Upper house groups
Two or more Legislative Council (upper house) region election candidates can register as a group in a state election.
Registering a group means these candidates will appear together on the ballot paper and a box will appear above the line. Groups appear before ungrouped candidates on the ballot paper.
Please note, group voting tickets no longer apply to Victoria’s upper house voting. Groups won’t register any group voting tickets.
Candidates who are not part of a group will only appear below the line on the ballot paper. Ungrouped candidates appear on the right edge of the ballot paper.
Group registrations for the 2026 state election are now open and close at 12 noon on Monday 9 November.
Registering a group
Group registrations for the 2026 state election have now closed.
Candidates who registered as a group will be listed together on the ballot paper and the group name will have a box above the line.
Candidates who are not part of a group will appear below the line only.
Upper house candidate groups have told us the order they want their candidates to appear below the line on the ballot paper.
Groups can be made up of:
- candidates endorsed by one registered political party
- candidates endorsed by multiple registered political parties
- at least two independent candidates.
Candidates can only be a part of one group.
There is more information on group registration in the region candidate handbook.