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{{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]]
|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"}} [[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 (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]]}}
|}
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==References==
{{Commons category|NewLabour Party (New Zealand)}}
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{{Historic New Zealand political parties}}
{{NZ Alliance Party}}

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