Prime Minister is obligated to resign and advise the President to swear in the winner of the vote of no confidence.

To date, only one vote of no confidence has been carried, in 2000 - when Peter Roscoe won 267 votes to the incumbent Edward North's 233 votes.

==Privileges==
[[File:NYSCapitolPanorama.jpg|thumb|right|The Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton]]
[[File:Chequers_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Wright House, Bechor]]
The Prime Minister is afforded two official residences; the Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton, which were built in 1997, and Wright House on the outskirts of Serrapince, Bechor. Before 1997, the Straton residence of the Prime Minister was located at 36 Hampton Drive. That location has since been gazetted as a historical monument; plans are underway to either refurbish the house and make it available to the Prime Minister again, or open it up to the public as a museum. Former Prime Minister Darren Hayes remarked in 2015 that "[the Prime Minister] living where [they] work makes it such that [they] are unable to escape the job...it would be nice to re-open the house so that [they] can have a place to stay after finishing work, instead of retreating upstairs." Current Prime Minister Kenneth Everett has made no public statements on the status of the house; he has reportedly been unhappy with staying at the Prime Ministerial offices.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the use of an armoured car, and shared use of two official aircraft with the President and Vice President. The Federal Police also provides constant security for the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the usage of the prefix "the Right Honourable", and should they die, they are afforded a state funeral, with their casket lying in state in the Main Wing of the Federal Parliament building.

==List==

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|death_year = 1887
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|death_year = 1899
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|start_year = 1872
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|image = James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1822
|death_year = 1896
|riding = Timbourne, Napier
|start_date = 21 February
|start_year = 1882
|end_date = 7 August
|end_year = 1886
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1882
|event1_assembly = 6th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ross Hargreaves
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''6'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1880
|member_title = MP
|image = Whitelaw_Reid_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1832
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Kewdale, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 8 August
|start_year = 1886
|end_date = 19 September
|end_year = 1890
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1886
|event1_assembly = 7th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Thomas Turner
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''7'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1886
|member_title = MP
|image = Charles_Stewart_Parnell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1828
|death_year = 1908
|riding = Lakewood South, Severn
|start_date = 20 September
|start_year = 1890
|end_date = 28 December
|end_year = 1895
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1890
|event1_assembly = 8th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1894
|event2_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Rodgers
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''8'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1895
|member_title = MP
|image = 1st_Viscount_Bryce_1902b.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1838
|death_year = 1915
|riding = Hume, Straton
|start_date = 29 December
|start_year = 1895
|end_date = 3 April
|end_year = 1898
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1895
|event1_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Adrian Parkes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''9'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1894
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Deakin_crop.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1836
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Dunsford, Westmond
|start_date = 4 April
|start_year = 1898
|end_date = 6 April
|end_year = 1903
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1898
|event1_assembly = 10th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1899
|event2_assembly = 11th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Fitzpatrick
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''10'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1903
|member_title = MP
|image = Joseph_Chamberlain_MP.png
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1842
|death_year = 1920
|riding = Haworth, Bechor
|start_date = 7 April
|start_year = 1903
|end_date = 12 May
|end_year = 1907
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1903
|event1_assembly = 12th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1903
|event2_assembly = 12th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1906
|event3_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Joseph Lancaster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''11'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1907
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Lyttelton.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1849
|death_year = 1931
|riding = Guillemard Handelwood, Napier
|start_date = 13 May
|start_year = 1907
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1910
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1907
|event1_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Nathaniel Webb
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''12'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1906
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1852
|death_year = 1933
|riding = Kingsbury Central, Georgia
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1910
|end_date = 1 September
|end_year = 1919
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1910
|event1_assembly = 14th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1914
|event2_assembly = 15th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1917
|event3_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Quentin Reed
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''13'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1919
|member_title = MP
|image = J.R._Clynes_LCCN2014717260_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1855
|death_year = 1932
|riding = Lymeswold, Clearmont
|start_date = 2 September
|start_year = 1919
|end_date = 10 July
|end_year = 1920
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1919
|event1_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = John Hattersley
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''14'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1916
|member_title = MP
|image = Calvin Coolidge-by Garo-1923.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1861
|death_year = 1934
|riding = Wimbourne, Dartmoor
|start_date = 11 July
|start_year = 1920
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1926
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1920
|event1_assembly = 17th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1924
|event2_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Robert Golding
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''15'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1926
|member_title = MP
|image = Stanley Bruce 1926.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1952
|riding = Tenningham, Iswilyn
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1926
|end_date = 16 June
|end_year = 1928
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1926
|event1_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = James Carlton
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''16'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1924
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_James_H._Scullin.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1868
|death_year = 1949
|riding = Harwick, Hamilton
|start_date = 17 June
|start_year = 1928
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 1932
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1928
|event1_assembly = 19th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1932
|event2_assembly = 20th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = George Highbury
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''17'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1932
|member_title = MP
|image = Dr._Christopher_Addison_LOC_16027831872_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1960
|riding = Nantwich South, Finnley
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 1932
|end_date = 11 January
|end_year = 1936
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1932
|event1_assembly = 20th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1933
|event2_assembly = 21st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Colin Forrest
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''18'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1935
|member_title = MP
|image = Brendan_Bracken_1947.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1951
|riding = Linden, Hamilton
|start_date = 12 January
|start_year = 1936
|end_date = 7 February
|end_year = 1942
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1936
|event1_assembly = 22nd
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1940
|event2_assembly = 23rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Alistair Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''19'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1940
|member_title = MP
|image = Herbert_Morrison_1947_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1958
|riding = Timbourne East, Napier
|start_date = 8 February
|start_year = 1942
|end_date = 11 August
|end_year = 1951
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1942
|event1_assembly = 24th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1943
|event2_assembly = 25th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1947
|event3_assembly = 26th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Christopher Bradshaw
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''20'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1947
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1881
|death_year = 1972
|riding = Wentworth, Georgia
|start_date = 12 August
|start_year = 1951
|end_date = 31 December
|end_year = 1956
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1951
|event1_assembly = 27th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1955
|event2_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Carten
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''21'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = John Profumo.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1907
|death_year = 1987
|riding = Norramby, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 1 January
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 3 September
|end_year = 1957
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Brian Foster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''22'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = Richard_Nixon,_official_bw_photo,_head_and_shoulders.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1893
|death_year = 1975
|riding = Hereford, Georgia
|start_date = 4 September
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 9 March
|end_year = 1963
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1959
|event2_assembly = 29th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Malcolm Haywood
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''23'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1959
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1910
|death_year = 2000
|riding = Couno Grove Hill, Napier
|start_date = 10 March
|start_year = 1963
|end_date = 4 April
|end_year = 1979
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1963
|event1_assembly = 30th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1965
|event2_assembly = 31st
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1969
|event3_assembly = 32nd
|event4 = election
|event4_year = 1973
|event4_assembly = 33rd
|event5 = election
|event5_year = 1975
|event5_assembly = 34th
|event6 = election
|event6_year = 1979
|event6_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Holly Philips
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''24'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1979
|member_title = MP
|image = Vigdis_Finnbogadottir_(1985).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1939
|death_year = 2026
|riding = Hayford Central, Severn
|start_date = 5 April
|start_year = 1979
|end_date = 12 July
|end_year = 1980
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1979
|event1_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Andrew Rainer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''25'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1977
|member_title = MP
|image = Mulroney.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1938
|death_year = 2022
|riding = Chalfont, Napier
|start_date = 13 July
|start_year = 1980
|end_date = 15 August
|end_year = 1992
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1980
|event1_assembly = 36th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1984
|event2_assembly = 37th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1988
|event3_assembly = 38th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Edward North
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''26'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1990
|member_title = MP
|image = Keating Paul BANNER.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1942
|death_year = 2027
|riding = Clark Central, Finnley
|start_date = 16 August
|start_year = 1992
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 2000
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1992
|event1_assembly = 39th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1996
|event2_assembly = 40th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1999
|event3_assembly = 41st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Roscoe
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''27'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1997
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_John_Redwood_MP_crop_2.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1935
|death_year = 2016
|riding = Hartford, Grantfeldt
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 2000
|end_date = 7 May
|end_year = 2005
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2000
|event1_assembly = 41st
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2001
|event2_assembly = 42nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ian Randall
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''28'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2001
|member_title = MP
|image = Jack Layton-cr bl (cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1949
|death_year = 2029
|riding = Couno Central, Napier
|start_date = 8 May
|start_year = 2005
|end_date = 6 July
|end_year = 2009
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2005
|event1_assembly = 43rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Darren Hayes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''29'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 2008
|member_title = MP
|image = Malcolm Turnbull PM&C.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1955
|death_year = 2037
|riding = Broxtowe, Clearmont
|start_date = 7 July
|start_year = 2009
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 2017
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2009
|event1_assembly = 44th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2013
|event2_assembly = 45th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Kenneth Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''30'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2013
|member_title = MP
|image = Gavin_Newsom_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1968
|death_year =
|riding = Timbourne South, Napier
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 2017
|end_date = 1 July
|end_year = 2027
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2017
|event1_assembly = 46th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2021
|event2_assembly = 47th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 2025
|event3_assembly = 48th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Michael Kirkland
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''31'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2027
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Keir_Starmer_crop_2.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1966
|death_year =
|riding = Newgate, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2027
|end_date = 20 August
|end_year = 2029
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2027
|event1_assembly = 48th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = April 2029
|event2_assembly = 49th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Stephen Williams
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''32'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2025
|member_title = MP
|image = Ulf_Kristersson_on_29_June_2023.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1969
|death_year =
|riding = Yarwood, Napier
|start_date = 21 August
|start_year = 2029
|end_date = 13 June
|end_year = 2035
|event1 = election
|event1_year = August 2029
|event1_assembly = 50th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2033
|event2_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Lawrence Newell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''33'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2035
|member_title = MP
|image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1977
|death_year =
|riding = Cavalsham, Pesvern
|start_date = 13 June
|start_year = 2035
|end_date = 29 June
|end_year = 2037
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2035
|event1_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Bertram Andrews
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''34'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image = Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1980
|death_year =
|riding = Serrapince Rainford, Bechor
|start_date = 30 June
|start_year = 2037
|end_date = 30 June
|end_year = 2043
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2037
|event1_assembly = 52nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Sandra Campbell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''35'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1989
|death_year =
|riding = Couno Langholm, Napier
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2043
|end_date =
|end_year =
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2043
|event1_assembly = 53rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list/bottom
|notes=
}}

==Notes==
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{{Template:Prime Ministers of Tumbra}}
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1876 Tumbran federal election

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Tumbratumbles: /* Results by state */

{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1876 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1872
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1880 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1880
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 4 February 1876
| registered = 14,395,921
| turnout = 80.7% ({{increase}} 2.4%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg|James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Walter Robinson]]
| colour1 = 4cbb17
| leader_since1 = 1872
| party1 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Havant (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Havant (CM)]]
| last_election1 = 54 seats, 25.3%
| seats_before1 = 57
| seats1 = '''178'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 124
| popular_vote1 = '''4,491,425'''
| percentage1 = '''38.7%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}} 13.4%
| image2 = [[File:Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| colour2 = 1155cc
| leader_since2 = 1870
| party2 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Cantonment (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Cantonment (BC)]]
| last_election2 = '''194 seats, 42.8%'''
| seats_before2 = 190
| seats2 = 114
| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 80
| popular_vote2 = 4,143,072
| percentage2 = 35.7%
| swing2 = {{decrease}} 7.1%
| image3 = [[File:Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg|Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader3 = [[Peter Humboldt]]
| colour3 = ffc132
| leader_since3 = 1872
| party3 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat3 = [[Tavistock Calvinsweald (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Tavistock Calvinsweald (DM)]]
| last_election3 = 99 seats, 29.9%
| seats_before3 = 100
| seats3 = 52
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}} 47
| popular_vote3 = 2,616,127
| percentage3 = 22.5%
| swing3 = {{decrease}} 7.3%
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| before_party = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| after_election = [[Walter Robinson]]
| after_party = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
}}

=== Results ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Walter Robinson
| 178
| {{increase}}124
| 4,491,425
| 38.68
| {{increase}}13.34
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Henry Makepeace
| 114
| {{decrease}}80
| 4,143,072
| 35.68
| {{decrease}}7.07
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | Peter Humboldt
| 52
| {{decrease}}47
| 2,616,127
| 22.53
| {{decrease}}7.34
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | David Collins
| 3
| {{steady}}
| 361,126
| 2.04
| {{increase}}1.07
|-
| colspan="3" | Total
| 350
|
| 10,796,390
|
|
|}

=== Results by state ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|-
! style="text-align:left;" |
! style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Federalist
! style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Liberal
! style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | Radical
! style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Alexandria
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Georgia
| 2
| 10
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 13
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 25
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bechor
| 7
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 22
| 15
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 44
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Finnley
| 6
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 16
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFC132;" | 4
|
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 3
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 13
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Napier
| 5
| 21
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 27
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 53
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| 6
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Grantfeldt
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 14
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Marlsbruhe
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 3
| 8
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
| 2
| 25
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Dartmoor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 1
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 7
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 10
| 2
| 20
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
| 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 8
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Lormark
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 2
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Turvenal
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 1
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 9
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 3
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| 1
| 12
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 52
| 114
| 178
| 6
| 350
|}

1868 Tumbran federal election

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1868 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1864 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1864
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1872
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 24 April 1868
| registered = 13,370,463
| turnout = 81.0% ({{increase}} 4.0%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox.jpg|William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Richard Barker]]
| colour1 = ffc132
| leader_since1 = 1864
| party1 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Hulbury (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Hulbury (BC)]]
| last_election1 = '''133 seats, 42.7%'''
| seats1 = '''139'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 6
| popular_vote1 = '''3,828,155'''
| percentage1 = '''35.3%'''
| swing1 = {{decrease}} 7.4%
| image2 = [[File:Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Wis - NARA - 525971 (cropped).png|Hon._Timothy_O._Howe,_Wis_-_NARA_-_525971_(cropped)|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Samuel Lightfoot]]
| colour2 = 4cbb17
| leader_since2 = 1864
| party2 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (CM)]]
| last_election2 = 100 seats, 31.9%
| seats2 = 106
| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 6
| popular_vote2 = 3,544,267
| percentage2 = 32.7%
| swing2 = {{increase}} 0.8%
| image4 = [[File:Charles Sumner Brady-Handy.jpg|Charles_Sumner_Brady-Handy|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader4 = [[Alexander Henderson]]
| colour4 = 1155cc
| leader_since4 = 1864
| party4 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat4 = [[University of Couno (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|University of Couno]]
| last_election4 = 64 seats, 24.1%
| seats4 = 74
| seat_change4 = {{increase}} 10
| popular_vote4 = 2,601,585
| percentage4 = 24.0%
| swing4 = {{decrease}} 0.1%
| image5 = [[File:Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Brady-Handy_(1).jpg|Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Brady-Handy_(1).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader5 = [[Sam Richmond]]
| colour5 = f36c21
| leader_since5 = 1868
| party5 = [[True Westerner Party (Tumbra)|True Westerners]]
| leaders_seat5 = [[Millsburgh Boroughs (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Millsburgh Boroughs]]
| last_election5 = ''Did not exist''
| seats5 = 28
| seat_change5 = {{increase}} 28
| popular_vote5 = 677,214
| percentage5 = 6.3%
| swing5 = ''New''
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| before_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| after_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| after_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
}}

The 1868 Tumbran federal election was held on 24 April 1868 to elect the members of the 2nd House of Representatives of Tumbra. These were the first elections in Tumbran history to take place with all twenty-five states due to the merger of the Western Tumbran Republic into the Federal Republic of Tumbra early in the year. Consequently, the House of Representatives was expanded by fifty seats to allow for Western states to be properly represented. The governing Federalist Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Richard Barker, again won a plurality of seats, but did not win an outright majority. The Federalists therefore re-entered a coalition government with the Liberals, who were led into the election by incumbent Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Henderson. This election is notable for being the only one that the True Westerners Party, a party opposed to the Western merger into Tumbra, contested. Led by former Governor of Grantfeldt Sam Richmond, the party won 28 of the 50 seats added for the seven western states.

== Background ==

The Federalist-Liberal coalition government, which spanned ten ministries, had largely spent its term building up state institutions and managing the construction of the capital city of Straton. Outside the issue of free trade and tariffs, the coalition government was largely in agreement on most issues of policy, and both parties had come to an agreement to leave the current consensus on trade — high tariffs on nascent industries with free trade on agricultural products — untouched. The government positioned itself as a manager of business "which private interests could not stand to manage on behalf of our Nation," and was largely reluctant to interfere in the operations of the free market.

The Barker-Henderson government has been seen as a conservative government in its outlook. Fiscally, the government spent its term focusing mainly on paying off large debts that had been incurred by individual state governments during the United States era, while appropriating a new line of credit through the establishment of the First Bank of the Federal Republic. This would incur a large short-term political cost from more conservative elements of both coalition members' parties, and there was a minor split in the Federalist Party over the issue. Led by Andrew Lippincott, the short-lived Unionist Party advocated for no state-sponsored bank, arguing that it was "manifestly an appearance of government corruption in a state-sponsored corporation." However, when it became clear that the issue had no long-term impact, the Unionists merged back into the Federalists.

The government ran balanced budgets for the first two years of its term, but ran minor deficits in the third year, leading to the opposition Centre-Agrarian Party to decry the government's "profligate spending," something it would eventually use in its election campaign. The Radicals, while a minor presence in the House and which constantly struggled for attention in the government presses, said that the government's spending did not go far enough, and called for the establishment of a social security net to protect workers which had their jobs displaced by the ongoing industrialisation of the country.

The last year of the coalition government, however, would be dominated by the issue of the western merger. The Western Tumbran Republic, which had broken away from the old Empire of Tumbra and refused to join the United States of Tumbra, was now in an extremely bad financial situation and was unable to pay off its debts. Elections two years prior had given the Democratic Party supermajorities in both chambers of the Western Republic's legislature, and was widely interpreted as a mandate to negotiate to join the Federal Republic. A five-person negotiation team, comprising Barker, Henderson, Foreign Minister Henry Makepeace, Treasurer Benjamin Northcote, and Commerce Minister Elijah Short conducted negotiations, with an agreement for the Western Republic to merge into the Federal Republic on January 5, 1868. The eventual annexation was ratified via supermajority vote in both houses of the Federal Parliament in August 1867, with the three Radicals joining the government in the House vote. The Western vote fell upon similar party lines.

After the annexation vote concluded, however, it was revealed by the press that part of the conditions for the western states to only have the same amount of autonomy as the other eighteen states in the Federal Republic (as opposed to a greater amount of autonomy, which was what the Western negotiation team wished the seven states to have) was for the Federal Republic to additionally assume all debts of the Western Republic. The Centre-Agrarians latched upon the agreement, and castigated the federal government for its perceived recklessness, turning debates on the 1868 Budget into a "circus," with frequent disruptions to debates in the chamber for running a massive deficit. The Government, on the other hand, argued that the plan to unite all Tumbrans under a single flag "could not be quantified in debt and credit". Ultimately, the 1868 budget, which ran a large deficit to cover the costs of Western integration, was agreed to on a party-line vote.

In the West, those who were vehemently opposed to annexation gathered under the banner of the True Westerners Party. Angry that their seven states had not been given a higher level of autonomy as the eighteen eastern states, they decried the merger negotiations as one of a betrayal of Western identity. Led by the last Governor of Grantfeldt, Sam Richmond, the True Westerners would argue for the general concept of "Western autonomy" in the Federal Republic, but offered little concrete proposals on how said autonomy would be obtained, and had few proposals otherwise. Still, the anger felt in the west was enough to give the party enough support to worry those in Straton that the merger would be short-lived.

== Campaign ==

While publicly accepting that their parties were going to contest against each other, Barker and Henderson spent the last few months before the election campaign planning how best to ensure that either one of their parties would win the election. Sensing widespread antipathy toward the Federalist brand in the west of the country, Barker essentially conceded the seven western states to Henderson's Liberals by not fielding any Federalist candidates in any of the fifty new seats. This, while seen as a short-term tactical plan to deny the True Westerners representation by consolidating the pro-merger vote, would eventually be the first step to giving the Liberals a virtual stranglehold over the region for the next hundred years. The Liberals briefly considered spinning off their western branches into a satellite party, adopting the Unionist name that had briefly surfaced in Tumbran politics a few years earlier, but eventually decided to contest in the western states under their official name.

The Federalists would concentrate their campaign resources in the east of the country, campaigning on the government's achievements over the last four years while running defence on the government's fiscal record, promising that a return to sound financial management would occur in the second term of any Federalist or Federalist-led government. Arguments to national unity with regards to the annexation of the Western Tumbran Republic were popular, and largely offset any anger in the east about the perception of the high cost of the merger. The Liberals, meanwhile, contested less vigorously in the east, while focusing most of its resources in the west. Liberal leader Alexander Henderson essentially campaigned exclusively in the south-west, promising that the Liberals were best-placed to give the Southwest a voice. An endorsement from the last President of the Western Republic, Anthony Yardley, essentially solidified Southwestern support for the Liberals, considering that the Southwest had also been the most eager to join the Federal Republic.

The Centre-Agrarian Party sought to shore up their coalition of agrarians and centrists by appealing to the urban poor, which had voted for the Federalists in huge numbers and which helped them come out on top against the Liberals in 1868. It held high hopes of displacing the Liberals as the second-largest party in the population-rich north-east. They fielded candidates in all of the western seats, and actively campaigned in the region. However, it adapted its campaign message for the region, campaigning on increased devolution for the region and targeting its urban regions, instead of accusing the incumbent government of financial profligacy.

The True Westerners, given the advantage of being able to concentrate their campaign resources exclusively on the West, saw a speaking tour by Sam Richmond across metropolitan areas in the region. Richmond was able to effectively marshal western anger, particularly in the more affluent northwest, and while he never called for re-independence, several candidates run by the party explicitly endorsed the idea of Western re-independence, or if the Southwest was unwilling to leave the Federal Republic, at least a secession of the three northwestern states of Grantfeldt, Marlsbruhe, and Caduke. The idea generated controversy in the southwest, which subsequently closed ranks around the Liberals.

The Radicals stuck largely to their hyper-local campaigns. Still largely a southeastern-based party, the party only fielded 24 candidates — an increase of five from the last election — but welcomed and endorsed independent candidates who wished to run under the Radical banner. Thirteen such candidates were endorsed in this way. The cause of the Radicals was boosted by the explicit endorsement of Gerald Evander Gerritsen, who stumped for the Radicals on the campaign trail, now that he was not running for the nonpartisan office of President.

