ANZLEAD Australian Political Party Codes

This vocabulary includes a list of Australian political parties from 1901 to 2023, and establishes standardised identifier codes for use in harmonising political science research datasets across time and projects. The list of parties is drawn from three sources. The core of the vocabulary was established by processing the Australian Electoral Commission party registration online records to build a complete list of political party federal registrations and deregistrations during the period 1984-2023. This foundation was then enhanced using information the Australian Parliamentary Library parliamentary handbook elections information, and the Australian Parliamentary Candidates 1890-1999 study (Hughes, 1999). A more comprehensive list of parties from 1890 to 2023 has also been established as part of this vocabulary development.