Australian Labor Party (December 2019)

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) was a political party in Australia, which served in the government coalition with the Social Democratic Party, in holding multiple portfolios and the Deputy Prime Ministership through Explosivo2002. They were currently lead by Explosivo2002 until the merge into the Social Democratic Party.

The ALP was founded on 26 December 2019, by the Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the United Democratic Party, dyljam, following his decision to leave the United Democratic Party in the lead up to the January 2020 Federal Election. Its inaugural members were dyljam, who took over as leader of the party, Lok1999 and advancedgaming12, with advancedgaming12 taking over the inaugural Deputy Leader position.

January 2020 Federal Election
The party did not have much time to get acquainted with Australian politics, however, as just over half a month after the party was formed, they had to face the federal election that has been called by the governing Liberal-National Coalition. The party ran candidates in 3 electorates: TheNorthernMarshall in Cunningham, Lok1999 in Melbourne and dyljam in Denison, alongside advancedgaming12 running for the Senate as the parties No.1 and only choice on the ticket. The parties electoral results are as follows; Overall, the parties share of the vote made for grim reading: the party which had previously won 4 seats and between 10% and 20% of the vote at the previous election had lost all but 1 seat in the House of Representatives and had their vote fall below that of every other party, including the newly registered Centre Alliance. However, the party would be struck with another blow in the near future, as 15 days after the election, leader dyljam resigned his leadership citing personal reasons for stepping aside.

The Leadership of AdvancedGaming12
Once dyljam decided to step aside from the leadership, his deputy advancedgaming12 stepped into the leadership. This was initially on a temporary basis, but he assumed full leadership unopposed on the 29th of January, only 3 days after his predecessor's resignation, due in large part due to dyljam's decision to step away from the party entirely and become an independent. Initially, the party remained quiet in terms of the politics of the nation, beyond a few spats with the Coalition opposistion due to their position in the government with the SDP. However, the party spurred back into life during the double by-elections in Brisbane and Denison. While the party did not run a candidate in Denison, thanks in large part to dyljam attempting to run (unsuccessfully) as an independent for his old seat, they did run a candidate in the race in Brisbane: FZVIC. However the campaign in Brisbane was one that was considered by many in the media as a failure for the party: while only polling around 5% nationally, FZVIC managed to get even less, with 2.9% of the vote going his way; a vote count below all other candidates for the electorate.

Following on from this, the party seemed like it was in a death spiral. Many tweets flooded in, both joking and serious, asking when the SDP and Labor would be merging again; rumors which were denied by the senior members for both parties. However, the party was blessed with a bit of good fortune and good electioneering in the coming days, as the Mayo By-Election was announced. Initially, rumors were that the Labor Party were not to run a candidate at all, but when electoral nominations opened up on the 13th of February, the party had chosen a candidate: Explosivo2002, a newcomer to both party and politics as a whole. Throughout the campaign, many in the media noted the strength of the campaigning of Explosivo and the dedication of the party's establishment in supporting their candidate in the race.

As fate would have it, however, Labor did not win the by-election: in fact, the party finished 5th place behind the Liberals, SDP, Nationals and Liberty Reform parties. However, the results weren't as bad as the raw facts may make them out to be: Explosivo got 13.5% of the vote, nearly 3x the Labor Newspoll average at that time, which meant he only finished 0.3% behind Plupsnup of the Liberty Reform Party: an idea many pundits pre-election (with the notable exclusion of Nine News) thought was impossible, as the Liberty Reform Party were expected to have a much stronger showing than Labor.

New Deputy and Winds of Change
The party establishment had taken note of their new candidate, as on the morning of the 24th of February, the party announced Explosivo2002 as their new Deputy Leader under advancedgaming, filling the position that had been vacant at that point for over a month and through three by-elections. Upon taking the post, Explosivo stated that "this party is far from finished, and I aim to bring them back to their best". It was on the same day, however, that the Labor Party had a new threat emerge: the Socialist Party begun the registration process with the AEC, which many in the media landscape thought would eat into whatever gains Labor may have made following Mayo.

Resignation of advancedgaming12 and Merger into the Social Democrats
There was a period of time where the Labor Party didn't do much of note outside of the activities of advancedgaming12: this was due in large part to there be no major by-elections, with the only political activity of Australia occurring within Parliament itself. However, that changed on the 11th of March 2020, when Labor Leader advancedgaming12 was nominated by Prime Minister NGSpy to serve as a High Court Justice, which prompted his resignation from the Cabinet, Senate, and (on the 12th) the leadership of the Labor Party, all three of which were handed over to Explosivo2002. However, the future of Labor was immediately changed by the new leader, who had been in contact with NGSpy (SDP) and MattMonti (Socialists) over the prospects of merging the three parties to unite the Left under one banner. From that, on the 15th of March, the party issued a press release announcing the start of the merger process with the SDP, with the Socialists announcing a similar future on the 18th of March. In the midst of all that, advancedgaming12 was confirmed as a High Court Justice on the 19th of March, and departed the Labor Party as their last leader to lead them into any form of election, that being the Mayo-By Election of the month before.

Federal Leaders
The federal Leaders of the Labor Party have been as follows (acting leaders indicated in italics);

Federal Deputy Leaders
The federal Leaders of the Labor Party have been as follows (acting leaders indicated in italics):

Former Parliamentarians

 * Senator Explosivo2002 (Queensland)


 * Lok1999 (Melbourne, Victoria)(October 2019 - January 2020)
 * Seantor advancedgaming12 (South Australia/Queensland Senator)