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Enrolling to vote

Enrol to vote

In New Zealand, enrolment for all elections is managed by the Electoral Commission.

You’re eligible to enrol and vote if you are 18 years or older, a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, and you’ve lived in New Zealand continuously for 12 months or more at some time in your life.

If you voted in previous local or Parliamentary elections, you should still be enrolled to vote. If you’re eligible and are voting in an election for the first time, you can enrol using any of the following methods:

  • enrol online on the vote.nz website
  • complete an enrolment form at any NZ Post Shop
  • phone 0800 ENROLL (0800 36 76 56) to arrange for a form to be sent to you in the mail
  • send your name and address to Free text 3676 for a form to sent to you in the mail

When you enrol, your name, address and occupation are listed on the electoral roll (an electoral roll is a list of voters enrolled in a voting area). If you believe that having your details recorded on the printed electoral roll could threaten your personal safety, or that of your family, you can apply with the Electoral Commission to go on the confidential unpublished roll.

For local elections there are two electoral rolls - a resident roll for resident electors (residents of the Taupō District) and a ratepayer roll for ratepayer electors (people who live outside the Taupō District but pay rates in the Taupō District).

Taupō District residents

RESIDENT ROLL FOR RESIDENT ELECTORS

If you are a Taupō District resident and already enrolled on the parliamentary electoral roll for the general election, you are automatically enrolled on the resident roll to vote in the 2022 local government elections.

Check or update your enrollment details by calling 0800 36 76 56 or go to the vote.nz website.

Non-resident ratepayers

RATEPAYER ROLL FOR RATEPAYER ELECTORS

If you pay rates on a property in the Taupō District but live in a different area, you may be eligible to enrol on the non-resident ratepayer electoral roll. Companies, businesses, trusts, corporations or societies which are ratepayers of a property in the district or community board area may also nominate an elector to vote on their behalf. The elector needs to reside outside the district or community board area where the property is situated.

This also applies to partners, joint tenants and tenants in common who collectively pay rates on a property in the Taupō District.

The ratepayer electoral roll closes on 12 August 2022.

To enrol on the non-resident ratepayer roll, complete and return the enrolment form:

Enrolment form for ratepayer electors (PDF, 156Kb)

For more information go to www.electionz.com or email info@electionz.com

General roll or Māori roll?

If you’re of Māori descent and enrolling for the first time, you have an important choice to make. You need to decide which electoral roll you want to be on: the general roll or the Māori roll. The roll you choose decides which electorate you vote in for both the central government and local government elections.

  • If you choose to be on the Māori roll, you will get to vote for the Mayor, and candidates for the Māori Ward – Te Papamārearea
  • If you choose to be on the general roll, you will get to vote for the Mayor, and candidates for general wards (Taupō Ward, Mangakino/Pouakani Ward, Taupō East Rural Ward, Tūrangi/Tongariro Ward)

If you identified that you are of New Zealand Māori descent when you enrolled to vote, you will get a Māori Electoral Option pack in the mail every 5 years (after every census). You then have four months to indicate whether you wish to stay on the same roll, or change rolls for the next 5 years. The last Māori Electoral Option was held in 2018.

For those already enrolled, the next opportunity to change rolls will be in 2024. Only Māori enrolling for the first time or re-enrolling after having previously been removed from the roll are able to choose to enrol on the Māori Roll in the interim.

Find out more on the Vote NZ website

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