Christian Coalition (New Zealand)
The Coalition was established for the purpose of contesting the 1996 election, which was the first to be held using the new mixed member proportional (MMP) voting system.Under MMP, it would not be necessary for the party to win any electorate seats – it merely needed to gain more than five percent of the national vote.The Christian Democrats later "secularised" themselves, removing the explicitly religious nature of their party while keeping the same policy outlook.Ironically, the latter split in 2007, with disgruntled fundamentalist ex-UFNZ members forming a more intransigent entity, The Kiwi Party.[citation needed] Christian Heritage remained an independent party, but did not meet with the same success that it did while part of the Coalition.
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