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Mayors in New Zealand are directly elected—at-large, by all eligible voters within a territorial authority—in the local elections to a three-year term. [29] The Local Government Act 2002 defines the role of a mayor as having to provide leadership to the other elected members of the territorial authority, be a leader in the community and ...
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 ...
New Zealand is divided into sixteen regions for local government purposes. Eleven are administered by regional councils, and five are administered by unitary authorities , which are territorial authorities that also perform the functions of regional councils.
Nine local authorities determined to establish Māori wards ahead of the 2022 New Zealand local elections (Whangarei District Council, Kaipara District Council, Northland Regional Council, Tauranga City Council, Gisborne District Council, Ruapehu District Council, Taupō District Council, New Plymouth District Council, and South Taranaki ...
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 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 list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Ontario provincial electoral districts each elect one representative to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. [1] They are MPPs, Members of Provincial Parliament. Before 2025, these districts were coterminous with the federal electoral districts, based on the 2013 Representation Order as defined by Elections Canada .