page_title: Science Party (Australia)
section_title: Party history
hierarchical_section_title: Science Party (Australia) / Party history
caption_attribution_description: English: A poster for the Science Party on Taylor Square, Sydney, in the lead-up to the 2019 Australian federal election.
context_page_description: The Science Party, known as Future Party until March 2016, is an Australian political party established in 2013.
context_section_description: The Future Party was registered with the Australian Electoral Commission on 2 July 2013. It was led by Dr James Jansson, who was a PhD student studying at the Kirby Institute when the party was founded. It changed name to the Science Party, with the new name registered by the Australian Electoral Commission on 22 March 2016.
  At the 2013 federal election, the party ran two candidates in the senate in New South Wales and one candidate in the New South Wales seat of Kingsford Smith and another in the Queensland seat of Moreton.
  The party has been involved in Glenn Druery's Minor Party Alliance, though it refused to engage in any large scale preference deal.
  In the 2016 federal election, the Science Party fielded two senate candidates in each of New South Wales and Tasmania and one in Victoria. To avoid being in the ungrouped column, the Victorian candidate shared the column with the candidate from the Australian Cyclists Party. It also supported ten candidates for the House of Representatives, all for seats in New South Wales.
  The Science Party fielded Meow-Ludo Meow-Meow as a candidate in the 2017 New England by-election in response to the 2017–2018 Australian parliamentary eligibility crisis. He had previously been the Science Party candidate in the Division of Grayndler at the 2016 election. After subsequent resignations, the party fielded candidates in by-elections for the seats of Bennelong, Perth, Longman and  Wentworth.
  The party fielded lower and upper house candidates in NSW, as well as lower house candidates in Mallee and Perth, and received 0.4% of the senate vote in NSW at the 2019 Australian Federal Election.
caption: A Science Party poster on Taylor Square, Sydney in the lead-up to the 2019 Australian federal election.
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