Political Parties of the Kingdom of Histalpol

Brief history and overview
Prior to the independence and the first parliament of Histalpol, Histalpol use to be owned by both the French and the English. After the civil war where Histalpol broke from British rule in the 18th century, they needed a new head of the country which would become the Prime Ministerial position who was Marx Nashwolf who was the leader of the current equivalent to the LibDem, opposed by continuing royalist ideals from the English civil war when most of the remaining Royalists created the original Histalpol when it was the Regions of Medilibér, this party now called the Royal Kingdom of Histalpol. They were the original 2 parties.

Soon after with the Royal Kingdom of Histalpol winning the election in 1792 with the new Prime Minister being Edward Harrow, the rule of Harrow brought on Harrow's War which resulted in a large expansion of Histalpol into Britain but also the creation of the Emerald Party created by supporters of the Royal Kingdom of Histalpol but went against Harrow's war path to create a new empire for Histalpol.

The Commart party, then billed as The Workman's Party, came around during the Steam Era as industry boomed as well as population and foreign relations, but with the boom in industry and mills, the working class started to become poorly treated, especially in wake of the Floods of 1820, leading to human rights activism as well as the creation of The Workman's Party which consisted of mainly workmen in the mills around Histalpol, but also some of the human right activists who owned the mills in which the workmen worked and resided.

During the Black Depression of the 1990s, Histalpol gained a new powerful political party in the form of Histalpol Parti Isolationist lead by Prime Minister Hayden Bolton who is the most famous prime minister in Histalpol currently. He was renound for being really harsh on foreign policies, relations, and basically making Histalpol an isolated country from any other imports. This had benefits and limitation including the fact that companies had to be reborn and made in general to fill in gaps in the market, but also meant that exports to other countries would be more costly. The isolation technique worked as the new companies meant that produce increased, unemployment decreased and larger companies did set up in Histalpol. But this also scarred the reputation of Histalpol slightly before Malstrone helped to regain relations with most countries.

In 2008, Commart won the election with Borgia Malstrone who initiated the return of foreign relations with the world, but did not join a union until 2012 when LibDem Prime Minister Timothy Small won in a shock win who then had Histalpol join the Alliance of Independent Nations.

Current elections follow the "Two-ballot" plurality system where each election has 2 rounds of voting to ensure the winner gains a majority of votes. This is used for both elections to the Minor Exposition Hall and the General elections. General elections occur every 4 years since the last, unless the prime minister at the time steps down.

Major parties in Parliament House
Four parties dominate politics in the Minor Exhibition Hall. They all operate throughout Histalpol and most of the parties gained a large section of the MEH, with 537 out of the 565 seats available being taken by the Big 4;


 * LibDem, radical centre (208 seats in the Minor Exhibition Hall)
 * Commart, centre-left (158 seats)
 * Emerald Party, centre-right (85 seats)
 * Histalpol Parti Isolationist, left-wing Isolationism (84 seats)