The community independent group that spearheaded the teals’ victory in the federal seat of Goldstein has decided not to support candidates in nearby Victorian seats of Brighton, Caulfield and Sandringham at the state election.

Community independent activist groups have begun searching for candidates in the seats of Kew and Hawthorn, which are within independent Monique Ryan’s seat of Kooyong.

But state Liberal MPs in and around independent Zoe Daniel’s seat, where local activists had been mulling their involvement in the state election for months, will likely be spared a challenge.

Voices of Goldstein held an annual general meeting on Wednesday night and voted to wind down the public activity of the group for at least the remainder of 2022. “We are Voices of Goldstein, not Voices of Brighton”, a motion paper for the meeting stated.

“Even if we were to distance ourselves from Zoe, in order to conduct such campaigns, we would inevitably be associated with her in people’s minds.”

“It would not be fair to Zoe, and could risk compromising her work as Goldstein’s independent representative, if we were to embark on a new campaign.”

However, the same document said any members of the Voices of Goldstein group who wanted to run in the state election should form a different group with a new name and purpose.

Climate and integrity-focussed community independents won six seats off the Liberal Party across Australia, including two in inner Melbourne. Their success spurred a conversation about whether the Liberal Party can ever win these seats back, and state MPs in demographically similar seats have been worried that funding vehicle Climate 200 may back independents to challenge them.