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2022 Auckland Local Board Elections
149 members were elected to local boards in the 2022 Auckland local board elections, an election held as part of the 2022 New Zealand local elections. Progress results were released on the 8 October. Preliminary results released on 9 October. Official and final results were released on 15 October. Local board elections While many candidates were independents or stood for local parties, some stood for the centre-right Communities_and_Residents, Communities and Residents (C&R), the centre-left City Vision or the New_Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. According to preliminary results, C&R had a successful election, gaining control of the Waitematā local board from City Vision and also picking up control of Puketāpapa. Meanwhile Labour gained control of the Henderson-Massey local board. The hotly contested Albert-Eden local board remained deadlocked 4-4 between C&R and City Vision. Waitematā Local Board (7) Whau Local Board (7) Rodney Local Board Wellsford Subdivis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 New Zealand Local Elections
The 2022 New Zealand local elections were triennial elections held in New Zealand on Saturday 8 October 2022. Voting began by postal vote on 16 September and ended at noon on 8 October 2022. Election schedule Key dates relating to the general election were as follows: Issues Low candidate numbers In early August 2022, Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) and several local councils including Central Otago District Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Hastings District Council, Mackenzie District Council, Nelson City Council, Otago Regional Council, Environment Southland, Queenstown Lakes District Council, Rangitikei District Council, South Waikato District Council, and Rotorua Lakes Council expressed concern about the low number of candidates standing for wards, council seats, and mayoral offices. For example, the Mackenzie District Council reported only three nominations for a total of 19 vacancies. LGNZ President Stuart Crosby attributed the low number of candid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wood (New Zealand Politician)
George Sydney Wood (born 5 August 1946) is a former mayor of North Shore City and a former Auckland Councillor. He was the only North Shore City mayor to be elected for three terms and later represented North Shore ward on the Auckland Council between 2010 and 2016. He is now the Deputy Chair of the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board. Early life Wood was born in Birkenhead on Auckland's North Shore. He was educated at Birkdale Primary School, Northcote Intermediate School and Northcote College. Police career Wood originally worked for the New Zealand Police, primarily as a crime investigations manager. As a Police investigator, he worked on many inquiries and served at various times in Auckland, Rotorua and Palmerston North. In his final years of service (1995–98), he was the manager of Police services within North Shore City. A graduate of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Command and Staff College and the Australian Institute of Police Management Sydney from where he gained a ... [...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] |
Puketāpapa Local Board
The Puketāpapa 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 councilors. The Puketāpapa board, named after the Māori name for Mount Roskill, covers the suburbs of Hillsborough, Lynfield, Mount Roskill, Three Kings, Waikowhai, and Wesley. The board is governed by six board members elected at-large. The first board members were elected by the nationwide local elections, which were held on Saturday 9 October 2010. The Puketāpapa board collaborated closely with Beca on the Hinaki Eel Trap Bridge. Demographics Puketāpapa Local Board Area covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Puketāpapa Local Board Area had a population of 57,555 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 4,617 people (8.7%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 6,753 people (13.3%) since the 2006 census. There were 17,328 househol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waiheke Local Board
The Waiheke Local Board is one of the 21 local boards of the Auckland Council. It is one of three local board areas overseen by the Waitematā and Gulf Ward councillor. The local board area includes Waiheke Island, Rangitoto Island, Motutapu Island, Motokorea Island, Motuihe Island, Ponui Island and Rakino Island Rakino Island is one of the many islands in the Hauraki Gulf, an arm of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Auckland, New Zealand. Rakino is a small island north-east of Motutapu Island. The island is long and about wide and has an area of 1. .... Cath Handley is the current chair of the board. 2016-2019 term The 2016-2019 board consists of: * Cath Handley (chair) * Paul Walden (deputy chair) * Shirin Brown * John Meeuwsen * Bob Upchurch References {{Auckland Council local boards Local boards of the Auckland Region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valmaine Toki
