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Elections 2019

Elections of members of local authorities are held once every three years, voting has finished for the 2019 local election.

By-Election: Murupara Community Board - Galatea Waiohau Subdivision2019 Election Results »

Voting Returns

Voting has finished. In this section, we'll provide statistics on how many people voted and when.

Full statistics on daily voting document returns, final return count - (PDF, 145 KB)

Voting Document Returns

Ward or Community Board (Subdivisions) / Total Enrolled VotersReceived
Final - Incl. Specials
Murupara (Galatea-Waiohau)
568 Enrolled Voters
Percentage Received

245
43.1%
Murupara (Murupara)
993 Enrolled Voters
Percentage Received

336
33.8%
Murupara (Te Urewera)
267 Enrolled Voters
Percentage Received

115
43.1%
Rangitaiki
6759 Enrolled Voters
Percentage Received

3509
51.9%
Tāneatua
2179 Enrolled Voters
Percentage Received

1169
53.6%
Whakatāne-Ōhope
13,273 Enrolled Voters
Percentage Received

7139
53.8%
2019 Total
24,039 Enrolled Voters
Total Percentage Received

12513
52.05%
Total Percentage Returned (previous years)
2010
2013
2016

56.5%
48.9%
48.36%

Daily Voting Document Returns

Graph showing daily count of returned voting papers

Elections 2019 Timetable

The timetable below outlines when key election-related events will occur.

Date - Year 2019Event
✔ Friday, 19 JulyNominations open for candidates. Nominations have to be sent to the electoral officer for the council, district health board or licensing trust. Rolls open for inspection at council offices and other sites locally.
✔ Friday, 16 AugustNominations close at 12 noon. Rolls close. After this date, anyone who is entitled to vote and who is not enrolled as an elector, or whose details are incorrectly recorded on the roll, will have to cast a 'special vote'.
✔ Wednesday, 21 AugustElection date and candidates’ names publicised by electoral officers.
✔ 20-25 September Voting documents delivered to households. Electors can post the documents back to electoral officers as soon as they have voted.
✔ 12 OctoberPolling day - The voting documents must be at the council before voting closes at 12 noon. Preliminary results (i.e. once all 'ordinary' votes are counted) will be available as soon as possible afterwards.
✔ 17-23 October
(or as soon as practicable)
Official results (including all valid ordinary and special votes) declared.
Sub-pages

These videos will give you an insight into what you can expect in each of the various roles you might choose to put yourself forward for in the upcoming elections. You'll be hearing from real people - with real experience.

FAQs and guides for candidates


Nomination Forms

Nominations closed at 12 pm, Friday 16 August 2019.


Ratepayer electors

Do you live in one area and pay rates on a property in another? If so, you may qualify to vote more than once at the local authority elections.

  • If you live and vote in one council district, but also pay rates on a property in another district, you may be eligible to enrol as a non-resident ratepayer elector in that other council district.
  • A firm, company, trust, corporation or society which pays rates on a property may nominate one of its members or officers as a non-resident ratepayer elector, provided that the nominator and the person nominated are both registered as Parliamentary electors at addresses which are outside the council district within which the property is situated.
  • In the case of partners, joint tenants and tenants in common, who collectively pay rates on a property, one of the group may be nominated to be entered on the ratepayer electoral roll. Again, the nominated person and the nominator must be registered as Parliamentary electors at addresses which are outside the council district within which the property is situated.

Enrolment form for ratepayer electors - (PDF, 126 KB)

Need to cast a special vote?

If you haven't received voting papers (or you’ve lost them) you can cast a special vote. Here's what you need to do:

  1. Make sure you’re enrolled. Don’t leave this till the last minute. You can check to see if you are (and update your details while you’re at it) or enrol by visiting vote.nz or calling 0800 36 76 56
  2. Come in and see us, either in Whakatāne or Murupara, and let our friendly customer service team know you’d like to cast a special vote
  3. One of our awesome election helpers will walk you through the process
  4. Pop your envelope into the ballot box – and you’re done!

All voting papers need to be in before voting closes at 12 noon on Saturday, 12 October. The Murupara Service Centre won’t be open on polling day, so get there before 5 pm, Friday 11 October.

You can also hand deliver your voting papers anytime to the ballot boxes at the Whakatāne Horizon Energy Library, or one of our service centres.