Re-registration of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP)
Wednesday 22 January 2025
For immediate release
The Democratic Labour Party (DLP) was re-registered as a political party under Victorian electoral law on 18 December 2024.
A separate process, which involved the party applying to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) for a review of the Victorian Electoral Commission's (VEC's) earlier decision to de-register the party in May 2024, was also resolved by this decision. The party's VCAT application was officially withdrawn on Friday 17 January 2025, concluding the process.
As required by section 58A of the Electoral Act 2002, the party applied for re-registration on Sunday 27 October 2024. This followed a VCAT order for a stay on the earlier decision to de-register the party, which preserved the party's rights, privileges and duties as a registered political party.
To be registered, a party must have at least 500 eligible members on the Victorian electoral roll. The VEC confirmed this by contacting members whose names were provided by the Democratic Labour Party (DLP).
As a registered political party, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) will continue to:
- have the party's name printed next to its endorsed candidates' names on state election ballot papers
- be able to nominate all its candidates centrally with the VEC instead of with individual election managers
- be entitled to public funding based on the number of votes it receives at a state electionbe entitled to access enrolment information, not including phone numbers or email addresses, which it can use for permitted purposes.