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2013 Auckland Local Board Elections
149 members were elected to local boards in the 2013 Auckland local board elections, an election held as part of the 2013 New Zealand local elections. Local Board elections This table shows a summary of the results (excluding Whau): Rodney Local Board Wellsford Subdivision (1) Warkworth Subdivision (3) Kumeu Subdivision (4) Dairy Flat Subdivision (1) Hibiscus and Bays Local Board Hibiscus Coast Subdivision (4) East Coast Bays Subdivision (4) Upper Harbour Local Board (6) Devonport-Takapuna Local Board (6) Henderson-Massey Local Board (8) Waitākere Ranges Local Board (6) Albert-Eden Local Board Maungawhau Subdivision (4) Owairaka Subdivision (4) Great Barrier Local Board (5) Waiheke Local Board (5) Puketapapa Local Board (6) Ōrākei Local Board (7) Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board Tamaki Subdivision Local Board (4) Maungakiekie Subdivision Local Board (3) Howick Local Board Botany Subdivision Local Board (3) Howick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 New Zealand Local Elections
The 2013 New Zealand local elections were triennial elections to elect local government officials and District Health Board members, and the membership of other local bodies such as Licensing Trusts. All elections were conducted by postal ballot, with election day being Saturday 12 October 2013. Electoral systems The local elections were held using postal ballot. Most city and district councils and all but one regional council used the first-past-the-post (FPP) voting system, with the exception of the following six city and district councils that used the single transferable vote (STV) voting system: * Dunedin City Council * Kapiti Coast District Council * Marlborough District Council * Palmerston North City Council * Porirua City Council * Wellington City Council The Wellington Regional Council was the sole regional council using the STV system. Environment Canterbury and Kaipara District were under statutory management and no elections were held. All District Health Boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party ( mi, Rōpū Reipa o Aotearoa), or simply Labour (), is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers describe Labour as social-democratic and pragmatic in practice. The party participates in the international Progressive Alliance. It is one of two major political parties in New Zealand, alongside its traditional rival, the National Party. The New Zealand Labour Party formed in 1916 out of various socialist parties and trade unions. It is the country's oldest political party still in existence. Alongside the National Party, Labour has alternated in leading governments of New Zealand since the 1930s. , there have been six periods of Labour government under ten Labour prime ministers. The party has traditionally been supported by working class, urban, Māori, Pasifika, immigrant and trade unionist New Zealanders, and has had strongholds in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Party Of Aotearoa New Zealand
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand ( mi, Rōpū Kākāriki o Aotearoa, Niu Tireni), commonly known as the Greens, is a green and left-wing political party in New Zealand. Like many green parties around the world, it has four organisational pillars (ecological wisdom, social justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence). The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing and social-democratic economic policies, including well-funded and locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady-state economy. Internationally, it is affiliated with the Global Greens. The Green Party traces its origins to the Values Party, founded in 1972 as the world's first national-level environmentalist party. The current Green Party was formed in 1990. From 1991 to 1997 the party participated in the Alliance, a grouping of five left-wing parties. It gained representation in parliament at the 1996 election. Historically, the Green Party had two co-leaders, one mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desley Simpson
Desley Simpson is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor. In October 2022, Simpson was chosen as the Deputy Mayor of Auckland. Early life Simpson attended Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland, where she learned to play the organ. She is still an organist. Simpson's grandfather Sir James Donald was also a politician in Auckland and she paid tribute to him in her maiden speech and wore the fob chain presented to him when he became deputy chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board in 1935. Political career Simpson is a member of the National Party. She chaired the Hobson Community Board in the Auckland City Council. With the merger of Auckland City Council into the Auckland Council, Simpson was elected to the Ōrākei Local Board at the 2010 elections and became the chairperson. She was re-elected in 2013. At the 2016 Auckland elections, Simpson stood for the Ōrākei ward on the Council, following an announcement by incumbent Cameron Brewer that he would not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōrākei Local Board
The Ōrākei Local Board is one of the 21 local boards of Auckland Council. It is coterminous with the Ōrākei Ward. It was chaired in its first two terms by local politician Desley Simpson Desley Simpson is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor. In October 2022, Simpson was chosen as the Deputy Mayor of Auckland. Early life Simpson attended Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland, where she learned to play the org ... following the 2010 and 2013 elections. In the 2016 elections, Simpson stood for and won the Orakei ward councillor seat on Auckland Council. Colin Davis took her place as Chair. Governance The board consists of 7 members who were elected in the 2016 local elections. 2016 local elections The current board members are: *Troy Churton, C&R - Communities & Residents (15,973 votes) *Kit Parkinson, C&R - Communities & Residents (14,796 votes) *Colin Davis, C&R - Communities & Residents (14,303 votes) *Toni Millar, C&R - Communities & Residents (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Fairey