== Results and aftermath ==

=== Results ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:left;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | Richard Barker
| 139
| {{increase}}6
| 3,828,155
| 35.33
| {{decrease}}7.38%
|-
| style="background-color:#4cbb17; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Samuel Lightfoot
| 106
| {{increase}}6
| 3,544,267
| 32.71
| {{increase}}0.84%
|-
| style="background-color:#1155cc; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Alexander Henderson
| 74
| {{increase}}10
| 2,601,585
| 24.01
| {{decrease}}0.10%
|-
| style="background-color:#f98129; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | True Westerners
| style="text-align:left;" | Sam Richmond
| 28
| {{increase}}28
| 677,214
| 6.25
| {{increase}}6.25%
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | Henry Sheares
| 3
| {{steady}}
| 184,202
| 1.70
| {{increase}}0.39%
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="3" | Total
| style="text-align:right;" | 350
|
| 10,835,423
|
|
|}

In the east, the results were largely a re-run of the 1864 election, with the Federalists' electoral coalition remaining largely intact, picking up some seats from the Centre-Agrarians over tactical voting from Liberal voters, who had been implicitly encouraged to vote Federalist in seats where the race was between Federalists and Liberals.The Liberals lost twelve of their fifty-two seats in the east, but this was made up for by their twenty-two new seats in the west, and the party maintained their stranglehold on the twelve university seats. Eastern Liberals were still extremely disappointed by the results, and accused Henderson of abandoning them and the cause of free trade. The backlash was thought to be one reason why Henderson voluntarily stepped down as leader in 1870, faced with a loss in support from the remaining eastern Liberals. The Federalists, due to their decision to forgo contesting in the west of the country, saw a severe dip in their popular vote percentage, even if the total number of raw votes they won increased from 1864.

In the west, meanwhile, the decision of the Federalists to step aside from contesting seats there was widely deemed to have saved the merger of the west into the east. While the True Westerners won twenty-eight of the region's fifty seats, the Liberals won more seats than the True Westerners in five of the seven states. The True Westerners swept all fourteen of Grantfeldt's seats and won seven of Marlsbruhe's twelve seats, but only won six of the twenty seats on offer in the south-west. While Richmond alleged electoral fraud caused by voters being transported from the east of the country to the west, no such evidence was found.

The Centre-Agrarians, who had been hoping for major gains, would be disappointed; while they gained six seats overall, and made minor gains in the most populated states of Napier, Bechor, and Georgia, they failed to make headways against the government. The party won over seven hundred thousand votes nationwide from the last election, but that was largely due to the party fielding an additional fifty candidates in the West, none of whom won any seats. The presence of the Centre-Agrarians also served as a spoiler candidate in many Western seats, with around seven seats won by the Liberals that would have been otherwise won by the True Westerners without a Centre-Agrarian candidate. While this served to prove an initial stumbling block for relations between the two parties, both parties were soon convinced that working together was the only way to provide a unified opposition to the Liberals in the west, and the True Westerners merged into the Centre-Agrarians six months after the election.

With no party winning a majority of seats, the Federalist-Liberal coalition was re-constituted along the same balance of Cabinet departments as in the first government. Richard Barker was re-elected as Prime Minister, with Alexander Henderson as Deputy Prime Minister; the Federalists and Liberals split the cabinet departments six to two again, with the Liberals holding the Foreign Affairs and Navy portfolios. An additional ministry being created to manage Western integration into the country, known as the Ministry of Western Affairs. Out of deference to the Liberals' strong position in the region, they were given control of this additional ministry; they chose to appoint the last President of the Western Republic, Anthony Yardley, to the position. Yardley had been appointed as a Senator for the state of Lormark following the election, and joined the Liberal Party upon his ascension to Cabinet.

=== Results by state ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
|-
! State
! style="background-color:#ffc132;" | Federalist
! style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | Liberal
! style="background-color:#4cbb17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="background-color:#f98129; color:#ffffff;" | True Westerners
! style="background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | Radical
! style="text-align:left;" | Total
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Alexandria
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
| 2
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Georgia
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 13
| 1
| 11
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Bechor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 21
| 9
| 14
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 44
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Finnley
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| 4
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 16
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 11
| 1
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 13
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Napier
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 28
| 10
| 15
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 53
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 6
|-
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 1
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 4
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | Grantfeldt
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | 14
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;" | 14
|-
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | Marlsbruhe
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 5
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | 7
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 9
| 3
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Dartmoor
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 6
| 5
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| 20
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 8
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Lormark
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Turvenal
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|- style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 4
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|- style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
| Total
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 139
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 74
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 106
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 28
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 350
|}

1876 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-24T12:07:27Z

Tumbratumbles:

{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1876 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1872
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1880 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1880
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 4 February 1876
| registered = 14,395,921
| turnout = 80.7% ({{increase}} 2.4%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg|James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Walter Robinson]]
| colour1 = 4cbb17
| leader_since1 = 1872
| party1 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Havant (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Havant (CM)]]
| last_election1 = 54 seats, 25.3%
| seats_before1 = 57
| seats1 = '''178'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 124
| popular_vote1 = '''4,491,425'''
| percentage1 = '''38.7%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}} 13.4%
| image2 = [[File:Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| colour2 = 1155cc
| leader_since2 = 1870
| party2 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Cantonment (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Cantonment (BC)]]
| last_election2 = '''194 seats, 42.8%'''
| seats_before2 = 190
| seats2 = 114
| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 80
| popular_vote2 = 4,143,072
| percentage2 = 35.7%
| swing2 = {{decrease}} 7.1%
| image3 = [[File:Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg|Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader3 = [[Peter Humboldt]]
| colour3 = ffc132
| leader_since3 = 1872
| party3 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat3 = [[Tavistock Calvinsweald (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Tavistock Calvinsweald (DM)]]
| last_election3 = 99 seats, 29.9%
| seats_before3 = 100
| seats3 = 52
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}} 47
| popular_vote3 = 2,616,127
| percentage3 = 22.5%
| swing3 = {{decrease}} 7.3%
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| before_party = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| after_election = [[Walter Robinson]]
| after_party = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
}}

=== Results ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Walter Robinson
| 178
| {{increase}}124
| 4,491,425
| 38.68
| {{increase}}13.34
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Henry Makepeace
| 114
| {{decrease}}80
| 4,143,072
| 35.68
| {{decrease}}7.07
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | Peter Humboldt
| 52
| {{decrease}}47
| 2,616,127
| 22.53
| {{decrease}}7.34
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | David Collins
| 3
| {{steady}}
| 361,126
| 2.04
| {{increase}}1.07
|-
| colspan="3" | Total
| 350
|
| 10,796,390
|
|
|}

=== Results by state ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|-
! style="text-align:left;" |
! style="background-color:#FFC132;" | FED
! style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | LIB
! style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | CAP
! style="background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | RAD
! style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Alexandria
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Georgia
| 2
| 10
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 13
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 25
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bechor
| 7
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 22
| 15
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 44
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Finnley
| 6
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 16
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFC132;" | 4
|
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 3
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 13
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Napier
| 5
| 21
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 27
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 53
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| 6
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Grantfeldt
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 14
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Marlsbruhe
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 3
| 8
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
| 2
| 25
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Dartmoor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 1
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 7
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 10
| 2
| 20
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
| 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 8
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Lormark
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 2
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Turvenal
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 1
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 9
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 3
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| 1
| 12
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 52
| 114
| 178
| 6
| 350
|}

1876 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-24T12:06:48Z

Tumbratumbles:

{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1876 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1872
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1880 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1880
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 4 February 1876
| registered = 14,395,921
| turnout = 80.7% ({{increase}} 2.4%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg|James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Walter Robinson]]
| colour1 = 4cbb17
| leader_since1 = 1872
| party1 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Havant (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Havant (CM)]]
| last_election1 = 54 seats, 25.3%
| seats_before1 = 57
| seats1 = '''178'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 124
| popular_vote1 = '''4,491,425'''
| percentage1 = '''38.7%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}} 13.4%
| image2 = [[File:Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| colour2 = 1155cc
| leader_since2 = 1870
| party2 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Cantonment (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Cantonment (BC)]]
| last_election2 = '''194 seats, 42.8%'''
| seats_before2 = 190
| seats2 = 114
| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 80
| popular_vote2 = 4,143,072
| percentage2 = 35.7%
| swing2 = {{decrease}} 7.1%
| image3 = [[File:Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg|Stafford_Northcote,_1st_Earl_of_Iddesleigh.jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader3 = [[Peter Humboldt]]
| colour3 = ffc132
| leader_since3 = 1872
| party3 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat3 = [[Tavistock Calvinsweald (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Tavistock Calvinsweald (DM)]]
| last_election3 = 99 seats, 29.9%
| seats_before3 = 100
| seats3 = 52
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}} 47
| popular_vote3 = 2,616,127
| percentage3 = 22.5%
| swing3 = {{decrease}} 7.3%
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| before_party = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| after_election = [[Walter Robinson]]
| after_party = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
}}

=== Results ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Walter Robinson
| 178
| {{increase}}124
| 4,491,425
| 38.68
| {{increase}}13.34
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Henry Makepeace
| 114
| {{decrease}}80
| 4,143,072
| 35.68
| {{decrease}}7.07
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | Peter Humboldt
| 52
| {{decrease}}47
| 2,616,127
| 22.53
| {{decrease}}7.34
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | David Collins
| 3
| {{stable}}
| 361,126
| 2.04
| {{increase}}1.07
|-
| colspan="3" | Total
| 350
|
| 10,796,390
|
|
|}

=== Results by state ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|-
! style="text-align:left;" |
! style="background-color:#FFC132;" | FED
! style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | LIB
! style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | CAP
! style="background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | RAD
! style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Alexandria
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 5
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Georgia
| 2
| 10
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 13
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 25
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 6
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 11
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bechor
| 7
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 22
| 15
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 44
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Finnley
| 6
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 16
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFC132;" | 4
|
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 4
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 3
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 13
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Napier
| 5
| 21
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 27
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 53
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| 6
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Grantfeldt
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 14
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Marlsbruhe
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 3
| 8
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 12
| 2
| 25
|-
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Dartmoor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 1
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 7
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 10
| 2
| 20
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
| 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 8
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Lormark
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|-
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 2
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Turvenal
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 1
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 9
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 3
| 2
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| 1
| 12
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 52
| 114
| 178
| 6
| 350
|}

1876 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-24T11:55:34Z

Tumbratumbles:

1876 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-24T11:54:17Z

Tumbratumbles:

1876 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-24T11:50:55Z

Tumbratumbles: Created page with "{{Infobox election | election_name = 1876 Tumbran federal election | country = Tumbra | type = parliamentary | ongoing = no | previous_election = 1872 Tumbran federal election | previous_year = 1872 | outgoing_members = | elected_members = | next_election = 1880 Tumbran federal election | next_year = 1880 | seats_for_election = All 350 seats to the House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbra..."

1872 Tumbran federal election

2026-05-24T07:50:50Z

Tumbratumbles:

{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1868 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1868
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1876 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1876
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 3 May 1872
| registered = 13,788,493
| turnout = 78.3% ({{decrease}} 2.7%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| colour1 = 1155cc
| leader_since1 = 1870
| party1 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Cantonment (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Cantonment (BC)]]
| last_election1 = 74 seats, 24.0%
| seats_before1 = 74
| seats1 = '''194'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 120
| popular_vote1 = '''4,615,457'''
| percentage1 = '''42.3%'''
| swing1 = {{increase}} 18.0%
| image2 = [[File:Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg|Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[William Butler]]
| colour2 = ffc132
| leader_since2 = 1870
| party2 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Springham (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Springham (AX)]]
| last_election2 = '''139 seats, 35.3%'''
| seats_before2 = 139
| seats2 = 99
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 40
| popular_vote2 = 3,224,882
| percentage2 = 29.9%
| swing2 = {{decrease}} 5.5%
| image3 = [[File:Michael_Hicks_Beach,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-84.jpg|Michael_Hicks_Beach,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-84.jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader3 = [[Francis Whitelaw]]
| colour3 = 4cbb17
| leader_since3 = 1871
| party3 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat3 = [[Bayleigh, Calham, and Rywood (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Bayleigh, Calham, and Rywood (KE)]]
| last_election3 = 106 seats, 32.7%
| seats_before3 = 134
| seats3 = 54
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}} 80
| popular_vote3 = 2,735,805
| percentage3 = 25.3%
| swing3 = {{decrease}} 7.4%
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[William Butler]]
| before_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| after_election = [[Henry Makepeace]]
| after_party = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
}}

The '''1872 Tumbran federal election''' was held on 3 May 1872 to elect the members of the 3rd House of Representatives of Tumbra. Held amidst several corruption scandals affecting the incumbent Federalist-Liberal government, the Federalists, the senior party in the government, were swept out of office. Their junior coalition partners, the Liberals, led by Deputy Prime Minister Henry Makepeace and which had been relatively untainted by the scandals engulfing the Federalist Party, won an absolute majority of seats and were able to govern alone. For the Liberals, this election consolidated their political control over the newly-ascended Western states, with the party winning 37 of the 50 seats in the region. The opposition Centre-Agrarian Party, beset by infighting, lost major ground and fell to third place in the election, losing over half their members in a result attributed to tactical voting.

The result of this election has been described as unique for being one of two times in Tumbran history where a party has gone from third place to first, the other being in 1876 when the Centre-Agrarians reversed their losses to win the election. This election, however, has been the only one in Tumbran history where a junior coalition partner won an election and formed government in its own right. The election result saw the beginning of a long historical process of the Liberals assuming primacy over the right-wing of Tumbran politics over the Federalists' early electoral dominance, eventually culminating in the merger of a moribund Federalist Party into the Liberals in 1900.

== Background ==

In the intervening period since the last election, all three of the major parties had changed their leaders. Federalist leader and Prime Minister Richard Barker had retired in 1870, citing exhaustion and a disinclination to continue. Following the 1868 election, political violence had broke out in the north-western states, particularly from members of the True Westerners who had not supported their party's merger into the Centre-Agrarians and whom continued to agitate for a reversal of the Tumbran annexation of the west. Barker was particularly worried about how this would affect national unity, particularly amongst the remaining minority of the population which held latent pro-monarchist sympathies, despite the monarchy having been overthrown twenty years prior. The low-level insurgency that spread across Marlsbruhe and Grantfeldt took a toll on Barker's health, and the continued budget deficits run by the federal government were a major political issue of the day. When the insurgency had largely been pacified in 1870, with the capture and subsequent execution of rebel leaders on charges of treason, Barker decided it was an opportune moment to step down.

Barker would be succeeded by William Butler, who had served in Barker's cabinet as Minister for the Army. Butler had been one of the leading faces in the pacification of the west, was generally popular and had become the most recognisable member of Barker's cabinet after the Prime Minister himself. He saw off challenges from Treasurer Benjamin Northcote, Postmaster-General Jacob Yarborough, and, most notably and surprisingly, former vice-president Ralph Davidson, one of the nominal founders of the party who had lost his bid for the presidency in the 1870 election against Michael Turner and who was now seeking a return to partisan politics.

Liberal leader Alexander Henderson stepped down from his own role as Deputy Prime Minister in 1870, though in contrast to Barker's resignation, he had not wished to leave the role. However, a poor 1868 election result had meant that the Eastern wing of the Liberal Party had long since lost confidence in his leadership, and they were looking for someone who could lead the party to an election victory, rather than agreeing to being a junior partner in a coalition. While Minister for Western Affairs Anthony Yardley, who had also served as the last President of the Western Tumbran Republic, was courted by party leaders, he declined, citing that for him to assume the role just two years after joining the party would be inappropriate. The party eventually settled on Henry Makepeace, who had spent the last six years as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Makepeace, who was only 44, had always been seen as a future Liberal leader, though most had expected him to only become leader in the 1880s. However, he was popular with the public, and had made regular high-profile trips overseas to build up diplomatic relations with other countries, something that pro-Liberal newspapers were always eager to report in their columns. Makepeace had personally been reluctant to relinquish the Foreign Affairs portfolio, resenting having to focus on domestic policy, but simultaneously saw himself as the only Liberal able to lead the party to an electoral victory. He assumed office as Deputy Prime Minister five weeks after Butler became Prime Minister, the two having agreed to renew their coalition agreement until the end of the term.

Centre-Agrarian leader Samuel Lightfoot had himself stepped down in 1869, citing a desire to renew the leadership of the party. Much to his deputy leader, Francis Whitelaw's, chagrin, Lightfoot endorsed James Pearce, a young leader of the party who represented a seat in the north-eastern state of Napier, a region that other party leaders decided the party needed to make inroads in if it was to topple the Federalist-Liberal monopoly on power. Further angering Whitelaw, Pearce had saw fit to leave the former deputy leader out of his shadow cabinet, after Whitelaw actively campaigned against Pearce in the backroom discussions that had led to the latter becoming the leader of the party. Whitelaw had considered quitting politics, or splitting from the Centre-Agrarians, but privately resolved to stay on and wrest the leadership from Pearce by any means necessary. Two years later, when it came to light amongst party elders that Pearce had fathered a child in an illicit relationship, Whitelaw struck, despite Lightfoot privately persuading his former deputy that doing so would ruin the party. When the story went public, in no small reason due to people affiliated with Whitelaw spreading the rumour, Pearce stepped down in disgrace and Whitelaw assumed control of the party unopposed. Some derided this, however, deeming Whitelaw taking the reins of the party at that point as arranging deckchairs on a sinking ship. The method in which Whitelaw had strongarmed his way to the leadership had left him vastly unpopular with the public, but with Pearce out of the picture, there were no other Centre-Agrarians with enough national heft to lead the party.

Not long after Barker took office in January his government was beset by scandal. Commerce Minister Elijah Short and Minister for Public Works and Railways Clarence Chase were implicated, along with several other Federalist MPs, in the East-West scandal. This scandal saw the construction of the first national east-west railway from Hesham to Fontwell via Hoxford be taken up by a private corporation, the Central Esportivan Railway Corporation, which had bidded for and won the contract, overcharge the federal government for the bill. The company, however, had been invested in by Short, Chase, and the related personalities; after receiving the dividends from the overcharging, additional bribes had been made to create a regulatory environment friendly to the CERC and unfriendly to Holtzmann, who were their main rivals and who lost the contract to construct the Hesham-Fontwell railway. Short and Chase resigned, but remained as MPs, while investigations began.

When the furore from the East-West Affair died down in May 1870, a new scandal emerged when it was revealed by Federalist-unfriendly presses that Butler's private secretary, Kingsley Wilson, had been attempting to sell access to the Prime Minister for interviews to Federalist-friendly papers at the height of the East-West affair to try and paper over the scandal. Wilson resigned in the immediate aftermath, but there were now questions over how much Butler was attempting to launder his reputation amongst the eyes of the public. Butler's credibility nosedived in the aftermath, and was not helped by him attempting to nominate William Brown, an academic at Guildholm University with no previous public office, to the Federal Constitutional Court in February. To do so, however, Brown had to have occupied some public office beforehand, so the Federalist-controlled Senate attempted to confirm him for a judgeship at a lower federal court for a few days, before confirming him as an Associate Justice. When the Liberals got wind of the plan, they voted against Brown being confirmed to the Federal Constitutional Court, and Brown withdrew his nomination after a contentious few hours. In the aftermath, some Federalists considered forcing Butler to resign and replacing him with Ralph Davidson, who was still relatively popular despite his loss in the presidential election two years ago. A Davidson premiership, however, would undoubtedly spell the end of the coalition between the Federalists and Liberals, as the former vice-president was anathema to the latter party.

By this point, Makepeace was furious with Butler, and let him know as much in their private correspondence, where he threatened to resign from Cabinet and take the Liberals out of the coalition. He would eventually back down after being persuaded by party leaders who saw the party giving up two relatively influential portfolios, including the particularly valuable Foreign Affairs portfolio, as a mistake. Butler offered to give Makepeace a bigger role in governing in secret, essentially turning them into co-prime ministers for the last nine months of the coalition agreement. Makepeace would agree in secret, but in public he would aggressively court public opinion and distancing himself from the Federalists in the aftermath, writing opinion pieces in Liberal-friendly newspapers that were tantamount to the early release of their election manifesto. The 1871 budget, passed in February, was essentially written by the Liberal Party, but was unpopular enough that the Federalists had to carry the blame for the various cuts that dragged the budget deficit down to a manageable level. It was widely acknowledged by both Federalists and Liberals that the eight-year governing agreement between the two would not continue, and that Makepeace would be making a play directly for the office of Prime Minister.

== Campaign ==

When Parliament was finally dissolved in March, both parties in the governing coalition declared they would not enter another coalition with the other. The Liberals, under Makepeace, were generally judged to have the better organisation at this point in time; they had spent the previous four years building up their organisational knowledge in the Southwest, and replicated their tactics in the East. Their strong focus on anti-corruption and sound economic management, together with their emphasis that they had some form of governing experience, played well with the public which had largely tired of the Federalists' scandals, yet which were unwilling to vote for the unpopular Centre-Agrarian Party.

The Liberals would end up dominating the campaign; even the most stridently pro-Federalist and pro-Centre-Agrarian newspapers would be forced to acknowledge reality and accept that the Liberals were likely to win the election. The columns written by Makepeace were widely syndicated as campaign material as the Liberal platform; he would also embark on an tour of the nation (while stridently avoiding the Hesham-Fontwell railroad, which he deemed "tarred by the sins of corruption and which shall not receive my Patronage until the circumstances of its construction are investigated.") He called for a persecution of Short and Chase, while managing to sidestep questions on how close he had been to them and why he had not been aware of their corruption.

The Centre-Agrarians largely floundered in their campaign. Their numbers had been boosted by their merger with the True Westerners shortly after the 1868 election, but they struggled to make their policies clear and party infighting largely dominated discourse surrounding their party. Their support in the West, which was regarded as softer than their support in the east, had evaporated, and several True Westerner MPs who had joined the party upon its merger chose to contest their seats as independents, in the belief that the party name was a drag on their personal fortunes. Underfunded and unpopular, the party racked up debts which severely curtailed their ability to spread their message through the newspapers, which were the main method of campaigning in the 1870s; surrogates were also reluctant to show up for them.

The small, left-wing Radical Party had attempted to latch onto the unpopularity of both the Federalist government and the Centre-Agrarians to try and gain popularity. They were now led by David Collins, one of the three Radical MPs who had been elected in 1864 and who largely continued the tactics the party had utilised for its two previous electoral campaigns. This time, they fielded fifty candidates, twenty-three of whom were independents who wrote in to the party and were officially endorsed by the party after the end of nominations.

