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The branch is the current ruling party in the state of New South Wales and is led by Chris Minns, who has served concurrently as premier of New South Wales since 2023. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the members of the party caucus , comprising all party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council .
In addition to political parties registered at the state and national level, a number of political parties and groups compete solely in local government elections in Australia. Some of these parties are officially registered with electoral commissions in their respective states.
[citation needed] Labour as a parliamentary party dates from 1891 in New South Wales and South Australia, 1893 in Queensland, and later in the other colonies. The first election contested by Labour candidates was the 1891 New South Wales election, when Labour candidates (then called the Labor Electoral League of New South Wales) won 35 of 141 ...
Electoral rolls and voter registration serve a number of functions, especially to streamline voting on election day. Voter registration can be used to detect electoral fraud by enabling authorities to verify an applicant's identity and entitlement to a vote, and to ensure a person does not vote multiple times. The electoral roll is also used to ...
The Socialist League was largest within the state of New South Wales. [6] The League consisted of three major groups, the "Modern Socialists", the "Scientific socialists or Communist-Anarchists", and the "libertarian and individualist anarchists" [5] Labor historian Verity Burgmann describes the Modern Socialists as a unique historical tendency ...
The first general election contested by Labour candidates was the 1891 New South Wales election, where Labour Electoral League of New South Wales candidates won 35 of 141 seats, giving Labour the balance of power. [14]
John George Gough (5 November 1848 – 15 November 1907) was one of the founders of the New South Wales Labour Party, initially the Labour Electoral League, the first political Labour movement in Australia. He was also one of Labour's five-member leadership group when the party first made its appearance in the New South Wales parliament in 1891.
The Minns ministry is the 100th ministry of the Government of New South Wales, led by Chris Minns, the state's 47th premier following his party's victory in the 2023 state election. [ 1 ] Ministry