New Zealand Pacific Party

Field became an MP in 1993 for the Labour party, originally for the Otara electorate then, when that seat was abolished in 1996, for Māngere. In February 2007 he was expelled from Labour, staying in parliament as an independent. In April 2007 Field told The Sunday Star-Times he would form a new political party based on family values. Mr Field cited opposition to Sue Bradford's Bill to remove the defence for child discipline as an example of a "groundswell of Christian people" and stated "There is a vacuum, there is room for a political party... people are looking for a new vehicle."{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10434447|title=Field to set up 'family values' political party|date=16 April 2007|work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=27 November 2010}} Mr Field also had meetings with Richard Lewis, leader of Destiny Church political party Destiny New Zealand, over a possible alliance.{{cite web |url=http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=116347 |title=Destiny Church and Phillip Field alliance? |website=Newstalk ZB |date=2007-04-27 |access-date=2007-05-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429210827/http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=116347 |archive-date=2007-04-29}} The party was registered on 24 April 2008,{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.org.nz/news/ec-media-decisions-240408.html |title=Electoral Commission registration decisions and consideration of complaints |publisher=New Zealand Electoral Commission |date=2008-04-24 |access-date=2008-09-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015061226/http://www1.elections.org.nz/news/ec-media-decisions-240408.html |archive-date=2008-10-15 }} and officially launched on 16 August 2008.{{cite web |title=Pacific Party confident of success |url=http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=142833 |publisher=Newstalk ZB |date=2008-08-17 |access-date=2008-09-10 }}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} It claimed to have over 3000 members in August 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/politics/2008/08/08/12436d70c13d |title=Pacific Party confident of strong showing at election |publisher=Radio New Zealand |date=2008-08-09 |access-date=2008-09-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212235538/http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/politics/2008/08/08/12436d70c13d |archive-date=2012-02-12 }}

The Pacific Party lost its single constituency seat in New Zealand's Parliament in the 2008 general election. Taito Philip Field lost his Māngere electorate seat to Labour's William Sio; Field got 5,525 votes compared to Sio's 12,651. In the party vote, the Pacific Party attracted 8,640 votes, or 0.37% of the total electorate vote in New Zealand. With under 5% of the party vote and no electorate seats, the Pacific Party did not meet the threshold to enter Parliament.

After the election, nothing further was heard from the Pacific Party for almost two years. On 2 September 2010 the party was deregistered.{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.org.nz/news-media/cancellation-registration-political-party-and-logo|title=Cancellation of registration of political party and logo|date=2010-09-02|publisher=New Zealand Electoral Commission|access-date=9 January 2017}}

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