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==State politics==
Hartland won a seat for the [[Australian Greens Victoria|Victorian Greens]] in the [[Western Metropolitan Region]] of the [[Victorian Legislative Council]] in the [[Victorian state election, 2006|2006 State election]], elected to the final spot, narrowly beating the Labor candidate after a vote recount. She increased her vote from 8.93% in 2006<ref>VEC: [http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/state2006resultWesternMetropolitanRegion.html State Election 2006 : Western Metropolitan Region]</ref> to 11.66% in the 2010 State Election to hold her seat for another term.<ref>VEC: [http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/state2010resultWesternMetropolitanRegion.html State Election 2010 : Western Metropolitan Region]</ref>
In the 2014 Victorian State Election, Hartland was re-elected, this time to the fourth position in the [[Western Metropolitan Region]] with 9.89% of first preference votes.<ref>VEC: [http://www.vec.vic.gov.au/Results/State2014/WesternMetropolitanRegion.html State Election 2014 : Western Metropolitan Region]</ref> This was despite nearly twice as many candidates contesting the region and both the [[Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)|Labor Party]] and [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] suffering larger swings against them.
On 13 June 2017, it was announced in an email to party members that Hartland, and state Greens leader Greg Barber, would not be contesting their Legislative Council seats at the 2018 Victorian state election.<ref name="green-retire">{{cite news|last1=Willingham|first1=Richard|title=Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber to quit seat in possible lower house tilt|url=http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victorian-greens-leader-greg-barber-quits-leaves-door-open-to-lower-house-tilt-20170613-gwq343.html|accessdate=13 June 2017|work=The Age|date=13 June 2017}}</ref> However, Barber resigned on September 2017, and Hartland resigned on 8 February 2018.<ref name="resignation">{{cite news|title=Greens MP to exit Parliament early|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/greens-mp-colleen-hartland-to-retire-from-parliament-early-as-greens-name-huong-truong-as-replacement/news-story/a59dea61eb51660661c9f3900a0da36d|accessdate=8 February 2018|work=news.com.au|date=22 January 2018}}</ref>
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