Jim Anderton

The Honourable Jim Anderton CNZM
Anderton in 2010
15th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
In office 10 December 1999 – 15 August 2002
Prime Minister	Helen Clark
Preceded by	Wyatt Creech
Succeeded by	Michael Cullen
32nd Minister of Agriculture
In office 19 October 2005 – 19 November 2008
Prime Minister	Helen Clark
Preceded by	Jim Sutton
Succeeded by	David Carter
Leader of the Progressive Party
In office 27 July 2002 – 15 March 2012
Deputy	Matt Robson
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
1st Minister of Economic Development
In office 10 December 1999 – 19 October 2005
Prime Minister	Helen Clark
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Trevor Mallard
1st Leader of the Alliance
In office 7 May 1995 – 20 April 2002
Deputy	Sandra Lee
Preceded by	Sandra Lee
Succeeded by	Laila Harré
In office 1 December 1991 – 10 November 1994
Deputy	Sandra Lee
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Sandra Lee
Leader of the NewLabour Party
In office 1 April 1989 – 13 October 2000
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Wigram Sydenham (1984–1993)
In office 14 July 1984 – 26 November 2011
Preceded by	John Kirk
Succeeded by	Megan Woods
25th President of the Labour Party
In office 15 May 1979 – 8 September 1984
Vice President	Stu McCaffley
Preceded by	Arthur Faulkner
Succeeded by	Margaret Wilson
Personal details
Born	James Patrick Byrne (1938-01-21)21 January 1938 Auckland, New Zealand
Died	7 January 2018(2018-01-07) (aged 79) Christchurch, New Zealand
Political party	Labour (1963–1989, 2011–2018) NewLabour (1989–1991) Alliance (1991–2002) Progressive (2002–2011)
Spouse	Carole Anderton
Profession	Businessman, politician
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James Patrick Anderton CNZM (born Byrne; 21 January 1938 – 7 January 2018) was a New Zealand politician who led a succession of left-wing parties after leaving the Labour Party in 1989.

Anderton's political career began when he was elected to the Manukau City Council in 1965. After serving for five years as Labour Party president, Anderton successfully stood as the Labour candidate for Sydenham in Christchurch in 1984. However, he soon came into conflict with the party's leadership, and became an outspoken critic of the Fourth Labour Government's free-market reforms, called Rogernomics. In April 1989, believing that Labour was beyond change, Anderton resigned from the party.

As leader of the Alliance and later the Progressive Party, he served as the 15th deputy prime minister of New Zealand in the Fifth Labour Government from 1999 to 2002 and as a senior minister in that government from 2002 to 2008. In 2010, he ran unsuccessfully for the mayoralty of Christchurch. Anderton retired from Parliament at the 2011 election. After his retirement, he and former MP Philip Burdon were the two prominent campaigners for the restoration of ChristChurch Cathedral.