1378 Vekaran Parliamentary Election (Erevras)

1378 Vekaran Parliamentary Election
The 1378 elections for the Vekaran Parliament were held on 15 Dawnris 1378 to elect the 515 members of the Vekaran Royal Parliament. The Worker's Party of Vekara, led by Elrer Letun, defeated a strong challenge by Conservative and Royalist party leader Edmure Yelleck to win the election, albeit with a lost majority. Worker's Party leader Elrer Letun won reelection for a third consecutive term. The election saw the entry of the radical Orcish League into the Royal Parliament for the first time since the creation of the party. The 1378 vote was also the first time in which no elf or half-elf was elected to the Vekaran Royal Parliament, further illustrating the decline in the Vekaran elven population that had been continuing since the late 13th century.

The election of 1374 had returned the Worker's Party government to power. The Letun Government, faced with rising unemployment and massive industrial walkouts had campaigned on a position of economic intervention and vowed to press on with its controversial "Economic Reconstruction and Salvation Bill". The Conservatives meanwhile had criticized this as representing undue restrictions in the Vekaran economy and had vowed to scrap the plan were they elected. The Free Liberals had opted for a middle of the road path and FLP leader Myra Sconwell instead advocated for her so-called "Vekaran System" which pushed for massive investment in infrastructure. The Halfling People's Party and the Free Liberal Party had negotiated an electoral pact in the hopes of denying any one party a majority in parliament, a strategy which ultimately proved successful.

The 1378 election saw the incumbent Worker's Party lose its majority in parliament and forced it to agree to a confidence and supply agreement with the Halfling People's Party, in return for more concessions on Halfling rights. The election was the first one in which a party was led by a non-elvish woman.