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The Conservative Party NZ is a socially and fiscally conservative party. It campaigns on traditional family values, lower taxation and smaller government, free speech, and citizen-initiated referendums, and states that it opposes what it calls “woke” ideology. It holds no seats in the current Parliament.
Founded in 2011 by businessman Colin Craig as the Conservative Party, its best result was 3.97% of the party vote in 2014 — never reaching the 5% threshold or an electorate seat. It was rebranded New Conservative in 2017 and reverted to Conservative Party NZ in 2026; Helen Houghton is its leader.
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The Conservative Party wants to cut taxes for people and businesses, lower GST from 15% to 12.5%, and reduce the government debt built up under the previous Labour-Green government. They believe lower tax rates will bring more money into the country, encourage people to start businesses, and keep New Zealanders from moving overseas. They also want company tax rates to match the top personal income tax rate to make things simpler.
“Conservatives NZ are committed to urgently tackling the massive debt the Labour Green government imposed on young families of today and their children of tomorrow.”
“Corporation tax rate should be aligned with the top rate of income tax.”
“A lower rate of GST -12.5% is favoured.”
Summarised neutrally from Conservative Party NZ’s own official policy (as at 2026-09-07) and checked by an editor. Nothing is paraphrased without the source linked. Read the original ↗ Arapono is non-partisan. Compare all parties on Economy →
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Seat counts from the 2023 General Election (Electoral Commission). Party background from parliament.nz and official party records. Leadership verified against the parliament.nz member roster.