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2012 Melbourne state by-election, the Glossary

A by-election was held for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Melbourne on Saturday 21 July 2012.^[1]

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2012 elections in Australia
Victorian state by-elections

Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.

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Antony Green

Antony John Green (born 2 March 1960) is an Australian psephologist and commentator.

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Australian Christians (political party)

The Australian Christians is a political party in Australia that is described as socially conservative and Christian-conservative.

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Australian Democrats

The Australian Democrats is a centrist political party in Australia.

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Australian of the Year

The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Government-owned social enterprise.

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Australian Sex Party

The Australian Sex Party was an Australian political party founded in 2009 in response to concerns over the purported increasing influence of religion in Australian politics.

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Ballot

A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting.

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Berhan Ahmed

Berhan Ahmed is an Eritrean-Australian social activist.

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Bronwyn Pike

Bronwyn Jane Pike (born 25 January 1956) is an Australian former politician.

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City of Manningham

The City of Manningham is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and is divided into 12 suburbs, with the largest being Doncaster and Doncaster East.

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City of Melbourne

The City of Melbourne is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central city area of Melbourne.

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Coalition (Australia)

The Liberal–National Coalition, commonly known simply as the Coalition or the LNP, is an alliance of centre-right to right-wing political parties that forms one of the two major groupings in Australian federal politics.

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Crikey

Crikey is an Australian online news outlet founded in 1999.

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Democratic Labour Party (Australia, 1978)

The Democratic Labour Party (DLP), formerly known as the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), is an Australian political party which broke off from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) as a result of the 1955 ALP split.

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Division of Melbourne

The Division of Melbourne is an Australian electoral division in the State of Victoria, represented since the 2010 election by Adam Bandt, leader of the Australian Greens.

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Early voting

Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled election day.

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Electoral district of Melbourne

The electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

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Electoral results for the district of Melbourne

This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Melbourne in Victorian state elections.

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Electoral roll

An electoral roll (variously called an electoral register, voters roll, Voters list, poll book or other description) is a compilation that lists persons who are entitled to vote for particular elections in a particular jurisdiction.

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Eritrea

Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.

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Family First Party

The Family First Party was a conservative political party in Australia which existed from 2002 to 2017.

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Fiona Patten

Fiona Heather Patten (born May 1964) is an Australian former politician.

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Governor of Victoria

The governor of Victoria is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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How-to-vote card

In Australia, how-to-vote cards (HTV) are small leaflets that are handed out by party supporters during elections.

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Independent Liberal (Australia)

Independent Liberal is a description used in Australian politics, often to designate a politician who is a Liberal Party member but not endorsed by the party at elections, or refers to a person who is a member of a parliament and a member of the Liberal Party, but has been expelled or removed from the Liberal party room.

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Independent politician

An independent, non-partisan politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association.

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Jennifer Kanis

Jennifer Kanis (born 16 April 1970) is a lawyer and a former politician.

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Joseph Toscano

Dr Joseph Toscano (born 1951) is a medical practitioner, a broadcaster and an anarchist who lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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Liberalism in Australia

In Australia, liberalism has a vast interpretation and a broad definition.

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List of Victorian state by-elections

This is a list of by-elections for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. 2012 Melbourne state by-election and list of Victorian state by-elections are Victorian state by-elections.

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Margin of error

The margin of error is a statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in the results of a survey.

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Nick Xenophon

Nick Xenophon (Nicholas Xenophou; born 29 January 1959) is an Australian politician and lawyer who was a Senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017.

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Robocall

A robocall is a phone call that uses a computerized autodialer to deliver a pre-recorded message, as if from a robot.

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Roy Morgan

Roy Morgan, formerly known as Roy Morgan Research, is an independent Australian social and political market research and public opinion statistics company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Secular Party of Australia

The Secular Party of Australia is a minor Australian political party, founded in January 2006 and registered as a federal political party in 2010.

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Slot machine

A slot machine, fruit machine (British English), poker machine or pokies (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers.

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Stephen Mayne

Stephen Mayne (born 23 July 1969) is an Australian journalist, local government councillor, and self-described shareholder activist.

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The Australian

The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.

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Two-party-preferred vote

In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP) is the result of an election or opinion poll after preferences have been distributed to the highest two candidates, who in some cases can be independents.

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Victorian Electoral Commission

The Victorian Electoral Commission (formerly State Electoral Office), or VEC, is the statutory body responsible for the running of state, municipal and various non-government elections in Victoria, Australia.

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Victorian Greens

The Victorian Greens, officially known as the Australian Greens Victoria, is the Victorian state member party of the Australian Greens, a green political party in Australia.

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Victorian Labor Party

The Victorian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor, is the Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council.

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Victorian Liberal Party

The Victorian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) and branded as Liberal Victoria, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria.

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Victorian National Party

The National Party of Australia – Victoria is a political party in Victoria, which forms the state branch of the federal Nationals.

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The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is the website of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Melbourne_state_by-election

Also known as Melbourne state by-election, 2012.

, 2010 Australian federal election, 2010 Victorian state election.

2012 Melbourne state by-election, the Glossary

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See also

2012 elections in Australia

Victorian state by-elections

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