== Results and aftermath ==

The Liberals were swept into office on a swing that surprised even Makepeace. Later analysis showed that the Liberals were the beneficiary of tactical voting from both disaffected Federalists who did not wish to see Centre-Agrarians in government, Centre-Agrarians who detested the corruption in the government and who were turned off by Whitelaw, and Western supporters who flocked to the party in the aftermath of the pacification of the West. The Federalists fielded candidates in all fifty western seats, but none of them were elected. The strength of the Liberal victory in the popular vote can largely be put down to huge margins in the seven western states, who were initially afraid of the Federalists acting as spoilers in the region, but this proved to be not a concern in the final vote.

Makepeace would assume office as Prime Minister the following week, naming the first single-party cabinet in Tumbran history. Butler would resign as party leader and be replaced by Peter Humboldt, who had become Commerce Minister after Elijah Short's resignation, and who was now given the task of rebuilding the shattered party. Whitelaw, now in charge of a rump caucus of just fifty-four MPs, would be forced out of the office of Leader. Walter Robinson, who had served as the party's president and was amenable to both the Whitelaw and Pearce wings of the party, was named as his replacement.

=== Results ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#15C;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Henry Makepeace
| 194
| {{increase}}120
| 4,615,457
| 42.75
| {{increase}}18.74
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | William Butler
| 99
| {{decrease}}40
| 3,224,882
| 29.87
| {{decrease}}5.46
|-
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Francis Whitelaw
| 54
| {{decrease}}80
| 2,735,805
| 25.34
| {{decrease}}7.37
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | David Collins
| 3
| {{steady}}
| 220,246
| 2.04
| {{increase}}0.34
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Total
| style="text-align:right;" | 350
| style="text-align:right;" |
| 10,796,390
|
| style="text-align:right;" |
|}

=== Results by state ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! State
! style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#FFC132;" | Federalist
! style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Liberal
! style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | Radical
!
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Alexandria
| 5
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 6
|
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
|
|
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Georgia
| 9
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 11
| 5
|
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Keybrook
| 3
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
| 4
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Raleigh
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 2
| 2
| 2
|
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
| 3
| 4
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 4
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bechor
| 14
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 24
| 6
|
| 44
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Finnley
| 3
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 13
|
|
| 16
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 2
| 2
|
|
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Marcato
| 5
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 7
| 1
|
| 13
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Napier
| 13
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 35
| 5
|
| 53
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 3
|
|
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| 1
|
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Grantfeldt
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 9
| 5
|
| 14
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Marlsbruhe
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 9
| 3
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Clearmont
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 15
| 6
| 2
| 2
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Dartmoor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 5
| 3
| 3
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Severn
| 7
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 8
| 4
| 1
| 20
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 7
| 1
|
| 8
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Lormark
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 4
| 1
|
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 2
| 1
|
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Turvenal
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| 1
|
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Gamaliel
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 2
|
| 1
|
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Iswilyn
| 4
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 5
| 2
|
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Westmond
| 4
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 6
| 2
|
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
| 12
|-
| Total
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 99
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 194
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 54
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 350
|}

Prime Minister of Tumbra

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| incumbent = Lawrence Newell
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| incumbentsince = 13 June 2035
| department = Government of the Federal Republic of Tumbra Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Office
| style = Prime Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (Tumbra) His Excellency (international)
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| status = Head of Government
| abbreviation = PM
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| residence = Federal Prime Ministerial Offices (official residence) Wright House (country house)
| seat =
| nominator = Political parties
| appointer = President of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| appointer_qualified = The President appoints the nominee which is able to get the most votes in the Prime Ministerial election following the first seating of Parliament.
| termlength = No term limit
| termlength_qualified = While commanding the confidence of the majority of the House of Representatives.
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Tumbra]]
| precursor = State Counsellor of the Empire of Tumbra
| inaugural = Richard Barker
| formation = 1864
| deputy = Deputy Prime Minister of Tumbra
| salary = $200,000/year
| website =
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}}
The '''Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Tumbra''' is the head of government of the [[Tumbra|Federal Republic of Tumbra]]. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and legislative branches of the Tumbran government, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the House of Representatives, their party and the electorate, for the government's policies and actions.

The post of Prime Minister was inaugurated by the Constitution of Tumbra, specifically Section VII, which deals with the Federal government. They are, constitutionally, responsible for the "day-to-day running conduct and policy of the State", as directed in Clause 149. To achieve this, the Prime Minister is able to appoint Cabinet Ministers to lead new Ministries (clauses 178 and 179), but there is a limit on how many full Ministers he may nominate (as per clause 179b, the current limit is 25), giving them a total of 26 Ministers (including the PM themself) in Cabinet. To date, the limit has never been reached and the current number of full Ministers is 23. By convention, one of those members is the Deputy Prime Minister, though the office has never been codified in the Constitution.

By virtue of his office, the Prime Minister also serves as the Minister for the Civil Service.

Some observers, therefore, given the Prime Minister's wide-ranging powers, tend to refer to the office of Prime Minister as a "democracy by Premiership", rather than, in as most other parliamentary governments, the primus inter pares of Cabinet. The power of the Prime Minister is afforded to them by the Constitution, and their status as the leader of the party or coalition holding at least a plurality of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

== History of the office ==
The office of Prime Minister was envisioned originally to function as more of a "domestic affairs coordinator", working in tandem with the President, who would have jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs, in a semi-presidential system. Yet, as President Gordon Hamilton was away in the war, and as he refused to allow his Vice President Ralph Davidson to have sway over said affairs, it fell to the first Prime Minister - Richard Barker of the Federalist Party - to juggle the responsibilities of the premiership.

The change to a fully parliamentary system with the Prime Minister in charge of all government affairs was formalised in 1877. In that sense, Walter Robinson was the first proper Prime Minister of the Federal Republic, but he acted as more of a primus inter pares than most of his successors, and all policy decisions made by his Cabinet were done so collectively.

Most principles, however, of the modern Premiership can be dated back to Leonard Everett's first premiership of 1882. While he did consult his Cabinet colleagues when it came to executive decisions, the final decision was almost exclusively made by him, a principle that has existed to this day and was utilised extensively by Malcolm Haywood throughout his sixteen-year Premiership.

==Term of office==
There are no term limits on the Prime Minister's term, save for the election for Prime Minister at the start of every newly convened Parliament; meaning that once appointed and sworn in by the President, the prime minister remains in office until they resign, are dismissed by the President, die, or their successor is elected. To date, only the first and last circumstances have occurred. In practice, under the system of responsible government, the prime minister (by convention) resigns should they lose the confidence of the elected House of Representatives. This can happen if the government loses an important vote, such as on the budget (loss of supply). The PM may also be unseated on a motion of no confidence, though constitutionally these motions must be constructive, requiring Parliament to present an alternative candidate for Prime Minister.

The longest serving Prime Minister was Malcolm Haywood, who served for 16 years and 24 days from 1963 to 1979; the shortest-serving Prime Minister was Peter Carten, who served for 245 days in 1957.

==Role==

Today, the Prime Minister's authority emanates from the Constitution, and from their status as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Clause 176 largely is seen as the principle that guides the Prime Minister's functions, with the sub-clauses guiding the Prime Minister. These sub-clauses are:
# The "responsibility clause" - Clause 176a dictates that the Prime Minister shall be "responsible for and determine the general guidelines of policy." This gives the Prime Minister the legal right to formally introduce policy guidelines that ministers must implement.
# The "independence clause" - Clause 176ai dictates that each Minister has the freedom to run their own departments and prepare their own legislative proposals, so long as they are consistent the Prime Minister's policies;
# and the "cabinet solidarity clause" - Clause 176b enshrines the concept of cabinet solidarity, and ensures that the entire Cabinet settles its disputes within itself.

Clause 177 mandates that the Prime Minister "shall, from time to time, report on the State of the Republic to a Joint Session of Parliament."
This has taken the form of the Prime Ministerial Agenda, which they give at the start of every session of Parliament, which occurs every year in July, unless there has been a general election that year. If there has been a general election that year, the first session of the newly elected Parliament is dedicated to electing a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister. The Agenda is then typically given two or three weeks after the election of the Prime Minister.

The typical content of an Agenda contains the state of the country, as mandated by the Constitution, and then the laws that the government intends to pass in the following year. In the weeks following the Agenda, it is typically debated by Parliament in its response to the Prime Minister. Typically, the failure to carry an Agenda is a huge embarrassment for the Prime Minister, but it is not as serious as failing a vote of no confidence.

Clause 181 empowers the Prime Minister to advise the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections for the House of Representatives. Typically, this is only done when the House votes to dissolve itself (as it did in 1980), for a snap election (as Peter Roscoe did in 2001), or if the House is unable to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister even after the absolute majority requirement for the Premiership is lifted. The last circumstance has never occurred.

Typically, the President allows these dissolutions, but they may be less willing to allow snap elections; most notably, when Peter Roscoe first took office in 2000 following a constructive vote of no confidence, he attempted to immediately call for a general election, but was rebuffed by then-President Hazel Moore on the grounds that he had the numbers to become Prime Minister; therefore no election was needed. The incident coloured Moore's last year of her Presidency - she eventually granted a dissolution in 2001 - and was widely seen as the reason why Stephen Trew triumphed over Vice President Desmond Lewis in 2002's presidential election.

The Prime Minister also has great influence over nominations to political posts that require Senate confirmation. However, the Prime Minister does not influence the President's pick for the twenty-five Governors (who serve as representatives of the President, and are effectively their surrogate) of the states.

== Election mechanism ==

The election of a Prime Minister is typically the second order of business in a new seating of Parliament, after the election of the Speaker. The procedure for the election of a Prime Minister is outlined in Article 167 of the Constitution, where a candidate - which by convention is the leader of the largest party or coalition, unless the Prime Minister is the incumbent and wishes to be re-nominated - is nominated by the most senior member of that member's party, and his name put up to the Speaker. The Speaker then puts the candidate to a vote; should the Prime Ministerial candidate garner a majority of the total votes cast (including abstentions) then that person is said to be elected as Prime Minister and is subsequently sworn in by the President in front of the whole House of Representatives. The House is then adjourned, following some remarks by the Prime Minister.

Should nobody be able to get an absolute majority of votes, following the third election for Prime Minister, the criteria changes to exclude abstentions - meaning the prospective Prime Minister just needs to secure more "yes" votes than "no" votes to take office.

Should the Speaker deem there be no prospect of any Prime Ministerial candidate being selected, the Speaker shall recommend to the Prime Minister (in a caretaker capacity) to seek a dissolution of the House, on the grounds that there "is no possible government formed". To date since the founding of the Republic, no such election has occurred because of this.

This electoral procedure also applies should the House fail to pass any government budget; at which time the office of Prime Minister is immediately declared vacant, with the incumbent serving in a caretaker capacity until they are either re-elected or a new Prime Minister is selected. Should a new Prime Minister be selected, the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister will take place typically the next day, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Straton.

Additionally, should the post of Prime Minister fall vacant due to resignation, death or otherwise, new elections will be held in accordance to this procedure.

=== Votes of No Confidence ===

According to Clause 168 of the Constitution, votes of no confidence must be constructive - i.e. they must present an alternate candidate for Prime Minister and secure an absolute majority of those voting in the subsequent election for Prime Minister. Unlike the election for Prime Minister, such a vote pits the incumbent Prime Minister directly against their challenger. Should the challenger win, the Prime Minister is obligated to resign and advise the President to swear in the winner of the vote of no confidence.

To date, only one vote of no confidence has been carried, in 2000 - when Peter Roscoe won 267 votes to the incumbent Edward North's 233 votes.

==Privileges==
[[File:NYSCapitolPanorama.jpg|thumb|right|The Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton]]
[[File:Chequers_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Wright House, Bechor]]
The Prime Minister is afforded two official residences; the Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton, which were built in 1997, and Wright House on the outskirts of Serrapince, Bechor. Before 1997, the Straton residence of the Prime Minister was located at 36 Hampton Drive. That location has since been gazetted as a historical monument; plans are underway to either refurbish the house and make it available to the Prime Minister again, or open it up to the public as a museum. Former Prime Minister Darren Hayes remarked in 2015 that "[the Prime Minister] living where [they] work makes it such that [they] are unable to escape the job...it would be nice to re-open the house so that [they] can have a place to stay after finishing work, instead of retreating upstairs." Current Prime Minister Kenneth Everett has made no public statements on the status of the house; he has reportedly been unhappy with staying at the Prime Ministerial offices.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the use of an armoured car, and shared use of two official aircraft with the President and Vice President. The Federal Police also provides constant security for the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the usage of the prefix "the Right Honourable", and should they die, they are afforded a state funeral, with their casket lying in state in the Main Wing of the Federal Parliament building.

==List==

{{Canadian first minister list/top}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Richard Barker
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''1'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1864
|member_title = MP
|image = William_Ewart_Gladstone_(cropped).jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1801
|death_year = 1882
|riding = Hulbury, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 1864
|end_date = 14 January
|end_year = 1870
|assembly_type = Tumbran Parliament
|assembly_short = Parliament
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1864
|event1_assembly = 1st
|event1_note =
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1868
|event2_assembly = 2nd
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Butler
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''2'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1870
|member_title = MP
|image = Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1812
|death_year = 1887
|riding = Springham, Alexandria
|start_date = 15 January
|start_year = 1870
|end_date = 2 May
|end_year = 1872
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1870
|event1_assembly = 2nd
|accomplishments = 
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Henry Makepeace
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''3'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1868
|member_title = MP
|image = Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1826
|death_year = 1899
|riding = Cantonment, Bechor
|start_date = 3 May
|start_year = 1872
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 1876
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1872
|event1_assembly = 3rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Walter Robinson
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''4'''
|colour = #6aa84f
|leadership = 1874
|member_title = MP
|image = James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Centre-Agrarian Party
|birth_year = 1809
|death_year = 1888
|riding = Havant, Clearmont
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 1876
|end_date = 20 February
|end_year = 1882
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1876
|event1_assembly = 4th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1880
|event2_assembly = 5th
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Leonard Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''5'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1875
|member_title = MP
|image = James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1822
|death_year = 1896
|riding = Timbourne, Napier
|start_date = 21 February
|start_year = 1882
|end_date = 7 August
|end_year = 1886
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1882
|event1_assembly = 6th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ross Hargreaves
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''6'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1880
|member_title = MP
|image = Whitelaw_Reid_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1832
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Kewdale, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 8 August
|start_year = 1886
|end_date = 19 September
|end_year = 1890
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1886
|event1_assembly = 7th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Thomas Michael Palmer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''7'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1886
|member_title = MP
|image = Charles_Stewart_Parnell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1828
|death_year = 1908
|riding = Lakewood South, Severn
|start_date = 20 September
|start_year = 1890
|end_date = 28 December
|end_year = 1895
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1890
|event1_assembly = 8th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1894
|event2_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Rodgers
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''8'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1895
|member_title = MP
|image = 1st_Viscount_Bryce_1902b.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1838
|death_year = 1915
|riding = Hume, Straton
|start_date = 29 December
|start_year = 1895
|end_date = 3 April
|end_year = 1898
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1895
|event1_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Adrian Parkes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''9'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1894
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Deakin_crop.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1836
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Dunsford, Westmond
|start_date = 4 April
|start_year = 1898
|end_date = 6 April
|end_year = 1903
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1898
|event1_assembly = 10th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1899
|event2_assembly = 11th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Fitzpatrick
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''10'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1903
|member_title = MP
|image = Joseph_Chamberlain_MP.png
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1842
|death_year = 1920
|riding = Haworth, Bechor
|start_date = 7 April
|start_year = 1903
|end_date = 12 May
|end_year = 1907
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1903
|event1_assembly = 12th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1903
|event2_assembly = 12th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1906
|event3_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Joseph Lancaster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''11'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1907
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Lyttelton.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1849
|death_year = 1931
|riding = Guillemard Handelwood, Napier
|start_date = 13 May
|start_year = 1907
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1910
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1907
|event1_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Nathaniel Webb
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''12'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1906
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1852
|death_year = 1933
|riding = Kingsbury Central, Georgia
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1910
|end_date = 1 September
|end_year = 1919
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1910
|event1_assembly = 14th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1914
|event2_assembly = 15th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1917
|event3_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Quentin Reed
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''13'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1919
|member_title = MP
|image = J.R._Clynes_LCCN2014717260_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1855
|death_year = 1932
|riding = Lymeswold, Clearmont
|start_date = 2 September
|start_year = 1919
|end_date = 10 July
|end_year = 1920
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1919
|event1_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = John Hattersley
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''14'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1916
|member_title = MP
|image = Calvin Coolidge-by Garo-1923.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1861
|death_year = 1934
|riding = Wimbourne, Dartmoor
|start_date = 11 July
|start_year = 1920
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1926
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1920
|event1_assembly = 17th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1924
|event2_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Robert Golding
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''15'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1926
|member_title = MP
|image = Stanley Bruce 1926.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1952
|riding = Tenningham, Iswilyn
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1926
|end_date = 16 June
|end_year = 1928
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1926
|event1_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = James Carlton
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''16'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1924
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_James_H._Scullin.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1868
|death_year = 1949
|riding = Harwick, Hamilton
|start_date = 17 June
|start_year = 1928
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 1932
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1928
|event1_assembly = 19th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1932
|event2_assembly = 20th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = George Highbury
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''17'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1932
|member_title = MP
|image = Dr._Christopher_Addison_LOC_16027831872_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1960
|riding = Nantwich South, Finnley
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 1932
|end_date = 11 January
|end_year = 1936
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1932
|event1_assembly = 20th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1933
|event2_assembly = 21st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Colin Forrest
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''18'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1935
|member_title = MP
|image = Brendan_Bracken_1947.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1951
|riding = Linden, Hamilton
|start_date = 12 January
|start_year = 1936
|end_date = 7 February
|end_year = 1942
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1936
|event1_assembly = 22nd
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1940
|event2_assembly = 23rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Alistair Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''19'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1940
|member_title = MP
|image = Herbert_Morrison_1947_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1958
|riding = Timbourne East, Napier
|start_date = 8 February
|start_year = 1942
|end_date = 11 August
|end_year = 1951
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1942
|event1_assembly = 24th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1943
|event2_assembly = 25th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1947
|event3_assembly = 26th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Christopher Bradshaw
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''20'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1947
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1881
|death_year = 1972
|riding = Wentworth, Georgia
|start_date = 12 August
|start_year = 1951
|end_date = 31 December
|end_year = 1956
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1951
|event1_assembly = 27th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1955
|event2_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Carten
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''21'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = John Profumo.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1907
|death_year = 1987
|riding = Norramby, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 1 January
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 3 September
|end_year = 1957
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Brian Foster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''22'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = Richard_Nixon,_official_bw_photo,_head_and_shoulders.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1893
|death_year = 1975
|riding = Hereford, Georgia
|start_date = 4 September
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 9 March
|end_year = 1963
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1959
|event2_assembly = 29th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Malcolm Haywood
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''23'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1959
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1910
|death_year = 2000
|riding = Couno Grove Hill, Napier
|start_date = 10 March
|start_year = 1963
|end_date = 4 April
|end_year = 1979
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1963
|event1_assembly = 30th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1965
|event2_assembly = 31st
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1969
|event3_assembly = 32nd
|event4 = election
|event4_year = 1973
|event4_assembly = 33rd
|event5 = election
|event5_year = 1975
|event5_assembly = 34th
|event6 = election
|event6_year = 1979
|event6_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Holly Philips
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''24'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1979
|member_title = MP
|image = Vigdis_Finnbogadottir_(1985).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1939
|death_year = 2026
|riding = Hayford Central, Severn
|start_date = 5 April
|start_year = 1979
|end_date = 12 July
|end_year = 1980
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1979
|event1_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Andrew Rainer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''25'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1977
|member_title = MP
|image = Mulroney.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1938
|death_year = 2022
|riding = Chalfont, Napier
|start_date = 13 July
|start_year = 1980
|end_date = 15 August
|end_year = 1992
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1980
|event1_assembly = 36th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1984
|event2_assembly = 37th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1988
|event3_assembly = 38th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Edward North
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''26'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1990
|member_title = MP
|image = Keating Paul BANNER.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1942
|death_year = 2027
|riding = Clark Central, Finnley
|start_date = 16 August
|start_year = 1992
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 2000
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1992
|event1_assembly = 39th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1996
|event2_assembly = 40th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1999
|event3_assembly = 41st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Roscoe
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''27'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1997
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_John_Redwood_MP_crop_2.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1935
|death_year = 2016
|riding = Hartford, Grantfeldt
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 2000
|end_date = 7 May
|end_year = 2005
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2000
|event1_assembly = 41st
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2001
|event2_assembly = 42nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ian Randall
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''28'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2001
|member_title = MP
|image = Jack Layton-cr bl (cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1949
|death_year = 2029
|riding = Couno Central, Napier
|start_date = 8 May
|start_year = 2005
|end_date = 6 July
|end_year = 2009
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2005
|event1_assembly = 43rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Darren Hayes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''29'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 2008
|member_title = MP
|image = Malcolm Turnbull PM&C.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1955
|death_year = 2037
|riding = Broxtowe, Clearmont
|start_date = 7 July
|start_year = 2009
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 2017
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2009
|event1_assembly = 44th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2013
|event2_assembly = 45th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Kenneth Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''30'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2013
|member_title = MP
|image = Gavin_Newsom_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1968
|death_year =
|riding = Timbourne South, Napier
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 2017
|end_date = 1 July
|end_year = 2027
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2017
|event1_assembly = 46th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2021
|event2_assembly = 47th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 2025
|event3_assembly = 48th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Michael Kirkland
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''31'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2027
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Keir_Starmer_crop_2.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1966
|death_year =
|riding = Newgate, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2027
|end_date = 20 August
|end_year = 2029
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2027
|event1_assembly = 48th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = April 2029
|event2_assembly = 49th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Stephen Williams
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''32'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2025
|member_title = MP
|image = Ulf_Kristersson_on_29_June_2023.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1969
|death_year =
|riding = Yarwood, Napier
|start_date = 21 August
|start_year = 2029
|end_date = 13 June
|end_year = 2035
|event1 = election
|event1_year = August 2029
|event1_assembly = 50th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2033
|event2_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Lawrence Newell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''33'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2035
|member_title = MP
|image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1977
|death_year =
|riding = Cavalsham, Pesvern
|start_date = 13 June
|start_year = 2035
|end_date = 29 June
|end_year = 2037
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2035
|event1_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Bertram Andrews
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''34'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image = Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1980
|death_year =
|riding = Serrapince Rainford, Bechor
|start_date = 30 June
|start_year = 2037
|end_date = 30 June
|end_year = 2043
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2037
|event1_assembly = 52nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Sandra Campbell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''35'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1989
|death_year =
|riding = Couno Langholm, Napier
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2043
|end_date =
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|event1_assembly = 53rd
|accomplishments =
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{{Infobox official post
| post = Prime Minister
| body = the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| native_name =
| insignia = File:Tumbra_seal.png
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| insigniacaption = Seal of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| insigniaalt =
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| flagsize =
| flagalt =
| flagborder =
| flagcaption = Flag of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| alt =
| imagecaption =
| incumbent = Lawrence Newell
| acting = no
| incumbentsince = 13 June 2035
| department = Government of the Federal Republic of Tumbra Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Office
| style = Prime Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (Tumbra) His Excellency (international)
| type =
| status = Head of Government
| abbreviation = PM
| member_of = Cabinet
| reports_to = House of Representatives
| residence = Federal Prime Ministerial Offices (official residence) Wright House (country house)
| seat =
| nominator = Political parties
| appointer = President of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| appointer_qualified = The President appoints the nominee which is able to get the most votes in the Prime Ministerial election following the first seating of Parliament.
| termlength = No term limit
| termlength_qualified = While commanding the confidence of the majority of the House of Representatives.
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Tumbra]]
| precursor = State Counsellor of the Empire of Tumbra
| inaugural = Richard Barker
| formation = 1864
| deputy = Deputy Prime Minister of Tumbra
| salary = $200,000/year
| website =
| footnotes =
}}
The '''Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Tumbra''' is the head of government of the [[Tumbra|Federal Republic of Tumbra]]. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and legislative branches of the Tumbran government, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the House of Representatives, their party and the electorate, for the government's policies and actions.

