2020 election The party launched at Marsden Cross in
Rangihoua Bay (site of the first Christian service in New Zealand, in 1814) in June 2020. It said that it would run 20 candidates in both general and Māori electorates. ONE Party became registered with the Electoral Commission in July 2020. It received a broadcasting allocation of $41,457 for the
2020 election. The party reached an arrangement with
Vision NZ, another Christian-based party. ONE Party did not stand a candidate in the
Waiariki electorate, where Vision's leader
Hannah Tamaki ran. In return, Vision NZ promised to not stand a candidate in
Te Tai Tokerau. ONE Party was approached about joining an alliance of parties that included the
New Zealand Public Party, led by
Billy Te Kahika, who is also a Christian. However, Harawira said that their respective parties' kaupapa do not align. At the election, held on 17 October, ONE Party received 8,121 party votes (0.3%), far short of the 5% threshold to enter
Parliament without winning at least one electorate seat.
2021 leadership change The party announced a leadership change on 18 October 2021, when founding leaders Stephanie Harawira and Edward Shanly stood down and were replaced with a
tripartite leadership of Ian Johnson, Allan Cawood and Kariana Black.
2022 by-election For the
2022 Hamilton West by-election, ONE Party announced that it joined with the
New Conservative Party to stand a single candidate: Rudi du Plooy, a New Conservative Party member. Du Plooy came seventh with 118 votes.
2023 election In July 2023 the party filed an application to change their name and logo to NewZeal. This became official in August 2023.'''''' Both RNZ and the New Zealand Herald described NewZeal as a "new political party" launched by Alfred Ngaro, who left the
National Party to form it. Ngaro is a former National Party member and member of Parliament from 2011 to 2020. In 2019, rumours spread that Ngaro intended to leave National and form a new Christian party, which at the time he denied. In 2020, he lost his seat in Parliament after a poor result for National generally. Ngaro became disappointed with the National Party's opposition to
gay conversion therapy and support for
gender identity, and this led to his involvement with NewZeal. Ngaro is Christian but has insisted this didn't make NewZeal a Christian party. Across nine polls conducted for
1News between July 2022 and September 2023, the ONE Party or NewZeal registered between 0% and 0.5% support, far short of the threshold for entering Parliament without winning an electorate seat. NewZeal received 0.56% of the party vote and did not win any electorate seats, leaving it outside Parliament.
2026 alignment with New Zealand First On 22 March 2026, Ngaro spoke during
New Zealand First leader
Winston Peters' State of the Nation address in
Tauranga where he announced that he would be standing as a candidate for that party during the
2026 New Zealand general election. That same day, Ngaro confirmed that he and the NewZeal party would align with NZ First, citing "strategic realism and shared values." The party was subsequently deregistered at its own request by 31 March 2026. ==Election results==