National Party


National Party

n 1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in New Zealand) the more conservative of the two main political parties 2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Australia) a political party drawing its main support from rural areas. Former name: National Country Party 3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in South Africa) a political party composed mainly of centre-to-right-wing Afrikaners, which ruled from 1948 until the country's first multiracial elections in 1994: renamed the New National Party (NNP) in 1997, it merged with the ANC in 2005. See also Progressive Federal Party, United Party