The post of Prime Minister was inaugurated by the Constitution of Tumbra, specifically Section VII, which deals with the Federal government. They are, constitutionally, responsible for the "day-to-day running conduct and policy of the State", as directed in Clause 149. To achieve this, the Prime Minister is able to appoint Cabinet Ministers to lead new Ministries (clauses 178 and 179), but there is a limit on how many full Ministers he may nominate (as per clause 179b, the current limit is 25), giving them a total of 26 Ministers (including the PM themself) in Cabinet. To date, the limit has never been reached and the current number of full Ministers is 23. By convention, one of those members is the Deputy Prime Minister, though the office has never been codified in the Constitution.

By virtue of his office, the Prime Minister also serves as the Minister for the Civil Service.

Some observers, therefore, given the Prime Minister's wide-ranging powers, tend to refer to the office of Prime Minister as a "democracy by Premiership", rather than, in as most other parliamentary governments, the primus inter pares of Cabinet. The power of the Prime Minister is afforded to them by the Constitution, and their status as the leader of the party or coalition holding at least a plurality of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

== History of the office ==
The office of Prime Minister was envisioned originally to function as more of a "domestic affairs coordinator", working in tandem with the President, who would have jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs, in a semi-presidential system. Yet, as President Gordon Hamilton was away in the war, and as he refused to allow his Vice President Ralph Davidson to have sway over said affairs, it fell to the first Prime Minister - Richard Barker of the Federalist Party - to juggle the responsibilities of the premiership.

The change to a fully parliamentary system with the Prime Minister in charge of all government affairs was formalised in 1877. In that sense, Walter Robinson was the first proper Prime Minister of the Federal Republic, but he acted as more of a primus inter pares than most of his successors, and all policy decisions made by his Cabinet were done so collectively.

Most principles, however, of the modern Premiership can be dated back to Leonard Everett's first premiership of 1882. While he did consult his Cabinet colleagues when it came to executive decisions, the final decision was almost exclusively made by him, a principle that has existed to this day and was utilised extensively by Malcolm Haywood throughout his sixteen-year Premiership.

==Term of office==
There are no term limits on the Prime Minister's term, save for the election for Prime Minister at the start of every newly convened Parliament; meaning that once appointed and sworn in by the President, the prime minister remains in office until they resign, are dismissed by the President, die, or their successor is elected. To date, only the first and last circumstances have occurred. In practice, under the system of responsible government, the prime minister (by convention) resigns should they lose the confidence of the elected House of Representatives. This can happen if the government loses an important vote, such as on the budget (loss of supply). The PM may also be unseated on a motion of no confidence, though constitutionally these motions must be constructive, requiring Parliament to present an alternative candidate for Prime Minister.

The longest serving Prime Minister was Malcolm Haywood, who served for 16 years and 24 days from 1963 to 1979; the shortest-serving Prime Minister was Peter Carten, who served for 245 days in 1957.

==Role==

Today, the Prime Minister's authority emanates from the Constitution, and from their status as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Clause 176 largely is seen as the principle that guides the Prime Minister's functions, with the sub-clauses guiding the Prime Minister. These sub-clauses are:
# The "responsibility clause" - Clause 176a dictates that the Prime Minister shall be "responsible for and determine the general guidelines of policy." This gives the Prime Minister the legal right to formally introduce policy guidelines that ministers must implement.
# The "independence clause" - Clause 176ai dictates that each Minister has the freedom to run their own departments and prepare their own legislative proposals, so long as they are consistent the Prime Minister's policies;
# and the "cabinet solidarity clause" - Clause 176b enshrines the concept of cabinet solidarity, and ensures that the entire Cabinet settles its disputes within itself.

Clause 177 mandates that the Prime Minister "shall, from time to time, report on the State of the Republic to a Joint Session of Parliament."
This has taken the form of the Prime Ministerial Agenda, which they give at the start of every session of Parliament, which occurs every year in July, unless there has been a general election that year. If there has been a general election that year, the first session of the newly elected Parliament is dedicated to electing a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister. The Agenda is then typically given two or three weeks after the election of the Prime Minister.

The typical content of an Agenda contains the state of the country, as mandated by the Constitution, and then the laws that the government intends to pass in the following year. In the weeks following the Agenda, it is typically debated by Parliament in its response to the Prime Minister. Typically, the failure to carry an Agenda is a huge embarrassment for the Prime Minister, but it is not as serious as failing a vote of no confidence.

Clause 181 empowers the Prime Minister to advise the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections for the House of Representatives. Typically, this is only done when the House votes to dissolve itself (as it did in 1980), for a snap election (as Peter Roscoe did in 2001), or if the House is unable to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister even after the absolute majority requirement for the Premiership is lifted. The last circumstance has never occurred.

Typically, the President allows these dissolutions, but they may be less willing to allow snap elections; most notably, when Peter Roscoe first took office in 2000 following a constructive vote of no confidence, he attempted to immediately call for a general election, but was rebuffed by then-President Hazel Moore on the grounds that he had the numbers to become Prime Minister; therefore no election was needed. The incident coloured Moore's last year of her Presidency - she eventually granted a dissolution in 2001 - and was widely seen as the reason why Stephen Trew triumphed over Vice President Desmond Lewis in 2002's presidential election.

The Prime Minister also has great influence over nominations to political posts that require Senate confirmation. However, the Prime Minister does not influence the President's pick for the twenty-five Governors (who serve as representatives of the President, and are effectively their surrogate) of the states.

== Election mechanism ==

The election of a Prime Minister is typically the second order of business in a new seating of Parliament, after the election of the Speaker. The procedure for the election of a Prime Minister is outlined in Article 167 of the Constitution, where a candidate - which by convention is the leader of the largest party or coalition, unless the Prime Minister is the incumbent and wishes to be re-nominated - is nominated by the most senior member of that member's party, and his name put up to the Speaker. The Speaker then puts the candidate to a vote; should the Prime Ministerial candidate garner a majority of the total votes cast (including abstentions) then that person is said to be elected as Prime Minister and is subsequently sworn in by the President in front of the whole House of Representatives. The House is then adjourned, following some remarks by the Prime Minister.

Should nobody be able to get an absolute majority of votes, following the third election for Prime Minister, the criteria changes to exclude abstentions - meaning the prospective Prime Minister just needs to secure more "yes" votes than "no" votes to take office.

Should the Speaker deem there be no prospect of any Prime Ministerial candidate being selected, the Speaker shall recommend to the Prime Minister (in a caretaker capacity) to seek a dissolution of the House, on the grounds that there "is no possible government formed". To date since the founding of the Republic, no such election has occurred because of this.

This electoral procedure also applies should the House fail to pass any government budget; at which time the office of Prime Minister is immediately declared vacant, with the incumbent serving in a caretaker capacity until they are either re-elected or a new Prime Minister is selected. Should a new Prime Minister be selected, the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister will take place typically the next day, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Straton.

Additionally, should the post of Prime Minister fall vacant due to resignation, death or otherwise, new elections will be held in accordance to this procedure.

=== Votes of No Confidence ===

According to Clause 168 of the Constitution, votes of no confidence must be constructive - i.e. they must present an alternate candidate for Prime Minister and secure an absolute majority of those voting in the subsequent election for Prime Minister. Unlike the election for Prime Minister, such a vote pits the incumbent Prime Minister directly against their challenger. Should the challenger win, the Prime Minister is obligated to resign and advise the President to swear in the winner of the vote of no confidence.

To date, only one vote of no confidence has been carried, in 2000 - when Peter Roscoe won 267 votes to the incumbent Edward North's 233 votes.

==Privileges==
[[File:NYSCapitolPanorama.jpg|thumb|right|The Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton]]
[[File:Chequers_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Wright House, Bechor]]
The Prime Minister is afforded two official residences; the Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton, which were built in 1997, and Wright House on the outskirts of Serrapince, Bechor. Before 1997, the Straton residence of the Prime Minister was located at 36 Hampton Drive. That location has since been gazetted as a historical monument; plans are underway to either refurbish the house and make it available to the Prime Minister again, or open it up to the public as a museum. Former Prime Minister Darren Hayes remarked in 2015 that "[the Prime Minister] living where [they] work makes it such that [they] are unable to escape the job...it would be nice to re-open the house so that [they] can have a place to stay after finishing work, instead of retreating upstairs." Current Prime Minister Kenneth Everett has made no public statements on the status of the house; he has reportedly been unhappy with staying at the Prime Ministerial offices.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the use of an armoured car, and shared use of two official aircraft with the President and Vice President. The Federal Police also provides constant security for the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the usage of the prefix "the Right Honourable", and should they die, they are afforded a state funeral, with their casket lying in state in the Main Wing of the Federal Parliament building.

==List==

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{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Richard Barker
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''1'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1864
|member_title = MP
|image = William_Ewart_Gladstone_(cropped).jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1801
|death_year = 1882
|riding = Hulbury, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 1864
|end_date = 14 January
|end_year = 1870
|assembly_type = Tumbran Parliament
|assembly_short = Parliament
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1864
|event1_assembly = 1st
|event1_note =
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1868
|event2_assembly = 2nd
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Butler
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''2'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1870
|member_title = MP
|image = Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1812
|death_year = 1887
|riding = Springham, Alexandria
|start_date = 15 January
|start_year = 1870
|end_date = 2 May
|end_year = 1872
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1870
|event1_assembly = 2nd
|accomplishments = 
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Henry Makepeace
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''3'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1868
|member_title = MP
|image = Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1816
|death_year = 1889
|riding = Cantonment, Bechor
|start_date = 3 May
|start_year = 1872
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 1876
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1872
|event1_assembly = 3rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Walter Robinson
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''4'''
|colour = #6aa84f
|leadership = 1874
|member_title = MP
|image = James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Centre-Agrarian Party
|birth_year = 1809
|death_year = 1888
|riding = Havant, Clearmont
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 1876
|end_date = 20 February
|end_year = 1882
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1876
|event1_assembly = 4th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1880
|event2_assembly = 5th
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Leonard Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''5'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1875
|member_title = MP
|image = James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1822
|death_year = 1896
|riding = Timbourne, Napier
|start_date = 21 February
|start_year = 1882
|end_date = 7 August
|end_year = 1886
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1882
|event1_assembly = 6th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ross Hargreaves
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''6'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1880
|member_title = MP
|image = Whitelaw_Reid_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1832
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Kewdale, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 8 August
|start_year = 1886
|end_date = 19 September
|end_year = 1890
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1886
|event1_assembly = 7th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Thomas Michael Palmer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''7'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1886
|member_title = MP
|image = Charles_Stewart_Parnell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1828
|death_year = 1908
|riding = Lakewood South, Severn
|start_date = 20 September
|start_year = 1890
|end_date = 28 December
|end_year = 1895
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1890
|event1_assembly = 8th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1894
|event2_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Rodgers
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''8'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1895
|member_title = MP
|image = 1st_Viscount_Bryce_1902b.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1838
|death_year = 1915
|riding = Hume, Straton
|start_date = 29 December
|start_year = 1895
|end_date = 3 April
|end_year = 1898
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1895
|event1_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Adrian Parkes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''9'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1894
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Deakin_crop.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1836
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Dunsford, Westmond
|start_date = 4 April
|start_year = 1898
|end_date = 6 April
|end_year = 1903
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1898
|event1_assembly = 10th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1899
|event2_assembly = 11th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Fitzpatrick
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''10'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1903
|member_title = MP
|image = Joseph_Chamberlain_MP.png
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1842
|death_year = 1920
|riding = Haworth, Bechor
|start_date = 7 April
|start_year = 1903
|end_date = 12 May
|end_year = 1907
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1903
|event1_assembly = 12th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1903
|event2_assembly = 12th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1906
|event3_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Joseph Lancaster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''11'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1907
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Lyttelton.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1849
|death_year = 1931
|riding = Guillemard Handelwood, Napier
|start_date = 13 May
|start_year = 1907
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1910
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1907
|event1_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Nathaniel Webb
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''12'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1906
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1852
|death_year = 1933
|riding = Kingsbury Central, Georgia
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1910
|end_date = 1 September
|end_year = 1919
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1910
|event1_assembly = 14th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1914
|event2_assembly = 15th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1917
|event3_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Quentin Reed
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''13'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1919
|member_title = MP
|image = J.R._Clynes_LCCN2014717260_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1855
|death_year = 1932
|riding = Lymeswold, Clearmont
|start_date = 2 September
|start_year = 1919
|end_date = 10 July
|end_year = 1920
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1919
|event1_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = John Hattersley
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''14'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1916
|member_title = MP
|image = Calvin Coolidge-by Garo-1923.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1861
|death_year = 1934
|riding = Wimbourne, Dartmoor
|start_date = 11 July
|start_year = 1920
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1926
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1920
|event1_assembly = 17th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1924
|event2_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Robert Golding
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''15'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1926
|member_title = MP
|image = Stanley Bruce 1926.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1952
|riding = Tenningham, Iswilyn
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1926
|end_date = 16 June
|end_year = 1928
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1926
|event1_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = James Carlton
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''16'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1924
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_James_H._Scullin.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1868
|death_year = 1949
|riding = Harwick, Hamilton
|start_date = 17 June
|start_year = 1928
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 1932
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1928
|event1_assembly = 19th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1932
|event2_assembly = 20th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = George Highbury
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''17'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1932
|member_title = MP
|image = Dr._Christopher_Addison_LOC_16027831872_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1960
|riding = Nantwich South, Finnley
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 1932
|end_date = 11 January
|end_year = 1936
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1932
|event1_assembly = 20th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1933
|event2_assembly = 21st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Colin Forrest
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''18'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1935
|member_title = MP
|image = Brendan_Bracken_1947.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1951
|riding = Linden, Hamilton
|start_date = 12 January
|start_year = 1936
|end_date = 7 February
|end_year = 1942
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1936
|event1_assembly = 22nd
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1940
|event2_assembly = 23rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Alistair Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''19'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1940
|member_title = MP
|image = Herbert_Morrison_1947_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1958
|riding = Timbourne East, Napier
|start_date = 8 February
|start_year = 1942
|end_date = 11 August
|end_year = 1951
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1942
|event1_assembly = 24th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1943
|event2_assembly = 25th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1947
|event3_assembly = 26th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Christopher Bradshaw
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''20'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1947
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1881
|death_year = 1972
|riding = Wentworth, Georgia
|start_date = 12 August
|start_year = 1951
|end_date = 31 December
|end_year = 1956
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1951
|event1_assembly = 27th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1955
|event2_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Carten
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''21'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = John Profumo.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1907
|death_year = 1987
|riding = Norramby, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 1 January
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 3 September
|end_year = 1957
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Brian Foster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''22'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = Richard_Nixon,_official_bw_photo,_head_and_shoulders.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1893
|death_year = 1975
|riding = Hereford, Georgia
|start_date = 4 September
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 9 March
|end_year = 1963
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1959
|event2_assembly = 29th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Malcolm Haywood
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''23'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1959
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1910
|death_year = 2000
|riding = Couno Grove Hill, Napier
|start_date = 10 March
|start_year = 1963
|end_date = 4 April
|end_year = 1979
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1963
|event1_assembly = 30th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1965
|event2_assembly = 31st
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1969
|event3_assembly = 32nd
|event4 = election
|event4_year = 1973
|event4_assembly = 33rd
|event5 = election
|event5_year = 1975
|event5_assembly = 34th
|event6 = election
|event6_year = 1979
|event6_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Holly Philips
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''24'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1979
|member_title = MP
|image = Vigdis_Finnbogadottir_(1985).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1939
|death_year = 2026
|riding = Hayford Central, Severn
|start_date = 5 April
|start_year = 1979
|end_date = 12 July
|end_year = 1980
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1979
|event1_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Andrew Rainer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''25'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1977
|member_title = MP
|image = Mulroney.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1938
|death_year = 2022
|riding = Chalfont, Napier
|start_date = 13 July
|start_year = 1980
|end_date = 15 August
|end_year = 1992
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1980
|event1_assembly = 36th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1984
|event2_assembly = 37th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1988
|event3_assembly = 38th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Edward North
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''26'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1990
|member_title = MP
|image = Keating Paul BANNER.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1942
|death_year = 2027
|riding = Clark Central, Finnley
|start_date = 16 August
|start_year = 1992
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 2000
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1992
|event1_assembly = 39th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1996
|event2_assembly = 40th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1999
|event3_assembly = 41st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Roscoe
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''27'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1997
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_John_Redwood_MP_crop_2.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1935
|death_year = 2016
|riding = Hartford, Grantfeldt
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 2000
|end_date = 7 May
|end_year = 2005
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2000
|event1_assembly = 41st
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2001
|event2_assembly = 42nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ian Randall
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''28'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2001
|member_title = MP
|image = Jack Layton-cr bl (cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1949
|death_year = 2029
|riding = Couno Central, Napier
|start_date = 8 May
|start_year = 2005
|end_date = 6 July
|end_year = 2009
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2005
|event1_assembly = 43rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Darren Hayes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''29'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 2008
|member_title = MP
|image = Malcolm Turnbull PM&C.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1955
|death_year = 2037
|riding = Broxtowe, Clearmont
|start_date = 7 July
|start_year = 2009
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 2017
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2009
|event1_assembly = 44th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2013
|event2_assembly = 45th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Kenneth Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''30'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2013
|member_title = MP
|image = Gavin_Newsom_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1968
|death_year =
|riding = Timbourne South, Napier
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 2017
|end_date = 1 July
|end_year = 2027
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2017
|event1_assembly = 46th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2021
|event2_assembly = 47th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 2025
|event3_assembly = 48th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Michael Kirkland
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''31'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2027
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Keir_Starmer_crop_2.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1966
|death_year =
|riding = Newgate, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2027
|end_date = 20 August
|end_year = 2029
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2027
|event1_assembly = 48th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = April 2029
|event2_assembly = 49th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Stephen Williams
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''32'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2025
|member_title = MP
|image = Ulf_Kristersson_on_29_June_2023.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1969
|death_year =
|riding = Yarwood, Napier
|start_date = 21 August
|start_year = 2029
|end_date = 13 June
|end_year = 2035
|event1 = election
|event1_year = August 2029
|event1_assembly = 50th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2033
|event2_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Lawrence Newell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''33'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2035
|member_title = MP
|image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1977
|death_year =
|riding = Cavalsham, Pesvern
|start_date = 13 June
|start_year = 2035
|end_date = 29 June
|end_year = 2037
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2035
|event1_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Bertram Andrews
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''34'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image = Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1980
|death_year =
|riding = Serrapince Rainford, Bechor
|start_date = 30 June
|start_year = 2037
|end_date = 30 June
|end_year = 2043
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2037
|event1_assembly = 52nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Sandra Campbell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''35'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1989
|death_year =
|riding = Couno Langholm, Napier
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2043
|end_date =
|end_year =
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2043
|event1_assembly = 53rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list/bottom
|notes=
}}

==Notes==
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Prime Minister of Tumbra

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[[Category:Heads_of_government]]
{{Infobox official post
| post = Prime Minister
| body = the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| native_name =
| insignia = File:Tumbra_seal.png
| insigniasize =
| insigniacaption = Seal of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| insigniaalt =
| flag = File:Flag_of_Tumbra.png
| flagsize =
| flagalt =
| flagborder =
| flagcaption = Flag of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| alt =
| imagecaption =
| incumbent = Lawrence Newell
| acting = no
| incumbentsince = 13 June 2035
| department = Government of the Federal Republic of Tumbra Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Office
| style = Prime Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (Tumbra) His Excellency (international)
| type =
| status = Head of Government
| abbreviation = PM
| member_of = Cabinet
| reports_to = House of Representatives
| residence = Federal Prime Ministerial Offices (official residence) Wright House (country house)
| seat =
| nominator = Political parties
| appointer = President of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| appointer_qualified = The President appoints the nominee which is able to get the most votes in the Prime Ministerial election following the first seating of Parliament.
| termlength = No term limit
| termlength_qualified = While commanding the confidence of the majority of the House of Representatives.
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Tumbra]]
| precursor = State Counsellor of the Empire of Tumbra
| inaugural = Richard Barker
| formation = 1864
| deputy = Deputy Prime Minister of Tumbra
| salary = $200,000/year
| website =
| footnotes =
}}
The '''Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Tumbra''' is the head of government of the [[Tumbra|Federal Republic of Tumbra]]. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and legislative branches of the Tumbran government, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the House of Representatives, their party and the electorate, for the government's policies and actions.

The post of Prime Minister was inaugurated by the Constitution of Tumbra, specifically Section VII, which deals with the Federal government. They are, constitutionally, responsible for the "day-to-day running conduct and policy of the State", as directed in Clause 149. To achieve this, the Prime Minister is able to appoint Cabinet Ministers to lead new Ministries (clauses 178 and 179), but there is a limit on how many full Ministers he may nominate (as per clause 179b, the current limit is 25), giving them a total of 26 Ministers (including the PM themself) in Cabinet. To date, the limit has never been reached and the current number of full Ministers is 23. By convention, one of those members is the Deputy Prime Minister, though the office has never been codified in the Constitution.

By virtue of his office, the Prime Minister also serves as the Minister for the Civil Service.

