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The New Zealand Social Credit Party (sometimes called "Socred") was a political party that was New Zealand's third party from the 1950s to the 1980s. It won representation in the New Zealand House of Representatives , holding one seat at times between 1966 and 1981, and two seats from 1981 to 1987.
The party also fielded a candidate at the 1992 Tamaki by-election, Colin Maloney, who won 34 votes (0.2%). [10] After the 1993 merger, a social crediter, Kieron Daok, was the New Zealand Coalition candidate in the 1994 Selwyn by-election.
In 1970, a bitter dispute at the party's annual conference saw Cracknell lose the Social Credit Party's leadership to his deputy, the more confrontational John O'Brien. The 1970 conference was described as "the most vivid example of political bloodletting in public" since John A. Lee had been expelled at the 1940 Labour party conference. [ 13 ]
Morrison later left the Democratic Party in 1989, citing internal disputes within the party between his predecessor and successor as leader as the reason for doing so. [9] Soon after he became a donor to the National Party. [10] By the early 1990s he had joined ACT New Zealand where he found himself together with Hunt who had joined the party ...
The 1954 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 31st term. It saw the governing National Party remain in office, but with a slightly reduced majority. It also saw the debut of the new Social Credit Party, which won more than eleven percent of the vote but failed to win a seat.
Social Credit Party of Alberta; Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan; Social Credit Party of British Columbia; Social Credit Party of Ontario; In the United Kingdom: Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; In New Zealand: Social Credit Party (New Zealand) Social Credit-NZ; In Australia: Social Credit Party (Australia) In ...
Douglas toured New Zealand in 1934 and expounded his view that Jews were involved in a global conspiracy to control finance. [3] An independent Social Credit Party was founded in 1953, but had ceased to be a vehicle for anti-semitism by the 1970s. [3]
His first campaigning was for former Whangarei mayor Joyce Ryan, later becoming chairman of Social Credit's Whangarei Branch. [2] He stood in the Whangarei electorate in 1984 for Social Credit and again in 1987 for the Democrat Party (a renamed Social Credit). [3] After the 1984 election he was Social Credit's spokesman on industrial relations. [4]