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The next step in a review of electoral boundaries, which could see voters between Waiwera and Te Hana in a newly-named Helensville electorate, will be held at the North Shore District Court on Monday, February 17.
Comments on the proposed changes closed on January 24 and more than 330 objections and 106 counter-objections were received.
The hearing on the North Shore will be an opportunity for anyone who made a submission to expand on their objections to members of the Representation Commission in person.
If the current electoral boundary recommendations are adopted, the name Rodney will disappear. The Hibiscus Coast and Dairy Flat will become part of the Whangaparaoa electorate and the remainder of the current Rodney electorate will form part of the Helensville electorate.
Additionally, 5000 voters in the Northland electorate will move into the new Helensville electorate. The new electorate’s northern boundary would take in the Tapora Peninsula, Wellsford and Te Hana, hitting the east coast just below Mangawhai.
Rodney was one the electorates that received the most objections and most of those objections were around the choice of names – Whangaparaoa and Helensville. Whangaparaoa objectors preferred Hibiscus Coast and Helensville objectors preferred Rodney, Atanui, Mahurangi or Kaipara.
Boundary changes are required to balance the populations in each electorate. They were last adjusted in 2014. New boundaries will be finalised by April and will be in place for the General Election on September 19.
