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2 unusual facts about National Party


National Democracy

The association was established on March 28, 2003, as a response of the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe; SN) Youth Section to the deletion of the party from the national registry.

In 1928 the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe) was founded, as a successor party to the Popular National Union.


Advance Australia Fair

A National Party senator, Sandy Macdonald, said in 2001 that "Advance Australia Fair" is so boring that the nation risks singing itself to sleep, with boring music and words impossible to understand.

Alfred James Davey

Alfred James Davey (1886 – 2 October 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Battle of Lewisham

In the mid-1970s New Cross and surrounding areas of south London became the focus of intense and sometimes violent political activity by neo-Nazis and members of the National Front (led by John Tyndall) and a breakaway faction (the National Party led by John Kingsley Read).

Cam Campion

-- source is for date of death, not birth--> was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

David McCalden

A leading supporter of John Kingsley Read, McCalden transferred his allegiance to the National Party soon after Read and other NF members founded the party in 1976.

David Wirrpanda

Wirrpanda has also expressed a desire to enter politics, and unsucessfully contested 2013 federal election as the National Party's candidate for the Senate in Western Australia.

Dean Nalder

His father, Cambell Nalder, and grandfather, Crawford Nalder, were National Party members of parliament.

Electoral district of Northern Tablelands

Labor endorsed McCarthy's widow, Thelma, at the subsequent by-election, but she was narrowly defeated by National Party candidate Ray Chappell after a heavily-publicised campaign.

Fred Gruen

At Gruen's testimonial dinner in 1986, former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam joked about Gruen's retirement, about the improved stature of economics in response to recent economic difficulties, and about the resignation of John Stone from his position as Secretary to the Federal Treasury to become a politician with the right of centre National Party.

Grafton Express

With the National Party having lost a number of North Coast seats in the 1990 Federal election in a policy reversal it was announced that Xplorer railcars would be purchased to extend the Northern Tablelands Express with an XPT to be released to operate a daily service to Grafton.

Kavanagh College

Michael Woodhouse (born c.1965) - National Party List Member of Parliament, Chief Government whip (2008–2013); Cabinet Minister (2013–present) (Christian Brothers).

Lianne Dalziel

The newspaper expressed surprise by this pairing, given that Dalziel is a Labour Party member, and Johnson is a member of the Young Nats, the youth arm of the National Party.

Mark Kersten

At the 1995 state election, he was selected as the National Party's candidate for the seat of Broken Hill.

Marlborough, Auckland

In 2013 this suburb comprised part of the Northcote electorate and is represented by the Member of Parliament Jonathan Coleman, of the National Party.

Ministers of the New Zealand Government

Different parties have different mechanisms for this - the Labour Party, for example, has provision for caucus to select ministers, while in the National Party, a Prime Minister theoretically has greater authority to make their own selections.

Munjuku Nguvauva II

Dirk Mudge, leader of the National Party, attempted to include Nguvauva II as representative of the 1975–1977 Turnhalle Constitutional Conference in the delegation of Clemens Kapuuo, Paramount Chief of the Herero.

New South Wales Xplorer

After suffering a number of losses in northern NSW electorates where services were cut during the March 1990 Federal Election, the National Party decided a policy reversal was needed.

New Zealand Democratic Coalition

A meeting between Moore and Michelle Boag was organised in "late 1994" by Laws to discuss the potential of National Party donors financing a new Centre party.

New Zealand general election, 1981

It saw the governing National Party, led by Robert Muldoon, win a third term in office, although the opposition Labour Party, led by Bill Rowling, actually won the largest share of the votes cast.

Russell Savage

Savage lost his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in the 2006 Victorian State election, a loss he attributed to the Nationals' high-budget campaign, Labor's failure to reopen the Mildura rail link, and a proposal to build a toxic waste dump in his electorate.

Silver fern flag

The first suggestion that a silver fern flag be adopted as New Zealand's official flag came in 1998 from Cultural Affairs Minister Marie Hasler of the National Party.

Škoda 120

The car also got a political reputation at the General Election in 1984, when a defeated National Party MP, Pat Hunt, derisively referred to his Social Credit Party opponent, Neil Morrison, who won the seat as a member of "the Crimplene suit and Škoda brigade".

