{"id":128720,"date":"2025-11-11T00:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128720\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T00:40:16","slug":"local-elections-court-grants-recount-in-porirua-maori-ward-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/128720\/","title":{"rendered":"Local elections: Court grants recount in Porirua M\u0101ori ward seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEvery person who voted, including my own tamariki and the rangatahi of our community, deserves to know their voice was heard, counted, and respected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis recount is about accountability and integrity, making sure our processes reflect the values we teach our tamariki: honesty, fairness, and courage to ask questions when something doesn\u2019t feel right,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the council said the court ruled that Te Huia \u201chas an objective and credible basis for believing that the results were incorrect, so the application for a recount was granted\u201d.<\/p>\n

The recount will take place on Thursday. <\/p>\n

The council is unable to schedule its inaugural meeting until final rulings on the recount. Then, it is required to give a seven-day notice period before the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is likely to be late November at the earliest\u201d.<\/p>\n

Porirua Mayor-elect Anita Baker said she is \u201cpleased we will finally have some closure and can move on and get sworn in\u201d.<\/p>\n

The people of Porirua voted in last month\u2019s election to retain the city\u2019s M\u0101ori ward, 11,775 votes to 5,240. The ward was first established in 2021.<\/p>\n

Ethan Manera<\/a> is a Wellington-based journalist covering Wellington issues, local politics and business in the capital. He can be emailed at ethan.manera@nzme.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cEvery person who voted, including my own tamariki and the rangatahi of our community, deserves to know their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[89210,74,19956,7558,1349,7557,7797,2993,78,7240,440,2720,111,43,139,69,19719,29462,13992,89209,7248,210,5905,19791,18457],"class_list":["post-128720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-11vote","tag-after","tag-candidate","tag-councils","tag-court","tag-district","tag-elections","tag-grants","tag-in","tag-lead","tag-local","tag-mori","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ordered","tag-porirua","tag-recount","tag-scraped","tag-seat","tag-through","tag-vote","tag-ward","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}