Editing Collin Lestrange (section)

=== General Assembly Seat ===
In 2016, Lestrange successfully ran for a seat on the General Assembly, representing the Westfield District of Caporolla, which includes his home town of Carrack. He ran virtually unopposed in his party primaries, receiving several high profile endorsements and easily winning the nomination to replace retiring incumbent, Sandra Stewart, on the Progressive ticket. He was elected to the seat on September 7, 2016. 

During his time on the General Assembly, Lestrange favored protectionism and interventionism abroad, voting in favor of Maximusian involvement in the [[Second Lauchenoirian Civil War|War in Lauchenoiria]]. Domestically, he supported increased corporate taxation and increased federal funding for public transportation and higher education. Lestrange, serving on the General Assembly's Economic Development Committee, cosponsored a bill that would have freed up $5 billion in federal funding to construct a high speed train network linking most of the largest Maximusian western metropolitan hubs to the south coast, though the bill was narrowly defeated. Lestrange was successful in securing significant additional funding for the [[Public Universities Charter|PCU system]], both in 2017 and again in 2019.