Hoogstra

Frank Hoogstra (professionally known as Hoogstra) is an Australian politician who has served as a Senator and MP. Hoogstra was first elected at the federal election of June 2017 as a Labor Senator for the Northern Territory, and re-elected in the following federal election. Following the dissolution of Labor, Hoogstra formed the Imperial Party Australia. Fairfax MP MrUnited12 later defected to the party, which stood in the Kingston by-election, February 2018 before renaming to the Australian Labor Party. At the April 2018 election, Hoogstra won the seat of Canberra with Labor also winning Denison and Sydney and a Senate seat. Labor supported a Socialist government, alongside the Pirate Party and independent Youmaton. Following the referral of MattMonti to the High Court, however, a snap election was called, where hoogstra won Canberra and Labor won Wright. Labor and the Socialists would ultimately merge to form the Australian Labour Party after PineappleCrusher_ of the Liberals was elected Prime Minister, with the former Labor becoming the Unity faction of the Labour Party. The Labor Party contested the September 2018 election where Hoogstra won the seat of Bradfield. However, there was an eventual split- Unity split off to form the Australian Unity Party, which Hoogstra briefly led. However, the party, under the leadership of lieselta, ended up merging with the Social Democratic Party (which had split off Labour's Social Democratic faction). Hoogstra did not contest the December 2018 election, but did unsuccessfully contest the seat of Moncrieff in the March 2019 election, winning 44.4% of the vote. At the following federal election, Hoogstra unsuccessfully contested Nicholls, coming in first place on primary votes with 43.3% but only winning 47.8% of the two-party-preferred vote.