2021 Australian federal election

The 2021 Australia federal election was held on 18 April 2021.

Background
The 2020 federal election was won by the Union for a Traditional Republic and it's candidate Spike Anderson. Shortly after the election Anderson created the Moderate Centrist Group. On 3rd September the military of Papua New Guinea announced it's defead after a surprise Australian attack. On 5th September the annexation of the country was made official. 6 new states joined Australia. On 6th September the Australian parliament announced to remove Anderson from office. Matthew Bucklligan became his sucessor. However only 9 days later on 15th he was also replace by Mike Jerick. He officially changed the name of the country from "Australia" to "Republic of Australia and East New Guinea" although it wasn't recognized by any other country. On 16th October he left MCG to join the SDU.

Union for a Traditional Republic
Cliff Pebinless and Nancy Frewer both tried to become the new leader of the party for the election. Pebinless won the primary. There was no chance for the party to win the election but the UTR at least hoped to get in 2nd place.

Social Democratic Union
Mike Jerick decided against running for re-election. Instead Luke Gafrey became the candidate for the election without opposition. The SDU was the favorite to win the election in all polls.

Moderate Centrist Group
After Jerick had left the party it first was unsure if the party would even be able to participate in the upcoming election. In the end former prime minister Matthew Bucklligan and party leader Nick Daford tried to win the leaders seat. Bucklligan won against Daford. The party did surprisingly well in early polls, getting around 15%.

Movement for the Environment
Party leader Rick Jackson had to win a primary against Simon Widy. The largely unknown Widy was defeated by Jackson.

Liberal Democratic Party
Party leader Toby Jossinwer and Tony Balfrey tried to win the nomination from their party. Jossinwer was the clear favorite and won the nomination.

Results
The voter turnout was 64%. The SDU was able to win all 18 states.

Aftermath
The UTR was able to win the most seats in the parliament. Spike Anderson became the 4th prime minister of Australia. The ME was able to win over 7% and 11 more seats. SDU and ME were able to keep a left-leaning majority in the parliament. On 12th April, shortly after the election Anderson formed the Moderate Centrist Group. This was a compromise between the right-leaning president and the left-leaning parliament.