A total of 45 councils had imposed Maori wards after the Ardern government outlawed council votes on the issue in 2021.
One council, Kaipara, voted to disestablish its Maori ward when enabled to do so last year when the right to vote on the issue was restored.
Tauranga, a city that had commissioners instead of councillors, did not have a referendum this election, instead, gets vote on the issue in three years
Widespread rejection of imposed racially-divided voting was expected but the level of rejection was less than expected.
By comparison, votes on the issue from 2011 to 2018 showed that up to 80 percent of those who voted were opposed.
It looks like the heavy repetition of demonstrably false assertions like Maori wards are “good for democracy”, or, that they "allow Maori a seat at the table", often by public figures, have disguised the reality of this racially based voting set-up.
The other justification, that separate voting in local elections should necessarily mirror the Maori seats in Parliament, ignores the fact that separate Maori voting was introduced in 1867 as a short-term measure to enable equal voting for Maori men, and that measure was made redundant in 1893, when all men and women in New Zealand were given the right to vote.
Voter turnout of 31.61 percent in the current election, which was substantially lower than the 46 percent turnout in 2022, shows widespread apathy.
No-vote campaigner Hobson’s Pledge drew attention to campaigning by government entities to support Maori wards.
This included a direct link from the Electoral Commission’s website to a Local Government New Zealand page pushing Māori wards by asserting that they were “good for democracy”.
The Electoral Commission is required by law to remain neutral on who or what to vote for or against.
Hastings District Council used ratepayer-funds promoting Maori wards, as did the Western Bay of Plenty District Council.
Councils are required by law to remain neutral on who or what to vote for or against.
Hobson’s Pledge posted huge signs opposing Maori wards on commercial billboards. These featured the image of a Maori woman purchased from a stock image provider. The woman in the photo objected.
Hobson's Pledge replaced the photo but a bit of bullying and a few threats resulted in the billboard companies refusing to erect any more Hobson’s Pledge billboards.
Other campaigning on the issue was limited. In my region, there were a number of quite big "Keep our Maori ward" signs and I only saw one "No Maori ward" flyer, circulated by Hobson's Pledge, that was delivered to our letterbox.
The four councils in our area, Hawke's Bay, tried to promote their Maori wards but voters decided that they should be removed .
Included among the council areas who voted to keep Maori wards are urban areas with greater concentrations of university educated people who may have been required to attend a treaty seminar and who may have been employed subject to agreeing to implement treaty orthodoxy.
That orthodoxy is based on the version of the Treaty of Waitangi as revised by a Waitangi Tribunal member in the 1980s that comes with 11 footnotes that redefine key words in the treaty.
That, plus the repetition of key phrases in the mass media, is how we are being indoctrinated.
Having said that, 56 of New Zealand’s 78 council districts currently prefer not to have Maori wards.
Twenty four councils have just opted to remove Maori wards imposed without voter choice, 18 chose to keep them, and four districts have had separate Maori representation imposed by other means.
One such council got one via the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (Maori Constituency Empowering) Act 2001.
Auckland had the Independent Māori Statutory Board (now called Houkura) imposed in 2010 under the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009.
The Wairoa District Council tried to set up a Maori ward in 2012 but 52 percent voted against it. That council tried again in 2016 and succeeded, with voter support.
Tn August 2012, the Waikato Regional Council added two Maori constituencies. There was no request for a poll.
Current local government voter apathy is mentioned above. Apathy means little resistance to activists.
Faced with little resistance, Maori ward activism will continue and this battle will return. Here are the results:
24 voted to remove
Central Hawke's Bay District Council, Hastings District Council, Hauraki District Council, Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Horowhenua District Council, Marlborough District Council, Manawatu District Council, Napier City Council, New Plymouth District Council, Northland Regional Council, Otorohanga District Council, Rangitikei District Council, South Taranaki District Council, Stratford District Council, Taranaki Regional Council, Tararua District Council, Tasman District Council, Taupō District Council, Thames-Coromandel District Council, Waikato District Council, Waipa District Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, Whangārei District Council.
