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List Of By-elections To The Auckland Council
By-elections to the Auckland Council occur to fill vacant seats in the Council. The death, resignation, bankruptcy or expulsion of a sitting Councillor can cause a by-election to occur. List of by-elections The following is a list of by-elections held to fill vacancies on the Auckland Council: Key 2011 by-election, Howick ward 2018 by-election, Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward 2018 by-election, Howick ward References {{DEFAULTSORT:By-elections to the Auckland Council Auckland Council Auckland Council New Zealand, Auckland Council New Zealand politics-related lists ... [...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] |
Ward (electoral Subdivision)
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to the area (e.g. William Morris Ward in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England). It is common in the United States for wards to simply be numbered. Origins The word “ward”, for an electoral subdivision, appears to have originated in the Wards of the City of London, where gatherings for each ward known as “wardmotes” have taken place since the 12th century. The word was much later applied to divisions of other cities and towns in England and Wales and Ireland. In parts of northern England, a ''ward'' was an administrative subdivision of a county, very similar to a hundred in other parts of England. Present day In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, wards are an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howick Ward
Howick Ward is an Auckland Council ward which elects two councillors and covers the Howick Local Board. Sharon Stewart and Maurice Williamson are the current councillors. Demographics Howick ward covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Howick ward had a population of 140,970 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 13,845 people (10.9%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 27,465 people (24.2%) since the 2006 census. There were 43,587 households, comprising 69,399 males and 71,568 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.97 males per female. The median age was 37.3 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 27,279 people (19.4%) aged under 15 years, 28,542 (20.2%) aged 15 to 29, 66,066 (46.9%) aged 30 to 64, and 19,086 (13.5%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 46.0% European/Pākehā, 5.7% Māori, 5.7% Pacific peoples, 46.5% Asian, and 3.9% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jami-Lee Ross
Jami-Lee Matenga Ross (born 1985) is a New Zealand former politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Botany electorate in Auckland from the March 2011 Botany by-election, when he became the youngest MP at the time, until 2020. He was previously a local government politician on the Auckland Council and, before that, was on the Manukau City Council from the age of 18. Elected as a member of the National Party, Ross resigned from the party's caucus on 16 October 2018 after he accused National leader Simon Bridges of corruption. Ross has been accused of harassment and bullying behaviour toward staff. He sat in Parliament as an independent. Ross announced the establishment of a new political party, Advance New Zealand, in 2020. At the 2020 election, none of the party's candidates won an electorate seat and the party received less than 1% of the party vote, meaning Ross lost his seat in Parliament. Early life Ross was brought up by his grandmother as his mother was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Quax
Theodorus Jacobus Leonardus "Dick" Quax (1 January 1948 – 28 May 2018) was a Dutch-born New Zealand runner, one-time world record holder in the 5000 metres, and local-body politician. Quax stood for Parliament for the ACT Party in 1999 and 2002. He was a Manukau City councillor from 2001 to 2007, when he stood unsuccessfully for mayor, and was a councillor on the Auckland Council from 2011 until his death in 2018. Athletic career Quax won four New Zealand national athletics titles: the 5000 m in 1972, 1973, and 1974; and the one mile in 1969. At the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, Quax won the silver medal in the 1500 metres. In the 5000 m, at the 1972 Summer Olympics he was eliminated in the heats, but he won silver in 1976. He did not compete in 1980 in Moscow due to the West's boycott. In 1977 at Stockholm Quax set a world record of 13:12.9 in the 5000 m. This record stood for less than a year, but as a national record it stood for over 31 years, until beaten by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Lee
