The Electoral Commission has finalised its list of registered parties participating in the general election. The Worker's Party, a plucky bunch of Marxists with a strong following in Wellington, managed to get their act (and 500 members) together to register. The Liberal Party, a supposedly professional bunch who popped up earlier this year, didn't. So much for that chance for a centrist, liberal party (though their descent into anti-EFA lunacy really marked them as nothing of the sort).
The full list of registered parties is here. There are twenty-one all up, including two groups of Marxists, at least three of Christians (depending on whether you count Peter Dunne and/or Taito Philip Field), plus two (other) joke parties. It looks like we're spoiled for choice...