Victorian Labor Party Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) | |
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| Leader | Jacinta Allan |
| Deputy Leader | Ben Carroll |
| President | Alice Smith |
| Secretary | Steve Staikos |
| Founded | 1891 |
| Headquarters | 438 Docklands Drive, Docklands, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Youth wing | Young Labor |
| Women's wing | Labor Women's Network |
| LGBT wing | Rainbow Labor |
| Membership |  <16,000[1] |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Australian Labor |
| Union affiliate | Victorian Trades Hall Council |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | "Doing What Matters." |
| Legislative Assembly | 54 / 88 |
| Legislative Council | 15 / 40 |
| House of Representatives | 25 / 39 (Victorian seats) |
| Senate | 4 / 12 (Victorian seats) |
| Local government | 20 / 656 |
| Website | |
| viclabor | |
| Seats in local government | |
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| Darebin | 5 / 9 |
| Melbourne | 1 / 11 |
| Merri-bek | 3 / 11 |
| Moonee Valley | 4 / 9 |
| Port Phillip | 2 / 9 |
| Whittlesea | 4 / 11 |
| Yarra | 1 / 9 |
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). The party forms the incumbent government in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan, who has served concurrently as Premier of Victoria since 2023.
Victorian Labor comprises two major wings: the parliamentary wing and the organisational wing. The parliamentary wing (formally referred to as the State Parliamentary Labor Party) comprises all elected party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, which when they meet collectively constitute the party caucus. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the caucus, and party factions have a strong influence in the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus, and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliamentary members. By convention, the Premier sits in the Legislative Assembly, and is the leader of the party controlling a majority in that house. The party leader also typically is a member of the Assembly, though this is not a strict party constitutional requirement.
When Victorian Labor wins sufficient seats to be able to control a majority in the Legislative Assembly, the party leader becomes the State Premier and Labor will form the Government of Victoria. When the party is not in government, the party leader becomes the Leader of the Opposition. To become a Premier or Opposition Leader, the party leader must be or within a short period of time become a member of the Legislative Assembly.
Jacinta Allan and Ben Carroll have been the leader and deputy leader respectively since 27 September 2023. At the 2014 state election, Victorian Labor obtained a majority with 47 of the 88 seats in the Legislative Assembly and formed government. The party then increased its share of seats in the Assembly to 55 after the 2018 election. The party currently holds 15 of the 40 seats in the Legislative Council.
- ^ Schneiders, Ben (15 June 2020). "What's branch stacking and why does it happen?". The Age. Archived from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
The major parties have been hollowed out and so the numbers of people needed to control a branch or influence preselections can be relatively small. One senior Labor source estimated two-thirds of the party's 16,000 members in Victoria may be "stacks".