Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) is a political party in Australia. The party was in government as the primary party within multiple coalitions at the federal level from the December 2018 election to the May 2019. Youmaton was the leader for much of the party's life, until her resignation in May 2019 where MattMonti took over the role. He resigned on 30 May 2019.

History
The Australian Labor Party was formed on 2 October 2018 as the Social Democratic Party as a result of the faction breakup of the Australian Labour Party. The leader, Youmaton, spilled her Social Democrats faction off to form the Social Democratic Party. The party at founding was primarily comprised of the membership of the ALP faction. It entered Parliament with both lower and upper house representation, quickly becoming the dominant party in opposition with Youmaton remaining the Leader of the Opposition. On 12 October 2018, the Australian Unity Party merged into the party.

December 2018 federal election
The party entered Government at its first federal election contest in December 2018. As the party was the dominant party of the Left Coalition, commanding 6 seats in the lower house, Youmaton took the office of Prime Minister. Around a month after the election, the Radical Party merged into the party.

March 2019 federal election
After Prime Minister Youmaton called an early election due to government instability, the party surged to 9 seats (1 short of a majority) in the House of Representatives. The party soon begun negotiations with the United Democratic Party to form government, and by the end of the day had established the Third Youmaton Ministry.

May 2019 federal election
The party performed extremely poorly at the federal election. Before the campaign they had announced their plan to rename to the Australian Labor Party, however they would not appear as such on the ballot papers as it was too close to the election. The party failed to win a senate seat, failed to win Nicholls and Robertson, where former Labor leader Hoogstra and Senator JaydenDaGamer15 were contesting, respectively. The only seat the party won was the Division of Cunningham, Youmaton’s seat which had been held with a swing in her favour. Following the election, Youmaton resigned from Parliament and as leader, being replaced by MattMonti. Cenarchos, the party’s only Senator, also left to join the Socialist Party, leaving the party without official representation. MattMonti was to stand in the Cunningham by-election but only won 11.8% of the vote.