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Nineteen registered political parties are seeking the party vote in the 2005 general election, the Chief Electoral Officer David Henry announced today.

This compares with 14 parties at the 2002 general election.

The 19 parties have submitted a total of 667 candidates on their party lists. This compares to 523 list candidates in 2002, an increase of 27 percent.

The registered parties seeking the party vote are:

• • • Act New Zealand
    • Alliance
    • Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
    • Christian Heritage NZ
    • Democrats for Social Credit
    • Destiny New Zealand
    • Direct Democracy Party
    • Green Party
    • Jim Anderton's Progressive
    • Labour Party
    • Libertarianz
    • Māori Party
    • National Party
    • New Zealand Family Rights Protection Party
    • New Zealand First Party
    • 99 MP Party
    • OneNZ Party
    • The Republic of New Zealand Party
    • United Future New Zealand

There are six recently registered parties seeking the party vote for the first time in 2005. These are:

• • • Destiny New Zealand
    • Direct Democracy Party
    • Māori Party
    • New Zealand Family Rights Protection Party
    • 99 MP Party
    • The Republic of New Zealand Party

There are 597 electorate candidates seeking the electorate vote in the 69 electorates. (This compares to 593 electorate candidates in 2002.)

560 of those candidates represent registered parties and 37 candidates are independents or represent unregistered parties.

Electorate candidates for each electorate are listed here and the party lists are available from here.

Attached are the number of list candidates and the number of electorate candidates representing those parties seeking the party vote.

* maximum number on the published list is 65