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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  • Why are voter turnouts for local elections so low?
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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.

Sources

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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