Some observers, therefore, given the Prime Minister's wide-ranging powers, tend to refer to the office of Prime Minister as a "democracy by Premiership", rather than, in as most other parliamentary governments, the primus inter pares of Cabinet. The power of the Prime Minister is afforded to them by the Constitution, and their status as the leader of the party or coalition holding at least a plurality of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

== History of the office ==
The office of Prime Minister was envisioned originally to function as more of a "domestic affairs coordinator", working in tandem with the President, who would have jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs, in a semi-presidential system. Yet, as President Gordon Hamilton was away in the war, and as he refused to allow his Vice President Ralph Davidson to have sway over said affairs, it fell to the first Prime Minister - Richard Barker of the Federalist Party - to juggle the responsibilities of the premiership.

The change to a fully parliamentary system with the Prime Minister in charge of all government affairs was formalised in 1877. In that sense, Walter Robinson was the first proper Prime Minister of the Federal Republic, but he acted as more of a primus inter pares than most of his successors, and all policy decisions made by his Cabinet were done so collectively.

Most principles, however, of the modern Premiership can be dated back to Leonard Everett's first premiership of 1882. While he did consult his Cabinet colleagues when it came to executive decisions, the final decision was almost exclusively made by him, a principle that has existed to this day and was utilised extensively by Malcolm Haywood throughout his sixteen-year Premiership.

==Term of office==
There are no term limits on the Prime Minister's term, save for the election for Prime Minister at the start of every newly convened Parliament; meaning that once appointed and sworn in by the President, the prime minister remains in office until they resign, are dismissed by the President, die, or their successor is elected. To date, only the first and last circumstances have occurred. In practice, under the system of responsible government, the prime minister (by convention) resigns should they lose the confidence of the elected House of Representatives. This can happen if the government loses an important vote, such as on the budget (loss of supply). The PM may also be unseated on a motion of no confidence, though constitutionally these motions must be constructive, requiring Parliament to present an alternative candidate for Prime Minister.

The longest serving Prime Minister was Malcolm Haywood, who served for 16 years and 24 days from 1963 to 1979; the shortest-serving Prime Minister was Peter Carten, who served for 245 days in 1957.

==Role==

Today, the Prime Minister's authority emanates from the Constitution, and from their status as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Clause 176 largely is seen as the principle that guides the Prime Minister's functions, with the sub-clauses guiding the Prime Minister. These sub-clauses are:
# The "responsibility clause" - Clause 176a dictates that the Prime Minister shall be "responsible for and determine the general guidelines of policy." This gives the Prime Minister the legal right to formally introduce policy guidelines that ministers must implement.
# The "independence clause" - Clause 176ai dictates that each Minister has the freedom to run their own departments and prepare their own legislative proposals, so long as they are consistent the Prime Minister's policies;
# and the "cabinet solidarity clause" - Clause 176b enshrines the concept of cabinet solidarity, and ensures that the entire Cabinet settles its disputes within itself.

Clause 177 mandates that the Prime Minister "shall, from time to time, report on the State of the Republic to a Joint Session of Parliament."
This has taken the form of the Prime Ministerial Agenda, which they give at the start of every session of Parliament, which occurs every year in July, unless there has been a general election that year. If there has been a general election that year, the first session of the newly elected Parliament is dedicated to electing a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister. The Agenda is then typically given two or three weeks after the election of the Prime Minister.

The typical content of an Agenda contains the state of the country, as mandated by the Constitution, and then the laws that the government intends to pass in the following year. In the weeks following the Agenda, it is typically debated by Parliament in its response to the Prime Minister. Typically, the failure to carry an Agenda is a huge embarrassment for the Prime Minister, but it is not as serious as failing a vote of no confidence.

Clause 181 empowers the Prime Minister to advise the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections for the House of Representatives. Typically, this is only done when the House votes to dissolve itself (as it did in 1980), for a snap election (as Peter Roscoe did in 2001), or if the House is unable to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister even after the absolute majority requirement for the Premiership is lifted. The last circumstance has never occurred.

Typically, the President allows these dissolutions, but they may be less willing to allow snap elections; most notably, when Peter Roscoe first took office in 2000 following a constructive vote of no confidence, he attempted to immediately call for a general election, but was rebuffed by then-President Hazel Moore on the grounds that he had the numbers to become Prime Minister; therefore no election was needed. The incident coloured Moore's last year of her Presidency - she eventually granted a dissolution in 2001 - and was widely seen as the reason why Stephen Trew triumphed over Vice President Desmond Lewis in 2002's presidential election.

The Prime Minister also has great influence over nominations to political posts that require Senate confirmation. However, the Prime Minister does not influence the President's pick for the twenty-five Governors (who serve as representatives of the President, and are effectively their surrogate) of the states.

== Election mechanism ==

The election of a Prime Minister is typically the second order of business in a new seating of Parliament, after the election of the Speaker. The procedure for the election of a Prime Minister is outlined in Article 167 of the Constitution, where a candidate - which by convention is the leader of the largest party or coalition, unless the Prime Minister is the incumbent and wishes to be re-nominated - is nominated by the most senior member of that member's party, and his name put up to the Speaker. The Speaker then puts the candidate to a vote; should the Prime Ministerial candidate garner a majority of the total votes cast (including abstentions) then that person is said to be elected as Prime Minister and is subsequently sworn in by the President in front of the whole House of Representatives. The House is then adjourned, following some remarks by the Prime Minister.

Should nobody be able to get an absolute majority of votes, following the third election for Prime Minister, the criteria changes to exclude abstentions - meaning the prospective Prime Minister just needs to secure more "yes" votes than "no" votes to take office.

Should the Speaker deem there be no prospect of any Prime Ministerial candidate being selected, the Speaker shall recommend to the Prime Minister (in a caretaker capacity) to seek a dissolution of the House, on the grounds that there "is no possible government formed". To date since the founding of the Republic, no such election has occurred because of this.

This electoral procedure also applies should the House fail to pass any government budget; at which time the office of Prime Minister is immediately declared vacant, with the incumbent serving in a caretaker capacity until they are either re-elected or a new Prime Minister is selected. Should a new Prime Minister be selected, the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister will take place typically the next day, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Straton.

Additionally, should the post of Prime Minister fall vacant due to resignation, death or otherwise, new elections will be held in accordance to this procedure.

=== Votes of No Confidence ===

According to Clause 168 of the Constitution, votes of no confidence must be constructive - i.e. they must present an alternate candidate for Prime Minister and secure an absolute majority of those voting in the subsequent election for Prime Minister. Unlike the election for Prime Minister, such a vote pits the incumbent Prime Minister directly against their challenger. Should the challenger win, the Prime Minister is obligated to resign and advise the President to swear in the winner of the vote of no confidence.

To date, only one vote of no confidence has been carried, in 2000 - when Peter Roscoe won 267 votes to the incumbent Edward North's 233 votes.

==Privileges==
[[File:NYSCapitolPanorama.jpg|thumb|right|The Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton]]
[[File:Chequers_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Wright House, Bechor]]
The Prime Minister is afforded two official residences; the Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton, which were built in 1997, and Wright House on the outskirts of Serrapince, Bechor. Before 1997, the Straton residence of the Prime Minister was located at 36 Hampton Drive. That location has since been gazetted as a historical monument; plans are underway to either refurbish the house and make it available to the Prime Minister again, or open it up to the public as a museum. Former Prime Minister Darren Hayes remarked in 2015 that "[the Prime Minister] living where [they] work makes it such that [they] are unable to escape the job...it would be nice to re-open the house so that [they] can have a place to stay after finishing work, instead of retreating upstairs." Current Prime Minister Kenneth Everett has made no public statements on the status of the house; he has reportedly been unhappy with staying at the Prime Ministerial offices.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the use of an armoured car, and shared use of two official aircraft with the President and Vice President. The Federal Police also provides constant security for the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the usage of the prefix "the Right Honourable", and should they die, they are afforded a state funeral, with their casket lying in state in the Main Wing of the Federal Parliament building.

==List==

{{Canadian first minister list/top}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Richard Barker
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''1'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1864
|member_title = MP
|image = William_Ewart_Gladstone_(cropped).jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1801
|death_year = 1882
|riding = Hulbury, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 1864
|end_date = 14 January
|end_year = 1870
|assembly_type = Tumbran Parliament
|assembly_short = Parliament
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1864
|event1_assembly = 1st
|event1_note =
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1868
|event2_assembly = 2nd
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Butler
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''2'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1870
|member_title = MP
|image = Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1812
|death_year = 1887
|riding = Springham, Alexandria
|start_date = 15 January
|start_year = 1870
|end_date = 2 May
|end_year = 1872
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1870
|event1_assembly = 2nd
|accomplishments = 
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Henry Makepeace
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''3'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1868
|member_title = MP
|image = Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1816
|death_year = 1889
|riding = Cantonment, Bechor
|start_date = 3 May
|start_year = 1872
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 1876
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1872
|event1_assembly = 3rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Walter Robinson
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''4'''
|colour = #6aa84f
|leadership = 1874
|member_title = MP
|image = James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Centre-Agrarian Party
|birth_year = 1809
|death_year = 1888
|riding = Havant, Clearmont
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 1876
|end_date = 20 February
|end_year = 1882
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1876
|event1_assembly = 4th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1880
|event2_assembly = 5th
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Leonard Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''5'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1875
|member_title = MP
|image = James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1822
|death_year = 1896
|riding = Timbourne, Napier
|start_date = 21 February
|start_year = 1882
|end_date = 7 August
|end_year = 1886
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1882
|event1_assembly = 6th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ross Hargreaves
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''6'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1880
|member_title = MP
|image = Whitelaw_Reid_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1832
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Kewdale, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 8 August
|start_year = 1886
|end_date = 19 September
|end_year = 1890
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1886
|event1_assembly = 7th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Thomas Michael Palmer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''7'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1886
|member_title = MP
|image = Charles_Stewart_Parnell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1828
|death_year = 1908
|riding = Lakewood South, Severn
|start_date = 20 September
|start_year = 1890
|end_date = 28 December
|end_year = 1895
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1890
|event1_assembly = 8th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1894
|event2_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Rodgers
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''8'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1895
|member_title = MP
|image = 1st_Viscount_Bryce_1902b.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1838
|death_year = 1915
|riding = Hume, Straton
|start_date = 29 December
|start_year = 1895
|end_date = 3 April
|end_year = 1898
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1895
|event1_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Adrian Parkes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''9'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1894
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Deakin_crop.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1836
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Dunsford, Westmond
|start_date = 4 April
|start_year = 1898
|end_date = 6 April
|end_year = 1903
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1898
|event1_assembly = 10th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1899
|event2_assembly = 11th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Fitzpatrick
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''10'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1903
|member_title = MP
|image = Joseph_Chamberlain_MP.png
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1842
|death_year = 1920
|riding = Haworth, Bechor
|start_date = 7 April
|start_year = 1903
|end_date = 12 May
|end_year = 1907
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1903
|event1_assembly = 12th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1903
|event2_assembly = 12th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1906
|event3_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Joseph Lancaster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''11'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1907
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Lyttelton.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1849
|death_year = 1931
|riding = Guillemard Handelwood, Napier
|start_date = 13 May
|start_year = 1907
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1910
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1907
|event1_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Nathaniel Webb
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''12'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1906
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1852
|death_year = 1933
|riding = Kingsbury Central, Georgia
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1910
|end_date = 1 September
|end_year = 1919
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1910
|event1_assembly = 14th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1914
|event2_assembly = 15th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1917
|event3_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Quentin Reed
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''13'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1919
|member_title = MP
|image = J.R._Clynes_LCCN2014717260_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1855
|death_year = 1932
|riding = Lymeswold, Clearmont
|start_date = 2 September
|start_year = 1919
|end_date = 10 July
|end_year = 1920
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1919
|event1_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = John Hattersley
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''14'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1916
|member_title = MP
|image = Calvin Coolidge-by Garo-1923.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1861
|death_year = 1934
|riding = Wimbourne, Dartmoor
|start_date = 11 July
|start_year = 1920
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1926
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1920
|event1_assembly = 17th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1924
|event2_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Robert Golding
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''15'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1926
|member_title = MP
|image = Stanley Bruce 1926.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1952
|riding = Tenningham, Iswilyn
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1926
|end_date = 16 June
|end_year = 1928
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1926
|event1_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = James Carlton
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''16'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1924
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_James_H._Scullin.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1868
|death_year = 1949
|riding = Harwick, Hamilton
|start_date = 17 June
|start_year = 1928
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 1932
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1928
|event1_assembly = 19th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1932
|event2_assembly = 20th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = George Highbury
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''17'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1932
|member_title = MP
|image = Dr._Christopher_Addison_LOC_16027831872_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1960
|riding = Nantwich South, Finnley
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 1932
|end_date = 11 January
|end_year = 1936
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1932
|event1_assembly = 20th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1933
|event2_assembly = 21st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Colin Forrest
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''18'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1935
|member_title = MP
|image = Brendan_Bracken_1947.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1951
|riding = Linden, Hamilton
|start_date = 12 January
|start_year = 1936
|end_date = 7 February
|end_year = 1942
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1936
|event1_assembly = 22nd
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1940
|event2_assembly = 23rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Alistair Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''19'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1940
|member_title = MP
|image = Herbert_Morrison_1947_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1958
|riding = Timbourne East, Napier
|start_date = 8 February
|start_year = 1942
|end_date = 11 August
|end_year = 1951
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1942
|event1_assembly = 24th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1943
|event2_assembly = 25th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1947
|event3_assembly = 26th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Christopher Bradshaw
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''20'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1947
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1881
|death_year = 1972
|riding = Wentworth, Georgia
|start_date = 12 August
|start_year = 1951
|end_date = 31 December
|end_year = 1956
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1951
|event1_assembly = 27th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1955
|event2_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Carten
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''21'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = John Profumo.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1907
|death_year = 1987
|riding = Norramby, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 1 January
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 3 September
|end_year = 1957
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Brian Foster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''22'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = Harold_Macmillan_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1893
|death_year = 1975
|riding = Hereford, Georgia
|start_date = 4 September
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 9 March
|end_year = 1963
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1959
|event2_assembly = 29th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Malcolm Haywood
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''23'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1959
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1910
|death_year = 2000
|riding = Couno Grove Hill, Napier
|start_date = 10 March
|start_year = 1963
|end_date = 4 April
|end_year = 1979
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1963
|event1_assembly = 30th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1965
|event2_assembly = 31st
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1969
|event3_assembly = 32nd
|event4 = election
|event4_year = 1973
|event4_assembly = 33rd
|event5 = election
|event5_year = 1975
|event5_assembly = 34th
|event6 = election
|event6_year = 1979
|event6_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Holly Philips
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''24'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1979
|member_title = MP
|image = Vigdis_Finnbogadottir_(1985).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1939
|death_year = 2026
|riding = Hayford Central, Severn
|start_date = 5 April
|start_year = 1979
|end_date = 12 July
|end_year = 1980
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1979
|event1_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Andrew Rainer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''25'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1977
|member_title = MP
|image = Mulroney.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1938
|death_year = 2022
|riding = Chalfont, Napier
|start_date = 13 July
|start_year = 1980
|end_date = 15 August
|end_year = 1992
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1980
|event1_assembly = 36th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1984
|event2_assembly = 37th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1988
|event3_assembly = 38th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Edward North
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''26'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1990
|member_title = MP
|image = Keating Paul BANNER.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1942
|death_year = 2027
|riding = Clark Central, Finnley
|start_date = 16 August
|start_year = 1992
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 2000
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1992
|event1_assembly = 39th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1996
|event2_assembly = 40th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1999
|event3_assembly = 41st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Roscoe
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''27'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1997
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_John_Redwood_MP_crop_2.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1935
|death_year = 2016
|riding = Hartford, Grantfeldt
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 2000
|end_date = 7 May
|end_year = 2005
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2000
|event1_assembly = 41st
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2001
|event2_assembly = 42nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ian Randall
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''28'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2001
|member_title = MP
|image = Jack Layton-cr bl (cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1949
|death_year = 2029
|riding = Couno Central, Napier
|start_date = 8 May
|start_year = 2005
|end_date = 6 July
|end_year = 2009
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2005
|event1_assembly = 43rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Darren Hayes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''29'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 2008
|member_title = MP
|image = Malcolm Turnbull PM&C.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1955
|death_year = 2037
|riding = Broxtowe, Clearmont
|start_date = 7 July
|start_year = 2009
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 2017
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2009
|event1_assembly = 44th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2013
|event2_assembly = 45th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Kenneth Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''30'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2013
|member_title = MP
|image = Gavin_Newsom_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1968
|death_year =
|riding = Timbourne South, Napier
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 2017
|end_date = 1 July
|end_year = 2027
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2017
|event1_assembly = 46th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2021
|event2_assembly = 47th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 2025
|event3_assembly = 48th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Michael Kirkland
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''31'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2027
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Keir_Starmer_crop_2.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1966
|death_year =
|riding = Newgate, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2027
|end_date = 20 August
|end_year = 2029
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2027
|event1_assembly = 48th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = April 2029
|event2_assembly = 49th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Stephen Williams
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''32'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2025
|member_title = MP
|image = Ulf_Kristersson_on_29_June_2023.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1969
|death_year =
|riding = Yarwood, Napier
|start_date = 21 August
|start_year = 2029
|end_date = 13 June
|end_year = 2035
|event1 = election
|event1_year = August 2029
|event1_assembly = 50th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2033
|event2_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Lawrence Newell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''33'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2035
|member_title = MP
|image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1977
|death_year =
|riding = Cavalsham, Pesvern
|start_date = 13 June
|start_year = 2035
|end_date = 29 June
|end_year = 2037
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2035
|event1_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Bertram Andrews
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''34'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image = Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1980
|death_year =
|riding = Serrapince Rainford, Bechor
|start_date = 30 June
|start_year = 2037
|end_date = 30 June
|end_year = 2043
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2037
|event1_assembly = 52nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Sandra Campbell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''35'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1989
|death_year =
|riding = Couno Langholm, Napier
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2043
|end_date =
|end_year =
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2043
|event1_assembly = 53rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list/bottom
|notes=
}}

==Notes==
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Prime Minister of Tumbra

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{{Infobox official post
| post = Prime Minister
| body = the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| native_name =
| insignia = File:Tumbra_seal.png
| insigniasize =
| insigniacaption = Seal of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| insigniaalt =
| flag = File:Flag_of_Tumbra.png
| flagsize =
| flagalt =
| flagborder =
| flagcaption = Flag of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| alt =
| imagecaption =
| incumbent = Lawrence Newell
| acting = no
| incumbentsince = 13 June 2035
| department = Government of the Federal Republic of Tumbra Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Office
| style = Prime Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (Tumbra) His Excellency (international)
| type =
| status = Head of Government
| abbreviation = PM
| member_of = Cabinet
| reports_to = House of Representatives
| residence = Federal Prime Ministerial Offices (official residence) Wright House (country house)
| seat =
| nominator = Political parties
| appointer = President of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| appointer_qualified = The President appoints the nominee which is able to get the most votes in the Prime Ministerial election following the first seating of Parliament.
| termlength = No term limit
| termlength_qualified = While commanding the confidence of the majority of the House of Representatives.
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Tumbra]]
| precursor = State Counsellor of the Empire of Tumbra
| inaugural = Richard Barker
| formation = 1864
| deputy = Deputy Prime Minister of Tumbra
| salary = $200,000/year
| website =
| footnotes =
}}
The '''Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Tumbra''' is the head of government of the [[Tumbra|Federal Republic of Tumbra]]. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and legislative branches of the Tumbran government, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the House of Representatives, their party and the electorate, for the government's policies and actions.

The post of Prime Minister was inaugurated by the Constitution of Tumbra, specifically Section VII, which deals with the Federal government. They are, constitutionally, responsible for the "day-to-day running conduct and policy of the State", as directed in Clause 149. To achieve this, the Prime Minister is able to appoint Cabinet Ministers to lead new Ministries (clauses 178 and 179), but there is a limit on how many full Ministers he may nominate (as per clause 179b, the current limit is 25), giving them a total of 26 Ministers (including the PM themself) in Cabinet. To date, the limit has never been reached and the current number of full Ministers is 23. By convention, one of those members is the Deputy Prime Minister, though the office has never been codified in the Constitution.

By virtue of his office, the Prime Minister also serves as the Minister for the Civil Service.

Some observers, therefore, given the Prime Minister's wide-ranging powers, tend to refer to the office of Prime Minister as a "democracy by Premiership", rather than, in as most other parliamentary governments, the primus inter pares of Cabinet. The power of the Prime Minister is afforded to them by the Constitution, and their status as the leader of the party or coalition holding at least a plurality of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

== History of the office ==
The office of Prime Minister was envisioned originally to function as more of a "domestic affairs coordinator", working in tandem with the President, who would have jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs, in a semi-presidential system. Yet, as President Gordon Hamilton was away in the war, and as he refused to allow his Vice President Ralph Davidson to have sway over said affairs, it fell to the first Prime Minister - Richard Barker of the Federalist Party - to juggle the responsibilities of the premiership.

The change to a fully parliamentary system with the Prime Minister in charge of all government affairs was formalised in 1877. In that sense, Walter Robinson was the first proper Prime Minister of the Federal Republic, but he acted as more of a primus inter pares than most of his successors, and all policy decisions made by his Cabinet were done so collectively.

Most principles, however, of the modern Premiership can be dated back to Leonard Everett's first premiership of 1882. While he did consult his Cabinet colleagues when it came to executive decisions, the final decision was almost exclusively made by him, a principle that has existed to this day and was utilised extensively by Malcolm Haywood throughout his sixteen-year Premiership.

==Term of office==
There are no term limits on the Prime Minister's term, save for the election for Prime Minister at the start of every newly convened Parliament; meaning that once appointed and sworn in by the President, the prime minister remains in office until they resign, are dismissed by the President, die, or their successor is elected. To date, only the first and last circumstances have occurred. In practice, under the system of responsible government, the prime minister (by convention) resigns should they lose the confidence of the elected House of Representatives. This can happen if the government loses an important vote, such as on the budget (loss of supply). The PM may also be unseated on a motion of no confidence, though constitutionally these motions must be constructive, requiring Parliament to present an alternative candidate for Prime Minister.

The longest serving Prime Minister was Malcolm Haywood, who served for 16 years and 24 days from 1963 to 1979; the shortest-serving Prime Minister was Peter Carten, who served for 245 days in 1957.

==Role==

Today, the Prime Minister's authority emanates from the Constitution, and from their status as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Clause 176 largely is seen as the principle that guides the Prime Minister's functions, with the sub-clauses guiding the Prime Minister. These sub-clauses are:
# The "responsibility clause" - Clause 176a dictates that the Prime Minister shall be "responsible for and determine the general guidelines of policy." This gives the Prime Minister the legal right to formally introduce policy guidelines that ministers must implement.
# The "independence clause" - Clause 176ai dictates that each Minister has the freedom to run their own departments and prepare their own legislative proposals, so long as they are consistent the Prime Minister's policies;
# and the "cabinet solidarity clause" - Clause 176b enshrines the concept of cabinet solidarity, and ensures that the entire Cabinet settles its disputes within itself.

