Vote 1 Local Jobs
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| Secretary | James Purcell |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Ideology | Jobs for the Western District (Victoria) |
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Vote 1 Local Jobs is a minor political party in the state of Victoria, Australia. It was registered as a political party by the Victorian Electoral Commission in 2014.
The party was formed in 2014 by James Purcell, a councillor and mayor of the Shire of Moyne, and is mainly concerned with employment issues in Victoria's Western District. At the 2014 Victorian state election, held later that month, two candidates stood for the party for the Victorian Legislative Council in the Western Victoria Region and the Northern Metropolitan Region. Purcell, who received 5,501 first preference votes (1.26% of the region), was after the distribution of preferences the last of the five members elected to the Legislative Council for the Western Victoria Region, and has been sitting as a crossbencher from 29 November 2014.
The Vote 1 Local Jobs party was founded in November 2014 by former Moyne Shire Mayor James Purcell. The party was registered by the Victorian Electoral Commission in November 2014. At the 2014 Victorian state election, Purcell was the last of the five members to be elected for the Western Victoria Region in the Victorian Legislative Council.
The party's key policies at the 2014 election included:
In 2015 the party voted in favour of an exemption for religious institutions to deny same-sex couples access to adoption.
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