Tuesday 2 February 2021

For immediate release

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The following political parties were re-registered under Victorian electoral law today:

• Fiona Patten's Reason Party
• Pauline Hanson's One Nation
• Liberal Democratic Party

As required by section 58A of the Electoral Act 2002, Victoria’s registered political parties applied for re-registration with the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) between August and October 2020.

To be registered, a party must have at least 500 members on the Victorian electoral roll. The VEC confirmed this by writing to the members whose names were provided by the parties.

As a registered political party, these parties will continue to:

• have the party name printed next to its endorsed candidates’ names on ballot papers
• be able to nominate all its candidates centrally with the VEC instead of with individual election managers
• be entitled to public funding (if it gains enough votes), and
• be entitled to enrolment information (which it can only use for specified purposes).