United Democratic Party
United Democratic Party | |
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Leader | dyljam |
Deputy Leader | BloodyChrome |
Founded | 19 August 2018 |
Membership (2019) | 14+ |
Ideology | Centrism, Social Liberalism |
Political position | Centre |
House of Representatives |
5 / 15
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Senate |
2 / 7
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The United Democratic Party (UDP) is a centrist political party in Australia. BloodyChrome was the party's inaugural leader, however was unable to continue his post after losing his seat in the December 2018 election.
dyljam was declared leader on 21 April 2019 after the resignation on DirtySaiyan, with lieselta becomming Deputy Leader on 28 April 2019.
History[edit | edit source]
The United Democratic Party was formed on 19 August 2018. Its members comprised many of those who were formerly of the now-defunct Australian Democrats. On 16 December 2018, the Reason Party merged under the United Democratic Party.
September 2018 federal election[edit | edit source]
The party entered Government at its first federal election contest in September 2018. It won 5 seats in the House, and joined with the the Liberal Party, Centre Alliance and Reason to form government. Although initially not the largest party in the coalition, UDP lead the new government with leader BloodyChrome becoming Prime Minister.
December 2018 federal election[edit | edit source]
At the September 2018 federal election, the party lost 3 seats in the House and won an additional seat in the Senate, despite increasing its popular vote. Consequently it took its place on the crossbench. Party leader BloodyChrome lost his seat of Sydney (although entered the Senate after the resignation of NotKhrushchevsGhost), and thus was unable to continue to serve in his role. DirtySaiyan was elected leader unopposed on 26 December 2018.
Federal election results[edit | edit source]
Election | Seats won | ± | Total votes | % | Position | Leader |
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September 2018 | 2 / 17
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1 | 9 | 10.6% | Senior Government Partner (UDP-Reason-LP-CA) |
BloodyChrome |
December 2018 | 3 / 17
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1 | 15 | 13.39% | Crossbench | BloodyChrome |
March 2019 | 4 / 19
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1 | 28 | 18.54% | Junior Government Partner (SDP-UDP) |
DirtySaiyan |
May 2019 | 1 / 15
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3 | 1,173,312 | 7.99% | Crossbench | dyljam |
July 2019 | 5 / 15
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4 | 986,520 | 13.6% | Minority government | dyljam |
Federal parliamentary leaders[edit | edit source]
The federal Leaders of the United Democratic Party have been as follows (acting leaders indicated in italics):
# | Leader | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Prime Minister | |
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1 | BloodyChrome | 19 August 2018 | 26 December 2018 | 129 days | Yes (Sep 2018-Dec 2018) | |
2 | DirtySaiyan | 26 December 2018 | 21 April 2019 | 116 days | No | |
3 | dyljam | 21 April 2019 | 4 years, 342 days | Yes (29 July 2019 - 30 September 2019) |
Members of Parliament[edit | edit source]
Current Parliamentarians[edit | edit source]
- DirtySaiyan MP (Kingston, South Australia 23 December 2018 - present).
- dyljam MP (Denison, Tasmania 6 June 2018 - present), initially as an Independent, joining the party on its formation.
- Captain-Feathersword MP (Greenway, NSW 23 December 2018 - present).
- Cynical_Goat MP (Melbourne, Victoria 5 March 2019 - present). Elected at the Melbourne by-election, March 2019.
- Senator Deladi0 (15 September 2018 - present).
- Senator BloodyChrome (1 January 2018 - present), taking NotKhrushchevsGhost's seat in the Senate
- Senator lieselta (23 December 2018 - present), elected for the Centre Alliance, lieselta jointed the UDP on 7 March 2019.
Former Parliamentarians[edit | edit source]
- Senator NotKhrushchevsGhost (23 December 2018 - 1 December 2018), resigned due to ill-health.
- Adamtad MP (Kingston, South Australia 15 September 2018 - 23 December 2018) did not re-contest seat.
- Horror-HQ MP Pearce, Western Australia 23 - December - present). Initially elected for the Social Democratic Party, Horror-HQ joined the UDP on 7 March 2019, then quit the party the following day.