Clause 177 mandates that the Prime Minister "shall, from time to time, report on the State of the Republic to a Joint Session of Parliament."
This has taken the form of the Prime Ministerial Agenda, which they give at the start of every session of Parliament, which occurs every year in July, unless there has been a general election that year. If there has been a general election that year, the first session of the newly elected Parliament is dedicated to electing a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister. The Agenda is then typically given two or three weeks after the election of the Prime Minister.

The typical content of an Agenda contains the state of the country, as mandated by the Constitution, and then the laws that the government intends to pass in the following year. In the weeks following the Agenda, it is typically debated by Parliament in its response to the Prime Minister. Typically, the failure to carry an Agenda is a huge embarrassment for the Prime Minister, but it is not as serious as failing a vote of no confidence.

Clause 181 empowers the Prime Minister to advise the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections for the House of Representatives. Typically, this is only done when the House votes to dissolve itself (as it did in 1980), for a snap election (as Peter Roscoe did in 2001), or if the House is unable to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister even after the absolute majority requirement for the Premiership is lifted. The last circumstance has never occurred.

Typically, the President allows these dissolutions, but they may be less willing to allow snap elections; most notably, when Peter Roscoe first took office in 2000 following a constructive vote of no confidence, he attempted to immediately call for a general election, but was rebuffed by then-President Hazel Moore on the grounds that he had the numbers to become Prime Minister; therefore no election was needed. The incident coloured Moore's last year of her Presidency - she eventually granted a dissolution in 2001 - and was widely seen as the reason why Stephen Trew triumphed over Vice President Desmond Lewis in 2002's presidential election.

The Prime Minister also has great influence over nominations to political posts that require Senate confirmation. However, the Prime Minister does not influence the President's pick for the twenty-five Governors (who serve as representatives of the President, and are effectively their surrogate) of the states.

== Election mechanism ==

The election of a Prime Minister is typically the second order of business in a new seating of Parliament, after the election of the Speaker. The procedure for the election of a Prime Minister is outlined in Article 167 of the Constitution, where a candidate - which by convention is the leader of the largest party or coalition, unless the Prime Minister is the incumbent and wishes to be re-nominated - is nominated by the most senior member of that member's party, and his name put up to the Speaker. The Speaker then puts the candidate to a vote; should the Prime Ministerial candidate garner a majority of the total votes cast (including abstentions) then that person is said to be elected as Prime Minister and is subsequently sworn in by the President in front of the whole House of Representatives. The House is then adjourned, following some remarks by the Prime Minister.

Should nobody be able to get an absolute majority of votes, following the third election for Prime Minister, the criteria changes to exclude abstentions - meaning the prospective Prime Minister just needs to secure more "yes" votes than "no" votes to take office.

Should the Speaker deem there be no prospect of any Prime Ministerial candidate being selected, the Speaker shall recommend to the Prime Minister (in a caretaker capacity) to seek a dissolution of the House, on the grounds that there "is no possible government formed". To date since the founding of the Republic, no such election has occurred because of this.

This electoral procedure also applies should the House fail to pass any government budget; at which time the office of Prime Minister is immediately declared vacant, with the incumbent serving in a caretaker capacity until they are either re-elected or a new Prime Minister is selected. Should a new Prime Minister be selected, the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister will take place typically the next day, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Straton.

Additionally, should the post of Prime Minister fall vacant due to resignation, death or otherwise, new elections will be held in accordance to this procedure.

=== Votes of No Confidence ===

According to Clause 168 of the Constitution, votes of no confidence must be constructive - i.e. they must present an alternate candidate for Prime Minister and secure an absolute majority of those voting in the subsequent election for Prime Minister. Unlike the election for Prime Minister, such a vote pits the incumbent Prime Minister directly against their challenger. Should the challenger win, the Prime Minister is obligated to resign and advise the President to swear in the winner of the vote of no confidence.

To date, only one vote of no confidence has been carried, in 2000 - when Peter Roscoe won 267 votes to the incumbent Edward North's 233 votes.

==Privileges==
[[File:NYSCapitolPanorama.jpg|thumb|right|The Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton]]
[[File:Chequers_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Wright House, Bechor]]
The Prime Minister is afforded two official residences; the Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton, which were built in 1997, and Wright House on the outskirts of Serrapince, Bechor. Before 1997, the Straton residence of the Prime Minister was located at 36 Hampton Drive. That location has since been gazetted as a historical monument; plans are underway to either refurbish the house and make it available to the Prime Minister again, or open it up to the public as a museum. Former Prime Minister Darren Hayes remarked in 2015 that "[the Prime Minister] living where [they] work makes it such that [they] are unable to escape the job...it would be nice to re-open the house so that [they] can have a place to stay after finishing work, instead of retreating upstairs." Current Prime Minister Kenneth Everett has made no public statements on the status of the house; he has reportedly been unhappy with staying at the Prime Ministerial offices.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the use of an armoured car, and shared use of two official aircraft with the President and Vice President. The Federal Police also provides constant security for the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the usage of the prefix "the Right Honourable", and should they die, they are afforded a state funeral, with their casket lying in state in the Main Wing of the Federal Parliament building.

==List==

{{Canadian first minister list/top}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Richard Barker
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''1'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1864
|member_title = MP
|image = William_Ewart_Gladstone_(cropped).jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1801
|death_year = 1882
|riding = Hulbury, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 1864
|end_date = 14 January
|end_year = 1870
|assembly_type = Tumbran Parliament
|assembly_short = Parliament
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1864
|event1_assembly = 1st
|event1_note =
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1868
|event2_assembly = 2nd
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Butler
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''2'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1870
|member_title = MP
|image = Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1812
|death_year = 1887
|riding = Springham, Alexandria
|start_date = 15 January
|start_year = 1870
|end_date = 2 May
|end_year = 1872
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1870
|event1_assembly = 2nd
|accomplishments = 
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Henry Makepeace
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''3'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1868
|member_title = MP
|image = Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1816
|death_year = 1889
|riding = Cantonment, Bechor
|start_date = 3 May
|start_year = 1872
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 1876
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1872
|event1_assembly = 3rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Walter Robinson
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''4'''
|colour = #6aa84f
|leadership = 1874
|member_title = MP
|image = James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Centre-Agrarian Party
|birth_year = 1809
|death_year = 1888
|riding = Havant, Clearmont
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 1876
|end_date = 20 February
|end_year = 1882
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1876
|event1_assembly = 4th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1880
|event2_assembly = 5th
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Leonard Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''5'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1875
|member_title = MP
|image = James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1822
|death_year = 1896
|riding = Timbourne, Napier
|start_date = 21 February
|start_year = 1882
|end_date = 7 August
|end_year = 1886
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1882
|event1_assembly = 6th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ross Hargreaves
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''6'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1880
|member_title = MP
|image = Whitelaw_Reid_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1832
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Kewdale, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 8 August
|start_year = 1886
|end_date = 19 September
|end_year = 1890
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1886
|event1_assembly = 7th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Thomas Michael Palmer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''7'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1886
|member_title = MP
|image = Charles_Stewart_Parnell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1828
|death_year = 1908
|riding = Lakewood South, Severn
|start_date = 20 September
|start_year = 1890
|end_date = 28 December
|end_year = 1895
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1890
|event1_assembly = 8th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1894
|event2_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Rodgers
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''8'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1895
|member_title = MP
|image = 1st_Viscount_Bryce_1902b.jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1838
|death_year = 1915
|riding = Hume, Straton
|start_date = 29 December
|start_year = 1895
|end_date = 3 April
|end_year = 1898
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1895
|event1_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Adrian Parkes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''9'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1894
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Deakin_crop.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1836
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Dunsford, Westmond
|start_date = 4 April
|start_year = 1898
|end_date = 6 April
|end_year = 1903
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1898
|event1_assembly = 10th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1899
|event2_assembly = 11th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Fitzpatrick
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''10'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1903
|member_title = MP
|image = Austen_Chamberlain_MP.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1842
|death_year = 1920
|riding = Haworth, Bechor
|start_date = 7 April
|start_year = 1903
|end_date = 12 May
|end_year = 1907
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1903
|event1_assembly = 12th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1903
|event2_assembly = 12th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1906
|event3_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Joseph Lancaster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''11'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1907
|member_title = MP
|image = George_Wyndham.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1849
|death_year = 1931
|riding = Guillemard Handelwood, Napier
|start_date = 13 May
|start_year = 1907
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1910
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1907
|event1_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Nathaniel Webb
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''12'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1906
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_Edward_Grey,_1st_Viscount_Grey_of_Fallodon.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1852
|death_year = 1933
|riding = Kingsbury Central, Georgia
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1910
|end_date = 1 September
|end_year = 1919
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1910
|event1_assembly = 14th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1914
|event2_assembly = 15th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1917
|event3_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Quentin Reed
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''13'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1919
|member_title = MP
|image = J.R._Clynes_LCCN2014717260_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1855
|death_year = 1932
|riding = Lymeswold, Clearmont
|start_date = 2 September
|start_year = 1919
|end_date = 10 July
|end_year = 1920
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1919
|event1_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = John Hattersley
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''14'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1916
|member_title = MP
|image = Calvin Coolidge-by Garo-1923.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1861
|death_year = 1934
|riding = Wimbourne, Dartmoor
|start_date = 11 July
|start_year = 1920
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1926
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1920
|event1_assembly = 17th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1924
|event2_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Robert Golding
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''15'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1926
|member_title = MP
|image = Stanley Bruce 1926.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1952
|riding = Tenningham, Iswilyn
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1926
|end_date = 16 June
|end_year = 1928
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1926
|event1_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = James Carlton
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''16'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1924
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_James_H._Scullin.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1868
|death_year = 1949
|riding = Harwick, Hamilton
|start_date = 17 June
|start_year = 1928
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 1932
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1928
|event1_assembly = 19th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1932
|event2_assembly = 20th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = George Highbury
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''17'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1932
|member_title = MP
|image = Dr._Christopher_Addison_LOC_16027831872_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1960
|riding = Nantwich South, Finnley
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 1932
|end_date = 11 January
|end_year = 1936
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1932
|event1_assembly = 20th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1933
|event2_assembly = 21st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Colin Forrest
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''18'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1935
|member_title = MP
|image = Brendan_Bracken_1947.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1951
|riding = Linden, Hamilton
|start_date = 12 January
|start_year = 1936
|end_date = 7 February
|end_year = 1942
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1936
|event1_assembly = 22nd
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1940
|event2_assembly = 23rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Alistair Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''19'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1940
|member_title = MP
|image = Herbert_Morrison_1947_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1958
|riding = Timbourne East, Napier
|start_date = 8 February
|start_year = 1942
|end_date = 11 August
|end_year = 1951
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1942
|event1_assembly = 24th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1943
|event2_assembly = 25th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1947
|event3_assembly = 26th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Christopher Bradshaw
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''20'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1947
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1881
|death_year = 1972
|riding = Wentworth, Georgia
|start_date = 12 August
|start_year = 1951
|end_date = 31 December
|end_year = 1956
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1951
|event1_assembly = 27th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1955
|event2_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Carten
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''21'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = John Profumo.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1907
|death_year = 1987
|riding = Norramby, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 1 January
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 3 September
|end_year = 1957
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Brian Foster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''22'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = Harold_Macmillan_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1893
|death_year = 1975
|riding = Hereford, Georgia
|start_date = 4 September
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 9 March
|end_year = 1963
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1959
|event2_assembly = 29th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Malcolm Haywood
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''23'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1959
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1910
|death_year = 2000
|riding = Couno Grove Hill, Napier
|start_date = 10 March
|start_year = 1963
|end_date = 4 April
|end_year = 1979
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1963
|event1_assembly = 30th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1965
|event2_assembly = 31st
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1969
|event3_assembly = 32nd
|event4 = election
|event4_year = 1973
|event4_assembly = 33rd
|event5 = election
|event5_year = 1975
|event5_assembly = 34th
|event6 = election
|event6_year = 1979
|event6_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Holly Philips
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''24'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1979
|member_title = MP
|image = Vigdis_Finnbogadottir_(1985).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1939
|death_year = 2026
|riding = Hayford Central, Severn
|start_date = 5 April
|start_year = 1979
|end_date = 12 July
|end_year = 1980
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1979
|event1_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Andrew Rainer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''25'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1977
|member_title = MP
|image = Mulroney.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1938
|death_year = 2022
|riding = Chalfont, Napier
|start_date = 13 July
|start_year = 1980
|end_date = 15 August
|end_year = 1992
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1980
|event1_assembly = 36th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1984
|event2_assembly = 37th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1988
|event3_assembly = 38th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Edward North
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''26'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1990
|member_title = MP
|image = Keating Paul BANNER.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1942
|death_year = 2027
|riding = Clark Central, Finnley
|start_date = 16 August
|start_year = 1992
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 2000
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1992
|event1_assembly = 39th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1996
|event2_assembly = 40th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1999
|event3_assembly = 41st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Roscoe
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''27'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1997
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_John_Redwood_MP_crop_2.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1935
|death_year = 2016
|riding = Hartford, Grantfeldt
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 2000
|end_date = 7 May
|end_year = 2005
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2000
|event1_assembly = 41st
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2001
|event2_assembly = 42nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ian Randall
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''28'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2001
|member_title = MP
|image = Jack Layton-cr bl (cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1949
|death_year = 2029
|riding = Couno Central, Napier
|start_date = 8 May
|start_year = 2005
|end_date = 6 July
|end_year = 2009
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2005
|event1_assembly = 43rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Darren Hayes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''29'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 2008
|member_title = MP
|image = Malcolm Turnbull PM&C.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1955
|death_year = 2037
|riding = Broxtowe, Clearmont
|start_date = 7 July
|start_year = 2009
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 2017
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2009
|event1_assembly = 44th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2013
|event2_assembly = 45th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Kenneth Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''30'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2013
|member_title = MP
|image = Gavin_Newsom_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1968
|death_year =
|riding = Timbourne South, Napier
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 2017
|end_date = 1 July
|end_year = 2027
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2017
|event1_assembly = 46th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2021
|event2_assembly = 47th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 2025
|event3_assembly = 48th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Michael Kirkland
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''31'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2027
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Keir_Starmer_crop_2.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1966
|death_year =
|riding = Newgate, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2027
|end_date = 20 August
|end_year = 2029
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2027
|event1_assembly = 48th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = April 2029
|event2_assembly = 49th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Stephen Williams
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''32'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2025
|member_title = MP
|image = Ulf_Kristersson_on_29_June_2023.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1969
|death_year =
|riding = Yarwood, Napier
|start_date = 21 August
|start_year = 2029
|end_date = 13 June
|end_year = 2035
|event1 = election
|event1_year = August 2029
|event1_assembly = 50th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2033
|event2_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Lawrence Newell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''33'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2035
|member_title = MP
|image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1977
|death_year =
|riding = Cavalsham, Pesvern
|start_date = 13 June
|start_year = 2035
|end_date = 29 June
|end_year = 2037
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2035
|event1_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Bertram Andrews
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''34'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image = Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1980
|death_year =
|riding = Serrapince Rainford, Bechor
|start_date = 30 June
|start_year = 2037
|end_date = 30 June
|end_year = 2043
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2037
|event1_assembly = 52nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Sandra Campbell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''35'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1989
|death_year =
|riding = Couno Langholm, Napier
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2043
|end_date =
|end_year =
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2043
|event1_assembly = 53rd
|accomplishments =
}}

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==Notes==
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{{Infobox official post
| post = Prime Minister
| body = the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| native_name =
| insignia = File:Tumbra_seal.png
| insigniasize =
| insigniacaption = Seal of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| insigniaalt =
| flag = File:Flag_of_Tumbra.png
| flagsize =
| flagalt =
| flagborder =
| flagcaption = Flag of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| alt =
| imagecaption =
| incumbent = Lawrence Newell
| acting = no
| incumbentsince = 13 June 2035
| department = Government of the Federal Republic of Tumbra Prime Minister's Office Cabinet Office
| style = Prime Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (Tumbra) His Excellency (international)
| type =
| status = Head of Government
| abbreviation = PM
| member_of = Cabinet
| reports_to = House of Representatives
| residence = Federal Prime Ministerial Offices (official residence) Wright House (country house)
| seat =
| nominator = Political parties
| appointer = President of the Federal Republic of Tumbra
| appointer_qualified = The President appoints the nominee which is able to get the most votes in the Prime Ministerial election following the first seating of Parliament.
| termlength = No term limit
| termlength_qualified = While commanding the confidence of the majority of the House of Representatives.
| constituting_instrument = [[Constitution of Tumbra]]
| precursor = State Counsellor of the Empire of Tumbra
| inaugural = Richard Barker
| formation = 1864
| deputy = Deputy Prime Minister of Tumbra
| salary = $200,000/year
| website =
| footnotes =
}}
The '''Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Tumbra''' is the head of government of the [[Tumbra|Federal Republic of Tumbra]]. The Prime Minister directs both the executive and legislative branches of the Tumbran government, and together with their Cabinet is accountable to the House of Representatives, their party and the electorate, for the government's policies and actions.

The post of Prime Minister was inaugurated by the Constitution of Tumbra, specifically Section VII, which deals with the Federal government. They are, constitutionally, responsible for the "day-to-day running conduct and policy of the State", as directed in Clause 149. To achieve this, the Prime Minister is able to appoint Cabinet Ministers to lead new Ministries (clauses 178 and 179), but there is a limit on how many full Ministers he may nominate (as per clause 179b, the current limit is 25), giving them a total of 26 Ministers (including the PM themself) in Cabinet. To date, the limit has never been reached and the current number of full Ministers is 23. By convention, one of those members is the Deputy Prime Minister, though the office has never been codified in the Constitution.

By virtue of his office, the Prime Minister also serves as the Minister for the Civil Service.

Some observers, therefore, given the Prime Minister's wide-ranging powers, tend to refer to the office of Prime Minister as a "democracy by Premiership", rather than, in as most other parliamentary governments, the primus inter pares of Cabinet. The power of the Prime Minister is afforded to them by the Constitution, and their status as the leader of the party or coalition holding at least a plurality of seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament.

== History of the office ==
The office of Prime Minister was envisioned originally to function as more of a "domestic affairs coordinator", working in tandem with the President, who would have jurisdiction over defence and foreign affairs, in a semi-presidential system. Yet, as President Gordon Hamilton was away in the war, and as he refused to allow his Vice President Ralph Davidson to have sway over said affairs, it fell to the first Prime Minister - Richard Barker of the Federalist Party - to juggle the responsibilities of the premiership.

The change to a fully parliamentary system with the Prime Minister in charge of all government affairs was formalised in 1877. In that sense, Walter Robinson was the first proper Prime Minister of the Federal Republic, but he acted as more of a primus inter pares than most of his successors, and all policy decisions made by his Cabinet were done so collectively.

Most principles, however, of the modern Premiership can be dated back to Leonard Everett's first premiership of 1882. While he did consult his Cabinet colleagues when it came to executive decisions, the final decision was almost exclusively made by him, a principle that has existed to this day and was utilised extensively by Malcolm Haywood throughout his sixteen-year Premiership.

==Term of office==
There are no term limits on the Prime Minister's term, save for the election for Prime Minister at the start of every newly convened Parliament; meaning that once appointed and sworn in by the President, the prime minister remains in office until they resign, are dismissed by the President, die, or their successor is elected. To date, only the first and last circumstances have occurred. In practice, under the system of responsible government, the prime minister (by convention) resigns should they lose the confidence of the elected House of Representatives. This can happen if the government loses an important vote, such as on the budget (loss of supply). The PM may also be unseated on a motion of no confidence, though constitutionally these motions must be constructive, requiring Parliament to present an alternative candidate for Prime Minister.

The longest serving Prime Minister was Malcolm Haywood, who served for 16 years and 24 days from 1963 to 1979; the shortest-serving Prime Minister was Peter Carten, who served for 245 days in 1957.

==Role==

Today, the Prime Minister's authority emanates from the Constitution, and from their status as the leader of the party holding a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Clause 176 largely is seen as the principle that guides the Prime Minister's functions, with the sub-clauses guiding the Prime Minister. These sub-clauses are:
# The "responsibility clause" - Clause 176a dictates that the Prime Minister shall be "responsible for and determine the general guidelines of policy." This gives the Prime Minister the legal right to formally introduce policy guidelines that ministers must implement.
# The "independence clause" - Clause 176ai dictates that each Minister has the freedom to run their own departments and prepare their own legislative proposals, so long as they are consistent the Prime Minister's policies;
# and the "cabinet solidarity clause" - Clause 176b enshrines the concept of cabinet solidarity, and ensures that the entire Cabinet settles its disputes within itself.

Clause 177 mandates that the Prime Minister "shall, from time to time, report on the State of the Republic to a Joint Session of Parliament."
This has taken the form of the Prime Ministerial Agenda, which they give at the start of every session of Parliament, which occurs every year in July, unless there has been a general election that year. If there has been a general election that year, the first session of the newly elected Parliament is dedicated to electing a new Speaker and a new Prime Minister. The Agenda is then typically given two or three weeks after the election of the Prime Minister.

The typical content of an Agenda contains the state of the country, as mandated by the Constitution, and then the laws that the government intends to pass in the following year. In the weeks following the Agenda, it is typically debated by Parliament in its response to the Prime Minister. Typically, the failure to carry an Agenda is a huge embarrassment for the Prime Minister, but it is not as serious as failing a vote of no confidence.

Clause 181 empowers the Prime Minister to advise the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament and hold fresh elections for the House of Representatives. Typically, this is only done when the House votes to dissolve itself (as it did in 1980), for a snap election (as Peter Roscoe did in 2001), or if the House is unable to nominate a candidate for Prime Minister even after the absolute majority requirement for the Premiership is lifted. The last circumstance has never occurred.

Typically, the President allows these dissolutions, but they may be less willing to allow snap elections; most notably, when Peter Roscoe first took office in 2000 following a constructive vote of no confidence, he attempted to immediately call for a general election, but was rebuffed by then-President Hazel Moore on the grounds that he had the numbers to become Prime Minister; therefore no election was needed. The incident coloured Moore's last year of her Presidency - she eventually granted a dissolution in 2001 - and was widely seen as the reason why Stephen Trew triumphed over Vice President Desmond Lewis in 2002's presidential election.

The Prime Minister also has great influence over nominations to political posts that require Senate confirmation. However, the Prime Minister does not influence the President's pick for the twenty-five Governors (who serve as representatives of the President, and are effectively their surrogate) of the states.

