Eighth Presidential Election

7th ← United States Presidential Election, 14 August 2017 → 9th

All 50 Senator 2 Seats 26 needed for majority   Candidate John Heydrich Tom Jason Party Republican Party Democratic Party Electoral vote 390 145 Popular vote 86,239,489 43,853,979 Percentage 63.1% 32.1%

Presidential election results map. Blue denotes those won by Jason, red denotes states won by Heydrich. Numbers indicate electoral votes allotted to the winner of each state.

President before election John Heydrich Republican Party President after election John Heydrich Republican Party

The Eighth Presidential Election took place on 14 August 2017 and saw President (styled Fuhrer) John Heydrich elected to a third term, a feat never before achieved by a President in POWER. Heydrich is only the game's second Republican President, after Nicholas Kohl.

The Democratic candidate in the election, seen as the chief challenger to Heydrich, was Senator Tom Jason. The other candidates were Gary Johnson of the Libertarians, Senator Blanche Lincoln of the Libertarians, Senator Douglas Self of the All Syndicalist Convention and Governor Adrian Tam of the Radical Centrist Party.

It was widely predicted that Heydrich will secure a third term, and whether Jason secured second place in the election was initially up for debate, with a challenge from the left in the form of Senator Self, and a challenge from the right in the form of either Senator Lincoln or Gary Johnson.

Results

Presidential Candidate			Home State	Popular Vote		Electoral Vote
				Count	Percentage
	John Heydrich	Republican Party	Texas	86,239,489	63.1%	390
	Tom Jason	Democratic Party	Virginia	43,853,979	32.1%	148
	Adrian Tam	Radical Centrist Party	Connecticut	3,555,713	2.6%	0
	Douglas Self	All Syndicalist Convention	Hawaii	1,633,268	1.2%	0
	Gary Johnson	Libertarian Party	Connecticut	815,151	0.6%	0
	Blanche Lincoln	Libertarian Party	Louisiana	568,218	0.4%	0
Total				136,662,178	100%	538

Candidates

Candidates, 8th Presidential Election
John Heydrich of Texas	Tom Jason of Virginia	Gary Johnson of New Mexico	Blanche Lincoln of Louisiana
for the Republican Party	for the Democratic Party	for the Libertarian Party	for the Libertarian Party
5th President of the United States	U.S. Senator from Virginia	Former Governor of New Mexico	Former U.S. Senator from Louisiana
Douglas Self of Hawaii	Adrian Tam of Connecticut
for the All Syndicalist Convention	for the Radical Centrist Party
Former U.S. Senator from Hawaii	Governor of Connecticut

Primaries

The primaries in the Republican Party were heavily contested. The incumbent President, John Heydrich, had announced during his first term that he was amending the US Constitution to remove term limits, allowing him to stand for a third term in the future. It appeared he was to be nominated without fault as the Republican candidate for a third term, but in fact the primaries had many different candidates. In particular, it appeared Brat, his own Secretary of the Treasury, was attempting to contest and win the nomination from him. At one point, early in the primaries, Brat was leading and also following close behind Heydrich in terms of delegate count. However, almost inevitably, Heydrich seized the nomination and became the Republican candidate.

In the previous election, the Democratic Party had nominated Sandra Murphy-Colbert but her campaign was weak and easily defeated by Heydrich. They were therefore uncertain of who to nominate for this election, but in the beginning four candidates became clear. Sandra had entered the primaries only to endorse Tom Jason, who in turn was opposed by Harry Reinfeld and Stan Pines. Jeff Rolland proceeded to enter the primaries, and then endorsed Harry Reinfeld. However, in the spirit of party unity, Reinfeld went on to endorse Jason, and Rolland endorsed the only opposition left, Stan Pines, before defecting from the party. Later in the primaries, Mark Walker and Jesse Cuthbert both entered, although Cuthbert endorsed Jason, leading to Walker being the only Democrat left in the primaries that did not endorse Jason.

Several third parties also put forward nominees, with Libertarian chair Gary Johnson seizing the Libertarian nomination and Douglas Self seizing the All Syndicalist Convention nomination. Sips also ran for the Communist Party nomination but due to inactivity decided to not contest the presidential election. The other third party candidate was Adrian Tam, of the Radical Centrist Party. Notably, the Democratic People's Union, the third largest party, did not nominate a candidate, nor did other third parties such as the Imperial Japanese Party or the American Conservative Union.

Republican primaries

Republican Party primary
John Heydrich	Brat	John Johnson	Pizo Cunningham	Alex Jones	Oreki Houtarou
5th President	Secretary of the Treasury	Secretary of State	6th Vice President	Governor of Arizona	Secretary of Homeland Security
471 delegates	199 delegates	96 delegates	81 delegates	77 delegates	75 delegates
Wolfgang Mittermeyer	Curtis LeMay	Estelle Bright	Adrian	Kaiser Wilhelm II	David Siemer
Governor of Indiana	Governor of Oklahoma	U.S. Senator from Georgia	Governor of Georgia	U.S. Senator from West Virginia	Governor of North Carolina
59 delegates (endorsed Brat)	52 delegates (endorsed Johnson)	41 delegates (endorsed Brat)	27 delegates (endorsed Heydrich)	24 delegates (endorsed Heydrich)	24 delegates (endorsed Heydrich)
Jerry van Derring	Riley Newton	Tom Kirkman	Edward Greenway	Kaiser Wilhelm II
Governor of Ohio	U.S. Senator from North Dakota	U.S. Senator from North Dakota	U.S. Senator from Texas	U.S. Senator from Mississippi
19 delegates (endorsed Brat)	13 delegates (endorsed Houtarou)	10 delegates (endorsed Heydrich)	7 delegates (endorsed Heydrich)	4 delegates (endorsed Heydrich)

Democratic primaries

Democratic Party primary
Tom Jason	Sandra Murphy-Colbert	Harry Reinfeld	Jesse Cuthbert	Stan Pines	Mark Walker
U.S. Senator from Virginia	U.S. Senator from New York	Governor of New Jersey	U.S. Senator from New Jersey	U.S. Senator from Washington	Fmr. U.S. Senator from Connecticut
925 delegates	367 delegates (endorsed Jason)	132 delegates (endorsed Jason)	121 delegates (endorsed Jason)	104 delegates (endorsed Jason)	74 delegates
Jeff Rolland
Fmr. U.S. Senator from Delaware
35 delegates (withdrew)

Libertarian primaries

Image	Name	Position	Delegates	Notes
	Gary Johnson	Chair of the Libertarian Party	954
	Amy Schnoppsheimer	Former Chair of the Libertarian Party	46

All Syndicalist Convention primaries

Image	Name	Position	Delegates	Notes
	Douglas Self	Senator from Hawaii	1000

Radical Centrist Party primaries

Image	Name	Position	Delegates	Notes
	Adrian Tam	Governor of Connecticut	1000

Communist primaries

Image	Name	Position	Delegates	Notes
	Sips	Former Chair of the Communist Party	1000