1882 Aledonian House of Representatives Election

Background
After the National House Act of 1882, signed by Felix Forde, the House of Representatives was created, with 42 seats assigned to it. It's first election was set to occur on May 1st, 1882. All the House seats would be up for election and each party would be given seats proportionate to the amount of votes they received.

Political Makeup of Aledonia
Two coalitions majorly dominated the political landscape of Aledonia. The first coalition was the Democrat-Socialist Coalition, the left-wing coalition. It is made of the Aledonian Workers Party, a moderate socialist party, and the Revolutionary Communist Party, which was considered the far-left of the party. The second coalition was the Aledonian Liberty Coalition, which consisted of the Conservative Party and the Militarist Party, a militarist conservative party considered radical by some.

These coalitions did not go without opposition however, as the Fascist Party had been a major opposition of the coalitions for decades at that point. However, there was another, more young party. Holding almost the complete opposite views of the Fascist Party, the Anarcho-Communist Party had recently won the Senate seats for Texas and was looking to win seats in the new House. They ended up winning 3 seats and 7% of the vote.

Foreign policy debate
The foreign policy debate was one of the greatest political issues that plagued Aledonia at the time, because of the war between the Commune of France and the Anti-Communist Coalition of Britain and the German Empire.

The Democrat-Socialist Coalition had fighting within its own ranks as moderate neutralists clashed with radical Pro-France interventionists who mainly hailed from the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Neutralists mainly came from Worker Party members who wished to focus on internal issues as they believed that an intervention would cause too many deaths and would not be worth the economic costs. They criticized the Pro-France interventionists by claiming they wanna spread war to Aledonia.

Pro-France interventionists believed that an intervention would help spread the communist revolution to Europe and that it would help step towards global communism and liberate the proletariat from the regimes of Britain and Germany.

The Liberty Coalition heavily criticized the Pro-France interventionists, calling them Francophiles who wants to crush Europe under the iron heel of communism. They wanted to intervene on the side of Britain and Germany, believing the French regime to be a tyrannical regime which followed a radical form of socialism that Aledonia could not support.

The public was majorly split about this issue and they quickly began choosing sides.

However, the Anarcho-Communist Party had not given an answer until very late into the election, which most likely hurt their election results. Their position was one of radical neutrality, stopping all weapon shipments to either side until the war stopped. They were extremely anti-war and believed it was against the interests of the common Aledonian man to go to war on either side, and weapon shipments was funding the war which caused millions of deaths.

Effects of the election
The Democrat-Socialist Coalition secured 15 seats, which was lower than what poll numbers had suggested, but was still considered a victory by the coalition, as they had the most seats out of any party or coalition in the new House. Felix Forde himself said that this was a great victory for the coalition and for worker's rights in Aledonia.

The Liberty Coalition did about as well as poll numbers had suggested, securing 13 seats and being the party with the second most seats in the new House.

The Fascists had done way better than what the polls had suggested, gaining 10 seats in the new House and competing with the two coalitions. The party was ecstatic about this, as this was a double-digit seat count, which is better than what they expected.

The Anarcho-Communists won 3 seats total, which was about what the polls had suggested. For them they considered this a victory as this was all they needed to secure their existence nationwide and spread outside of Texas. Before this election, they had widely been considered a regional party, being relegated to only Texas in the last Senate election.

One independent candidate won the election, which was not expected at all, but would not make an impact on the House.