Cygnian federal elections, 1975 (Joan of What?)

Federal elections were held in on Sunday, 2 November 1975. All 400 seats in the and all 84 seats in the  were up for election following the first and thus far only  of both Houses of.

At the height of the, the government of Chancellor resigned following a government shutdown and subsequent vote of no confidence in the Government. As the entire Cabinet had resigned, and the cancellarial line of succession was at the time not in place, no constitutional mechanisms existed to form a new government. decided on 2 September 1975 to dissolve Congress and call for the first midterm elections in Cygnian history (acts which were not explicitly prohibited in the, but that he was not constitutionally empowered to perform).

In the two months leading up to the elections, the various political parties of Cygnia scrambled to select their congressional leaders. After a rushed string of primary elections, Gough Whitlam retook the leadership, this time with as his running mate. Malcolm Fraser was also reaffirmed as leader of the NUP. The Unitarians went on to win the elections by a landslide. Democratic Labour suffered a 95-seat swing and saw its National Assembly numbers cut almost in half, to 113 seats – fewer than it had when Whitlam led the DLP through the.