{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox political party | name = Daylight Saving Party | logo = Daylight Saving Party logo.png | colorcode = #FFFD7A | leader = Wilson Tucker<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-02|title=New WA daylight saving MP Wilson Tucker reveals he is living in the US|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-02/new-wa-mp-daylight-saving-party-leader-wilson-tucker-lives-in-us/100046668|access-date=2021-04-09|website=www.abc.net.au|language=en-AU}}</ref> | secretary = Brett Tucker<ref name=":0" /> | president = | foundation = September 2016<ref name=founded/> | predecessor = | successor = | headquarters = | dissolution = | ideology = Single-issue party | position = | international = | website = {{Official website|https://www.daylightsavingwa.org.au/}} | registered = | seats1_title = WA Legislative Council | seats1 = {{Composition bar|1|36|#FFFD7A}}{{small|(2021–23)}} | country = Australia }}
The '''Daylight Saving Party''' (also known as the '''Daylight Savings Party''') was an Australian political party in Western Australia. It was founded in September 2016 by brothers Brett and Wilson Tucker.<ref name=founded>{{cite news |url=http://www.bunburymail.com.au/story/4472585/its-time-for-daylight-savings-upper-house-candidate/ |title= South West candidate to push for daylight savings[sic]|date=16 February 2017 |access-date=16 February 2017 |newspaper=Bunbury Mail }}</ref> It was registered as a political party on 29 November 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slp.wa.gov.au/gazette/gazette.nsf/searchgazette/DD0DCCE31D1E8A684825807C0007D81B/$file/Gg213.pdf |title=ELECTORAL ACT 1907 - REGISTRATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES—WESTERN AUSTRALIA NOTICE OF REGISTRATION (SECTION 62H) Daylight Saving Party |work=Western Australian Government Gazette |id=No. 213 |date=2 December 2016 |page=5390 |author=David Kerslake, Electoral Commissioner |access-date=16 February 2017}}</ref> The party was deregistered in February 2023, but remained active for some time.<ref name=":1" />
==Background== {{see also|Daylight saving time in Australia}} Western Australia does not observe daylight saving time, and has rejected it in referendums in 1975, 1984, 1992 and 2009. Western Australia trialled daylight saving for three years before the 2009 referendum, and one summer before each of the earlier referendums.<ref name=fifth>{{cite news |title=Daylight Saving Party formed to push for fifth Western Australian referendum |newspaper=ABC Radio Perth |first=Emma |last=Wynne |date=1 November 2016 |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-01/daylight-saving-party-western-australia-fifth-referendum/7983710 |access-date=16 February 2017}}</ref>
Four states of Australia do have daylight saving, so the time zone difference between them and Western Australia is one hour further during summer as Western Australia is the westernmost state of Australia. Australia's Indian Ocean territories of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands also do not observe daylight saving and have year-round offsets of 60 and 90 minutes from Western Australia.
An earlier Daylight Savings Party registration in 2005<ref>{{cite web |access-date=16 February 2017 |work=Western Australian Government Gazette |url=https://www.slp.wa.gov.au/gazette/gg.nsf/5c8e4a50495aaeb248256b4c0028d27d/b1bcab0941e8a8b448256ff5000449f3?OpenDocument |title=ELECTORAL ACT 1907 Registration of Political Parties Notice of Registration (Section 62H) Daylight Saving Party |date=3 May 2005 |page=2009 |id=No. 88}}</ref> was cancelled in 2008 when the Electoral Commissioner found that it did not have at least 500 members.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.slp.wa.gov.au/gazette/gg.nsf/5c8e4a50495aaeb248256b4c0028d27d/f403b01cf5c638c5c8257500000e0ac2?OpenDocument |title=ELECTORAL ACT 1907 Registration of Political Parties - Notice of Cancellation of Registration |author=Warwick Gately AM, Electoral Commissioner |work=Western Australian Government Gazette |date=14 November 2008 |id=No. 193 |page=4882 |access-date=16 February 2017}}</ref> That party fielded one candidate each in five of the six regions in the September 2008 election before being deregistered in November the same year.
==History== The Daylight Saving Party has fielded two candidates in each of the six regions for the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 2017 Western Australian election. Voting for the legislative council uses group voting tickets, and preference deals amongst five minor parties orchestrated by Glenn Druery mean that the Daylight Saving Party has its best chance of winning a seat in the South Metropolitan Region.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/micro-parties-stitch-up-preference-deal-targeting-five-seats/8274278 |work=ABC News |title=WA election: Micro party preference deal could take five seats in Upper House |first=Laura |last=Gartry |date=15 February 2017 |access-date=16 February 2017}}</ref> The other four parties involved in the preference deal are Family First, Liberal Democrats, Flux the System and Fluoride Free.<ref name=founded/>
Wilson Tucker was elected in the 2021 Western Australian state election for the Mining and Pastoral electoral region with 98 primary votes (0.23%).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gubana|first=Benjamin|last2=Hamlyn|first2=Charlotte|date=2021-04-01|title=Legalise Cannabis and Daylight Saving parties elected to WA's Upper House on fraction of primary vote|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-01/legalise-cannabis-wa-daylight-saving-parties-legislative-council/100045910|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-06|website=www.abc.net.au|language=en-AU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401092049/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-01/legalise-cannabis-wa-daylight-saving-parties-legislative-council/100045910 |archive-date=1 April 2021 }}</ref>
The party was deregistered as a political party in February 2023, but remains active.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://www.elections.wa.gov.au/candidates-and-parties/registered-political-parties-wa |title=Registered Political Parties in WA |publisher=Western Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=25 April 2023}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news |last1=Pollock |first1=Austin |title=One Nation and most other parties in Western Australia to lose registration within days|url=https://www.6newsau.com/post/one-nation-and-most-other-parties-in-western-australia-to-lose-registration-within-days |access-date=25 April 2023 |work=6 News Australia |date=24 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Tucker continued to sit in the Legislative Council as an independent.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wilson Tucker MLC |url=https://www.wilsontucker.com.au/ |website=Wilson Tucker MLC |publisher=Wilson Tucker |access-date=25 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
After the abolition of group voting tickets, the party did not contest the 2025 election and lost representation in the Western Australian Parliament.
==See also== * Daylight Saving for South East Queensland
==References== {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.daylightsavingwa.org.au/}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Single-issue political parties in Australia Category:Political parties in Western Australia Category:Political parties established in 2016 Category:2016 establishments in Australia Category:Daylight saving time in Australia