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  2. Social Credit Party (New Zealand) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Social Credit-NZ - Wikipedia

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    In July 1988 former Social Credit Party leader Bruce Beetham established Social Credit-NZ after coming to the belief that the Democratic Party was no longer a true social credit based party. Beetham and party president Alan Shaw said the new party would offer an alternative to interventionist and free-market policies by resurrecting original ...

  4. Vernon Cracknell - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  5. Social Credit Party - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Far-right politics in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. John O'Brien (New Zealand politician) - Wikipedia

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    O'Brien was the Social Credit Party candidate for the Manawatu electorate in the 1957 and 1960 general election placing third. Following the sudden death of Bill Brown, O'Brien unsuccessfully contested the Palmerston North electorate in the 1967 by-election.

  8. Roly Marks - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Category:Social Credit Party (New Zealand) - Wikipedia

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