Enderron National Party

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Enderron National PartyEnderron Nationale Partij恩德龙国民党 Ēndélóng Guómíndǎngエンデロン国民党 Enderon Kokumin-tō 	Enderron National PartyEnderron Nationale Partij恩德龙国民党 Ēndélóng Guómíndǎngエンデロン国民党 Enderon Kokumin-tō
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Leader 	Spencer Bartell
Deputy Leader 	Kylie Moore
Founded 	25 October 1977
Youth wing 	ENP Youth
Membership 	35,500 (2019)
Ideology 	AgrarianismEconomic liberalismCivic nationalismGreen conservatismCultural conservatism
Political position 	Centre to centre-right
International affiliation 	Liberal International
Colour 	Green
Slogan 	Keeping Enderron Moving
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The Enderron National Party (ENP, commonly known as the Nationals or colloquially the Nats) is a centrist, agrarian political party in Enderron. It traditionally represents rural and regional communities, and is particularly strong in Northern and Western Enderron. The National Party is currently the third-largest party in the Enderronian Parliament in terms of seats. The current party leader is Spencer Bartell, since 2020.
Although its ideology has shifted considerably since its foundation, the National Party has always espoused agrarianism, regionalism and decentralisation. Founded as a right-wing protest movement representing rural interests, in its earlier years the party pursued conservative populist, economically protectionist, anti-environmentalist and agrarian socialist policies. On social issues it was generally more conservative than the centre-right United Party, opposing official multiculturalism and the decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion.
Since the mid-1990s, the ENP has significantly moderated its platform and moved towards the centre of the political spectrum, filling in the gap in the political spectrum left by the United Party following its dissolution in 1994, and in response to the rise of the far-right Enderron Democrats from 1997 onwards.
Under leaders Eric Wojtczak (1995–1998), Jack Whitham (1998–2003) and Martin Brooks (2003–2020), the party increasingly shifted towards an economically liberal platform with a focus on free market economics, environmental protection, regional development, political decentralisation, federalism and direct democracy. It no longer actively pursues many socially conservative policies, instead focusing mainly on economic issues, although it generally supports hunting, fishing and gun rights, individual freedom and responsibility, and decreasing immigration levels. Its modern ideology and policy platform have been compared to that of the agrarian parties of the Nordic countries and Japanese party Komeito.
For most of its history, the National Party has won the third-most seats in parliament, thus acting as a middle-ground "third force" between the centre-left Social Democrats and their conservative opponents. The party has fulfilled this role on multiple occasions by acting as a kingmaker during hung parliament and minority government situations; the Nationals supported the Social Democrats in coalition negotiations following the 1986 election, were junior coalition partners in the Liberal Koepke Government from 2002 to 2006, and provided confidence and supply to minority governments led by the Liberals (2010–2013) and the Social Democrats (2016–2018).
While the ENP has attempted to expand its electoral appeal beyond its base in northeastern Enderron, rural areas remain the party's main source of support; all seven seats currently held by the party in the federal parliament are classified as provincial or rural, and the party has never held a federal seat in the urbanised Metro Central Region. The party also holds 23 seats across seven prefectural legislatures (Cooksland, Greenberg, Kaigan, Miranda, Sierra, Sylvania and Westhaven), mostly in regional electorates.
