Bye bye Social Credit

The Social Credit Party has deregistered from the Electoral Commission. Maybe it is because they finally got their wish and had a Government that just started printing money, or maybe it was the death of their leader, Chris Leitch in January.

While I am not a fan of the party and its anti-semitic origins, they were a major force in NZ politics. In 1954 they got 11% of the vote and in 1966 got 14% and one MP for one term. Then in 1978 they got 16% and a seat and in 1981 got 21% and two seats.

After that they decline over nine years to 1.7% and joined the Alliance. They split from it in 2005 and since then had got between 0.03% and 0.07%.