Portal:New Zealand/Selected article/Week 1, 2007
The Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand (CHP, known for a time simply as Christian Heritage New Zealand) functioned in the New Zealand political landscape as a party promoting evangelical Christian-based social conservatism. Although it had a representative in the Parliament for a brief period, it never won any seats in an election, its sole Parliamentary representation stemming from the defection of the Alliance MP Frank Grover in June 1999. The Party did however come close to winning representation in the 1996 election as part of the Christian Coalition.