18 voted to keep
Far North District Council, Gisborne District Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Hamilton City Council, Horizons Regional Council, Hutt City Council, Kapiti Coast District Council, Kawerau District Council, Masterton District Council, Nelson City Council, Palmerston North City Council, Porirua City Council. Ruapehu District Council, Rotorua Lakes District Council, South Wairarapa District Council, Wellington City Council, Whakatane District Council, Whanganui District Council.
Widespread rejection of imposed racially-divided voting was expected but the level of rejection was less than expected.
By comparison, votes on the issue from 2011 to 2018 showed that up to 80 percent of those who voted were opposed.
It looks like the heavy repetition of demonstrably false assertions like Maori wards are “good for democracy”, or, that they "allow Maori a seat at the table", often by public figures, have disguised the reality of this racially based voting set-up.
The other justification, that separate voting in local elections should necessarily mirror the Maori seats in Parliament, ignores the fact that separate Maori voting was introduced in 1867 as a short-term measure to enable equal voting for Maori men, and that measure was made redundant in 1893, when all men and women in New Zealand were given the right to vote.
Voter turnout of 31.61 percent in the current election, which was substantially lower than the 46 percent turnout in 2022, shows widespread apathy.
No-vote campaigner Hobson’s Pledge drew attention to campaigning by government entities to support Maori wards.
This included a direct link from the Electoral Commission’s website to a Local Government New Zealand page pushing Māori wards by asserting that they were “good for democracy”.
The Electoral Commission is required by law to remain neutral on who or what to vote for or against.
Hastings District Council used ratepayer-funds promoting Maori wards, as did the Western Bay of Plenty District Council.
Councils are required by law to remain neutral on who or what to vote for or against.
Hobson’s Pledge posted huge signs opposing Maori wards on commercial billboards. These featured the image of a Maori woman purchased from a stock image provider. The woman in the photo objected.
Hobson's Pledge replaced the photo but a bit of bullying and a few threats resulted in the billboard companies refusing to erect any more Hobson’s Pledge billboards.
Other campaigning on the issue was limited. In my region, there were a number of quite big "Keep our Maori ward" signs and I only saw one "No Maori ward" flyer, circulated by Hobson's Pledge, that was delivered to our letterbox.
The four councils in our area, Hawke's Bay, tried to promote their Maori wards but voters decided that they should be removed .
Included among the council areas who voted to keep Maori wards are urban areas with greater concentrations of university educated people who may have been required to attend a treaty seminar and who may have been employed subject to agreeing to implement treaty orthodoxy.
That orthodoxy is based on the version of the Treaty of Waitangi as revised by a Waitangi Tribunal member in the 1980s that comes with 11 footnotes that redefine key words in the treaty.
That, plus the repetition of key phrases in the mass media, is how we are being indoctrinated.
Having said that, 56 of New Zealand’s 78 council districts currently prefer not to have Maori wards.
Twenty four councils have just opted to remove Maori wards imposed without voter choice, 18 chose to keep them, and four districts have had separate Maori representation imposed by other means.
One such council got one via the Bay of Plenty Regional Council (Maori Constituency Empowering) Act 2001.
Auckland had the Independent Māori Statutory Board (now called Houkura) imposed in 2010 under the Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009.
The Wairoa District Council tried to set up a Maori ward in 2012 but 52 percent voted against it. That council tried again in 2016 and succeeded, with voter support.
Tn August 2012, the Waikato Regional Council added two Maori constituencies. There was no request for a poll.
Current local government voter apathy is mentioned above. Apathy means little resistance to activists.
Faced with little resistance, Maori ward activism will continue and this battle will return. Here are the results:
24 voted to remove
Central Hawke's Bay District Council, Hastings District Council, Hauraki District Council, Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Horowhenua District Council, Marlborough District Council, Manawatu District Council, Napier City Council, New Plymouth District Council, Northland Regional Council, Otorohanga District Council, Rangitikei District Council, South Taranaki District Council, Stratford District Council, Taranaki Regional Council, Tararua District Council, Tasman District Council, Taupō District Council, Thames-Coromandel District Council, Waikato District Council, Waipa District Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, Whangārei District Council.
18 voted to keep
Far North District Council, Gisborne District Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Hamilton City Council, Horizons Regional Council, Hutt City Council, Kapiti Coast District Council, Kawerau District Council, Masterton District Council, Nelson City Council, Palmerston North City Council, Porirua City Council. Ruapehu District Council, Rotorua Lakes District Council, South Wairarapa District Council, Wellington City Council, Whakatane District Council, Whanganui District Council.
