Talk:Political parties in New Zealand

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[edit] Local Parties?

Should local only parties like Citizens and ratepayers be listed? or maybe mentioned briefly in a seperate section?

I think there are probably good points and bad points about listing local parties — some, like Citizens and Ratepayers, are fairly well established, but others seem to appear and disappear very quickly (more so in some cities than others, I think). They would therefore be difficult to track. But a section on prominent or noteworthy local parties seems like a good idea, yes. It would probably be best to keep them separate from national-level parties, though, just for the sake of clarity. -- Vardion 10:15, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Personally I wouldn't like to add local parties to an encyclopedia. E.g. in my municipality Lingewaard in the Netherlands three local parties are active. Shoild I add them?, no I don't think so. --Gangulf 18:41, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The Citizens and Ratepayers is a sub-group of the National Party, so should probably get a mention there instead. Other than that I don't think there are any major ones that need to be mentioned anywhere --Gregstephens 04:06, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
The C&R aren't a sub-group of National, it is a politically independent org from National, though many identities in C&R are National members. Historically, there have been ACT, NZ First and non members of any party in C&R. The current leader of C&R, David Hay, is not a member of any party. I think this could be expanded to include local body groups. Organisations like C&R, City Vision, Chch2021, and Vision Wanganui show a maturing of local govt towards organised groups in NZ. FriendlySam (talk) 08:27, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reaction on changes by Vardion

I added the links to lists of parties at the see also section. Furthermore, A short definition in an article on parties in NZ HK is relevant. So I reverted that. I hope in this way we can agree/compromise. Gangulf 14:26, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] National Front

"The National Front has applied for registration..." It was my understanding (gathered from their discussion board) that they currently lack the required number of registered supporters to register as a party, and so have not applied yet... what is the accuracy of this statement? porges 08:25, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

I keep a close eye on the Public Notices (which is required to become a political party). They have not yet registered. The reason is most likely because of lack of numbers, but it could be due to any number of reasons (drawing up party constitution, not having enough financial memebers, etc. --Gregstephens 03:10, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep an eye on this page and the PDFs in it. It will list them if/when they become official. - SimonLyall 03:58, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)\

They are not registering as a party for the election so they can't go for the party vote, but will contest electorate seats. --Gregstephens 00:41, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Further name changes.

According to stuff various parties have made name changes etc. It's not all updated here but the .doc at the bottom seems to be right. - SimonLyall 08:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

True, but I'm not sure that we necessarily have to mention these changes — omitting the "Jim Anderton" from "Jim Anderton's Progressive Party" is really just like omitting "New Zealand" from the previous "New Zealand Progressive Party", isn't it? -- Vardion 02:05, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Links

I have added an external link to the elections nz webpage, as this is the deffinative controlling body in NZ. They also have a rather good set of info on MMP. I hope this is OK...?

[edit] Two Republican parties?

I'm a bit confused about The Republic of New Zealand Party and the Republic Aotearoa New Zealand Party. Are these separate parties? Kerry Bevin appears to be the leader of the latter, but a couple of articles refer to him as founding the former.-gadfium 23:04, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Confusing. Well, they were definitely separate parties at some point, because they both applied for broadcasting funding. Kerry Bevin is definitely associated with the Republic of New Zealand Party, because he's their top-ranked candidate, but this website, which seems to be the RONZP homepage, doesn't mention him. (The website only mentions John Kairau and Gray Phillips, neither of whom are actually candidates). I can't find anything linking Bevin to the Republic Aotearoa New Zealand Party apart from clones of our article, so it could be that our article is mistaken in linking him to Republic Aotearoa New Zealand. It could also be that Bevin originally was associated with Republic Aotearoa New Zealand, but has changed parties, or the two parties have merged. -- Vardion 00:05, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
Kerry Bevin is currently the leader of The Republicans (Republic of New Zealand Party). I think the two parties merged. Republic Aotearoa New Zealand seemed to have been spawned by John Kairau, who intially called it the "People's Republic of Aotearoa Party" (there was a PR I blogged on but now can't find it). The two seem to have been working together. --Lholden 08:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting

The right caption box does not render well with the main body in all browsers. Can someone with better formatting skills than me sort this out? # —The preceding unsigned comment was added by InSpace (talk • contribs) . moved from top to bottom as per normal talk page formatting --Midnighttonight Procrastinating on uni work... 03:51, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Is that better? I have just expanded some of the lead-ins, which should move everything else down. --Midnighttonight Procrastinating on uni work... 03:51, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

The Electoral Commission has just published its list of parties applying for broadcastign funding. I've updated the list accordingly. Unfortunately, there's very little information available on some of these aprties - anyone know any more? IdiotSavant (talk) 11:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)