United Democratic Party

From AustraliaSim
United Democratic Party
Leader dyljam
Deputy Leader BloodyChrome
Founded 19 August 2018; 5 years ago (2018-08-19)
Membership (2019) Increase 14+
Ideology Centrism, Social Liberalism
Political position Centre
House of Representatives
5 / 15
Senate
2 / 7

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
September 2018
2 / 17
Increase 1 9 10.6% Senior Government Partner
(UDP-Reason-LP-CA)
BloodyChrome
December 2018
3 / 17
Decrease1 15 13.39% Crossbench BloodyChrome
March 2019
4 / 19
Increase1 28 18.54% Junior Government Partner
(SDP-UDP)
DirtySaiyan
May 2019
1 / 15
Decrease3 1,173,312 7.99% Crossbench dyljam
July 2019
5 / 15
Increase4 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
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]

Former Parliamentarians[edit | edit source]