Hamish MacIntyre was a New Zealand

New Zealand

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 politician who at various times represented the National Party

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, Liberal Party

New Zealand Liberal Party (1992)

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, and the Alliance

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. His father was the Rt Hon Duncan MacIntyre

Duncan MacIntyre (New Zealand)

Brigadier-General Duncan MacIntyre, CMG, DSO, OBE, ED, PC was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1981 to 1984 under Prime Minister Robert Muldoon.-Member of Parliament:...

, who was Deputy Prime Minister to Muldoon in the Third National Government

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, and he was born in Waipukurau

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.

He was elected to Parliament for the Manawatu

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 seat for the National Party in 1990

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, winning the seat from Labour. But he was dissatisfied with the monetarist policy of Ruth Richardson

Ruth Richardson

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, known as Ruthanasia

Ruthanasia

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, which the fourth National Government

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 was following.

In 1992 MacIntyre and fellow dissident National MP Gilbert Myles

Gilbert Myles

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 and member Frank Grover

Frank Grover

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 formed the New Zealand Liberal Party

New Zealand Liberal Party (1992)

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, which soon joined the Alliance

Alliance (New Zealand political party)

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, as the new Liberal Party with two first-term MPs was having organisational difficulties. MacIntyre stayed with the Liberal Party within the (left-wing) Alliance, though Myles then joined the New Zealand First Party.

MacIntyre stood as a list candidate for the Alliance in 1996

New Zealand general election, 1996

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, but was unsuccessful and retired from politics.