== Election mechanism ==

The election of a Prime Minister is typically the second order of business in a new seating of Parliament, after the election of the Speaker. The procedure for the election of a Prime Minister is outlined in Article 167 of the Constitution, where a candidate - which by convention is the leader of the largest party or coalition, unless the Prime Minister is the incumbent and wishes to be re-nominated - is nominated by the most senior member of that member's party, and his name put up to the Speaker. The Speaker then puts the candidate to a vote; should the Prime Ministerial candidate garner a majority of the total votes cast (including abstentions) then that person is said to be elected as Prime Minister and is subsequently sworn in by the President in front of the whole House of Representatives. The House is then adjourned, following some remarks by the Prime Minister.

Should nobody be able to get an absolute majority of votes, following the third election for Prime Minister, the criteria changes to exclude abstentions - meaning the prospective Prime Minister just needs to secure more "yes" votes than "no" votes to take office.

Should the Speaker deem there be no prospect of any Prime Ministerial candidate being selected, the Speaker shall recommend to the Prime Minister (in a caretaker capacity) to seek a dissolution of the House, on the grounds that there "is no possible government formed". To date since the founding of the Republic, no such election has occurred because of this.

This electoral procedure also applies should the House fail to pass any government budget; at which time the office of Prime Minister is immediately declared vacant, with the incumbent serving in a caretaker capacity until they are either re-elected or a new Prime Minister is selected. Should a new Prime Minister be selected, the swearing-in of the new Prime Minister will take place typically the next day, in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Straton.

Additionally, should the post of Prime Minister fall vacant due to resignation, death or otherwise, new elections will be held in accordance to this procedure.

=== Votes of No Confidence ===

According to Clause 168 of the Constitution, votes of no confidence must be constructive - i.e. they must present an alternate candidate for Prime Minister and secure an absolute majority of those voting in the subsequent election for Prime Minister. Unlike the election for Prime Minister, such a vote pits the incumbent Prime Minister directly against their challenger. Should the challenger win, the Prime Minister is obligated to resign and advise the President to swear in the winner of the vote of no confidence.

To date, only one vote of no confidence has been carried, in 2000 - when Peter Roscoe won 267 votes to the incumbent Edward North's 233 votes.

==Privileges==
[[File:NYSCapitolPanorama.jpg|thumb|right|The Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton]]
[[File:Chequers_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Wright House, Bechor]]
The Prime Minister is afforded two official residences; the Federal Prime Ministerial Offices in Straton, which were built in 1997, and Wright House on the outskirts of Serrapince, Bechor. Before 1997, the Straton residence of the Prime Minister was located at 36 Hampton Drive. That location has since been gazetted as a historical monument; plans are underway to either refurbish the house and make it available to the Prime Minister again, or open it up to the public as a museum. Former Prime Minister Darren Hayes remarked in 2015 that "[the Prime Minister] living where [they] work makes it such that [they] are unable to escape the job...it would be nice to re-open the house so that [they] can have a place to stay after finishing work, instead of retreating upstairs." Current Prime Minister Kenneth Everett has made no public statements on the status of the house; he has reportedly been unhappy with staying at the Prime Ministerial offices.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the use of an armoured car, and shared use of two official aircraft with the President and Vice President. The Federal Police also provides constant security for the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is also allowed the usage of the prefix "the Right Honourable", and should they die, they are afforded a state funeral, with their casket lying in state in the Main Wing of the Federal Parliament building.

==List==

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{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Richard Barker
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''1'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1864
|member_title = MP
|image = William_Ewart_Gladstone_(cropped).jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1801
|death_year = 1882
|riding = Hulbury, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 1864
|end_date = 14 January
|end_year = 1870
|assembly_type = Tumbran Parliament
|assembly_short = Parliament
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1864
|event1_assembly = 1st
|event1_note =
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1868
|event2_assembly = 2nd
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Butler
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''2'''
|colour = #ffd966
|leadership = 1870
|member_title = MP
|image = File:Hugh_Childers,_Lock_&_Whitfield_woodburytype,_1876-83_crop.jpg
|party = Federalist Party
|birth_year = 1812
|death_year = 1887
|riding = Springham, Alexandria
|start_date = 15 January
|start_year = 1870
|end_date = 2 May
|end_year = 1872
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1870
|event1_assembly = 2nd
|accomplishments = 
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Henry Makepeace
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''3'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1868
|member_title = MP
|image = File:Thomas_F._Bayard,_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait,_circa_1870-1880_(cropped)(b).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1816
|death_year = 1889
|riding = Cantonment, Bechor
|start_date = 3 May
|start_year = 1872
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 1876
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1872
|event1_assembly = 3rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Walter Robinson
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = '''4'''
|colour = #6aa84f
|leadership = 1874
|member_title = MP
|image = James_G._Blaine_-_Brady-Handy.jpg
|party = Centre-Agrarian Party
|birth_year = 1809
|death_year = 1888
|riding = Havant, Clearmont
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 1876
|end_date = 20 February
|end_year = 1882
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1876
|event1_assembly = 4th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1880
|event2_assembly = 5th
|event2_note =
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Leonard Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''5'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1875
|member_title = MP
|image = File:James_Weaver_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1822
|death_year = 1896
|riding = Timbourne, Napier
|start_date = 21 February
|start_year = 1882
|end_date = 7 August
|end_year = 1886
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1882
|event1_assembly = 6th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ross Hargreaves
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''6'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1880
|member_title = MP
|image = File:Whitelaw_Reid_-_Brady-Handy_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1832
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Kewdale, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 8 August
|start_year = 1886
|end_date = 19 September
|end_year = 1890
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1886
|event1_assembly = 7th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Thomas Michael Palmer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''7'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1886
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1828
|death_year = 1908
|riding = Lakewood South, Severn
|start_date = 20 September
|start_year = 1890
|end_date = 28 December
|end_year = 1895
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1890
|event1_assembly = 8th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1894
|event2_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = William Rodgers
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''8'''}}
|colour = #ab1d90
|leadership = 1895
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Commonwealth Party
|birth_year = 1838
|death_year = 1915
|riding = Hume, Straton
|start_date = 29 December
|start_year = 1895
|end_date = 3 April
|end_year = 1898
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1895
|event1_assembly = 9th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Adrian Parkes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''9'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1894
|member_title = MP
|image = Alfred_Deakin_crop.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1836
|death_year = 1907
|riding = Dunsford, Westmond
|start_date = 4 April
|start_year = 1898
|end_date = 6 April
|end_year = 1903
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1898
|event1_assembly = 10th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1899
|event2_assembly = 11th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Fitzpatrick
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''10'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1903
|member_title = MP
|image = Austen_Chamberlain_MP.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1842
|death_year = 1920
|riding = Haworth, Bechor
|start_date = 7 April
|start_year = 1903
|end_date = 12 May
|end_year = 1907
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1903
|event1_assembly = 12th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1903
|event2_assembly = 12th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1906
|event3_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Joseph Lancaster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''11'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1907
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1849
|death_year = 1931
|riding = Guillemard Handelwood, Napier
|start_date = 13 May
|start_year = 1907
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1910
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1907
|event1_assembly = 13th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Nathaniel Webb
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''12'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1906
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1852
|death_year = 1933
|riding = Kingsbury Central, Georgia
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1910
|end_date = 1 September
|end_year = 1919
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1910
|event1_assembly = 14th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1914
|event2_assembly = 15th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1917
|event3_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Quentin Reed
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''13'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1919
|member_title = MP
|image = J.R._Clynes_LCCN2014717260_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1855
|death_year = 1932
|riding = Lymeswold, Clearmont
|start_date = 2 September
|start_year = 1919
|end_date = 10 July
|end_year = 1920
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1919
|event1_assembly = 16th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = John Hattersley
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''14'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1916
|member_title = MP
|image = Calvin Coolidge-by Garo-1923.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1861
|death_year = 1934
|riding = Wimbourne, Dartmoor
|start_date = 11 July
|start_year = 1920
|end_date = 14 August
|end_year = 1926
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1920
|event1_assembly = 17th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1924
|event2_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Robert Golding
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''15'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1926
|member_title = MP
|image = Stanley Bruce 1926.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1952
|riding = Tenningham, Iswilyn
|start_date = 15 August
|start_year = 1926
|end_date = 16 June
|end_year = 1928
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1926
|event1_assembly = 18th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = James Carlton
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''16'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1924
|member_title = MP
|image = Portrait_of_James_H._Scullin.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1868
|death_year = 1949
|riding = Harwick, Hamilton
|start_date = 17 June
|start_year = 1928
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 1932
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1928
|event1_assembly = 19th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1932
|event2_assembly = 20th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = George Highbury
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''17'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1932
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1874
|death_year = 1960
|riding = Nantwich South, Finnley
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 1932
|end_date = 11 January
|end_year = 1936
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1932
|event1_assembly = 20th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1933
|event2_assembly = 21st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Colin Forrest
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''18'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1935
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1951
|riding = Linden, Hamilton
|start_date = 12 January
|start_year = 1936
|end_date = 7 February
|end_year = 1942
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1936
|event1_assembly = 22nd
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1940
|event2_assembly = 23rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Alistair Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''19'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1940
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1885
|death_year = 1958
|riding = Timbourne East, Napier
|start_date = 8 February
|start_year = 1942
|end_date = 11 August
|end_year = 1951
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1942
|event1_assembly = 24th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1943
|event2_assembly = 25th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1947
|event3_assembly = 26th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Christopher Bradshaw
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''20'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1947
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F078072-0004, Konrad Adenauer.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1881
|death_year = 1972
|riding = Wentworth, Georgia
|start_date = 12 August
|start_year = 1951
|end_date = 31 December
|end_year = 1956
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1951
|event1_assembly = 27th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1955
|event2_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Carten
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''21'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = John Profumo.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1907
|death_year = 1987
|riding = Norramby, Marlsbruhe
|start_date = 1 January
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 3 September
|end_year = 1957
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Brian Foster
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''22'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1957
|member_title = MP
|image = Harold_Macmillan_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1893
|death_year = 1975
|riding = Hereford, Georgia
|start_date = 4 September
|start_year = 1957
|end_date = 9 March
|end_year = 1963
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1957
|event1_assembly = 28th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1959
|event2_assembly = 29th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Malcolm Haywood
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''23'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1959
|member_title = MP
|image = Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1910
|death_year = 2000
|riding = Couno Grove Hill, Napier
|start_date = 10 March
|start_year = 1963
|end_date = 4 April
|end_year = 1979
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1963
|event1_assembly = 30th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1965
|event2_assembly = 31st
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1969
|event3_assembly = 32nd
|event4 = election
|event4_year = 1973
|event4_assembly = 33rd
|event5 = election
|event5_year = 1975
|event5_assembly = 34th
|event6 = election
|event6_year = 1979
|event6_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Holly Philips
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''24'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1979
|member_title = MP
|image = Vigdis_Finnbogadottir_(1985).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1939
|death_year = 2026
|riding = Hayford Central, Severn
|start_date = 5 April
|start_year = 1979
|end_date = 12 July
|end_year = 1980
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 1979
|event1_assembly = 35th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Andrew Rainer
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''25'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1977
|member_title = MP
|image = Mulroney.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1938
|death_year = 2022
|riding = Chalfont, Napier
|start_date = 13 July
|start_year = 1980
|end_date = 15 August
|end_year = 1992
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1980
|event1_assembly = 36th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1984
|event2_assembly = 37th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1988
|event3_assembly = 38th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Edward North
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''26'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 1990
|member_title = MP
|image = Keating Paul BANNER.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1942
|death_year = 2027
|riding = Clark Central, Finnley
|start_date = 16 August
|start_year = 1992
|end_date = 4 March
|end_year = 2000
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 1992
|event1_assembly = 39th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 1996
|event2_assembly = 40th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 1999
|event3_assembly = 41st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Peter Roscoe
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''27'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 1997
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Rt_Hon_John_Redwood_MP_crop_2.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1935
|death_year = 2016
|riding = Hartford, Grantfeldt
|start_date = 5 March
|start_year = 2000
|end_date = 7 May
|end_year = 2005
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2000
|event1_assembly = 41st
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2001
|event2_assembly = 42nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Ian Randall
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''28'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2001
|member_title = MP
|image = Jack Layton-cr bl (cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1949
|death_year = 2029
|riding = Couno Central, Napier
|start_date = 8 May
|start_year = 2005
|end_date = 6 July
|end_year = 2009
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2005
|event1_assembly = 43rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Darren Hayes
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''29'''}}
|colour = #1155cc
|leadership = 2008
|member_title = MP
|image = Malcolm Turnbull PM&C.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1955
|death_year = 2037
|riding = Broxtowe, Clearmont
|start_date = 7 July
|start_year = 2009
|end_date = 15 May
|end_year = 2017
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2009
|event1_assembly = 44th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2013
|event2_assembly = 45th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Kenneth Everett
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''30'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2013
|member_title = MP
|image = Gavin_Newsom_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1968
|death_year =
|riding = Timbourne South, Napier
|start_date = 16 May
|start_year = 2017
|end_date = 1 July
|end_year = 2027
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2017
|event1_assembly = 46th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2021
|event2_assembly = 47th
|event3 = election
|event3_year = 2025
|event3_assembly = 48th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Michael Kirkland
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''31'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2027
|member_title = MP
|image = Official_portrait_of_Keir_Starmer_crop_2.jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1966
|death_year =
|riding = Newgate, Bechor
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2027
|end_date = 20 August
|end_year = 2029
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2027
|event1_assembly = 48th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = April 2029
|event2_assembly = 49th
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Stephen Williams
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''32'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2025
|member_title = MP
|image = Ulf_Kristersson_on_29_June_2023.jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1969
|death_year =
|riding = Yarwood, Napier
|start_date = 21 August
|start_year = 2029
|end_date = 13 June
|end_year = 2035
|event1 = election
|event1_year = August 2029
|event1_assembly = 50th
|event2 = election
|event2_year = 2033
|event2_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Lawrence Newell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''33'''}}
|colour = #0065f1
|leadership = 2035
|member_title = MP
|image = Pierre_Poilievre_Holodomor_2022_1_(cropped).jpg
|party = Liberal Party
|birth_year = 1977
|death_year =
|riding = Cavalsham, Pesvern
|start_date = 13 June
|start_year = 2035
|end_date = 29 June
|end_year = 2037
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2035
|event1_assembly = 51st
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Bertram Andrews
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''34'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image = Martin_Heinrich,_official_portrait,_113th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1980
|death_year =
|riding = Serrapince Rainford, Bechor
|start_date = 30 June
|start_year = 2037
|end_date = 30 June
|end_year = 2043
|event1 = election
|event1_year = 2037
|event1_assembly = 52nd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list
|name = Sandra Campbell
|jurisdiction = Tumbra
|number = {{font color | white |'''35'''}}
|colour = #ff0000
|leadership = 2029
|member_title = MP
|image =
|party = Labour Party
|birth_year = 1989
|death_year =
|riding = Couno Langholm, Napier
|start_date = 1 July
|start_year = 2043
|end_date =
|end_year =
|event1 = appointment
|event1_year = 2043
|event1_assembly = 53rd
|accomplishments =
}}

{{Canadian first minister list/bottom
|notes=
}}

==Notes==
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{{Template:Prime Ministers of Tumbra}}
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1868 Tumbran federal election

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1868 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1864 Tumbran federal election
| previous_year = 1864
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = 1872 Tumbran federal election
| next_year = 1872
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 24 April 1868
| registered = 13,370,463
| turnout = 81.0% ({{increase}} 4.0%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox.jpg|William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Richard Barker]]
| colour1 = ffc132
| leader_since1 = 1864
| party1 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Hulbury (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Hulbury (BC)]]
| last_election1 = '''133 seats, 42.7%'''
| seats1 = '''139'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 6
| popular_vote1 = '''3,828,155'''
| percentage1 = '''35.3%'''
| swing1 = {{decrease}} 7.4%
| image2 = [[File:Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Wis - NARA - 525971 (cropped).png|Hon._Timothy_O._Howe,_Wis_-_NARA_-_525971_(cropped)|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Samuel Lightfoot]]
| colour2 = 4cbb17
| leader_since2 = 1864
| party2 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (CM)]]
| last_election2 = 100 seats, 31.9%
| seats2 = 106
| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 6
| popular_vote2 = 3,544,267
| percentage2 = 32.7%
| swing2 = {{increase}} 0.8%
| image4 = [[File:Charles Sumner Brady-Handy.jpg|Charles_Sumner_Brady-Handy|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader4 = [[Alexander Henderson]]
| colour4 = 1155cc
| leader_since4 = 1864
| party4 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat4 = [[University of Couno (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|University of Couno]]
| last_election4 = 64 seats, 24.1%
| seats4 = 74
| seat_change4 = {{increase}} 10
| popular_vote4 = 2,601,585
| percentage4 = 24.0%
| swing4 = {{decrease}} 0.1%
| image5 = [[File:Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Brady-Handy_(1).jpg|Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Brady-Handy_(1).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader5 = [[Sam Richmond]]
| colour5 = f36c21
| leader_since5 = 1868
| party5 = [[True Westerner Party (Tumbra)|True Westerners]]
| leaders_seat5 = [[Millsburgh Boroughs (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Millsburgh Boroughs]]
| last_election5 = ''Did not exist''
| seats5 = 28
| seat_change5 = {{increase}} 28
| popular_vote5 = 677,214
| percentage5 = 6.3%
| swing5 = ''New''
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| before_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| after_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| after_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
}}

The 1868 Tumbran federal election was held on 24 April 1868 to elect the members of the 2nd House of Representatives of Tumbra. These were the first elections in Tumbran history to take place with all twenty-five states due to the merger of the Western Tumbran Republic into the Federal Republic of Tumbra early in the year. Consequently, the House of Representatives was expanded by fifty seats to allow for Western states to be properly represented. The governing Federalist Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Richard Barker, again won a plurality of seats, but did not win an outright majority. The Federalists therefore re-entered a coalition government with the Liberals, who were led into the election by incumbent Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Henderson. This election is notable for being the only one that the True Westerners Party, a party opposed to the Western merger into Tumbra, contested. Led by former Governor of Grantfeldt Sam Richmond, the party won 28 of the 50 seats added for the seven western states.

== Background ==

The Federalist-Liberal coalition government, which spanned ten ministries, had largely spent its term building up state institutions and managing the construction of the capital city of Straton. Outside the issue of free trade and tariffs, the coalition government was largely in agreement on most issues of policy, and both parties had come to an agreement to leave the current consensus on trade — high tariffs on nascent industries with free trade on agricultural products — untouched. The government positioned itself as a manager of business "which private interests could not stand to manage on behalf of our Nation," and was largely reluctant to interfere in the operations of the free market.

The Barker-Henderson government has been seen as a conservative government in its outlook. Fiscally, the government spent its term focusing mainly on paying off large debts that had been incurred by individual state governments during the United States era, while appropriating a new line of credit through the establishment of the First Bank of the Federal Republic. This would incur a large short-term political cost from more conservative elements of both coalition members' parties, and there was a minor split in the Federalist Party over the issue. Led by Andrew Lippincott, the short-lived Unionist Party advocated for no state-sponsored bank, arguing that it was "manifestly an appearance of government corruption in a state-sponsored corporation." However, when it became clear that the issue had no long-term impact, the Unionists merged back into the Federalists.

The government ran balanced budgets for the first two years of its term, but ran minor deficits in the third year, leading to the opposition Centre-Agrarian Party to decry the government's "profligate spending," something it would eventually use in its election campaign. The Radicals, while a minor presence in the House and which constantly struggled for attention in the government presses, said that the government's spending did not go far enough, and called for the establishment of a social security net to protect workers which had their jobs displaced by the ongoing industrialisation of the country.

The last year of the coalition government, however, would be dominated by the issue of the western merger. The Western Tumbran Republic, which had broken away from the old Empire of Tumbra and refused to join the United States of Tumbra, was now in an extremely bad financial situation and was unable to pay off its debts. Elections two years prior had given the Democratic Party supermajorities in both chambers of the Western Republic's legislature, and was widely interpreted as a mandate to negotiate to join the Federal Republic. A five-person negotiation team, comprising Barker, Henderson, Foreign Minister Henry Makepeace, Treasurer Benjamin Northcote, and Commerce Minister Elijah Short conducted negotiations, with an agreement for the Western Republic to merge into the Federal Republic on January 5, 1868. The eventual annexation was ratified via supermajority vote in both houses of the Federal Parliament in August 1867, with the three Radicals joining the government in the House vote. The Western vote fell upon similar party lines.

After the annexation vote concluded, however, it was revealed by the press that part of the conditions for the western states to only have the same amount of autonomy as the other eighteen states in the Federal Republic (as opposed to a greater amount of autonomy, which was what the Western negotiation team wished the seven states to have) was for the Federal Republic to additionally assume all debts of the Western Republic. The Centre-Agrarians latched upon the agreement, and castigated the federal government for its perceived recklessness, turning debates on the 1868 Budget into a "circus," with frequent disruptions to debates in the chamber for running a massive deficit. The Government, on the other hand, argued that the plan to unite all Tumbrans under a single flag "could not be quantified in debt and credit". Ultimately, the 1868 budget, which ran a large deficit to cover the costs of Western integration, was agreed to on a party-line vote.

In the West, those who were vehemently opposed to annexation gathered under the banner of the True Westerners Party. Angry that their seven states had not been given a higher level of autonomy as the eighteen eastern states, they decried the merger negotiations as one of a betrayal of Western identity. Led by the last Governor of Grantfeldt, Sam Richmond, the True Westerners would argue for the general concept of "Western autonomy" in the Federal Republic, but offered little concrete proposals on how said autonomy would be obtained, and had few proposals otherwise. Still, the anger felt in the west was enough to give the party enough support to worry those in Straton that the merger would be short-lived.

== Campaign ==

While publicly accepting that their parties were going to contest against each other, Barker and Henderson spent the last few months before the election campaign planning how best to ensure that either one of their parties would win the election. Sensing widespread antipathy toward the Federalist brand in the west of the country, Barker essentially conceded the seven western states to Henderson's Liberals by not fielding any Federalist candidates in any of the fifty new seats. This, while seen as a short-term tactical plan to deny the True Westerners representation by consolidating the pro-merger vote, would eventually be the first step to giving the Liberals a virtual stranglehold over the region for the next hundred years. The Liberals briefly considered spinning off their western branches into a satellite party, adopting the Unionist name that had briefly surfaced in Tumbran politics a few years earlier, but eventually decided to contest in the western states under their official name.

The Federalists would concentrate their campaign resources in the east of the country, campaigning on the government's achievements over the last four years while running defence on the government's fiscal record, promising that a return to sound financial management would occur in the second term of any Federalist or Federalist-led government. Arguments to national unity with regards to the annexation of the Western Tumbran Republic were popular, and largely offset any anger in the east about the perception of the high cost of the merger. The Liberals, meanwhile, contested less vigorously in the east, while focusing most of its resources in the west. Liberal leader Alexander Henderson essentially campaigned exclusively in the south-west, promising that the Liberals were best-placed to give the Southwest a voice. An endorsement from the last President of the Western Republic, Anthony Yardley, essentially solidified Southwestern support for the Liberals, considering that the Southwest had also been the most eager to join the Federal Republic.

