Jim Anderton's Progressive

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Jim Anderton's Progressive
Party leader Jim Anderton
founding 2002
Place of foundation Christchurch
resolution 2012
Headquarters Tulloch Group, 2 Baigent Way
Christchurch
Alignment Left
Colours) burgundy red, gray

Jim Anderton's Progressive was a left-wing political party in New Zealand . It was founded in 2002 as the New Zealand Progressive Party by Jim Anderton , a former Labor politician and Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Helen Clark , and renamed in 2005 after its founder. The party was allied with the Labor Party through Anderton . In 2012 the party was dissolved.

history

The Jim Anderton's Progressive was, as the name suggests, closely connected with the person Jim Anderton . Anderton was in the Labor Party until 1989 , for which he had been in the House of Representatives since 1984 . Annoyed by the liberal market policies of the Labor government under David Lange and his finance minister Roger Douglas , he left the party in 1989 and first founded New Labor . In 1996 he brought New Labor into the Alliance , founded in 1991, which won 13 parliamentary seats in the election that year. He held the party chairmanship until 2002, the year the Alliance split up . The split occurred because of differences over proximity to Labor , with Anderton in particular being criticized for being too closely linked to Labor .

Jim Anderton left the Alliance with some supporters and founded the New Zealand Progressive Party in 2002 with his supporters . In the general election on July 27, 2002, Anderton formed a coalition with the NZ Democratic Party . They ran as a Progressive Coalition to the elections and achieved a direct mandate and a list mandate with 1.7%. The party alliance that a government coalition entered into with Labor lasted until April 15, 2004. After that, Anderton continued the coalition with Labor through his own party, which, according to the party statutes, was called Progressive Party, or Progressive for short . The coalition with Labor lasted through the 2005 election up to the loss of government power for Labor in 2008. Anderton didn't feel like thinking about government participation or support with the National Party and went with his direct mandate like Labor into the opposition. He named his party Jim Anderton's Progressive before the general election in 2005.

Anderton gave his farewell speech in Parliament on October 4, 2011 and did not run for the general election on November 26, 2011. He also officially gave up his chairmanship within his party on November 26, 2011 and had the party deregistered on March 9, 2012 by the Electoral Commission New Zealand . The party's website continued until at least April 6, 2013, when Anderton thanked his supporters.

Parliamentary elections

General Election Share of votes Direct mandates Mandates via list Total seats
2002 1.7% 1 1 2
2005 1.2% 1 0 1
2008 0.91% 1 0 1

Sources: Election New Zealand

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Hon Jim Anderton . New Zealand Parliament , archived from the original on August 24, 2011 ; accessed on August 24, 2014 .
  2. a b Jim Anderton signs off after 27 years . Television New Zealand (TVNZ) October 4, 2011, archived from the original October 6, 2011 ; accessed on November 12, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
  3. ^ Grant Marc Gillon : Formation, Durability and Susceptibility - Coalition Traits that Affected New Zealand's MMP Governments of 1996-2002 . Ed .: Massey University . North Shore City 2007 (English, dissertation).
  4. a b c General elections 1996-2005 - seats won by party . Electoral Commission New Zealand , September 9, 2013, accessed January 20, 2016 .
  5. ^ Constitution of the New Zealand Progressive Party . (PDF; 101 kB) Elections New Zealand , archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; accessed on August 24, 2014 .
  6. ^ Anderton to stay with Labor, even in opposition . New Zealand Herald - Online Edition , November 19, 2008, archived from the original on August 24, 2011 ; accessed on November 22, 2011 (English).
  7. ↑ The Hon. Jim Anderton . New Zealand Parliament , November 26, 2011, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  8. ^ Cancellation of Jim Anderton's Progressive party and logo . Electoral Commission , March 19, 2012, accessed November 12, 2016 .
  9. Thanks for your support. . Jim Anderton's Progressived , archived from the original on April 6, 2013 ; accessed on November 12, 2016 (English, original website no longer available - the party's former domain address is now in commercial use).
  10. Official Count Results - Successful Candidates . Elections New Zealand , accessed November 20, 2011 .