Editing Natural Law Party (section)

===United Kingdom===
The Natural Law Party was founded in the United Kingdom in March 1992. Geoffrey Clements was its leader.

The UK manifesto, as published on its website, listed five key aspects of a successful government including:<ref name="NLPUK">{{Cite web |url=http://www.natural-law-party.org.uk/UKmanifesto/ |title=UK Manifesto |publisher=Natural Law Party |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224115250/http://www.natural-law-party.org.uk/UKmanifesto/ |archive-date=24 December 2010}}</ref>
# The development of each individual's consciousness through the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme
# Reduce health care costs by training the citizens in personal health assessment via self-pulse reading, an aspect of the [[Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health]].
# Maintaining the collective health of the country by creating groups of experts in the TM-Sidhi programme's Yogic Flying technique.
# Bringing the individual and the country into tune with Natural Law so that unfavourable planetary influences are neutralised.
# Assuring that the country's work and home environments support health, and happiness.<ref name =NLPUK/>

In the [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]], held on 9 April, the NLP contested 310 seats<ref name="Scotland Herald 1994" /> in the UK, garnering 0.19% of the vote, with every candidate losing their deposit for failing to receive at least 5% of the vote.<ref>{{Citation |title=Election |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ge1992.html |year=1992 |contribution=Summary Results |place=UK |publisher=Demon}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfEekpBWrcI|title=Doug Henning - Magician - Natural Law Party (with Yogic Flying) - 1992|date=22 June 2016 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> The group announced that they had budgeted nearly £1 million for the campaign.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Election 92: Yogi group plan party |date=14 March 1992 |work=The Guardian |id=Gale Document Number: CJ171101196}}</ref> A significant number of constituencies were contested by nationals of countries outside the UK, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India, as British electoral law allows any member of a [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] country to stand for Parliament. Among them was Canadian-born magician [[Doug Henning]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=French premier's ouster expected |date=1 April 1992 |work=Toronto Star |page=A.15}}</ref> Despite the "dismal" number of votes, an article in ''[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]'' of Scotland reported that it could be considered a "reasonable return for a campaign which began only three weeks before polling day."<ref name="Scotland Herald 1994" /> In addition the NLP "notched up" a "headline-grabbing record" when it put forward candidates for all 87 United Kingdom seats in the [[1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|1994 European Parliament]]; the first party to do so.<ref name="Scotland Herald 1994">{{Cite web |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/surely-some-mystic-1.500949 |title=Surely some mystic |last=Macdonald |first=Callum |date=26 May 1994 |work=Scotland Herald|access-date=27 March 2013}}</ref>

[[George Harrison]] performed a fund-raising concert at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London for the NLP on 6 April 1992, his first full concert in the UK since 1969.<ref name="Israelson A.3" /> According to Harrison, a week before the general election, [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]] suggested to Harrison that he, [[Paul McCartney]] and [[Ringo Starr]] stand for election as MPs for [[Liverpool]] as NLP candidates, but they declined.<ref>{{Citation |last=Miles |first=Barry |title=Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kkXNECitum0C&q=maharishi+ashram+scandal&pg=PA428 |pages=429–30 |year=1998 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780805052497}}</ref>

In the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]], the NLP ran 197 candidates for Parliament in the UK, garnering 0.1% of the vote, with every candidate losing their deposit.<ref>{{Citation |title=Election |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ge1997.html |contribution=Summary Results 1997 |place=UK |publisher=Demon |access-date=24 March 2009 |archive-date=25 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100525225201/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ge1997.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The NLP ran 16 candidates in the 20 by-elections held between 1992 and 1997, with every candidate losing their deposit.<ref>{{Citation |title=Election |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1992.html |contribution=By-elections in the 1992–97 Parliament |place=UK |publisher=Demon |access-date=25 March 2009 |archive-date=20 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720031954/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1992.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The NLP ran eight candidates for the 16 by-elections held between 1997 and 2001, averaging 0.10% of the vote, with every candidate losing their deposit.<ref>{{Citation |title=Election |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by1997.html |contribution=Results of By-elections to the 52nd United Kingdom Parliament |publisher=Demon}}</ref> The NLP did not run any candidates for Parliament in the 2001 general election or in the succeeding by-elections.<ref>{{Citation |title=Election |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ge2001.html |year=2001 |contribution=Summary Results |place=UK |publisher=Demon}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Election |url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by2001.html |contribution=Results of By-elections to the 53rd United Kingdom Parliament |place=UK |publisher=Demon |access-date=25 March 2009 |archive-date=1 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201183331/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/by2001.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The party, along with its Northern Ireland wing, voluntarily deregistered with the [[Electoral Commission (United Kingdom)|Electoral Commission]] at the end of 2003.<ref>{{Citation |title=Renamed or deregistered parties |url=http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/63167/Renamed-or-Deregistered-Parties.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206030211/http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/63167/Renamed-or-Deregistered-Parties.pdf |place=UK |publisher=Electoral Commission |archive-date=6 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Northern Ireland====
It contested its first election in Northern Ireland in the [[1994 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom#Northern Ireland|1994 EU elections]]. According to the NLP, they prepared a 70-page report in response to the "1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments." The report was presented to leaders in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the U.S. Afterwards, NLP representatives participated in the "special elections to the Northern Ireland Forum", but withdrew before the election.<ref>{{Citation |title=History |url=http://www.natural-law-party.org.uk/misc/hist-history-of-nlp.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331193557/http://www.natural-law-party.org.uk/misc/hist-history-of-nlp.htm |place=UK |publisher=Natural law party |archive-date=31 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>