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2022 Auckland Local Elections
The 2022 Auckland local elections took place between September and October 2022 by postal vote as part of nation-wide local elections. The elections were the fifth since the merger of seven councils into the Auckland Council, which is composed of the mayor and 20 councillors, and 149 members of 21 local boards. Thirty-five members of 5 licensing trusts were also elected. Mayoral election The incumbent mayor, Phil Goff, did not stand for re-election. Wayne Brown was elected mayor. Governing body elections Twenty members were elected to the Auckland Council, across thirteen wards, using the first past the post vote system. The final candidate list was released on 16 August. Provisional results were announced on 8 October. Preliminary results were released on 9 October. Official and final results were released on 15 October. Rodney ward (1) Incumbent Greg Sayers was re-elected. Albany ward (2) Incumbents Walker and Watson were re-elected. North Shore ward (2) Incumbents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland Council
Auckland Council ( mi, Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau) is the local government council for the Auckland Region in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority that has the responsibilities, duties and powers of a regional council and so is a unitary authority, according to the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009, which established the council. The governing body consists of a mayor and 20 councillors, elected from 13 wards. There are also 149 members of 21 local boards who make decisions on matters local to their communities. It is the largest council in Oceania, with a $3 billion annual budget, $29 billion of ratepayer equity, and 9,870 full-time staff as of 30 June 2016. The council began operating on 1 November 2010, combining the functions of the previous regional council and the region's seven city and district councils into one "super council" or "super city". The council was established by a number of Acts of Parliament, and an Auckland Transition Agency, als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitākere Ward
Waitākere Ward is a district of Auckland Council in New Zealand. It consists of the part of the old Waitakere City lying west of a line from Te Atatū Peninsula to Titirangi. The ward elects two councillors, currently Shane Henderson and Ken Turner, who have oversight of its two local boards, Henderson-Massey and Waitākere Ranges. Demographics Waitākere ward covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Waitākere ward had a population of 170,514 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 14,433 people (9.2%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 26,226 people (18.2%) since the 2006 census. There were 52,704 households, comprising 84,312 males and 86,205 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.98 males per female. The median age was 34.1 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 38,010 people (22.3%) aged under 15 years, 36,177 (21.2%) aged 15 to 29, 78,606 (46.1%) aged 30 to 64, and 17,724 (10.4%) aged 65 or old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa Ward
The Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa Ward is an Auckland Council ward which elects two councillors and covers the Albert-Eden Local Board, Albert-Eden and Puketāpapa Local Board, Puketāpapa Local Boards. Currently the councillors are Christine Fletcher and Julie Fairey. Prior to 2019, this ward was known as the Albert-Eden-Roskill Ward. Demographics Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward (then called Albert-Eden-Roskill) had a population of 156,177 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 8,544 people (5.8%) since the 2013 New Zealand census, 2013 census, and an increase of 14,397 people (10.2%) since the 2006 New Zealand census, 2006 census. There were 49,356 households, comprising 77,505 males and 78,672 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.99 males per female. The median age was 34.0 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 26,808 people (17.2%) aged under 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Mulholland
Tracy Mulholland is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor. Political career In the early 1990s, Mulholland was the marketing manager for LynnMall. In the 2000s, she worked for the Manukau City Council, Waitakere City Council and Auckland, Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED). Between 2010 and 2016, Mulholland was the general manager of the New Lynn Business Association. In 2016, Mulholland campaigned as the New Zealand Labour Party candidate for the Whau Local Board, becoming the board chairman. In June 2019, Mulholland cut ties with the Labour Party, joining the right-leaning local body ticket Communities and Residents. In the 2019 local body elections, Mulholland was elected the Whau ward counsellor, receiving 5,853 votes, narrowly beating her competitor Ross Clow from the Labour Party. Mulholland lost the 2022 elections to Labour Party candidate Kerrin Leoni Kerrin Leoni is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor. In 2022 ... [...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] |
Kerrin Leoni
