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The Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), meaning the Reconstituted National Party, is a white supremacist political party in South Africa that was founded in 1969 as a far-right splintergroup of the Nasionale Party. The HNP's founder Albert Hertzog was the son of former NP leader J.B.M. Hertzog, and he opposed the government's allowance of Maori footballers to play for New Zealand on South African soil and the government's establishment of diplomatic relations with Malawi. Recalling the acronym of the earlier Herenigde Nasionale Party, the HNP attracted rural and small town working and lower middle class Afrikaners who saw the NP as pandering to the interests of urban elites, but the party failed to attain parliamentary representation. Most of its members left to join the Conservative Party and the AWB during the 1980s, and the HNP existed in political irrelevance during the 21st century.

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