Aotearoa NZ Youth Party

The party was the vehicle of "professional stirrer" Robert Terry of Reefton,[1] who has contested elections on and off since 1998.

Terry has received convictions for assault, bomb threats, and multiple threats to behead people.

[2] In each election that the party contested, it was not eligible for the party vote and only stood one candidate, Terry, for an electorate seat.

Terry first contested the 1998 Taranaki-King Country by-election,[3] winning 10 votes.

[4] In the 2002 election Terry stood for the electorate of West Coast-Tasman, winning 136 votes.