2292 Minnesotan Republic presidential election



The 2292 Minnesotan Republic presidential election was held on Tuesday, May 10th, 2292, to elect a president of the Minnesotan Republic. Incumbent Conservative president Dragon Dahl was ineligible for re-election, due to having already served two terms. In a close race, Old Labor presidential nominee Jaxon Kruger received a 47% plurality of the vote to Conservative Stern Kading's 44%, winning the presidency.

Background
Incumbent Conservative president Dragon Dahl was elected to two terms in the 2280s, first in 2284 and again in 2288, both by fairly narrow margins. As he was ineligible for a third term, a competitive primary was held for the party's 2292 presidential nominee on March 31st, 2292, along with a primary for the Old Labor Party on the same day. Polling of the race was consistently close; according to North Star Polling no candidate ever led in the popular vote by more than four percentage points throughout the race.

Robot voting rights march
On April 16th, 2292, a massive series of worldwide demonstrations occurred demanding robot voting rights and eliminating the culling of robots once they started to get close to matching human intelligence. These demonstrations also occurred in several locations within the Minnesotan Republic. The Old Labor Party, which had favored giving protections to robots since approximately the early 2200s, came out strongly in favor of the demonstrations, while the Conservatives strongly came out against the demonstrations; this became a major issue in the last month of the campaign.