National Party

noun

1. (in New Zealand) the more conservative of the two main political parties

2. Former name: National Country Party. (in Australia) a political party drawing its main support from rural areas

3. (in South Africa) a political party composed mainly of centre-to-right-wing Afrikaners, which ruled from 1948 until the country's first multiracial elections in 1994: renamed the New National Party (NNP) in 1999 See also Progressive Federal Party United Party

Example Sentences

This shift has elevated the importance of the president as the symbolic and practical leader of a national party agenda.

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She pointed to the city council's recent cuts and a loss of trust with the national party.

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He was so inflammatory that Australia’s Labor Party asked for Kassam, who was then associated with Breitbart, to be banned from entering the country, citing comments he’d made about the Quran being “fundamentally evil” and a tweet arguing the Scottish National Party leader’s legs should be taped shut.

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Labour, whose nationwide poll ratings have plummeted since Starmer took power in July last year, face a daunting task holding on to voters next May at local elections across Wales, London and Scotland, where the pro-independence Scottish National Party are tipped to remain in power.

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A year or so ago, the Scottish National Party looked to be in deep trouble.

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