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Territorial authorities (Māori: mana ā-rohe) are a tier of local government in New Zealand, alongside regional councils, which administer the districts and cities of New Zealand. There are 67 territorial authorities: 13 city councils , 53 district councils and the Chatham Islands Council . [ 1 ]
The regional councils are listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Local Government Act 2002, [4] along with reference to the Gazette notices that established them in 1989. [5] The Act requires regional councils to promote sustainable development – the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of their communities. [6]
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 ...
English: Map of the Territorial Authorities of New Zealand overlayed with Regional Council areas, including the Chatham Islands in an inset. Territorial Authorities, Regional Councils and text labels are in three separate layers. Map created with GIS data from StatsNZ (Retrieved March 2017).
Population ratios were such that the council was able to establish three Māori constituencies. The introduction of Māori wards and constituencies was supported by the Labour, Alliance, and Green parties, it was opposed by the conservative National Party, the populist New Zealand First Party, and the libertarian ACT Party.
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The first municipal council to bear the title of "city council" was the Auckland City Council formed in 1854 by act of the Auckland Provincial Council. [13] Following the election of an anti-taxation superintendent in March 1855, William Brown , the Auckland City Council was dissolved and formally disestablished 1856. [ 9 ]
The West Coast region covers 23,245.52 km 2 (8,975.15 sq mi) [2] and has an estimated population of 34,800 as of June 2024, 0.7% of New Zealand's population. It is the least populous of New Zealand's sixteen regions. [3] The West Coast is also the most sparsely populated region, with just 1.50 people per square kilometre (3.88 per square mile).