The 2019 Nelson mayoral election was part of the
New Zealand local elections that were held on 12 October 2019 to elect the
Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand
The mayor of Nelson is the head of the municipal government of Nelson, New Zealand, and presides over the Nelson City Council. The mayor is directly elected using a single transferable vote electoral system. The current mayor is Nick Smith, wh ...
.
Key dates
Key dates for the election were:
*1 July: Electoral Commission enrolment campaign starts.
*19 July: Nominations open for candidates. Rolls open for inspection.
*16 August: Nominations close at 12 noon. Rolls close.
*21 August: Election date and candidates' names announced.
*20 to 25 September: Voting documents delivered to households. Electors can post the documents back to electoral officers as soon as they have voted.
*12 October: Polling day. Voting documents must be at council before voting closes at 12 noon. Preliminary results will be available as soon as all ordinary votes are counted.
*17 to 23 October: Official results, including all valid ordinary and special votes, declared.
Candidates
Declared candidates
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Mel Courtney
Melvyn Francis Courtney (born 2 October 1943) is a Nelson City Councillor and a former Labour then Independent Member of Parliament for Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Early life and family
Courtney was born in Christchurch on 2 Oc ...
,
Nelson City Council
Nelson City Council is a unitary local authority. It has its headquarters in Nelson.
History
Nelson City Council was created in 1992.
Local governance of Nelson began with Nelson Province in 1853, which covered the entire upper South Island. ...
lor and former
Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
MP
*Bill Dahlberg, Nelson City Councillor
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Rachel Reese
Rachel Hadley Reese (born ) is a New Zealand local-body politician. She was the mayor of Nelson from 2013 to 2022. She was Nelson's first female mayor.
Early life and education
Reese was born in Mosgiel and grew up in Dunedin. She attended St ...
, incumbent Mayor of Nelson
*Tim Skinner, Nelson City Councillor
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Mike Ward, former Nelson City Councillor and
List MP
A list MP is a member of parliament (MP) elected from a party list rather than from by a geographical constituency. The place in Parliament is due to the number of votes that the party won, not to votes received by the MP personally. This occurs ...
, candidate for mayor in 1986, 1989, 2007, and 2010
*John Wakelin
*Avner Nahmias
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Results
References
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2019 elections in New Zealand
Mayoral elections in New Zealand
Politics of Nelson, New Zealand