Orion national election, 25 A.R.

The 25 A.R. national election was the third national election that took place under the Third Constitution, and all 401 members of the Orion National Assembly were elected under ranked-choice voting.

After calling an early election, incumbent Chancellor Hughes Stone Wheeler, the leader of the Rally for Orion, won re-election, though with a reduced 31-seat majority in the Assembly. The Coalition for the Republic, led by Lockhart Riley, experienced an uptick in popularity and managed to gain 17 seats and increase its share of the vote by 6%.

Though Wheeler had called an early election to take advantage of the Rally's popularity in early opinion polls, that popularity was eroded somewhat over the course of the election. Riley, contesting a nationwide election for the first time as the leader of the Coalition, was an aggressive campaigner and tapped into the Coalition electorate's nationalist views.

Ultimately, the election served to clip Wheeler's wings, and the third Wheeler government was substantially muted in the three years that followed. Wheeler's health continued to decline, and this was the last election in which Wheeler would lead the Rally.