The One New Zealand Party was a small

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. It was partly modelled on the

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n One Nation party, founded by

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. Its primary focus was on matters such as the

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, but its wider platform was broadly

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. It strongly opposed the policies of the government at the time, accusing it of giving special privileges to

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and of undermining the concept of "

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". It claimed that the policies amount to a form of

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. People involved with the party included Richard Fisher,

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, and Alan McCulloch, a former

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. One New Zealand was founded in 1999, and in the 1999 election, it won 0.06% of the vote. It had the shortest party list of any party in that election, with only one person, Walter Boyd. In the 2002 election, it won 0.09% of the vote. In the 2005 election, it won 0.02% of the vote. In 2006, the party went into recess pending a decision as to whether the party would continue. In September, it was deregistered at its own request.

Electoral history

Parliament

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