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A lawyer acting for Paul Eagle's campaign team says the Wellington mayoral candidate's billboards do not breach electoral requirements and has requested st

Wellington mayoral candidate and Labour MP Paul Eagle has been asked to remove digital billboards until the formal election hoarding period starts in two months.

C&R retains its clean sweep of the trust which owns lines company Vector, but turnout hits single figures

Janine Rankin/Stuff The turnout in Palmerston North's by-election was only 27 per cent, but that was nearly double that for Rangitīkei’s southern ward. Candidates in two local body by-elections plagued by low voter turnout say educating people about the importance of councils and increasing publicity about voting could help stop the rot. By-elections were held in Rangitīkei’s southern ward and Palmerston North in February, and each attracted few voters. In the Rangitīkei ward, just 447 votes were cast, a turnout of 15.1 per cent, which could be a New Zealand record low. The by-electi...

Coral Raukawa takes out Rangitīkei District Council byelection 17 Feb, 2021 04:30 AM 4 minutes to read Results for the Rangitīkei District Council Southern Ward byelection were published this afternoon. Photo / File Preliminary results show Marton-based Coral Raukawa has won the Rangitīkei District Council Southern Ward byelection, with historically low voter turnout. The council released the preliminary result shortly before 1pm on Tuesday, which showed Raukawa had received 245 votes, or 60.7 per cent of the total vote. Her only opponent, 24-year-old Cian O'Gorman, received 152 votes, or ...