Kerrin Leoni is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor. In 2022, Leoni was elected as the Whau ward councillor. Early life Leoni is of Māori (Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāi Takoto, and Ngāti Kurī) and European (Italian and Irish) descent. Leoni has a master's degree, completed in 2007, from Auckland University of Technology. Her thesis was on young Māori children leaving foster care in New Zealand. Leoni spent 10 years of her life living in London, where she ran a contracting business and was a member of the cultural group Ngāti Rānana. She returned to New Zealand in the mid-2010s. Political career Leoni was elected to the Waitematā Local Board in 2019 on the City Vision ticket. She served as deputy chair for the first half of the term. On 23 February 2020, Leoni was selected as Labour's candidate for the electorate for the , officially launching her campaign in August. Despite a strong pro-Labour swing, Leoni lost to the incumbent National MP Tim van de Molen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whau Ward
Whau Ward is an Auckland Council ward which elects one councillor and covers the Whau Local Board. The current councillor is Kerrin Leoni. Demographics Whau ward covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Whau ward had a population of 79,356 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 6,762 people (9.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 10,185 people (14.7%) since the 2006 census. There were 24,675 households, comprising 39,639 males and 39,717 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.0 males per female. The median age was 34.4 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 15,000 people (18.9%) aged under 15 years, 18,480 (23.3%) aged 15 to 29, 36,252 (45.7%) aged 30 to 64, and 9,624 (12.1%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 40.4% European/Pākehā, 9.9% Māori, 18.7% Pacific peoples, 40.3% Asian, and 3.9% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. The percentage of people born overseas w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Coom
Pippa Coom is a New Zealand politician, who is a former councillor on the Auckland Council and former chair of the Waitematā Local Board. Early life Previous to succeeding in her bid for a Local Board seat, she worked as a lawyer for Vector, and campaigned unsuccessfully for a seat on the Board of the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust. Political career Coom was elected in 2010 on the City Vision ticket. She was re-elected in 2013, getting the highest number of votes of all candidates in her board area. Coom was again re-elected to the Waitematā Local Board at the 2016 Auckland elections, and became chair of the board. Among her interests, she supports increased cycling for transport in Auckland, and has been involved in organizing events such as the 'Cycle Style Gala' with Cycle Action Auckland, and was a coordinator for Frocks on Bikes women cycling events. She is also involved in environmental groups like Grey Lynn 2030. In March 2019, it was announced that Coom wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Vision (Auckland 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Lee (New Zealand Politician)
Michael Lee is a New Zealand local government politician. He has been the Councillor for Waitematā and Gulf on Auckland Council since October 2022, an office he previously held from 2010 to 2019. He was a member of the Auckland Regional Council from 1992 to 2010 and was its final Chair from 2004 to 2010. Political career Auckland Regional Council Lee was first elected to the Auckland Regional Council as an Alliance candidate in a by-election in 1992. He was re-elected as a councillor at every election thereafter until the regional council's dissolution in 2010. He held the position of parks chairman (the council managed a number of regional parks), and oversaw the acquisition of substantial further parkland by the council during his time. He succeeded in opposing the privatisation of Ports of Auckland. He wrote his MSc thesis on such matters as land titles on Hauraki Gulf islands. In 2004 he was elected as chair of the regional council and held that position until 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitemata And Gulf Ward , a basketball team base ...
Waitemata or Waitematā may refer to: * Waitematā Harbour, the primary harbour of Auckland, New Zealand * Waitematā (local board area), a local government area in Auckland, New Zealand ** Waitematā Local Board, a local board of Auckland Council, formed in 2010 ** Waitematā and Gulf Ward, a Ward of Auckland Council including the above local board * ''Waitemata'' (ship), a Union Steam ship cargo boat used as a troop ship in World War One * Waitemata City, a historical local government area, merged into Waitakere City in 1989 * Waitemata (New Zealand electorate), a historical electorate from 1871 to 1946, and from 1954 to 1978 * Waitemata AFC, a football club based in Waitemata City * Waitemata Dolphins The Waitemata Dolphins were a New Zealand basketball team based in Auckland. The Dolphins competed in the National Basketball League (NBL) and played their home games at Auckland YMCA. Team history The Waitemata Dolphins were a foundation memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Cooper (politician)
Linda Ann Cooper is a New Zealand politician who has been a councillor on the Auckland Council since 2013. Political career Cooper served on the Waitakere Community Board for 4 years and Waitakere City Council for 2 terms. She has been an elected member on the Waitakere Licensing Trust since 2001 and the President since 2010. At the 2010 Auckland elections, Cooper stood for the Citizens & Ratepayers local-body ticket in the Albany ward. She finished sixth in the ward, and was not elected to the new Auckland Council. At the 2011 general parliamentary election, Cooper stood as a list-only candidate for the New Zealand National Party. Ranked at number 74 in the list, she was not elected to parliament. At the 2013 Auckland elections, Cooper was elected as a councillor for the Waitākere ward. She was one of two new centre-right candidates elected to the Auckland Council in 2013. In 2015 Cooper made controversial remarks on the Auckland Pride Festival Facebook page wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