Denise Adrienne Lee (previously Denise Krum; born 4 December 1970) is a New Zealand politician who was the National Party's Member of Parliament for the Maungakiekie electorate from 2017 to 2020. She was previously an Auckland Council local body councillor. Early years Lee was born in Paeroa in 1970 and is the daughter of Graeme Lee, who was also a Member of Parliament. She was married and known as Denise Krum during the start of her political career, before returning to her maiden name following the 2016 local election. During the 2008 general election, Lee stood in Maungakiekie for United Future. Lee was President of United Future at the time. She later left United Future and joined the New Zealand National Party. She stood on the party list during the 2011 election but was not ranked high enough to be elected. Auckland Council Lee was elected to the Auckland Council as a Communities & Residents candidate at the 2013 elections, defeating incumbent and forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Bartley
Josephine Ruth Bartley is a New Zealand politician who is an Auckland Councillor. Political career Bartley was the Labour Party candidate for electorate in , finishing second. Bartley was elected to the Maungakiekie-Tamaki Local Board in the 2010 local elections and re-elected in 2013 and 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri .... Bartley was the chair of the board from 2016-2018. In February 2018 she was elected as councillor representing the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki ward on the Auckland Council in a by-election following the resignation of councillor Denise Lee. Bartley is the first Pacific woman to be elected to Auckland Council. In the 2019 local body elections, Bartley was re-elected, growing her majority from 7225 to 8358. In November 2021, Bartle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Young (politician)
Paul Young is a New Zealand politician who was an Auckland Councillor and a board member of the Counties Manukau District Health Board. Early life and education Then aged 25, Young immigrated from Taiwan in 1989. The councillor operates his own business "Paul Young International", which operates events around New Zealand. He studied marketing at the University of Auckland and is married with two children. Political career Young contested the 2011 Botany by-election under the New Citizen Party and came third. He later contested the Botany seat in the 2011 general election and 2014 general election, while affiliated to the Conservative Party. Young was unsuccessful in his attempts. He then ran again unsuccessfully to be Howick ward councillor in the 2016 Auckland local elections. He was elected to Auckland Council in a 2018 by-election, replacing the late Dick Quax in the Howick ward. Young was Auckland's first Chinese councillor. The politician was then re-el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Bright
Penny Bright (8 September 1954 – 4 October 2018) was a New Zealand activist who protested for increased government transparency, against the Spring Bok tour, and for other left-wing issues. Biography Bright studied at Kuranui College, and organised Halt All Racist Tours while she was a high school student. Following high school, Bright worked as a sheet-metal welder and as a welding tutor at Manukau Polytechnic. In 1998, Bright and others founded the Water Pressure Group. The Water Pressure Group was formed to challenge Auckland City Council's water company Metrowater and its use of user pays charges. In 2000, Bright and the Water Pressure Group attempted to hose the Bolivian embassy in Remuera using a vintage firetruck in protest against locked-out workers in Bolivia. Bright was arrested multiple times during her time as an activist, and by 2010 she had been arrested 22 times. Two notable arrests were when she was forcibly removed from two different Auckland City Council m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation of all newspapers in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. Its main circulation area is the Auckland region. It is also delivered to much of the upper North Island including Northland, Waikato and King Country. History ''The New Zealand Herald'' was founded by William Chisholm Wilson, and first published on 13 November 1863. Wilson had been a partner with John Williamson in the ''New Zealander'', but left to start a rival daily newspaper as he saw a business opportunity with Auckland's rapidly growing population. He had also split with Williamson because Wilson supported the war against the Māori (which the ''Herald'' termed "the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damian Light
Damian Francis Light (born 31 October 1983) is a New Zealand politician who was the leader of the United Future party from August 2017 until the party's dissolution in November 2017. He became party leader following the resignation of Peter Dunne. Light had previously served as the president of the party. He was the first openly gay leader of a political party in New Zealand. Light later entered local politics, and in 2022 became the Chair of the Howick Local Board. Personal life Light was born and raised in Auckland. He attended Rosmini College in Takapuna. He currently lives in Botany Downs, Auckland, with his partner, Josh Harding. He works as an improvement analyst at AsureQuality, and previously worked as a line manager at KiwiRail. Political career Light stated that he was motivated to become involved in politics at the 2002 general election after seeing Peter Dunne's memorable television debate with the "worm". He first stood for parliament at the 2008 general elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
