Australian federal election, January 2020

The January 2020 Australian federal election was the 15th federal election in Australia.

Background
On 15 October 2019, ellielia, a Liberal senator, applied to register the Centre Alliance, and was successful. On 1 November 2019, the Pearce by-election, November 2019 was held to replace Liberal MP Woof223. The Liberals had endorsed Centre Alliance candidate Charlotte_Star, and the Centre Alliance had directed preferences to NGSpy of the Social Democrats over AussieConservative of the Nationals, leading to criticism from the Nationals and conservative media, and ultimately leading to the party withdrawing from the coalition. NGSpy won the by-election. On 10 November 2019, by-elections were announced in the seats of Cowper, Moncrieff and Robertson. The Liberals were defending Cowper, the United Democrats were defending Moncrieff, and Robertson was won by an independent at the previous election. Ultimately, AussieConservative, National deputy leader, successfully won Cowper against independent MerrilyPutrid, PineappleCrusher_ regained his old seat of Moncrieff, and independent candidate Gregor_The_Beggar won in Robertson against former MP for Robertson JaydenDaGamer15. On 16 December 2019, Centre Alliance merged into the Social Democratic Party

On 20 December 2019, SDP Member for Mayo MattMonti and Liberal Member for Hotham superpacman04 were ejected from Parliament for inactivity. On 23 December 2019, the SDP caucus elected MattMonti as Leader of the party, despite not being an MP. On 25 December 2019, 2 parties applied for registration - the Australian Labor Party, led by MP for Denison, dyljam, and the Country Liberal Party of the Northern Territory, led by Florence Murphy. Both parties were registered on 27 December 2019 This changed the House of Representatives makeup to 2 seats to the ALP, and 1 to then UDP. On 28 December 2019, Liberal senator Anacornda defected to the Social Democratic Party, while ejected MP superpacman04 defected to The Nationals.

Senators up for election
1 Senate position was vacant before the election.