The Angry Victorians Party was affiliated with the national Australian Values Party and its platform was largely based on opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The party fielded two candidates in the Northern Victoria region in the most recent state election in 2022, with Mark Jones attracting 0.46 per cent of the vote and Melanie Tomlin 0.02 per cent.
Statewide, the party won 0.08 per cent of first preference votes in the lower house and 0.4 per cent in the upper house.
It didn’t win a seat at either level.
Now, the VEC has deregistered the party for failing to “provide up-to-date information and documents requested in a review”.
As a consequence, on Thursday, December 21, the VEC removed the party from the list of registered political parties in Victoria.
“This means that a party with the same or a similar name cannot register as a political party until after the next state election in 2026,” the VEC said.
The VEC is reviewing the registration of all political parties that received an average of less than four per cent of first preference votes across all electorates they contested in the 2022 state election.
Even though the Angry Victorians party is not registered, it can still participate in an election, but will not be able to have its name and logo next to its candidates’ names or group on the ballot papers.
The VEC has also announced that the United Australia Party and Transport Matters Party have both applied to voluntarily deregister as political parties in Victoria, and the abbreviation for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party has been changed to One Nation.
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