The New Zealand People's Party was a political party in New Zealand. The party was established in 2015 and had a particular focus on the rights of immigrants. It operated as an independent party for a 2016 by-election and the 2017 general election, and as a component party of

Advance New Zealand The Advance New Zealand Party (abbreviated as Advance NZ or Advance) was a short-lived political party in New Zealand from 2020 to 2021. The idea was first unveiled in a newsletter from founder Jami-Lee Ross in April 2020. Ross has claimed th ...

for the 2020 election. The party's leader, as of September 2020, was Anil Sharma.

History

Standalone party

The New Zealand People's Party was established in 2015. It was initially led by Roshan Nauhria, who was a co-founder. Nauhria stood as a candidate in the

2016 Mount Roskill by-election A by-election was held in the Mount Roskill electorate on 3 December 2016. The seat was vacated following the resignation of Phil Goff after he was elected Mayor of Auckland. Background At just under Mount Roskill has the third-smallest land a ...

, winning 709 votes or 4.2% and coming third. The People's Party also contested the

2017 Mount Albert by-election The 2017 Mount Albert by-election was a New Zealand by-election held in the electorate on 25 February 2017 during the 51st New Zealand Parliament. The seat was vacated following the resignation of David Shearer, a former Leader of the New Zea ...

, with Vin Tomar, an early childhood teacher and real estate agent, as their candidate. Tomar received 191 votes, or 1.5% of the votes cast, coming fourth. In 2016,

New Zealand First New Zealand First ( mi, Aotearoa Tuatahi), commonly abbreviated to NZ First, is a nationalist and populist political party in New Zealand. The party formed in July 1993 following the resignation on 19 March 1993 of its leader and founder, Winst ...

leader Winston Peters called the party a ' National Party front'. On 20 May 2017 the party applied for registration with the Electoral Commission and was registered by the Electoral Commission on 20 June 2017. It ran six list candidates. At the

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, the party gained only 0.1% of the party vote (1,890 votes) and won no seats in the

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. The party was deregistered by the Electoral Commission, at the party's request, on 30 April 2019.

Component party of Advance New Zealand

The leader of the

party, Jami-Lee Ross, appeared in a Facebook video of 29 July 2020 and stated that the New Zealand People's Party would be joining with Advance. The Electoral Commission confirmed that the People's Party was a component party of Advance on 18 August. Advance New Zealand received only 1.0% of the party vote in the 2020 general election, not enough to enter Parliament, so no candidates from the People's Party were elected.

Current status

By December 2020, the People's Party was no longer recorded as a component party of Advance. People's Party founder, Roshan Nauhria, said he would financially back Gaurav Sharma in the

2022 Hamilton West by-election The 2022 Hamilton West by-election was a List of New Zealand by-elections, by-election in New Zealand's electorate. The seat became vacant due to the resignation of former New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party MP Gaurav Sharma (politician), Ga ...

, saying, "I will support him financially, 100 percent. Wholeheartedly… tdoesn't matter the money, whatever he needs". Gaurav Sharma lost that election, coming fourth. The People's Party did not field any candidates for the 2023 general election.

Electoral results

External links

Archive of party website (now defunct) from 2019

References

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