{"id":481042,"date":"2026-06-17T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/481042\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:18:09","slug":"bay-of-plenty-byelection-to-fill-councillor-malcolm-campbells-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/481042\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty byelection to fill councillor Malcolm Campbell\u2019s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAlong with the rollout of the Government\u2019s Simplifying Local Government programme, there are still important regional decisions that will be required to be made and we still have significant responsibilities to deliver for our communities and environment. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Malcolm Campbell died on May 21. Photo \/ Ben Fraser \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Malcolm Campbell died on May 21. Photo \/ Ben Fraser <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s important those decisions continue to be made with full representation in place.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Electoral officer Warwick Lampp said anyone interested should take the time now to find out more about the role and make sure their nomination was submitted on time. Nominations are due before July 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\"> \u201cWe encourage people to get them in early so we can make sure all the information that\u2019s provided is correct and meets the requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Candidate information and nomination forms will be available on the council\u2019s website from June 18 at <a href=\"https:\/\/url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/xiUUCoVzpRuV479XFouLcpf3bG?domain=bayofplentyregionalcouncil.cmail20.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/xiUUCoVzpRuV479XFouLcpf3bG?domain=bayofplentyregionalcouncil.cmail20.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.boprc.govt.nz\/elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">If more than one nomination is received, a voting process will be triggered, with voter packs delivered from August 24 through the post. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Voting will close at midday on September 25, with preliminary results expected soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAlong with the rollout of the Government\u2019s Simplifying Local Government programme, there are still important regional decisions that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,1561,7244,15555,74701,5205,38290,634,20833,14236,57638,111,139,69,1118,1562,5914,7248,213,61,147994,1533],"class_list":["post-481042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-bay","tag-byelection","tag-campbell","tag-campbells","tag-council","tag-councillor","tag-death","tag-fill","tag-held","tag-malcolm","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-plenty","tag-regional","tag-seat","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-vacated","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481042","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=481042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}