New Zealand People's Party
The New Zealand People's Party is a political party in New Zealand. The party was established in 2015 and has a particular focus on the rights of immigrants. It operated as an independent party for a 2016 by-election and the 2017 general election, and as a component party of Advance New Zealand for the 2020 election. The party's leader, as of September 2020, is Anil Sharma. History. Standalone party. The New Zealand People's Party was established in 2015. It was initially led by Roshan Nauhria, who was a co-founder. Nauhria  stood as a candidate in the 2016 Mount Roskill by-election, winning 709 votes or 4.2% and coming third. The People's Party also contested the 2017 Mount Albert by-election, with Vin Tomar, an early childhood teacher and real estate agent, as their candidate. Tomar received 191 votes, or 1.5% of the votes cast, coming fourth. In 2016, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters called the party a 'National Party front'. On 20 May 2017 the party applied for registration with the Electoral Commission and was registered by the Electoral Commission on 20 June 2017. It ran six list  candidates. At the 2017 general election, the party gained only 0.1% of the party vote (1,890 votes) and won no seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives. The party was deregistered by the Electoral Commission, at the party's request, on 30 April 2019. Component party of Advance New Zealand. The leader of the Advance New Zealand party, Jami-Lee Ross, appeared in a Facebook video of 29 July 2020 and stated that the New Zealand People's Party would be joining with Advance. The Electoral Commission confirmed that the People's Party was a component party of Advance  on 18 August. Advance New Zealand received only 1.0% of the party vote in the 2020 general election, not enough to enter Parliament, so no candidates from the People's Party were elected. Current status. By December 2020, the People's Party was no longer recorded as a component party of Advance. No announcements about the future of the People's Party have been made.