{{for|articles with similar titles|New Labour (disambiguation)}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox political party |country=New Zealand |name = NewLabour Party |logo = NewZealandNewLabourPartyLogo.png |colorcode = #FF0000 |leader = [[Jim Anderton]] |foundation = 1 May 1989 |dissolution = {{End date and age|2000|10|13|df=yes}} |split = [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour Party]] |merged = [[Alliance (New Zealand political party)|Alliance]] |ideology = [[Social democracy]] |position = [[Centre-left politics|Centre-left]] to [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] |national = Alliance |headquarters = |website = }} The '''NewLabour Party''' was a [[centre-left]]<ref name="Locke2012">{{cite book |last1=Locke |first1=Cybèle |title=Workers in the Margins: Union Radicals in Post-war New Zealand |date=2012 |publisher=Bridget Williams Books |location=Wellington, N.Z. |isbn=978-1927131398 |page=172 |quote=Jim Anderton led a centre-left breakaway from the Labour Party, announcing the formation of the New Labour Party on 1 May 1989. Progressives who had remained outside mainstream political parties joined the NLP, as did [Sue] Bradford}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=July 2023|reason=See Talk page re "centre-left"}} to [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] [[List of political parties in New Zealand|political party in New Zealand]] that existed from 1989 to 2000. It was founded by [[Jim Anderton]], a member of parliament (MP) and former president of the [[New Zealand Labour Party]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beehive.govt.nz/node/8782|title=Address to NewLabour Party Conference|last=Anderton|first=Jim|date=13 October 2000|access-date=2009-07-21|website=The Beehive|language=en}}</ref> on 1 May 1989.<ref name="Locke2012"/>
NewLabour was established by a number of Labour Party members who left the party in reaction to [[Rogernomics]], the economic policies implemented by the Labour Party's [[Minister of Finance (New Zealand)|Minister of Finance]], [[Roger Douglas]], which saw the traditionally [[left-wing|left]]-leaning Labour Party swing heavily to the [[New Right#New Zealand|new right]] on issues of state intervention, regulation, and taxation. Anderton, who had been among the most vocal critics of Douglas, was joined by a number of other members of the Labour Party, such as [[Matt Robson]], [[Laila Harré]] and [[Phil Amos]], and a number of left-wing activists, such as [[Bruce Jesson]]. Anderton was the party's only MP before it joined the [[Alliance (New Zealand political party)|Alliance]].
==Electoral success== In the [[New Zealand general election, 1990|1990 elections]], NewLabour stood candidates in all electorates. The party gained a certain amount of support from disillusioned Labour voters, winning 5.16% of the vote. Anderton was NewLabour's only successful candidate, retaining the Sydenham seat in working-class south-central [[Christchurch]]. He remained the party's sole representative in Parliament, which was now dominated by the [[New Zealand National Party|National Party]] with 67 seats out of 97.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/historical-events/18901993-general-elections |title=1890–1993 general elections |publisher=Electoral Commission New Zealand |access-date=9 July 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230408001916/https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/historical-events/18901993-general-elections |archive-date=8 April 2023}}</ref>
==Alliance building== In 1991, NewLabour and several other parties formed the [[Alliance (New Zealand political party)|Alliance]], a broad left-wing coalition.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alliance born with eye on Tamaki win |author=Orsman, Bernard |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=2 December 1991 |page=1 }}</ref> Initially, NewLabour maintained a separate identity within the Alliance, keeping its own party organization intact. By 2000, however, many felt that maintaining parallel NewLabour and Alliance structures was counter-productive, and at NewLabour's October conference, it was decided to completely assimilate the party into the larger Alliance structure, marking the end of NewLabour as an autonomous group.<ref>{{cite news |title=Anderton's NewLabour voted out of existence |last=Venter |first=Nick |work=[[The Dominion (Wellington)|The Dominion]] |date=14 October 2000 |page=2 }}</ref>
== Former parliamentarians ==
{| class="wikitable" |- !Former parliamentarian !Term |- | [[Jim Anderton]] || 1989–2000 |- | [[Laila Harré]] || 1996–2000 |- | [[Matt Robson]] || 1996–2000 |- | [[Pam Corkery]] || 1996–1999 |- | [[Liz Gordon (politician)|Liz Gordon]] || 1996–2000 |- | [[Kevin Campbell (New Zealand politician)|Kevin Campbell]] || 1999–2000 |- |}
MPs elected between 1991 and 2000 were members of the NewLabour Party's faction of the [[Alliance (New Zealand political party)|Alliance]].
==Electoral results==
===Parliament=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! Election ! Party votes ! Total percent ! Place ! Seats won ! ± ! Government |- ! [[1990 New Zealand general election|1990]] | 94,171 | 5.16% | 4th | {{Composition bar|1|97|hex=#FF0000}} | {{nochange}} | rowspan=3 {{no2|[[Fourth National Government of New Zealand|Opposition]]}} |- ! [[1993 New Zealand general election|1993]] | 350,063<ref group=nb name="Alliance">As part of the [[Alliance (New Zealand political party)|Alliance]] political party group.</ref> | 18.2% | 3rd | {{Composition bar|1|99|hex=#FF0000}} | {{nochange}} |- ! [[1996 New Zealand general election|1996]] | 209,347<ref group=nb name="Alliance" /> | 10.1% | 4th | {{Composition bar|5|120|hex=#FF0000}} | {{increase}} 4 |- ! [[1999 New Zealand general election|1999]] | 159,859<ref group=nb name="Alliance" /> | 7.74% | 3rd | {{Composition bar|5|120|hex=#FF0000}} | {{nochange}} |{{yes2|[[Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand|Coalition]]}} |} {{Reflist|group=nb}}
==References== {{Commons category|NewLabour Party (New Zealand)}} {{Reflist}}
{{Historic New Zealand political parties}} {{NZ Alliance Party}}
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