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.
Results for three councils were not available.
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
Some results were very close so may change.
For instance, the margin to retain the Maori ward in Ruapehu was 61 votes.
Widespread rejection of imposed racially-divided voting was expected but the level of rejection was less than expected.
Voter turnout was 31.61 percent, 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 a yes vote.
This included Electoral Commission’s website linked directly to a Local Government New Zealand page pushing Māori wards by asserting that they were “good for democracy.”
Hastings District Council used ratepayer-funds promoting Māori wards, as did the Western Bay of Plenty District Council.
Voters in both districts decided that Maori wards would be removed.
Hobson’s Pledge had commercial billboards saying “My mana doesn’t need a mandate” which featured the image of a Maori woman purchased from a stock image provider until the woman in the photo objected.
A bit of bullying and a few threats resulted in the billboard companies refusing to erect any more Hobson’s Pledge billboards.
Here are the provisional results:
Voted to keep
Far North District Council, Gisborne City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Hamilton City Council, Hutt City Council, Kāpiti 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.
Voted to remove
Central Hawke's Bay District Council, Hastings District Council, Hauraki District Council, Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Horizons Regional Council, Horowhenua District Council, Marlborough District Council, Manawatū District Council, Napier City Council, New Plymouth District Council, Northland Regional Council, Ōtorohanga 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, Waipā District Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, Whangārei District Council.
Some results were very close so may change.
For instance, the margin to retain the Maori ward in Ruapehu was 61 votes.
Widespread rejection of imposed racially-divided voting was expected but the level of rejection was less than expected.
Voter turnout was 31.61 percent, 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 a yes vote.
This included Electoral Commission’s website linked directly to a Local Government New Zealand page pushing Māori wards by asserting that they were “good for democracy.”
Hastings District Council used ratepayer-funds promoting Māori wards, as did the Western Bay of Plenty District Council.
Voters in both districts decided that Maori wards would be removed.
Hobson’s Pledge had commercial billboards saying “My mana doesn’t need a mandate” which featured the image of a Maori woman purchased from a stock image provider until the woman in the photo objected.
A bit of bullying and a few threats resulted in the billboard companies refusing to erect any more Hobson’s Pledge billboards.
Here are the provisional results:
Voted to keep
Far North District Council, Gisborne City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Hamilton City Council, Hutt City Council, Kāpiti 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.
Voted to remove
Central Hawke's Bay District Council, Hastings District Council, Hauraki District Council, Hawke's Bay Regional Council, Horizons Regional Council, Horowhenua District Council, Marlborough District Council, Manawatū District Council, Napier City Council, New Plymouth District Council, Northland Regional Council, Ōtorohanga 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, Waipā District Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, Whangārei District Council.
8 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.
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