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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 ]
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 ...
Knapp became involved in politics and in 1971 he joined the National Party.He later changed his affiliation in 1977 and joined the Social Credit Party. [1] At the 1978 election he contested the seat of East Coast Bays where he had boosted Social Credit's vote from 5% to 20%, though not winning the seat it was one of the party's best results at the election. [2]
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The Movement evolved into the New Zealand Social Credit Political League and Marks polled highly, though not enough to take the seat. When not running for Parliament, he served on the League's national committee and was made a life member in 1968. Marks deservedly takes credit for establishing the Social Credit movement as a force in Wanganui.