The New Nation Party is an unregistered political party in

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. The party's leadership is currently vacant. It was previously led by Guy Slocum. It opposes

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, Three Waters, and the

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History

The party stood former Tauranga City councillor Andrew Hollis as a candidate at the 2022 Tauranga by-election. He received 260 votes. The party applied for registration on 27 March 2023. It was registered on 12 April 2023. The party was previously a component party of Freedoms New Zealand. Some time between May and September 2023 it ceased being a component party of Freedoms. Polling conducted for 1News, between the party's founding and mid-September 2023, indicated the party's support at between 0.1% and 0.5%. In the 2023 general election, New Nation Party received 0.05% of the party vote – 1,530 votes, the lowest result of any party – and did not win any electorate seats, meaning it did not enter parliament. On 29 January 2025, the Electoral Commission deregistered the party at its own request.

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