 Later in the year, the party's leader, PJ Collins, stood as an ungrouped Legislative Council candidate at the 2015 New South Wales state election.The first official Arts Party candidate was Lou Pollard in the 2015 North Sydney by-election, who came eighth in a field of 13 candidates.The Arts Party fielded seven candidates for the House of Representatives and thirteen senate candidates across all states in the 2016 federal election.