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General Elections were held in Nilveroe on 1 November 2020 to elect 70 MPs to the Folkething. Regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The Social Democrats had entered an alliance along with the Green Party and the Pirate Party, and with the highest support for the Social Democrats and Pirate Party in years the Red-green-purple Alliance managed to secure 44 seats. The Bourgeois Alliance had fallen in popularity and won 17 seats, 2 less than last election. The right-wing Nationalist Party had grown in popularity very quickly in past elections, although it in this election unexpectedly had fallen in votes and lost 6 seats, half of what it used to have. The voter turnout was 92.52%, the highest it has been in 12 years.

The main issues leading up to the election were Covid-19, migration and energy policy. Migration had been a problem since 2015, although Nilveroe wasn’t hit with large waves of migrants as other nations were at that time. Migration had also been slowing down for the past years and some didn’t even think of it as an issue anymore. This meant that the right-wing populist parties such as the Nationalist Party that had been growing as a result of the public’s distaste against the government handling the migrant crisis were going to either stagnate or fall behind.

Energy policy was an issue spearheaded by the Green Party. Oil products are the nations main energy source, along with other fossil fuels. The Green Party stated it would gradually shift Nilveroe from a fossil fuel dependent nation to a renewable energy dependent one by 2030 by using renewable energy sources such as wind farms and hydropower and by investigating the possibility to produce electricity from LNG and biogas. Tidal power may be one of the largest energy producers in the future as researchers are looking into it currently. This has been popular amongst the public.

Most parties support the governments harsh Covid-19 policy, except for the Nationalist Party. The policy has consisted of the country shutting down completely by using methods such as lockdowns. As of now Nilveroe doesn’t have a single case of Covid-19 and it has boosted trust among the government.
The 2020 Nilvish general election

The results by alliance