Heartland New Zealand Party
Heartland New Zealand is an unregistered political party in New Zealand. The party is rural-based, and opposes the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, the Paris Agreement, and attempts to limit the environmental impacts of agriculture. The party is backed by rich-lister Harry Mowbray, and aims to provide a support partner to the New Zealand National Party by the creation of overhang seats.
The party's candidate for Port Waikato is former Franklin District mayor Mark Ball.
The party did not apply for a broadcasting allocation for the 2020 election. On 13 July 2020, the Electoral Commission confirmed that the Heartland Party is going through the application process to be a registered party. On 18 July the party applied for registration with the Electoral Commission.