Julie Fairey is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor. In 2022, Fairey was elected as one of two councillors representing the Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward. Early life Before becoming a local board member, Fairey worked in early childhood education, and was active among education unions. Political career Fairey ran unsuccessfully as the Alliance (New Zealand political party), Alliance candidate for Epsom (New Zealand electorate), Epsom in 2002. She ran as a list candidate in 2005. Fairey was elected to the Puketāpapa Local Board in the 2010 Auckland local board elections. She served as the chair of the board from 2013 to 2016, and as the deputy chair for the first half of the 2019–2022 term. In the 2022 local body elections, Fairey was elected as one of two councillors for the Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward. She took office on 16 October 2022. Personal life Fairey's spouse is Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate), Mount Roskill MP Michael Wood (New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Wood (New Zealand Politician)
Michael Philip Wood (born 10 May 1980) is a New Zealand politician and, since winning the Mount Roskill by-election in December 2016, a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. He is a member of the Labour Party. Early life Wood was born in 1980. He attended Pakuranga College and graduated from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts in 2005. While a university student Wood worked as a Christmas tree salesman. After finishing university he initially worked in retail jobs for several years, including at Hugh Wright's, a men's clothing store. He joined the union movement, and worked as an organiser as a senior negotiator for the financial sector union Finance and Information Workers Union. He then joined Habitat for Humanity as an advisor working on several issues such as their health and safety procedures. Political career Labour Party activism and candidancy In 1998, his first year at university, he became critical of the direction of New Zealand under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mana Movement
The Mana Movement, formerly known as the Mana Party, is a former political party in New Zealand. The party was led by Hone Harawira who formed it in April 2011 following his resignation from the Māori Party. Harawira won the by-election in Te Tai Tokerau of 25 June 2011 for the Mana Party and retained the seat during the 2011 general election in November. Under a short-term agreement with the Internet Party, a joint Internet Party and Mana Movement contested the 2014 general election with the Mana Movement providing the first, third and fourth list candidates. Despite being funded by online millionaire Kim Dotcom, the Internet Party and Mana Movement failed to win a single seat. Harawira lost his seat to Labour Party candidate Kelvin Davis, and with only 1.42% of the party vote, Internet Mana did not return to parliament. During the 2017 general election, the Mana Movement took 0.1% of the party vote and failed to gain any seats. It did not contest the 2020 general elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Vision (political Ticket)
City Vision is a centre-left coalition of two political parties, the New Zealand Labour Party and the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, and community independents who contest Auckland Council (and previously Auckland City and Auckland Regional Council) elections every three years. They have usually caucused in affiliation with Labour Party councillors and progressive independents. History City Vision originated in 1998 as a centre-left electoral ticket representing the local Labour, Green parties, and other progressive candidates in the Auckland local council elections. It was formed to challenge the centre-right Citizens and Ratepayers Association (C&R), which had dominated control of the Auckland City Council since the C&R's formation in the 1930s. City Vision have traditionally held representation in the centre-west and south of Auckland City. City Vision candidates gained partial control of the Auckland City Council with the appointment of their first leader B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communities And Residents
Communities and Residents (C&R) is a right-leaning local body ticket in Auckland, New Zealand. It was formed in 1938 as Citizens & Ratepayers, with a view to controlling the Auckland City Council and preventing left-leaning Labour Party control. It controlled the council most of the time from World War II until the council was merged into the Auckland Council in 2010. It changed its name from "Citizens & Ratepayers" to "Communities and Residents" in 2012. History The Citizens & Ratepayers Association was formed in 1938. It was formed with the intention to "secure the return of the best possible types of candidate to the Auckland City Council, Harbour Board, Hospital Board and Electric Power Board". It also intended to "preserve local government in all its then present forms, protecting it from any influence and interference of party politics". During the period 1938–1998, the Auckland City Council was under the control of C&R except for three years from 1953 to 1956. C&R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert-Eden Local Board
The Albert-Eden Local Board is one of the 21 local boards of the Auckland Council, and is one of the two boards overseen by the council's Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward councillors. The Albert-Eden board, named after the two volcanic cones in the board area: Mount Albert and Mount Eden, covers the suburbs of Balmoral, Epsom, Greenlane, Kingsland, Morningside, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Owairaka, Point Chevalier, Sandringham, and Waterview. The board is governed by eight board members elected from two subdivisions: four from the Owairaka subdivision (western half of the board area), and four from the Maungawhau subdivision (eastern half). The first board members were elected with the nationwide local elections on Saturday 9 October 2010; the local board's second election closed on 12 October 2013. Population Albert-Eden Local Board Area covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Albert-Eden Local Board Area had a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
