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The 2007 Federal Assembly elections were held across Omigodtheykilledkenny on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 as part of the Kennyite midterm elections. All 635 Assembly seats were up for election, as well as one third of the seats in the Senate.
With polls showing a high level of dissatisfaction with the incumbent Conservative administration of Manuelo Fernanda, his party was expected to take some hits on Election Night, though they probably never anticipated just how badly the voters were in the mood to punish them for overextending Kennyite troops abroad while ignoring vital domestic issues such as education, transportation and infrastructure. Liberals gained 59 seats in the Assembly, allowing them to seize control within the chamber with a 55-seat majority.
The results were a catastrophe for incumbent Speaker Susannah Batko-Yovino, whose leadership had never been seriously tested, giving critics fodder to pronounce her a failure and a political lightweight. "Maybe these results finally prove we shouldn't be electing Hooters girls speaker?" quipped liberal radio host Howie Bromowitz. Batko-Yovino—who had indeed been a waitress at a Hooters knockoff chain before she went into politics—had gotten desperate during the campaign and started doing steamy photo shoots in swimwear and lingerie, in an attempt to rev up the male vote. It did not work.
Fernanda probably deserved to take most of the blame for the loss, but he never quite did. He stood by as Batko-Yovino resigned from Congress and then named her ambassador to The Palentine as a consolation prize.
Federal Senate elections
Liberals were able seize control of the upper chamber as well, picking 10 seats for a total of 75 out of 145 Senate seats. Only 48 seats were up for election. However, since each state delegation in the Senate gets only one vote, the party in control of the most individual delegations leads the chamber. Conservatives who controlled 20 out of 35 delegations before the vote, lost six, giving the Liberals a 21–14 advantage.
See also
Source
- Kennyites gear up for congressional elections - Paradise City Town Crier campaign coverage
- Liberals seize control of Congress - Town Crier, September 7, 2007
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