Votes returned as at the end of 3rd October 2022
- New Zealand = 21%
- North Island = 17%
- South Island = 25%
- Top 5 (from the publicly available data) are all South Island Councils:
- Kaikōura District Council = 37%
- Westland District Council = 36%
- Waimate District Council = 35%
- Grey District Council = 34%
- Gore District Council = 33%
- Bottom 5 (from the publicly available data) are all North Island Councils:
- Auckland Council = 17%
- Hastings District Council = 16% (only 1 candidate for mayor)
- Wellington City Council = 15%
- Hutt City Council = 14%
- Tauranga/BOP Regional Council = 13% (still being run by Government-appointed commissioners so there is no vote for mayor)
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Key question
- Why are voter turnouts for local elections so low?
- Is there a better voting system?
- Have you voted?
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Bonus insights
- 4 mayoral elections are uncontested in 2022 due to only 1 candidate:
- Central Hawke’s Bay District Council
- Central Otago District Council
- Hastings District Council
- Hurunui District Council
(6 mayoral elections were uncontested in 2019)
- Richard Osmaston is running for mayor in 6 different council elections. See https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-government/129562656/meet-the-nelson-man-running-to-be-the-mayor-of-six-councils.
- Voting system:
- 57 Councils use FPP (First Past the Post)
- 10 Councils use STV (Single Transferable Voting)
- At the 2020 general election, voter turnout was 81.5% – almost twice as high as for 2019 local elections
- See https://thefacts.nz/social/south-islanders-vote-more-than-north-islanders/ for more insights from the final 2019 local election results
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Full data
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Notes
- All publicly available data has been included.
- The data reflects postal votes returned to date, so there will still be other completed votes in:
- The mail
- Ballot boxes
- Data sources:
- electionz.com is a leading election management services company, with contracts to manage 46 local authority elections. They haven’t shared Chatham Islands data, though, so that makes 45.
- We also added Auckland Council votes returned as listed on their website.
- Combined, this is 46/67 local authorities (69%), but 80% of total electors (based on 2019 elector populations). In other words, only 20% of the weighting is not showing in our data.
- We tried to find publicly published data for other local authorities, but didn’t find any.
- “Tauranga CC / Bay of Plenty Regional Council” was called the “Tauranga District Council” in 2019 data, so it appears there has been a change in names.
- All numbers are provisional and subject to revision.
Thank you to the Factors who helped pull this together.
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Sources
- 46 various councils https://www.electionz.com/lge2022_landing/index.html
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Licensed for use under the creative commons attribution licence (BY) 4.0
- Auckland City Council https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/elections/Documents/daily-vote-count-report.pdf
- Local Authority Election Statistics https://www.dia.govt.nz/Services-Local-Elections-Local-Authority-Election-Statistics-2019#three
- General Election Voter Turnout Statistics https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/historical-events/2020-general-election-and-referendums/voter-turnout-statistics-for-the-2020-general-election/
Data published by The Department of Internal Affairs, and the Electoral Commission(c) Crown Copyright
Licensed for use under the creative commons attribution licence (BY) 4.0
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