Cygnian federal elections, 2020 (Joan of What?)

The Cygnian federal elections of 2018, scheduled for Tuesday, 6 November 2018, will be the 58th quadrennial federal elections and will determine the membership of the 53rd. Voters will elect members of the and the  to represent their electoral district and state respectively. The makeup of the 53rd Congress will determine the new and. The series of are likely to be held during the first six months of 2018. This nominating process is an indirect election, where voters cast ballots selecting a slate of delegates to a political party's, who then in turn elect their party's congressional leader. This leader then becomes the party's cancellarial nominee.

Barring any major change in circumstances,, who was elected in , will be eligible to seek re-election. The resulting Chancellor from the 2018 elections is scheduled to take office upon the State Opening of Congress on 23 January 2019, and formally inaugurated on 6 February 2019.