==Federal party leaders==
No. 	Name 	Term began 	Term ended 	Time in office
align="centre"	George Sanders 	25 October 1977 	21 October 1985 	7 years, 361 days
align="centre"	Michael Paxton 	21 October 1985 	9 May 1995 	9 years, 200 days
align="centre"	Eric Wojtczak 	9 May 1995 	29 September 1998	3 years, 143 days
align="centre"	Jack Whitham 	29 September 1998	17 January 2003 	4 years, 110 days
align="centre"	Martin Brooks 	17 January 2003 	7 August 2020 	
align="centre"	Spencer Bartell	7 August 2020 	Incumbent 	
===Deputy party leaders===
*Walter Leigh (1977–1982)
*Michael Paxton (1982–1985)
*Richard Cowan (1985–1986)
*Erik Wojtczak (1986–1991, 1994–1995)
*Michael Ellsworth (1991–1994)
*Darrell Dexter (1995–2002)
*Martin Brooks (2002–2003)
*Stephanie Lorenzo (2003–2010)
*Vince Stanton (2010–2018)
*Spencer Bartell (2018–2020)
*Kylie Moore (2020–present)
==Election results==
===Parliament===
Election	Seats won	±	Total votes	% 	Position	Government 	Leader
1978 	/ 	3	788,413 	6.56%	3rd 	Crossbench 	George Sanders
1982 	/ 	5	1,007,020 	8.12%	3rd 	Crossbench 	George Sanders
1986 	/ 	4	656,041 	4.97%	4th 	Crossbench 	Michael Paxton
1990 	/ 	1	1,071,809 	7.74%	4th 	Crossbench 	Michael Paxton
1994 	/ 	2	1,186,772 	7.27%	3rd 	Crossbench 	Michael Paxton
1998 	/ 	2	464,909 	3.13%	3rd 	Crossbench 	Eric Wojtczak
2002 	/ 	4	951,061 	6.20%	3rd 	Coalition 	Jack Whitham
2006 	/ 	0	1,332,236 	8.16%	3rd 	Crossbench 	Martin Brooks
2010 	/ 	1	1,269,644 	7.50%	3rd 	Confidenceand supply	Martin Brooks
2014 	/ 	2	897,932 	4.99%	3rd 	Crossbench 	Martin Brooks
2018 	/ 	1	1,150,819 	6.13%	3rd 	Crossbench 	Martin Brooks
2022 	/ 	2	889,659 	4.63%	5th 	Crossbench 	Spencer Bartell
===President===
Election	Candidate 	Candidate 	First preference	First preference	First preference	Result
Election	President 	Vice President	Total votes 	% 	% 	Result
1982 	Joshua Kemmis 	Gordon West 	702,061 	6.28% (#4) 	  	Lost
1988 	Roger Cornell 	Jimmy Martin 	617,692 	5.09% (#5) 	  	Lost
1994 	Gary Prow 	Scott Rogerson	550,789 	4.05% (#5) 	  	Lost
2000 	No candidate 	No candidate 	No candidate 	No candidate 	No candidate 	No candidate
2006 	Ed Wideman 	Melissa Barry 	473,352 	3.15% (#6) 	  	Lost
2012 	Stephanie Lorenzo	Nathan Hoops 	1,248,615 	7.34% (#4) 	  	Lost
2018 	No candidate 	No candidate 	No candidate 	No candidate 	No candidate 	No candidate
==Prefectural branches==
The National Party does not have official affiliated party branches in New Plymouth and Wentworth, and additionally does not contest elections at the prefectural level in Avalon, Lawrencia, Plymouth, New Surrey and Tojima.
Party 	Seats	Last election	Leader 	Status 		Federal MPs
Cooksland National Party 	/ 	2020 	Martin Gonzo 	Crossbench		/
Flinders National Party 	/ 	2019 	No leader 	No seats 		/
Greenberg National Party 	/ 	2019 	Blake O'Halloran	Crossbench		/
Janszoon National Party 	/ 	2020 	No leader 	No seats 		/
Kaigan National Party 	/ 	2022 	Karen De Luca 	Crossbench		/
Longshan National Party 	/ 	2022 	No leader 	No seats 		/
Miranda National Party 	/ 	2022 	Alec Watts 	Crossbench		/
New Colorado National Party	/ 	2020 	No leader 	No seats 		/
Sierra National Party 	/ 	2020 	Cassandra Hurst 	Crossbench		/
Sylvania National Party 	/ 	2020 	Sherlyn McCall 	Crossbench		/
Westhaven National Party 	/ 	2021 	Con Grisham 	Crossbench		/