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2022 Hamilton Mayoral Election
The 2022 Hamilton mayoral election took place on 8 October 2022 to determine the Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand. For the first time, the election was held under the single transferable vote system. Incumbent mayor Paula Southgate was re-elected. Candidates Declared candidates * Lee Bloor * Lachlan Coleman *Jack Gielen, former deputy leader of The Republic of New Zealand Party and serial election candidate * Horiana Henderson * Riki Manarangi * Donna Pokere-Phillips, co-leader of the NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party *Paula Southgate, incumbent mayor *Geoff Taylor, deputy mayor Declined to be candidates *Louise Hutt, 2019 mayoral candidate *Angela O'Leary, city councillor *Ewan Wilson, city councillor Results Aftermath On 14 October 2022, Southgate named Angela O'Leary as deputy mayor. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton Mayoral Election, 2022 Politics of Hamilton, New Zealand Mayoral elections in New Zealand Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Southgate
Paula Anne Southgate is a New Zealand politician. She has held several positions in local government since 2001. In October 2019 she was elected the Mayor of Hamilton. Early life Southgate was born in 1963 or 1964 to Margaret Southgate and attended Hamilton Girls' High School and the University of Waikato. She worked as a teacher, a counsellor in the mental health sector, and served on two school boards of trustees. Local government Southgate served as a councillor on the Waikato Regional Council from 2001 to 2016. In 2013 she was elected to be the council chair over Bob Simcock, with the support of eight out of fourteen councillors. She ran to be mayor of Hamilton and a Hamilton City Councillor in the 2016 local elections but lost to Andrew King. The election was close, with an election-day margin of nine votes reduced to six votes after a judicial recount. However, she was elected as a city councillor from the East ward. In the 2019 local elections, she did not run for a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Hamilton, New Zealand
The mayor of Hamilton is the head of the municipal government of Hamilton, New Zealand, and presides over the Hamilton City Council. The incumbent is Paula Southgate, who was first elected in the 2019 local government elections. History Hamilton had East and West Town Boards until it was constituted under the Municipal Corporations Act 1876 on 24 December 1877 as a Borough Council, with a mayor. Mayoral elections were originally held annually but have been triennial since 1935. Elections were initially held in December, in April or May from 1901–1947, and have most recently taken place in October. In 1989, Evans was the first woman to be elected Mayor of Hamilton. Following her retirement in 1998, all subsequent incumbents were defeated at their next election until Julie Hardaker's 2013 re-election. List References Sources * Gibbons, P.J. (1977), ''Astride the River''. Published for the Hamilton City Council by Whitcoulls Limited, pp317–318 and Hamilton City Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single Transferable Vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate preferences if their preferred candidate is eliminated, so that their vote is used to elect someone they prefer over others in the running. STV aims to approach proportional representation based on votes cast in the district where it is used, so that each vote is worth about the same as another. Under STV, no one party or voting bloc can take all the seats in a district unless the number of seats in the district is very small or almost all the votes cast are cast for one party's candidates (which is seldom the case). This makes it different from other district voting systems. In majoritarian/plurality systems such as first-past-the-post (FPTP), instant-runoff voting (IRV; also known as the alternative vote), block voting, and ranked-vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Republic Of New Zealand Party
The Republic of New Zealand Party (RONZP or RNZP, or "The Republicans") is an unregistered New Zealand political party which seeks to end monarchy in New Zealand. It was a registered party from 2005 to 2009, contesting two general elections in that time and each time receiving the lowest share of the party vote. After deregistration, some members continued in politics under the party name, though since at least 2011 only one person, Jack Gielen, has contested elections under the name. Policies A 2005 ''New Zealand Herald'' article said: "The party's aim is simple: to cut all ties with the British monarchy and install a New Zealander as head of state. A president, elected at large by the citizens, would replace the Governor-General as a figurehead, with parliament continuing as normal." The party also sought to strip the Treaty of Waitangi of any constitutional status, replacing it with a new constitution. It also supported binding referendums, wanting to hold one every six mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Pokere-Phillips
Donna Marie Pokere-Phillips is a New Zealand politician known for her conspiracy-driven views. She is the co-leader of the NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party, and was their candidate in the 2022 Hamilton West by-election. She has also been an unsuccessful candidate in parliamentary elections for the Alliance (1999), The Opportunities Party (2017), and the Māori Party (Te Pāti Māori, 2020). In local politics she has made unsuccessful bids for Hamilton's mayoralty in 2022, and City Council seats in 2022 and 2021. Early life and education Pokere-Phillips (Tainui, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Taranaki) was born in Taranaki. She has a Master of Laws postgraduate degree from the University of Waikato, awarded in 2004. Career Alliance In the 1999 election, Pokere-Phillips stood for the Alliance in the seat of Port Waikato and as number 40 on the party list. As the party only won 10 seats, and she failed to win her electorate, Pokere-Phillips was not elected. The Opportunities Party In the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party
The New Zealand Outdoors & Freedom Party is a registered political party in New Zealand. The party is led by co-leaders Sue Grey and Donna Pokere-Phillips, and seeks to protect New Zealand's environment and "outdoors heritage". Principles and policies Founded as the New Zealand Outdoors Party, the party initially aimed to protect the environment and New Zealand's "outdoors heritage", and advocates for clean, full and unmodified rivers, greater protection from development for the conservation estate, large game animals to be managed by all hunters for recreation and conservation benefit, removal of ecologically destructive trawling practices within the inshore fishery and a Futures Commission to determine environmental limits to the growth of population, tourism, economy and infrastructure. Its policy platform later changed to include support for medicinal cannabis and opposition to the use of 1080 poison, vaccines, COVID-19 restrictions, and 5G technology. History Creation an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton City Council (New Zealand)
Hamilton City Council ( mi, Te kaunihera o Kirikiriroa) is the territorial authority for the New Zealand city of Hamilton. The council is led by the mayor of Hamilton, who is currently . There are also 14 ward councillors. Council elections are held every three years. Composition The council has three wards or constituencies. One Maaori ward covers the whole city and has two councillors, elected by voters on the Māori electoral roll. Two general wards, East and West, have six councillors each, elected by voters on the general electoral roll. The East and West wards cover half the city, with the boundary between the two being the Waikato River. The current council members are: History The current city council was formed as part of the 1989 local government reorganisation, which added parts of Waikato and Waipā counties to the previous city area. The original Hamilton borough had an area of . It now covers , which includes of Rototuna, Rotokauri and Peacocke added i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waikato Times
The ''Waikato Times'' is a daily newspaper published in Hamilton, New Zealand and owned by media business Stuff Ltd. It has a circulation to the greater Waikato region and became a tabloid paper in 2018. The newspaper has won the title of New Zealand Newspaper of the Year (in the category of up to 30,000 circulation) for two consecutive years: 2018 and 2019. History The ''Waikato Times'' started out as the tri-weekly ''Waikato Times and Thames Valley Gazette'', first published by George Jones on 2 May 1872 in Ngāruawāhia but moved to Hamilton in 1875. It was then managed by Messrs Langbridge, Silver, E. M. Edgecumbe, George Edgecumbe and J. S. Bond, who ran a book and stationery shop and changed the Times from tri-weekly to a penny daily in 1896, using Press Association news. For 20 years it competed with the ''Waikato Argus'', until the papers merged in 1915. The paper changed from afternoon to morning production from 5 September 2011, though had changed its Saturday i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics Of Hamilton, New Zealand
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with Decision-making, making decisions in Social group, groups, or other forms of Power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or Social status, status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayoral Elections In New Zealand
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