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The Social Credit Party was established as the Social Credit Political League. It was founded on 10 January 1953, and grew out of the earlier Social Credit Association. The party's first leader was Wilfrid Owen, a businessman. Much of the early activity in the party involved formulating policy and promoting social credit theories to the public.
[7] Eventually the remaining members of the party ended up as part of a supposedly centrist party known as the New Zealand Coalition after joining together with the remnants of the New Zealand Party and the United NZ Party. [8] In 2018 the Democratic Party changed its name back to the Social Credit Party. [9]
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 ...
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 ]
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 was elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives, holding one seat at times between 1966 and 1981, and two seats from 1981 to 1987. NewLabour Party: 1989 2000 1989–1991
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He quickly antagonised many party members, particularly those in the Christchurch branch. O'Brien's leadership of the party lasted only until 1972, when, with Tom Weal, the deputy leader, and others, he quit the party and was replaced by Bruce Beetham. [5] O'Brien then formed his own group, the New Democratic Party.