United Future
United Future New Zealand, usually known as United Future, is a registered New Zealand political party. With the formation of the 50th New Zealand Parliament after the 2011 election, it had a single member of the Parliament of New Zealand – party leader Peter Dunne, an electorate MP – and it has signed a confidence and supply agreement with the National Party, making it, along with ACT and the Maori Party, a support partner to the minority National government. The result of the 2014 general election was much the same for United Future, with Peter Dunne remaining the only MP from his party.
Formation and early success
United Future was formed from the merger of liberal centrist party United New Zealand and Christian-dominated conservative Future New Zealand to contest the 2002 election. United, formed as a centrist party by a group of moderate Labour and National MPs, held one seat in parliament—that of Dunne. Future New Zealand, which was not represented in parliament, was a "secularised" evolution of the Christian Democrats, following the same basic principles as the Christian Democrats, but abandoning the explicit religious connection.