1924 Nagansett General Election

The 1924 Nagansett General Election was held on 27 Wintertide, 1924 to elect all 195 members of the Legislative Assembly of Nagansett. The election was regularly scheduled, as the Constitution of Nagansett limits the term of the Legislative Assembly to three years, and the election was administered by the Federal Board of Elections as detailed in the Nagansett Elections Act of 1901.

The Conservative Party had ruled in government for the past six years, with the Centre and People's party being in a coalition government between 1918 and 1921, and had governed in a minority government with confidence and supply agreement with the Centre and Greens between 1921 and 1924, after the Centre Party refused to work in a government with the increasingly far-right People's Party. Owen Dunn had served as the Prime Minister throughout both terms, running a policy of centrism that had attracted popularity from both the right and left.

His government was responsible for managing the country through the aftermath of the 1917 Economic Crisis, and while his government did manage to keep public debt to a minimum, his policy of public austerity left many unemployed people without public support. Additionally, many in parliament, especially amongst the left wing, criticized his government's willingness to allow Novogaardic telecommunications giant Tielyic CO. to construct much of the country's new communication's infrastructure in his first term, despite worries that this company would use the infrastructure as leverage over the country.

Despite these criticisms, a lower public debt than when he came into office, as well as the expansion of green power initiatives during his second term, and Larania's lowest unemployment rate by 1923 led to his personal approval ratings remaining above 65% consistently. Labour selected popular Shadow Minister of the Interior Abagail Rose as the next party leader when former party chair Gabriel Jenkins resigned, citing health issues. Her increasing popularity boosted the Labour Party's numbers, and by the time elections were scheduled, she was the preferred Prime Minister by a large margin.

Throughout the campaign Labour ran on a campaign promising minimum wage raises, specifically for public sector employees after the Conservative Party's six years of austerity. Hitting back, the Conservative Party blamed the Labour Party's move to bring Nagansett into the Laranian Union a "mistake" that traded Nagansett's sovereignty for increasing insecurity in the form of uncontrolled immigration and getting Nagansett involved in the world's troubled geopolitical problems, and while the Conservative Party did not call for a withdrawal from the Laranian Union, they did insist a "renegotiation" of the provisions in its founding documents. This was slammed by Rose in a leader's debate, calling the proposal "economic self harm, born of a nationalistic fever dream of the right". By election day, the Labour Party was polling a good 5 percentage points higher than the Conservative Party consistently.

Dunn I Government
The Dunn I Government held office between 1918-1821.