The Centre-Agrarian Party sought to shore up their coalition of agrarians and centrists by appealing to the urban poor, which had voted for the Federalists in huge numbers and which helped them come out on top against the Liberals in 1868. It held high hopes of displacing the Liberals as the second-largest party in the population-rich north-east. They fielded candidates in all of the western seats, and actively campaigned in the region. However, it adapted its campaign message for the region, campaigning on increased devolution for the region and targeting its urban regions, instead of accusing the incumbent government of financial profligacy.

The True Westerners, given the advantage of being able to concentrate their campaign resources exclusively on the West, saw a speaking tour by Sam Richmond across metropolitan areas in the region. Richmond was able to effectively marshal western anger, particularly in the more affluent northwest, and while he never called for re-independence, several candidates run by the party explicitly endorsed the idea of Western re-independence, or if the Southwest was unwilling to leave the Federal Republic, at least a secession of the three northwestern states of Grantfeldt, Marlsbruhe, and Caduke. The idea generated controversy in the southwest, which subsequently closed ranks around the Liberals.

The Radicals stuck largely to their hyper-local campaigns. Still largely a southeastern-based party, the party only fielded 24 candidates — an increase of five from the last election — but welcomed and endorsed independent candidates who wished to run under the Radical banner. Thirteen such candidates were endorsed in this way. The cause of the Radicals was boosted by the explicit endorsement of Gerald Evander Gerritsen, who stumped for the Radicals on the campaign trail, now that he was not running for the nonpartisan office of President.

== Results and aftermath ==

=== Results ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:left;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | Richard Barker
| 139
| {{increase}}6
| 3,828,155
| 35.33
| {{decrease}}7.38%
|-
| style="background-color:#4cbb17; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Samuel Lightfoot
| 106
| {{increase}}6
| 3,544,267
| 32.71
| {{increase}}0.84%
|-
| style="background-color:#1155cc; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Alexander Henderson
| 74
| {{increase}}10
| 2,601,585
| 24.01
| {{decrease}}0.10%
|-
| style="background-color:#f98129; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | True Westerners
| style="text-align:left;" | Sam Richmond
| 28
| {{increase}}28
| 677,214
| 6.25
| {{increase}}6.25%
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | David Sheares
| 3
| {{steady}}
| 184,202
| 1.70
| {{increase}}0.39%
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="3" | Total
| style="text-align:right;" | 350
|
| 10,835,423
|
|
|}

In the east, the results were largely a re-run of the 1864 election, with the Federalists' electoral coalition remaining largely intact, picking up some seats from the Centre-Agrarians over tactical voting from Liberal voters, who had been implicitly encouraged to vote Federalist in seats where the race was between Federalists and Liberals.The Liberals lost twelve of their fifty-two seats in the east, but this was made up for by their twenty-two new seats in the west, and the party maintained their stranglehold on the twelve university seats. Eastern Liberals were still extremely disappointed by the results, and accused Henderson of abandoning them and the cause of free trade. The backlash was thought to be one reason why Henderson voluntarily stepped down as leader in 1870, faced with a loss in support from the remaining eastern Liberals. The Federalists, due to their decision to forgo contesting in the west of the country, saw a severe dip in their popular vote percentage, even if the total number of raw votes they won increased from 1864.

In the west, meanwhile, the decision of the Federalists to step aside from contesting seats there was widely deemed to have saved the merger of the west into the east. While the True Westerners won twenty-eight of the region's fifty seats, the Liberals won more seats than the True Westerners in five of the seven states. The True Westerners swept all fourteen of Grantfeldt's seats and won seven of Marlsbruhe's twelve seats, but only won six of the twenty seats on offer in the south-west. While Richmond alleged electoral fraud caused by voters being transported from the east of the country to the west, no such evidence was found.

The Centre-Agrarians, who had been hoping for major gains, would be disappointed; while they gained six seats overall, and made minor gains in the most populated states of Napier, Bechor, and Georgia, they failed to make headways against the government. The party won over seven hundred thousand votes nationwide from the last election, but that was largely due to the party fielding an additional fifty candidates in the West, none of whom won any seats. The presence of the Centre-Agrarians also served as a spoiler candidate in many Western seats, with around seven seats won by the Liberals that would have been otherwise won by the True Westerners without a Centre-Agrarian candidate. While this served to prove an initial stumbling block for relations between the two parties, both parties were soon convinced that working together was the only way to provide a unified opposition to the Liberals in the west, and the True Westerners merged into the Centre-Agrarians six months after the election.

With no party winning a majority of seats, the Federalist-Liberal coalition was re-constituted along the same balance of Cabinet departments as in the first government. Richard Barker was re-elected as Prime Minister, with Alexander Henderson as Deputy Prime Minister; the Federalists and Liberals split the cabinet departments six to two again, with the Liberals holding the Foreign Affairs and Navy portfolios. An additional ministry being created to manage Western integration into the country, known as the Ministry of Western Affairs. Out of deference to the Liberals' strong position in the region, they were given control of this additional ministry; they chose to appoint the last President of the Western Republic, Anthony Yardley, to the position. Yardley had been appointed as a Senator for the state of Lormark following the election, and joined the Liberal Party upon his ascension to Cabinet.

=== Results by state ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
|-
! State
! style="background-color:#ffc132;" | Federalist
! style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | Liberal
! style="background-color:#4cbb17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="background-color:#f98129; color:#ffffff;" | True Westerners
! style="background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | Radical
! style="text-align:left;" | Total
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Alexandria
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
| 2
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Georgia
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 13
| 1
| 11
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Bechor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 21
| 9
| 14
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 44
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Finnley
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| 4
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 16
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 11
| 1
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 13
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Napier
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 28
| 10
| 15
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 53
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 6
|-
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 1
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 4
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | Grantfeldt
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | 14
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;" | 14
|-
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | Marlsbruhe
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 5
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | 7
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 9
| 3
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Dartmoor
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 6
| 5
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| 20
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 8
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Lormark
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Turvenal
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|- style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 4
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|- style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
| Total
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 139
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 74
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 106
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 28
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 350
|}

1868 Tumbran federal election

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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1868 Tumbran federal election
| country = Tumbra
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = [[1864 Tumbran federal election]]
| previous_year = 1864
| outgoing_members =
| elected_members =
| next_election = [[1872 Tumbran federal election]]
| next_year = 1872
| seats_for_election = All [[List of constituencies of the Tumbran House of Representatives (1864-1881)|350 seats]] to the [[House of Representatives of Tumbra|Tumbran House of Representatives]]
| majority_seats = 176
| election_date = 24 April 1868
| registered = 13,370,463
| turnout = 81.0% ({{increase}} 4.0%)
| opinion_polls =
| image1 = [[File:William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox.jpg|William_Ewart_Gladstone_CDV_1861_for_infobox|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader1 = [[Richard Barker]]
| colour1 = ffc132
| leader_since1 = 1864
| party1 = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| leaders_seat1 = [[Hulbury (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Hulbury (BC)]]
| last_election1 = '''133 seats, 42.7%'''
| seats1 = '''139'''
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 6
| popular_vote1 = '''3,828,155'''
| percentage1 = '''35.3%'''
| swing1 = {{decrease}} 7.4%
| image2 = [[File:Hon. Timothy O. Howe, Wis - NARA - 525971 (cropped).png|Hon._Timothy_O._Howe,_Wis_-_NARA_-_525971_(cropped)|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader2 = [[Samuel Lightfoot]]
| colour2 = 4cbb17
| leader_since2 = 1864
| party2 = [[Centre-Agrarian Party (Tumbra)|Centre-Agrarian]]
| leaders_seat2 = [[Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Faber, Cranbourne, and Cobham (CM)]]
| last_election2 = 100 seats, 31.9%
| seats2 = 106
| seat_change2 = {{increase}} 6
| popular_vote2 = 3,544,267
| percentage2 = 32.7%
| swing2 = {{increase}} 0.8%
| image4 = [[File:Charles Sumner Brady-Handy.jpg|Charles_Sumner_Brady-Handy|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader4 = [[Alexander Henderson]]
| colour4 = 1155cc
| leader_since4 = 1864
| party4 = [[Liberal Party (Tumbra)|Liberal]]
| leaders_seat4 = [[University of Couno (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|University of Couno]]
| last_election4 = 64 seats, 24.1%
| seats4 = 74
| seat_change4 = {{increase}} 10
| popular_vote4 = 2,601,585
| percentage4 = 24.0%
| swing4 = {{decrease}} 0.1%
| image5 = [[File:Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Brady-Handy_(1).jpg|Nathaniel_Prentice_Banks_-_Brady-Handy_(1).jpg|frameless|153x153px]]
| leader5 = [[Sam Richmond]]
| colour5 = f36c21
| leader_since5 = 1868
| party5 = [[True Westerner Party (Tumbra)|True Westerners]]
| leaders_seat5 = [[Millsburgh Boroughs (Tumbran parliamentary constituency)|Millsburgh Boroughs]]
| last_election5 = ''Did not exist''
| seats5 = 28
| seat_change5 = {{increase}} 28
| popular_vote5 = 677,214
| percentage5 = 6.3%
| swing5 = ''New''
| title = Prime Minister
| before_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| before_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
| after_election = [[Richard Barker]]
| after_party = [[Federalist Party (Tumbra)|Federalist]]
}}

The 1868 Tumbran federal election was held on 24 April 1868 to elect the members of the 2nd House of Representatives of Tumbra. These were the first elections in Tumbran history to take place with all twenty-five states due to the merger of the Western Tumbran Republic into the Federal Republic of Tumbra early in the year. Consequently, the House of Representatives was expanded by fifty seats to allow for Western states to be properly represented. The governing Federalist Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Richard Barker, again won a plurality of seats, but did not win an outright majority. The Federalists therefore re-entered a coalition government with the Liberals, who were led into the election by incumbent Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Henderson. This election is notable for being the only one that the True Westerners Party, a party opposed to the Western merger into Tumbra, contested. Led by former Governor of Grantfeldt Sam Richmond, the party won 28 of the 50 seats added for the seven western states.

== Background ==

The Federalist-Liberal coalition government, which spanned ten ministries, had largely spent its term building up state institutions and managing the construction of the capital city of Straton. Outside the issue of free trade and tariffs, the coalition government was largely in agreement on most issues of policy, and both parties had come to an agreement to leave the current consensus on trade — high tariffs on nascent industries with free trade on agricultural products — untouched. The government positioned itself as a manager of business "which private interests could not stand to manage on behalf of our Nation," and was largely reluctant to interfere in the operations of the free market.

The Barker-Henderson government has been seen as a conservative government in its outlook. Fiscally, the government spent its term focusing mainly on paying off large debts that had been incurred by individual state governments during the United States era, while appropriating a new line of credit through the establishment of the First Bank of the Federal Republic. This would incur a large short-term political cost from more conservative elements of both coalition members' parties, and there was a minor split in the Federalist Party over the issue. Led by Andrew Lippincott, the short-lived Unionist Party advocated for no state-sponsored bank, arguing that it was "manifestly an appearance of government corruption in a state-sponsored corporation." However, when it became clear that the issue had no long-term impact, the Unionists merged back into the Federalists.

The government ran balanced budgets for the first two years of its term, but ran minor deficits in the third year, leading to the opposition Centre-Agrarian Party to decry the government's "profligate spending," something it would eventually use in its election campaign. The Radicals, while a minor presence in the House and which constantly struggled for attention in the government presses, said that the government's spending did not go far enough, and called for the establishment of a social security net to protect workers which had their jobs displaced by the ongoing industrialisation of the country.

The last year of the coalition government, however, would be dominated by the issue of the western merger. The Western Tumbran Republic, which had broken away from the old Empire of Tumbra and refused to join the United States of Tumbra, was now in an extremely bad financial situation and was unable to pay off its debts. Elections two years prior had given the Democratic Party supermajorities in both chambers of the Western Republic's legislature, and was widely interpreted as a mandate to negotiate to join the Federal Republic. A five-person negotiation team, comprising Barker, Henderson, Foreign Minister Henry Makepeace, Treasurer Benjamin Northcote, and Commerce Minister Elijah Short conducted negotiations, with an agreement for the Western Republic to merge into the Federal Republic on January 5, 1868. The eventual annexation was ratified via supermajority vote in both houses of the Federal Parliament in August 1867, with the three Radicals joining the government in the House vote. The Western vote fell upon similar party lines.

After the annexation vote concluded, however, it was revealed by the press that part of the conditions for the western states to only have the same amount of autonomy as the other eighteen states in the Federal Republic (as opposed to a greater amount of autonomy, which was what the Western negotiation team wished the seven states to have) was for the Federal Republic to additionally assume all debts of the Western Republic. The Centre-Agrarians latched upon the agreement, and castigated the federal government for its perceived recklessness, turning debates on the 1868 Budget into a "circus," with frequent disruptions to debates in the chamber for running a massive deficit. The Government, on the other hand, argued that the plan to unite all Tumbrans under a single flag "could not be quantified in debt and credit". Ultimately, the 1868 budget, which ran a large deficit to cover the costs of Western integration, was agreed to on a party-line vote.

In the West, those who were vehemently opposed to annexation gathered under the banner of the True Westerners Party. Angry that their seven states had not been given a higher level of autonomy as the eighteen eastern states, they decried the merger negotiations as one of a betrayal of Western identity. Led by the last Governor of Grantfeldt, Sam Richmond, the True Westerners would argue for the general concept of "Western autonomy" in the Federal Republic, but offered little concrete proposals on how said autonomy would be obtained, and had few proposals otherwise. Still, the anger felt in the west was enough to give the party enough support to worry those in Straton that the merger would be short-lived.

== Campaign ==

While publicly accepting that their parties were going to contest against each other, Barker and Henderson spent the last few months before the election campaign planning how best to ensure that either one of their parties would win the election. Sensing widespread antipathy toward the Federalist brand in the west of the country, Barker essentially conceded the seven western states to Henderson's Liberals by not fielding any Federalist candidates in any of the fifty new seats. This, while seen as a short-term tactical plan to deny the True Westerners representation by consolidating the pro-merger vote, would eventually be the first step to giving the Liberals a virtual stranglehold over the region for the next hundred years. The Liberals briefly considered spinning off their western branches into a satellite party, adopting the Unionist name that had briefly surfaced in Tumbran politics a few years earlier, but eventually decided to contest in the western states under their official name.

The Federalists would concentrate their campaign resources in the east of the country, campaigning on the government's achievements over the last four years while running defence on the government's fiscal record, promising that a return to sound financial management would occur in the second term of any Federalist or Federalist-led government. Arguments to national unity with regards to the annexation of the Western Tumbran Republic were popular, and largely offset any anger in the east about the perception of the high cost of the merger. The Liberals, meanwhile, contested less vigorously in the east, while focusing most of its resources in the west. Liberal leader Alexander Henderson essentially campaigned exclusively in the south-west, promising that the Liberals were best-placed to give the Southwest a voice. An endorsement from the last President of the Western Republic, Anthony Yardley, essentially solidified Southwestern support for the Liberals, considering that the Southwest had also been the most eager to join the Federal Republic.

The Centre-Agrarian Party sought to shore up their coalition of agrarians and centrists by appealing to the urban poor, which had voted for the Federalists in huge numbers and which helped them come out on top against the Liberals in 1868. It held high hopes of displacing the Liberals as the second-largest party in the population-rich north-east. They fielded candidates in all of the western seats, and actively campaigned in the region. However, it adapted its campaign message for the region, campaigning on increased devolution for the region and targeting its urban regions, instead of accusing the incumbent government of financial profligacy.

The True Westerners, given the advantage of being able to concentrate their campaign resources exclusively on the West, saw a speaking tour by Sam Richmond across metropolitan areas in the region. Richmond was able to effectively marshal western anger, particularly in the more affluent northwest, and while he never called for re-independence, several candidates run by the party explicitly endorsed the idea of Western re-independence, or if the Southwest was unwilling to leave the Federal Republic, at least a secession of the three northwestern states of Grantfeldt, Marlsbruhe, and Caduke. The idea generated controversy in the southwest, which subsequently closed ranks around the Liberals.

The Radicals stuck largely to their hyper-local campaigns. Still largely a southeastern-based party, the party only fielded 24 candidates — an increase of five from the last election — but welcomed and endorsed independent candidates who wished to run under the Radical banner. Thirteen such candidates were endorsed in this way. The cause of the Radicals was boosted by the explicit endorsement of Gerald Evander Gerritsen, who stumped for the Radicals on the campaign trail, now that he was not running for the nonpartisan office of President.

== Results and aftermath ==

=== Results ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
|- style="text-align:left;"
! colspan="2" | Party
! Leader
! Seats
! Change
! Votes
! %
! Change
|-
| style="background-color:#ffc132; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Federalist
| style="text-align:left;" | Richard Barker
| 139
| {{increase}}6
| 3,828,155
| 35.33
| {{decrease}}7.38%
|-
| style="background-color:#4cbb17; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Centre-Agrarian
| style="text-align:left;" | Samuel Lightfoot
| 106
| {{increase}}6
| 3,544,267
| 32.71
| {{increase}}0.84%
|-
| style="background-color:#1155cc; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal
| style="text-align:left;" | Alexander Henderson
| 74
| {{increase}}10
| 2,601,585
| 24.01
| {{decrease}}0.10%
|-
| style="background-color:#f98129; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | True Westerners
| style="text-align:left;" | Sam Richmond
| 28
| {{increase}}28
| 677,214
| 6.25
| {{increase}}6.25%
|-
| style="background-color:#c80815; text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Radical
| style="text-align:left;" | David Sheares
| 3
| {{steady}}
| 184,202
| 1.70
| {{increase}}0.39%
|- style="text-align:left;"
| colspan="3" | Total
| style="text-align:right;" | 350
|
| 10,835,423
|
|
|}

In the east, the results were largely a re-run of the 1864 election, with the Federalists' electoral coalition remaining largely intact, picking up some seats from the Centre-Agrarians over tactical voting from Liberal voters, who had been implicitly encouraged to vote Federalist in seats where the race was between Federalists and Liberals.The Liberals lost twelve of their fifty-two seats in the east, but this was made up for by their twenty-two new seats in the west, and the party maintained their stranglehold on the twelve university seats. Eastern Liberals were still extremely disappointed by the results, and accused Henderson of abandoning them and the cause of free trade. The backlash was thought to be one reason why Henderson voluntarily stepped down as leader in 1870, faced with a loss in support from the remaining eastern Liberals. The Federalists, due to their decision to forgo contesting in the west of the country, saw a severe dip in their popular vote percentage, even if the total number of raw votes they won increased from 1864.

In the west, meanwhile, the decision of the Federalists to step aside from contesting seats there was widely deemed to have saved the merger of the west into the east. While the True Westerners won twenty-eight of the region's fifty seats, the Liberals won more seats than the True Westerners in five of the seven states. The True Westerners swept all fourteen of Grantfeldt's seats and won seven of Marlsbruhe's twelve seats, but only won six of the twenty seats on offer in the south-west. While Richmond alleged electoral fraud caused by voters being transported from the east of the country to the west, no such evidence was found.

The Centre-Agrarians, who had been hoping for major gains, would be disappointed; while they gained six seats overall, and made minor gains in the most populated states of Napier, Bechor, and Georgia, they failed to make headways against the government. The party won over seven hundred thousand votes nationwide from the last election, but that was largely due to the party fielding an additional fifty candidates in the West, none of whom won any seats. The presence of the Centre-Agrarians also served as a spoiler candidate in many Western seats, with around seven seats won by the Liberals that would have been otherwise won by the True Westerners without a Centre-Agrarian candidate. While this served to prove an initial stumbling block for relations between the two parties, both parties were soon convinced that working together was the only way to provide a unified opposition to the Liberals in the west, and the True Westerners merged into the Centre-Agrarians six months after the election.

With no party winning a majority of seats, the Federalist-Liberal coalition was re-constituted along the same balance of Cabinet departments as in the first government. Richard Barker was re-elected as Prime Minister, with Alexander Henderson as Deputy Prime Minister; the Federalists and Liberals split the cabinet departments six to two again, with the Liberals holding the Foreign Affairs and Navy portfolios. An additional ministry being created to manage Western integration into the country, known as the Ministry of Western Affairs. Out of deference to the Liberals' strong position in the region, they were given control of this additional ministry; they chose to appoint the last President of the Western Republic, Anthony Yardley, to the position. Yardley had been appointed as a Senator for the state of Lormark following the election, and joined the Liberal Party upon his ascension to Cabinet.

=== Results by state ===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;"
|-
! State
! style="background-color:#ffc132;" | Federalist
! style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | Liberal
! style="background-color:#4cbb17;" | Centre-Agrarian
! style="background-color:#f98129; color:#ffffff;" | True Westerners
! style="background-color:#C80815; color:#FFF;" | Radical
! style="text-align:left;" | Total
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Alexandria
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Bencoolen
| 2
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Georgia
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 13
| 1
| 11
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Keybrook
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Raleigh
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 6
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Thornton
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Bechor
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 21
| 9
| 14
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 44
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Finnley
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 10
| 4
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 16
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Harren
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Marcato
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 11
| 1
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 13
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Napier
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 28
| 10
| 15
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 53
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | Straton
| style="background-color:#FFC132;" | 3
| 2
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 6
|-
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Caduke
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 1
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 4
|- style="text-align:left;"
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | Grantfeldt
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | 14
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;" | 14
|-
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | Marlsbruhe
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 5
| style="vertical-align:middle;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle; background-color:#F98129;" | 7
| style="vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;" |
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 12
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Clearmont
| 9
| 3
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 11
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| 25
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Dartmoor
| 5
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Severn
| 6
| 5
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 8
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| 20
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Fremont
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 6
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 8
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Lormark
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 5
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Pesvern
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 2
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Turvenal
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#1155cc; color:#ffffff;" | 3
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 1
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 4
|- style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | Gamaliel
|
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#4CBB17;" | 3
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 3
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Iswilyn
| 4
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 11
|- style="vertical-align:middle;"
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | Westmond
| 4
| 1
| style="background-color:#4CBB17;" | 7
| style="text-align:left;" |
| style="text-align:left;" |
| 12
|- style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;"
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | Universities
|
| style="text-align:center; background-color:#15C; color:#FFF;" | 12
|
|
|
| style="text-align:center;" | 12
|-
| Total
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 139
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 74
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 106
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 28
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 3
| style="vertical-align:middle;" | 350
|}

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