Arts Party

The party was voluntarily deregistered with the Australian Electoral Commission on 25 June 2019, but remains registered for local elections with the New South Wales Electoral Commission.

[1][2] The Australian party was founded in October 2013 by two Sydney-based artists, PJ Collins and Nicholas Gledhill,[3] and registered by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) in August 2014.

[4][5] Money was raised for the party's registration through a crowd-funding campaign.

[7] 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.

At the 2021 New South Wales local elections, the party received 536 votes.