April 2020 / 1st Presidential Election

The 1st Presidential Election began on April 2nd, 2020, and ended on April 5th, 2020, after four separate runoff elections. This all followed the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian Primaries. Greg Dover emerged as the race's front runner in a series of polls before the election. Opposing him, Andrew Yang, an outsider and entrepreneur, successfully beat Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary. Andrew Yang sought to beat Dover with the Democratic Party and Workers Party support he received. Accompanying the two were a variety of third party candidates, of them were Kraleck, who had won the Libertarian nomination unopposed, and various independents who signed up separately from political parties, or too late for primaries; such as, sæglópur and Stephen k Bannon from the Communist Party.

Dover's campaign promise of "Making America First" brought many Greens, Independents, Libertarians, and Moderate Democrats, forming a coalition of voters who could carry him a win in many crucial wins on election day; whereas, Andrew Yang successfully won his party's respect and garnered support from the Workers movement.

An interesting development in the election was that of the power of the Communists and New Peoples Party's influence when coming to Runoff voting. If a candidate did not make it over 50% in a region, a runoff would happen between the top two most voted candidates, or potentially more in cases of ties. With sæglópur eliminated, many communists had the option of swapping votes; however, in a public statement sæglópur stated, "...I don't want to vote for yang because yang is unreasonable and can't be worked with but I also can't vote for Dover because he's a republican." While some speculated that that he split the leftist vote, sæglópur argued, "Í didnt split the left vote. I was the only left candidate. Yang's campaign slogan litterally has "not left" in it."

In the end, Dover was able to gain enough support to win the electoral college, and popular vote before and after the runoff, making him the First President of the Capital Republic's United States.