1946 Qing General Election

General elections were held in the State of China on 21 March 1946 to elect 850 members of the House of Representatives. The election has seen the Kuomintang, led by Chiang Kai Shek, being victorious. The newly-formed Labour Party obtained 409 seats, being the largest non-Marxist group at the opposition.

Background
China celebrated it's victorious struggle against the armed invasion of the Empire of Japan, who surrendered in August 1945. At the same time, Prime Minister Chiang Kai Shek officially joined the Kuomintang and soon was declared the nominee for the next elections. On the other side, center-left leaning politicians formed the Labour Party of China, as an alternative to conservative policies of the KMT, and also appealed to supporters of the Communist Party of China and of the ongoing insurrection, known as the "people's war", protracted by Mao Zedong. As the rebellion began to fade, approval for the Labour Party resulted to 82 million votes being cast for them.

The Labour Party proposed immediate efforts for re-construction, through even public works. It also proposed the construction of a welfare state and a National Health Agency to make sure that healthcare would be accessible to all, and modernization of educative methods.

The Kuomintang, on the other side, vowed to conclude and exterminate the ongoing Communist rebellion and to begin reconstruction and quick modernization of industrial methods and tools.