Australian federal election, July 2019

The Australian federal election, July 2019 was held on 27 July 2019. The incumbent Transport Matters-Socialist-Green government did not contest the election, with the Liberal Party in opposition choosing to contest. The United Democratic Party, the Agrarian Party of Australia, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, the South Gippsland Network and MattMonti's SA-BEST also contested the election, alongside The Australian Whigs, who failed to win a seat. The election resulted in a hung Parliament, with crossbench parties holding the balance of power.

Background
On 12 May 2019, Youmaton resigned as the Labor Party leader and as the member for Cunningham, triggering a by-election in her seat. 2 days later, she was replaced as leader by MattMonti, who failed to win the resulting by-election, which was won by independent candidate Mad_Bear_O_Melbourne. On 20 May 2019, AnswerMeNow1 and PineappleCrusher_, MPs for Nicholls and Moncrieff respectively, were referred to the High Court due to inactivity. However, the court ruled that neither actually reached the threshold required for judicial intervention due to the fact that 3 votes on consideration in detail were counted as official business, and without the 3 votes in question, both MPs would not have reached the necessary threshold for judicial intervention. On 22 May 2019, in the midst of a controversy over who would take the senate seat of LibertarianLarry after the seat was vacated, Bsharri, MP for Pearce briefly attempted to join the United Australia Party, with no procedure to accept him, however, he was an independent, and left soon after. On 26 May 2019, PineappleCrusher_ was referred once again to the High Court, alongside MP for Sydney, stalintwo. It was ultimately ruled that the pair be expelled from Parliament, triggering by-elections in Moncrieff and Sydney to be held on 15 June 2019, which were won by Liberal candidate TheAudibleAsh and Socialist candidate Horror-HQ. Two political parties also changed their names- the Geoliberal Party of Australia became The Australian Whigs and the Liberal Democratic Party became the Liberal Party of Australia. On 1 June 2019, a referendum on a constitutional amendment to establish a republic was voted on. It successfully recieved the necessary double majority  , with all states voting in favour of the constitutional amendment, with a national vote of 55.8% in favour of the republic. On 2 June 2019, Liberal senator TheMontyJohnson was referred to the High Court for being in breach of the Parliamentary Participation (Overhaul) Act 2019. Zhukov236, Socialist MP for Robertson, was referred the next day under the same circumstances. They both were expelled on 7 June 2019. Zhukov236's expulsion triggered a by-election in his seat of Robertson. On 14 June 2019, fosfossil, Socialist MP for Mayo, was referred to the High Court due to inactivity but ultimately, it was revealed that fosfossil did not reach the threshold for judicial intervention due to ambiguity over what debate meant. However, on 18 June 2019, 3 MPs were referred to the High Court - MP for Mayo fosfossil, yet again, superpacman04, Liberal MP for Hotham, and most notably, the leader of the opposition and the Liberal Party, porriidge, MP for Brisbane. As a result of this, while porriidge's referral was deemed invalid, superpacman04's and fosfossil's were not, triggering by-elections in Mayo and Hotham. On 1 July 2019, Mad_Bear_O_Melbourne, MP for Cunningham, established the Agrarian Party of Australia. On 13 July 2019, independent MattMonti and superpacman04 won the Mayo and Hotham by-elections. On 14 July 2019, the Revolutionary Socialist Party was registered by Bsharri. The following day, 3 new parties were registered- MattMonti's MattMonti's SA-BEST, AnswerMeNow1's South Gippsland Network and PM-ME-SPRINKLES' Public Transport Party Victoria.

Retiring members

 * Drunk_King_Robert, Socialist MP for Canberra
 * PM-ME-SPRINKLES, Transport Matters MP for Melbourne
 * Horror-HQ, Socialist MP for Sydney
 * Stalin1953, Socialist MP for Robertson
 * FinePorpoise, Green MP for Capricornia
 * imnofox, Green MP for Lingiari
 * Cenarchos, Socialist Senator for New South Wales

Candidates
Following the release of candidates, it was revealed that only 6 out of the 9 registered parties were contesting the election, with the Socialists, Greens and Transport Matters- all incumbent governing parties- not contesting the election. 7 seats would also be uncontested, with only one candidate having contested the election. 1 seat- the Division of Sydney- even had no candidates, with a supplementary election to be held after the election. As a result of this, Queensland, the Northern Territory and Tasmania all held no elections as all seats in those states and territories are uncontested. In the Senate, UDP Senator advancedgaming12 recontested as number 1 on the UDP senate ticket, with former Clerk tobycool2001_1 having contested the Senate on the Liberal ticket on the number 1 position. Incumbent independent Senator BellmanTGM also recontested.

House of Representatives

 * The seat of Sydney was filled via a supplementary election.

Divisions changing party
Members in italics did not re-contest their House of Representatives seats at this election.

Aftermath
Yala Talama of the ABC stated after the final declaration that "Unless UDP and Liberals choose to form a Grand Coalition, the outcome of this parliament will fall on the supplementary election." The aforementioned grand coalition would have 10 out of 15 MPs, however, shortly after the election, Manly-Kitten, MP for Cowper, defected to the Agrarian Party. Shortly afterwards, the Agrarian Party and the Australian Greens officially applied for a memrger with the Australian Electoral Commission under the name of the Australian Labor Party, although a party under the name of the Australian Labor Party is still registered. Under this, Manly-Kitten would become the party leader, Mad_Bear_O_Melbourne his deputy, and FinePorpoise the party chairman. Under the current situation, the crossbench essentially holds the balance of power. The United Democrats would require 3 or more crossbench partners to form government, while the Liberals would need 4 or more. This figure would be decreased by 1 depending on who wins the Sydney supplementary election. On 29 July 2019, dyljam was appointed Prime Minister and a member of the executive council by President RunasSudo.