The Aotearoa NZ Youth Party or Aotearoa NZ Youth Independence Party was an unregistered

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. The party was the vehicle of "professional stirrer" Robert Terry of

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, who has contested elections on and off since 1998. Terry has received convictions for assault, bomb threats, and multiple threats to behead people. In each election that the party contested, it was not eligible for the party vote and only stood one candidate, Terry, for an electorate seat. Terry first contested the

1998 Taranaki-King Country by-election The Taranaki-King Country by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorates, New Zealand electorate of Taranaki-King Country, a large and predominantly rural district in the west of New Zealand's North Island. It took place on 2 May 19 ...

, winning 10 votes. In the 2002 election Terry stood for the electorate of

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, winning 136 votes. The party did not run in

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, but Terry ran in West Coast-Tasman again in

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, receiving 50 votes, and in

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, winning 52 votes. The party did not stand any candidates at the 2014 election.

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