Stoffel Botha

Jan Christoffel "Stoffel" Botha (1929–1998) was a South African politician, a member of the National Party, elected representative of Port Natal (until 1989), administrator of Natal Province (1982–1984), Minister of Home Affairs (1985–1989) in the P.W. Botha government.

Sue Page

At the 2007 federal election, Page was the endorsed National Party candidate for the electorate of Richmond in northern New South Wales where she took a strong stance on environmental issues including nuclear power.

Television in New Zealand

By 1998–1999, the National Party–led coalition was moving to privatise TVNZ and announced that the broadcasting fee would be discontinued.

Warwick Moss

In 2007 Moss was commissioned by McCann Erickson Advertising to direct, write and Voice the entire National Party television campaign for the New South Wales State Elections.


see also

2005 New Zealand election funding controversy

Labour criticised the use by the National Party of trust funds to facilitate large anonymous donations, alleging American multi-millionaire Julian Robertson as a contributor.

41st New Zealand Parliament

The National Party, now in opposition, experienced a number of leadership disputes, replacing Muldoon first with Jim McLay and then with Jim Bolger.

Bob Rowland Smith

He became Leader of the National Party in the Legislative Council in 1978 and Deputy Leader of the Government in 1988, when the Greiner Coalition won government.

Cherokee freedmen controversy

David Allen Cornsilk, editor of the independent newspaper The Cherokee Observer and founder of the Cherokee National Party, was the lay advocate for the Lucy Allen case.

Conservative Party of New Zealand

There is speculation that the National Party might not run a candidate in a constituency on Auckland's North Shore such as Rodney, or East Coast Bays.

Constitution of Scotland

"A Constitution for a Free Scotland", a document published by the Scottish National Party in 2002

Crown Fibre Holdings

Crown Fibre Holdings Limited (CFH) is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise building a fibre-to-the-home network by means of a public–private partnership as part of the National Party's 2008 election promise of an Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative.

Darren Chester

Chester contested Gippsland East as the National Party candidate at the 2002 Victorian state election, losing to independent Craig Ingram.

Defence Council

Provisional National Defence Council, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown on the previous election

Doug Moppett

Moppett was backed by National Party federal president then Shirley McKerrow.

Earnock Estate

Earnock lies in the Hamilton South constituency of the Scottish Parliament and is represented by Christina McKelvie of the Scottish National party.

Eddie Butler

Eddy Butler (born 1962), former elections officer of the British National Party

Electoral district of Gaven

Facing a highly winnable by-election, the Coalition made the decision to allow the National Party to contest the seat, which bemused some observers, who noted that the party had only polled 2% for the Senate in Gaven's federal booths at the 2004 federal election.

Fiona Nash

Between 1999 and 2004, she worked as staff member for National Party federal ministers, Mark Vaile, Larry Anthony, and De-Anne Kelly before her election to the Senate.

George F. Fitzpatrick

George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.

George Herron

George Richard Herron (1888–1967), New Zealand politician of the National Party

Glasgow Govan by-election

Glasgow Govan by-election, 1973, won by Margo MacDonald of the Scottish National Party (SNP)

Glasgow Govan by-election, 1988, won by Jim Sillars of the Scottish National Party (SNP)

History of Suriname

The first President of the country was Johan Ferrier, with Henck Arron (leader of the Surinam National Party) as Prime Minister.

Honduran general election, 2005

There were five presidential candidates; Carlos Sosa Coello (Innovation and Unity Party), Porfirio Pepe Lobo (National Party), Manuel Zelaya (Liberal Party), Juan Almendares (Democratic Unification Party) and Juan Ramón Martínez (Christian Democrats).

Ian Dennis / Fox Bronte

In January 2010, he drank different coloured juices to change the colour of his urine - to create a portrait of British National Party leader Nick Griffin.

Jaap Marais

Its electoral growth played a role in encouraging the breaking-away from the National Party in 1982 of the Conservative Party under Andries Treurnicht.

James Maher

James Joseph Maher (1888–1964), New Zealand politician of the National Party

Judy Jakins

She was chairwoman of the state electoral council for the seat of Broken Hill from 1980 to 1982, and was on the National Party Central Council from 1980 to 1984.

