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Missing registered parties

Several registered parties appear to be missing. And some unregistered parties should not be listed as parties (although they could be mentioned as informal groupings).

Victoria

For instance, for Victoria the VEC currently lists 22 registered parties.

Missing Victorian parties:

Angry Victorians Party (since October 2022)
Libertarian Party (since before 2021)
New Democrats^{Wrong link} (since October 2022)

Not (or no longer) registered parties listed in the WP article:

Australian Values Party (since June 2023)
Liberal Democratic Party

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Hi User:1.145.20.25 - you're welcome to add any missing parties, this page is open to IP edits. ITBF (talk) 11:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Party names

I am interested in people's opinions on the naming convention for the naming of state parties.

Should it use the national party name, use the name of the party as registered with the state electoral commission, or the colloquial name. What is the convention?

Throughout the article the Liberals are simply the Liberal Party, when its formal name is the Liberal Party of Australia. Meanwhile the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens are named fully.

This seems inconsistent and inaccurate of what party is named in each state, especially given the source is as per the state electoral commission.

For example: the state parties for the Australian Greens are legally distinct entities. It is not completely accurate to say the Australian Greens contest the Queensland Election. Even some of their federal candidates are running under their state based branch eg Brisbane and Swan Mc4101 (talk) 09:22, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]