12 comments:
It's a worry when there are still those out there who think seats based on race are acceptable.
Foolishly the Electoral Commission or some other bureaocratic idiot decided to not include basically all the South Island below Nelson and Marlborough in this important vote . The caveat will now be that the result is not an entire New Zealand vote but a North Island vote.
I am sure that a South Island - Maori Ward vote input would have given a much wider result against Maori wards .
Perhaps considering the non-stop far left media bias and outright propaganda over the past 5+ years, this is not such a bad result. After all we taxpayers are still funding the constant promulgation of radical far left messaging. There is also the reprehensible lack of leadership on equality, democracy and racial preference from our PM. I wonder if this result, in combination with recent polls, will be sufficient to serve as a wake up call for Luxon and the left leaning “centralists” of the National Party hierarchy. Under National led governments, NZ keeps right on sliding toward banana republic, but in slow motion. That way more of the populace is fooled for longer. Slip sliding away. That’s us. The voter turn out looks to have been pretty apathetic. Not much fight in far too many of us.
Stand by for Councils, in partnership with local maori trying to sneak the wards, but of course it will be called something else, back in over the next few years.
Like LTSA are doing with the speed limits they were ordered to change back.
No reason to crow about this result. Far too close for comfort. He Puapua is far from banished.
“Voter turnout was 31.61 percent, which was substantially lower than the 46 percent turnout in 2022, shows widespread apathy”.
So, 68.39% of eligible voters never cast their vote, which means societies governance is determined by 51% of the 31.61% that cast their vote. The 68.39% that didn’t take part of societies governance are giving their consent by non-participation.
This is how the communists win. The communists don’t want you to vote. Let that sink in next time you don’t exercise your right to participate in societies governance.
It is intriguing to conjecture on the maori wards vote. But most of the public today are very out of touch with goings on generally. The forceful counter arguments not aired in msm and no hard hitting counter advertising. The "maori don’t need a mandate" message was far too obscure. Many of the population would not know what mandate means, but they can understand deliberate obstruction and manipulation. The fear of cancellation drew expresions of support from many existing Councils and councillors whose private view was likely opposite. At least the non universal adoption will limit the boldness and hence excesses of those established. One virtue of maori wards is that keep maori on the Maori Roll. Otherwise maori effectively get a double dip in parliamentary elections. The maori seats are guaranteed to be rabidly pro maori so only need a few hundred votes to keep alive. Maori can go on general roll and support further individual insurrectionists. Surprisingly maori do not seem to have voted in flocks for the maori wards; would have been easy for maori with their insurrectionist/social networks to organise. Presumably there were no food parcel bribes made available as for Covid vaccinations and the like. Sadly in Auckland we did not get the chance. Instead we have the 5th columnist Independent Maori Statutory Board embedded in Council committees to report back to the insurrection coordinators on the attitudes of all Councillors and key staff, and to intimidate the same by presence and the ability to influence cancellation.
Just a wee bit of analysis: Northland Region had a "No" to Maori wards. FNDC was a "Yes but the other two consituent areas Kaipara and Whangarei Districts were in the negative (one way or another!). This would show that the ballot stuffing tactics of the FNDC with mobile ballot and "instruction" have worked to ensure the undemocratic Maori wards are retained in the Far North.
In Kapiti two folks I know thought they had voted against Māori wards only to find out today they were two of the 1600 people who missed the box they were supposed to use!
If you didn’t read the form carefully you could easily miss it.
In Kapiti - 120 odd folks submitted blank ballot papers - yet 1600 odd people just didn’t put a response in the Māori wards box but organised themselves enough to fill in the rest of the ballot papers!
My trust in the electoral commission has definitely taken a hit after the subtle tricks they’ve pulled on these local elections
The new EC head - Simon Moore KC - is a Coalition appointment from 2024.
Anon 6:50pm - Agreed! I almost missed the box for the maori ward myself. The form was poorly designed. Made me wonder whether that had been a purposeful choice by the Electoral Commission.
I believe the form was deliberately designed to cause confusion with the Māori ward question and an investigation should be had into the Electoral commission.
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