United Future New Zealand

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United Future New Zealand
Party leader Damian Light
Secretary General Ron Garrod
vice-chairman Judy Turner
Emergence United New Zealand and Future New Zealand merge
founding November 2000
Headquarters Bowen House
Parliament Buildings
Wellington
Alignment Liberalism ,
Political Center
Colours) purple and green
House of Representatives
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International connections Liberal International
Website www.unitedfuture.org.nz

United Future New Zealand , also known as United Future forshortand represented in its spelling as UnitedFuture , is a moderate and openly considered liberal center party in New Zealand .

Political ideas

The United Future is by its own account for an open democratic and modern, multicultural society, is promoted in the autonomy, independence and personal responsibility. She represents the free market economy and wants to promote innovation and creativity. The family is at the fore in policymaking.

history

The party was created in November 2000 through the merger of two moderate parties in the center, United New Zealand , which emerged in 1995 from Future New Zealand founded by Peter Dunne in 1994, and Future New Zealand , renamed in 1998 from the Christian Democrat Party founded in 1995 emerged. Shortly before the parliamentary elections in 2002, the new party was little known and attractive, and polled 0.5%. However, a debate among the party leaders broadcast on television shortly before the election gave Peter Dunne significant points, so that his party was successful with 6.7% of the votes cast and eight seats in parliament. This success could not be repeated in later elections and conflicts with the strictly Christian wing did not make the party more attractive. In the 2008 election, only Dunne could defend his direct mandate.

Old party logo (until August 12, 2007)

After the Christian faction within the party, also referred to by Peter Dunne as Christian moralists, left the party under the leadership of Gordon Copeland in May 2007, a few months later Dunne reorganized the party and gave it the line of the moderate center. This also included parting with the old party logo with the fern symbol and giving the party a new, more modern-looking logo . In the parliamentary election on November 26, 2011, the party lost again in votes, but was only able to save itself repeatedly through the direct mandate of Peter Dunne .

In August 2017, Peter Dunne resigned as party chairman, making way for his successor, Damian Light . In the parliamentary elections in 2017, however, the party no longer made it into parliament.

Parliamentary elections

General Election Share of votes Direct mandates Mandates via list Total seats
2002 6.7% 1 7th 8th
2005 2.7% 1 2 3
2008 0.9% 1 0 1
2011 0.6% 1 0 1
2014 0.2% 1 0 1
2017 0.1% 0 0 0

Sources: Election New Zealand

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Third parties - 5: United Future's links . Liberation , April 6, 2008, accessed December 8, 2011 .
  2. ^ Amelia Romanos : Election 2011: State of United Future . New Zealand Herald - Online Edition , November 5, 2011, accessed December 8, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Dunne rebrands United Future after Christian faction split . New Zealand Herald - Online Edition , September 3, 2007, accessed December 8, 2011 .
  4. ↑ UnitedFuture unveils new logo . Scoop - Independent News , August 13, 2007, accessed December 8, 2011 .
  5. ^ The Leaders . unitedfuture.org.nz, 2018, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  6. ^ General elections 1996-2005 - seats won by party . Electoral Commission New Zealand , September 9, 2013, accessed January 20, 2016 .
  7. ↑ 2008 Election - Official Count Results - Overall Status . Elections New Zealand , accessed February 6, 2016 .
  8. ^ Election Results and Electoral Information . Television New Zealand (TVNZ) , November 26, 2011, accessed December 6, 2011 .
  9. ↑ 2017 General Election - Official Result. NZ electoral commission, October 2017, accessed on October 22, 2017 (English).