2134 Minnesotan Republic presidential election



The 2134 Minnesotan Republic presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 9th, 2134, under a month after the Nogales nuclear war, to elect a president of the Minnesotan Republic. This was the first presidential election in the Minnesotan Republic's history and its only presidential election not held in mid-May of a year that was divisible by four; this November date was outlined in the initial constitution, so Minnesotans could elect a leader of their new country before 2136. George Erlandson, the former governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota who was elected to a second term in 2130, was the only major candidate on the ballot, and he received over 89% of the vote (just under 11% wrote in a candidate.) This was by far the Minnesotan presidential election with the lowest turnout (37%,) and in Compassion, where a nuclear bomb was detonated over Minneapolis, turnout was just 12%.

Erlandson was a registered Republican while Governor of Minnesota, but he was a registered independent during the early years of his presidency in the Minnesotan Republic; he later changed his party affiliation to the Conservative Party.

Background
Before the Nogales nuclear war, Minnesota and North Dakota were states in the United States. However, after the federal government was effectively destroyed in the war on October 15th, 2134, the government officially disbanded on October 18th. An emergency gathering of officials from the Minnesotan state government, as well as some from the North Dakotan state government, agreed to band together into a country called the Minnesotan Republic. Former Governor of Minnesota George Erlandson was the only major candidate to run in this election, and won in a massive landslide.

The former U.S. state of South Dakota (which would eventually split into Rushmore and East River) was admitted into the Minnesotan Republic in February 2135, and this was the only Minnesotan presidential election in which it did not participate.