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Cook Islands Party | |
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| Abbreviation | CIP |
| Leader | Mark Brown |
| Founder | Albert Henry |
| Founded | 15 June 1964 |
| Preceded by | Cook Islands Progressive Association |
| Ideology | Cook Islands Māori nationalism |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right |
| Seats in the Cook Islands Parliament | 13 / 24 |
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| Website | |
| cookislandsparty.com | |
The Cook Islands Party is a nationalist political party in the Cook Islands. It was the first political party founded in the Cook Islands, and one of the two major parties of the islands' politics since 1965.
From 1999 until 2005 it sometimes participated in coalition governments. In the 2006 elections, it came runner-up and largest opposition party in the islands. The party won both the 2010 and 2014 elections and currently forms the government. As a result of the 2018 elections, it is the second largest party in the Cook Islands Parliament. The leader of the party is the Prime Minister Mark Brown.