The New Country Party is a minor political party

Political party

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 in Australia

Australia

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. It emerged out of the internal divisions of the One Nation Party

One Nation Party

One Nation is a far-right and nationalist political party in Australia. It gained 22% of the vote translating to 11 of 89 seats in Queensland's unicameral legislative assembly at the 1998 state election and made major inroads into the vote of the existing parties...

 in Queensland

Queensland

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 and Western Australia

Western Australia

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 in 2003 (in a similar fashion to the City Country Alliance

City Country Alliance

The City Country Alliance was a short lived Australian political party that briefly held six Queensland state seats.It was founded in late 1999 after the One Nation Party contingent in the Queensland Legislative Assembly split...

) and was registered by the Australian Electoral Commission

Australian Electoral Commission

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 on 9 January 2004. Two Western Australian state upper house

Western Australian Legislative Council

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 MPs elected on One Nation tickets, Paddy Embry

Paddy Embry

Patrick "Paddy" Embry is a former Australian politician. Born in Oundle in the United Kingdom, he arrived in Australia in December 1956 and became a farmer. In 2001, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for South West Region, representing One Nation. On 15 May 2003, he...

 and Frank Hough

Frank Hough

Francis Carson "Frank" Hough is a former Australian politician. Born in Subiaco, Western Australia, he was a self-employed business proprietor before entering politics. In 2001, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for Agricultural Region as a member of One Nation...

, joined the party and were its only serving MPs until their defeat in the Western Australian state election

Western Australian state election, 2005

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 February 2005 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council...

 in 2005.

In the leadup to the October 2004 Federal election, there was some suggestion that Queensland independent MP Bob Katter

Bob Katter

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 would run on the New Country Party ticket, however, he did not do so. The party ran Senate

Australian Senate

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 tickets in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales

New South Wales

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, where it got 0.18%, 0.13% and 0.16% respectively, and obtained 0.08% of the vote nationwide in the lower house

Australian House of Representatives

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.

In February 2005, the party contested the Western Australian state election, and gained 0.31% of the upper house vote statewide, and 0.11% of the lower house vote. Both sitting members lost their seats to major party candidates.

The NCP contested the Western Australian state election, 2008

Western Australian state election, 2008

A general election was held in the state of Western Australia on Saturday 6 September 2008 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council...

, but won only 0.05% of the primary vote for the Legislative Council. The party has since been deregistered by the Western Australian Electoral Commission.

The party's website no longer appears to exist, but is archived.