Valmaine Toki is a New Zealand barrister and solicitor, and professor of law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Early life and education Professor Toki is a Māori woman, of Ngati Rehua, Ngati Wai, Ngāpuhi and Ngati Whatua descent iwi. In 2011, Professor Toki was the first New Zealander and first Måori appointed by the President of the UN Economic and Social Council as an independent expert on the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues where she served two terms of three years. Her recent appointment, in 2022, by the president of the UN Human Rights Council to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Issues, as the first Måori and first New Zealander builds on this role. She studied law at the University of Auckland, followed by a master's degree as an He Ture Pumau Scholar in business administration at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her master's focused on marine resource management. She also completed her LLM at the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aotea / Great Barrier Local Board
Aotea / Great Barrier Local Board is one of the 21 local boards of the Auckland Council, and is represented by the council's Waitematā and Gulf Ward Waitematā and Gulf Ward is an Auckland Council ward which elects one councillor and covers the Great Barrier, Waiheke, and Waitematā Local Boards. The current councillor is Mike Lee. Demographics Waitematā and Gulf ward covers and had an e ... councillor. The board's administrative area covers whole of the Great Barrier Island. The board is governed by five board members elected at-large. The inaugural members were elected in the nationwide 2010 local elections, coinciding with the introduction of the Auckland Council. 2022-25 term The board's term currently runs from the 2022 Local Body Elections to the local body elections in 2025. The current board members are: :Izzy Fordham (Chair), Independent :Patrick O'Shea (Deputy Chair), Independent :Neil Sanderson, Independent :Chris Ollivier, Independent :Laura Caine, None ... [...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] |
Sandra Coney
Sandra Lorraine Coney (née Pearce, born 22 October 1944) is a New Zealand local-body politician, writer, feminist, historian, and women's health campaigner. Early life and family Coney was born in Auckland on 22 October 1944, the daughter of Doris Margaret Pearce (née Morgan) and Tom Pearce. Her father chaired the Auckland Regional Council from 1965 to 1976 and was a New Zealand Rugby Football Union administrator. Coney was educated at Auckland Girls' Grammar School, and went on to study at the University of Auckland, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree. Activist career She is best known for her co-authorship (with Phillida Bunkle) of a ''Metro'' magazine article that alleged that women had been experimented on, without their consent, at National Women's Hospital in Auckland. The article, titled 'The Unfortunate Experiment', led to the controversial Cartwright Inquiry, which confirmed the article's allegations. The article and the subsequent inquiry are seen as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future West
Future West is a centre-left political ticket which contests the local elections in West Auckland, New Zealand. It was formed in 2010 by former Waitakere city councillor Greg Presland and with the intention of "keeping community assets like libraries, pools and water in community control" and ensuring "safer streets, local jobs, better public transport and to see the Eco-City values spread across the region". In 2016, the Future West ticket won all six seats on the Waitākere Ranges Local Board Waitākere Ranges 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 Waitākere Ward councillors. The board's administrative area includes the suburbs of Titirangi, Glen ..., two seats on the Portage Licensing Trust and one seat on Waitakere licensing trust. Greg Presland was elected the chair of the local board. In 2018, board member Denise Yates, also a former Waitakere City councillor, died at the age of 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Turner (New Zealand Politician)
Ken Turner is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor. In 2022, Turner was elected as one of two councillors representing the Waitākere ward. Early life Turner is a fourth-generation West Aucklander, growing up in Titirangi. He has worked as a motor mechanic since 1975. Turner's workshop in Woodlands Park was the site of the former bus depot for Laingholm bus services. Political career Turner ran unsuccessfully for the Waitākere Ranges Local Board in the 2013 Auckland local board elections, and in the 2016 Auckland local elections ran unsuccessfully for the position of Waitākere ward councillor. Turner was elected to the Waitākere Ranges Local Board Waitākere Ranges 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 Waitākere Ward councillors. The board's administrative area includes the suburbs of Titirangi, Glen ... in 2018 after a by-election caused by the death of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitākere Ranges Local Board
Waitākere Ranges 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 Waitākere Ward councillors. The board's administrative area includes the suburbs of Titirangi, Glen Eden and Konini and the towns of Te Henga (Bethells Beach), Piha, Karekare, Huia and Laingholm, and covers the area from Waitākere Ranges to O'Neill Bay. The total population residing in the board's area, in the 2013 New Zealand census, was 48,396. The board is governed by six board members elected at-large. The inaugural members were elected in the nationwide 2010 local elections, coinciding with the introduction of the Auckland Council. Demographics Waitākere Ranges Local Board Area covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Waitākere Ranges Local Board Area had a population of 52,095 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 3,696 people (7.6%) since the 2013 census ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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