Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Wigram Sydenham (1984–1993)
In office 14 July 1984 – 26 November 2011
Preceded by
John Kirk
Succeeded by
Megan Woods
25th President of the Labour Party
In office 15 May 1979 – 8 September 1984
Vice President
Stu McCaffley
Preceded by
Arthur Faulkner
Succeeded by
Margaret Wilson
Personal details
Born
James Patrick Byrne
(1938-01-21)21 January 1938 Auckland, New Zealand
Died
7 January 2018(2018-01-07) (aged 79) Christchurch, New Zealand
Political party
Labour (1963–1989, 2011–2018) NewLabour (1989–1991) Alliance (1991–2002) Progressive (2002–2011)
Spouse
Carole Anderton
Profession
Businessman, politician
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James Patrick AndertonCNZM (born Byrne; 21 January 1938 – 7 January 2018) was a New Zealand politician who led a succession of left-wing parties after leaving the Labour Party in 1989.
Anderton's political career began when he was elected to the Manukau City Council in 1965. After serving for five years as Labour Party president, Anderton successfully stood as the Labour candidate for Sydenham in Christchurch in 1984. However, he soon came into conflict with the party's leadership, and became an outspoken critic of the Fourth Labour Government's free-market reforms, called Rogernomics. In April 1989, believing that Labour was beyond change, Anderton resigned from the party.
As leader of the Alliance and later the Progressive Party, he served as the 15th deputy prime minister of New Zealand in the Fifth Labour Government from 1999 to 2002 and as a senior minister in that government from 2002 to 2008. In 2010, he ran unsuccessfully for the mayoralty of Christchurch. Anderton retired from Parliament at the 2011 election. After his retirement, he and former MP Philip Burdon were the two prominent campaigners for the restoration of ChristChurch Cathedral.
prominent campaigners for the restoration of ChristChurch Cathedral. JimAnderton was born on 21 January 1938 in Auckland to Matthew Byrne and Joyce Savage...
November 2008. Labour Party leader Helen Clark negotiated a coalition with JimAnderton, leader of the Alliance Party. While undertaking a number of substantial...
following political parties: JimAnderton's Progressive Party, in New Zealand, formerly Progressive Coalition and JimAnderton's Progressive Coalition Vermont...
Coalition (now the Progressive Party) started by former Alliance leader JimAnderton won two seats, and remained allied with Labour. The Greens, who were...
first Clark-led Cabinet linked Labour with the Alliance. Alliance leader JimAnderton served as Deputy Prime Minister under Clark until 2002. The full ministerial...
fell for the joke, writing a letter to Associate Minister of Health JimAnderton asking "Does the Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs have a view on the...
also being challenged by the NewLabour Party, founded by renegade MP JimAnderton. Five National MPs and eleven Labour MPs intended to retire at the end...
splinter). The Alliance held three seats in Parliament – one belonged to JimAnderton, who had been re-elected under a NewLabour banner in the seat he had...
seats it held in the 41st Parliament. Later, a dissident Labour MP, JimAnderton, would found the NewLabour Party in 1989. Due to internal disputes within...
Government of New Zealand, following a proposal by then Deputy Prime Minister JimAnderton, to set up a locally-owned bank capable of competing with the Big Four...
Darren Robert Anderton (born 3 March 1972) is an English former professional footballer and pundit. As a player, he was a midfielder who notably played...
the 2002 election, the Democrats for Social Credit had been part of JimAnderton's Progressive Coalition, but split shortly after that election. The Libertarianz...
three times with Winston Peters, leader of New Zealand First, and once JimAnderton, leader of the Alliance. The Sixth National Government, formed in 2023...
1989 2000 1989–1991 A left-wing party established by former Labour MP JimAnderton. It contested one election before joining with several other parties...
2016. Holl, Maarten; Palmer, Matthew (20 June 2012). "Helen Clark and JimAnderton with their coalition agreement, 1999". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New...
the date the poll was released. United Future was founded in 2000 and JimAnderton's Progressive Party was founded in 2002, thus neither party contested...
one of the Alliance's key members. NewLabour had been established by JimAnderton, a former Labour MP who quit the party in protest over the economic reforms...
joined the breakaway Progressive Party. She was involved in several of JimAnderton's re-election campaigns. She contested the Christchurch Central electorate...
Finance, and when JimAnderton, a Labour MP, quit the party, Robson followed him. Robson was heavily involved in the establishment of Anderton's NewLabour Party...
and west coasts of the North Island. New Zealand Fisheries Minister JimAnderton announced on 14 February 2006 that a draft agreement had been reached...
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