T\u0101maki Makaurau is recording the lowest voter turnouts in the country, with one day left of local elections to go.<\/p>\n
According to statistics from Local Government New Zealand, 983,466 votes had been received around the country as of October 9, which represented 28.49% of all eligible votes.<\/p>\n
This figure excluded voting results for Chatham Islands and regional councils.<\/p>\n
Auckland had the lowest voting percentage of 21.8%, followed by Hamilton City with 22.98% and Porirua City with 25.11%.<\/p>\n
According to Auckland Council figures, 261,500 votes had been cast, out of 1,195,533 eligible voters.<\/p>\n
Council Governance and Engagement general manager Lou-Ann Ballantyne encouraged people to go vote, if they had not yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is your last chance to choose who represents you,\u201d Ballantyne said.<\/p>\n
\u201cVote today or let someone else choose Auckland’s representatives for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councils with the highest voting percentage were Buller District (45.75%), followed by Mackenzie District (45.07%) and Gore District (44.69%).<\/p>\n
In Auckland, \u014ctara-Papatoetoe (\u014ctara) had the lowest voter turnout in the region, with 16.2% votes cast. M\u0101ngere-\u014ct\u0101huhu, Papakura and Howick (Flat Bush) also had low voter numbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you still need to pick up voting papers, our teams are out and about today [Friday] to help you cast a special vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ballantyne said that at midnight on Friday, election signs and hoardings should be taken down, and the council\u2019s compliance team would be monitoring any breaches of the rules.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re really pleased with all our efforts in helping Aucklanders vote and if they choose not to, we can only assume they’re comfortable with how things currently are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Voting boxes across the country will be sealed shut at noon on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Progress results will be released after 3pm, which would reflect 80% to 90% of all votes.<\/p>\n
Preliminary results would be released on Monday October 13, and the final official results declared on Friday, October 17.<\/p>\n
LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u0101maki Makaurau is recording the lowest voter turnouts in the country, with one day left of local elections…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-69562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69562","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=69562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}