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Territorial authorities (Māori: mana ā-rohe) are a tier of local government in New Zealand, alongside regional councils.There are 67 territorial authorities: 13 city councils, 53 district councils and the Chatham Islands Council. [1]
Although in 2006 Māori formed 14.6% of New Zealand's population, [19] a Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) survey found that 12% of candidates not elected at the October 2007 local elections were Māori and only 8% of winning candidates were Māori.
It encompasses a portion of Ontario previously included in the electoral districts of Chatham-Kent—Essex and Essex and Lambton—Kent—Middlesex. [ 2 ] Chatham-Kent—Leamington was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order.
The model of local government introduced after New Zealand became a British colony in 1840 had nothing in common with the tribal system practised by Māori. [2] The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, a British Act of Parliament, established six provinces in New Zealand—Auckland, New Plymouth (later to be renamed Taranaki), Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago—based on the six original ...
An electorate or electoral district (Māori: rohe pōti [1]) is a geographic constituency used for electing a member (MP) to the New Zealand Parliament. [2] The size of electorates is determined such that all electorates have approximately the same electoral population. Before 1996, all MPs were directly chosen for office by the voters of an ...
The first four Māori electorates were established for special elections in 1868, during the term of the fourth parliament.These four seats remained until the country's change to a mixed-member proportional system in 1996, when a large number of general electorate seats were changed as well.
Pages in category "Districts of New Zealand" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... This page was last edited on 7 November 2022, at 21:12 ...
46.7 NZ-TKI: 8 Manawatū-Whanganui: Horizons Regional Council: 12 Palmerston North: North 22,221 8,580 263,300 11.85 30.7 NZ-MWT: 9 Wellington Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara: Greater Wellington Regional Council: 13 Wellington: North 8,049 3,108 550,600 68.41 177.2 NZ-WGN: 10 Tasman [a] Te Tai-o-Aorere: Tasman District Council: 13 Richmond: South: 9,616 ...