Cygnian Labour Party leadership election, 2012 (Joan of What?)

The 2014 Democratic Labour Party cancellarial primaries were a series of electoral contests organised by the Democratic Labour Party to select the 2,826 delegates to the Democratic Labour National Convention held on 25th–28th July and determine the congressional leader and nominee for Chancellor of Cygnia in the 2014 Cygnian federal election. The elections took place within all 18 Cygnian states and 5 territories, and occurred between 1 February and 14 June 2016. Congressman Dorian Brandt of South Gascoyne won and became the party's nominee, the first migrant to do so. However, due to a close race between Brandt and incumbent Chancellor Julia Gillard, the contest remained competitive for longer than expected, although Brandt eventually accumulated enough delegate votes from state and territorial primary races to achieve a majority.

To secure the nomination, a candidate needed to receive at least 1,414 votes at the convention – or a simple majority of the 2,824 delegate votes. The race was complicated by a controversy over the scheduling of the Kaleep and Samudra state primaries, which had been scheduled earlier than party rules permitted, affecting the number of delegates that those states sent to the national convention.

Brandt received enough delegate endorsements on 3 June to claim that he had secured the simple majority of delegates necessary to win the nomination, and Gillard conceded the nomination four days later. Brandt was nominated on the first ballot, at the July convention. Brandt's victory was unprecedented, as it was the first time in Cygnian history that a sitting Chancellor seeking re-election had been defeated by another candidate. Brandt went on to win the general election, and became the 33rd Chancellor of Cygnia on 6 February 2015. Gillard retired from politics after leaving the Chancellorship.