LGBT rights in Jamaica

The conservative National Democratic Movement opposes LGBT rights on religious grounds alongside the more leftist parties such as the Peoples National Party and the New Nation Coalition.

Liberal Imperialists

The Liberal Imperialists believed that under the leadership of William Ewart Gladstone the Liberal Party had succumbed to "faddists", sectional interests and the "Celtic fringe" which prevented it from being a truly national party.

Liberal Party of New York

At their founding, the Liberal Party had conceived a plan to become a national party, with former Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie as its national leader and candidate for Mayor of New York City in 1945.

Lindsay Hartwig

In 1981, Hartwig was expelled from the National Party caucus by a vote of 33 to 2 for repeated criticism of party president Sir Robert Sparkes.

Markinch

The Constituency office of Tricia Marwick, Scottish National Party, Member of the Scottish Parliament, is in the village.

Max Bradford

Bradford was first elected to Parliament as MP for Tarawera in the 1990 election, replacing National Party colleague Ian McLean.

Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa

Two key negotiators were Cyril Ramaphosa of the ANC, and Roelf Meyer of the National Party, who formed a close friendship.

New South Wales state election, 2003

The National Party regained Clarence with the retirement of Harry Woods, but lost Monaro to the Labor Party.

New Zealand Democratic Coalition

Michael Laws had become a rebel backbencher in the National Party caucus since his former boss, Winston Peters, had left the party in 1992.

Padraig O'Malley

In 1996, helped arrange a second such meeting, in Belfast, attended by South Africans Cyril Ramaphosa of the African National Congress and Roelf Meyer of the white National Party.

Paul Toole

Toole's father was a thrice-unsuccessful candidate for state and federal political office, representing the National Party at the 1984 and 1995 state elections for Bathurst and the 1996 federal election, for Calare.

Plymouth Brethren Christian Church

Deputy Leader of the Opposition Gerry Brownlee and Economic Development spokeswoman Katherine Rich expressed concerns about the Brethren's lack of political sophistication and loss of female voters for the New Zealand National Party at the 2005 general election.

Purified

Purified National Party, a break away from South African National Party which lasted from 1935 to 1948

Réal Caouette

In 1958, he broke with Union des électeurs founders Louis Even and Gilberte Côté-Mercier, and joined Social Credit forming Ralliement des créditistes as the national party's Quebec wing of which he became the uncontested leader.

Reg Boorman

National Party Candidate Wyatt Creech later challenged that result on the grounds that Boorman had violated new laws about election spending as a result of deducting the (then new) GST Tax amounts in his spending return, effectively reducing his declared spend by 10%.

Richard Rawson

Richard Hamilton Rawson (1863-1918), British politician and Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party and National Party.

Robert Sparkes

Most of his term was served during the period of the Bjelke-Petersen-led National Party state government.

Southport state by-election, 1987

The seat was retained by the National Party with the election of candidate and former Australian rugby league international Mick Veivers.

Tea tape scandal

John Key and the National Party said that it appeared that the Herald had deliberately recorded the conversation, and described it as "News of the World-style tactics", however journalists argued that that the recording was in the public interest and should therefore be released.

National Party campaign chairman Steven Joyce said that the recording appeared to have been deliberately arranged by the Herald on Sunday, and described it as "UK-style News of the World tabloid tactics".

The Queensland Party

On 1 July 2011, Bob Irwin announced he was considering challenging Labor incumbent Kate Jones and Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman for the seat of Ashgrove in Brisbane, following discussions with Aidan McLindon over the impact of coal seam gas mining.

Torphichen

Torphichen is part of the (UK) Falkirk East and Linlithgow Constituency (Michael Connarty, Labour); Scottish Linlithgow Constituency (Fiona Hyslop, Scottish National Party); and part of the Armadale and Blackridge Ward of West Lothian Council (Stuart Borrowman, Independent; Jim Dixon, Labour; and Isabel Hutton, Scottish National Party).

Wayne Mapp

On October 26, 2005, National Party leader Don Brash appointed Mapp as the party's Political Correctness Eradicator, following a speech Mapp had given on the topic earlier that month.

William Gillespie

William Henry Gillespie (1893–1961), New Zealand politician of the National Party