High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bill and Ben Party was a New Zealand joke political party formed in 2008 and voluntarily deregistered in 2010. The party`s leaders were Jamie Linehan and Ben Boyce ("Bill" and Ben) of the TV3 satirical sports show Pulp Sport. In the 2008 general election the party secured 0.56% of the votes cast, outpolling every other party not in parliament at the time (New Zealand First, a party in parliament prior to 2008 failed to gain representation in the subsequent parliament). Overall, they gained the ninth highest number of votes out of the nineteen parties standing for election.