Victorian Greens
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| Victorian Greens | |
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| Leader | No official leader1 |
| Founded | 1992 |
| Headquarters | GPO Box 4589 (1st floor, 377 Little Bourke St) MELBOURNE VIC 3001 |
| Political Ideology | green politics |
| International Affiliation | Global Greens Asia-Pacific Green Network |
| Website | [Victorian Greens] |
| See also | Politics of Australia Political parties Elections |
The Victorian Greens is a Green Party located in Victoria, a member of the federation of the Australian Greens party.
Electoral history
The first election the Greens contested in Victoria was for the seat of La Trobe in the 1993 federal election. In 1994 The Greens achieved by-election results of 21% in the state seat of Coburg and 28% in the federal division of Kooyong, extraordinarily high results for a minor party in Australian history.
Greens in Melbourne City Council
In March 1999 barrister David Risstrom was elected to the Melbourne City Council, following numerous local government campaigns in Victoria. Fraser Brindley, previously elected to Moreland City Council as a Greens representative in 2001, ran successfully for a seat on MCC in 2004.
Federal elections
Ethicist and animal liberation activist Peter Singer was the lead candidate for the Victorian Greens during the 1996 Federal election, in which the Greens polled a total of 1.90% in the House of Representatives and 2.94% in the Senate. Since then the Victorian Greens' vote has grown with 7.45% of the vote in the lower house at the 2004 federal election.
David Risstrom left the MCC to contest a Victorian Senate seat in the 2004 Federal election. He received 8.80% of the primary vote, but was unable to make the quota of 14.3% due to an unusual flow of preferences to the fundamentalist Christian party Family First from the Australian Labor Party. This saw the Family First candidate Steve Fielding elected with only 1.76% of the primary vote.
Notes
1The Victorian Greens do not formally have a leader. In campaign periods, they are often represented by a lead candidate, who is preselected by the party as the need arises.External links
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