Season 11 DES presidential election

The Season 11 DES presidential election was the 11th, held Friday and Saturday, March 18-19, 2022. The ticket of former vice president Charlie Williams and incumbent vice president Trey Cranfield defeated the write-in ticket of Cranfield for president and Williams for vice president. It was the second consecutive election in which the winner received over 490 electoral votes, and was the third consecutive victory. Incumbent president Aaron Scott was term-limited and endorsed a write-in campaign of Cranfield for president in an unprecedented move by a sitting president to oppose their party's nominee.

The election results in each state and the were certified by March 21. The formally cast their votes for president and vice president on the same day and their votes were officially counted by Congress that evening. Williams and Cranfield were inaugurated on Friday, March 25, 2022.

Procedure
of the states that for a person to serve as president, the individual must be a, be at least 35 years old, and have been a United States resident for at least 14 years. Candidates for the presidency typically seek the nomination of one of the, which is awarded through a process such as a. The primary elections are usually where voters cast ballots for a slate of party  pledged to a particular candidate. The party's delegates then officially nominate a candidate to run on the party's behalf. The presidential nominee typically chooses a vice presidential to form that party's, which is then ratified by the delegates at the party's convention.

Similarly, the general election is also an indirect election, in which voters cast ballots for a slate of members of the ; these electors then directly elect the president and vice president. If no candidate receives the minimum 270 electoral votes needed to win the election, a will be held in which the House of Representatives will select the president from the three candidates who received the most electoral votes, and the  will select the vice president from the candidates who received the two highest totals. The presidential election will occur simultaneously with, , and.

National Union Party
Charlie Williams became the presumptive nominee of the on March 11, 2022, when he secured enough delegates to ensure his nomination at the national convention. He was formally nominated at the convention on the same day.