Arts Party
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The Arts Party
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| Leader | PJ Collins |
| Party Secretary | Nicholas Gledhill |
| Party Agent | Daniel Whitely |
| Founded | August 2014 |
| Headquarters | Kingsford, New South Wales |
| Colours | Purple |
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| http://www.artsparty.org/ | |
The Arts Party is an Australian political party. The party was founded in October 2013 by two Sydney-based artists, PJ Collins and Nicholas Gledhill, and registered by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in August 2014. It was formed to support the arts community, but also has policies on various other issues. Money was raised for the party's registration through a crowd-funding campaign.
Two Arts Party members stood as independent candidates at the 2015 Queensland state election, as the party had not been registered in time to contest the election. Dianne Gittins polled 1.98% in Ferny Grove, placing fifth out of five candidates, and Stephen Beck polled 1.94% in Morayfield, placing sixth out of seven candidates. Later in the year, the party's leader, PJ Collins, stood as an ungrouped Legislative Council candidate at the 2015 New South Wales state election. He polled 233 votes, or 0.01% of the state total, with only one other ungrouped candidate polling more votes.
The Arts Party fielded seven candidates for the House of Representatives and thirteen senate candidates in the 2016 federal election.
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