11/14/2022 0 Comments Calibre 50 songs 2022![]() ![]() ![]() The biggest “blob” of low home ownership and low turnout in the chart below is Auckland. Home ownership is also a key indicator of voting in local elections, with those councils with high ownership rates having the highest voting rates. Local government participation has been falling in recent years, even relative to general election turnout. Overall enrolments nationwide have slumped for young cohorts over the last 20 years. Turnout rates in council elections are even lower than in general elections, as are enrolment rates. Source: Auckland Council research after 2019 elections. Those in the richest neighbourhoods with the highest percentage of home owners voted the most, while those in the poorest with the lowest home ownership rates voted at the lowest rates. Previous analysis of local turnout rates in Auckland from the 2016 election found a close connection between deprivation scores, home ownership rates and voting rates. The Democratic Deficit of young, poor renters Voting rates in the leafier suburbs such as Devonport and Parnell were over 40%. Voting rates in the weekend’s elections in Ōtara fell to 19.6% from 22.7% in 2019 and fell to 21.4% in Papatoetoe from 25.5%. Council voting rates for those aged over 55 ranged from 71% to 86%, while voting rates for those aged under 44 ranged from 43% to 61%. Last year’s General Social Survey (civic and cultural participation) found 71.3% of owner-occupiers said they voted in the last local elections and 47% of non-owner occupiers said they voted. The continued low overall turnout of 40% that was focused on yesterday disguises the immensity of the gap between voting rates between the young and the old, between owners and renters, and between pākehā and the rest. The scale of the backlash this year was inevitable in light of the democratic deficit now underpinning council elections and what I call the broken financial relationship at the heart of Aotearoa’s political economy since 1989.įirstly, the weight and size of the imbalance of power and agency between older home owners in the leafy suburbs and young renters has to be understood. I don’t like to be proven right but it seems that are what we are seeing.” So how and why did this backlash happen? “It always seemed obvious that the breadth of the reform agenda was going to make it difficult for progressive candidates up and down the country. Former Green Party leaders’ office chief of staff, Tory Whanau, won decisively over Labour MP Paul Eagle and previous centre-right mayor Andy Foster. Hamilton’s more progressive mayor Paula Southgate scraped back in against a conservative candidate. Of the other major cities, only Wellington saw its council retain its centre-left majority and elect a centre-left mayor. Radich opposed an inner-city plan to create a cycleway as part of a one-way system for cars. He beat one-term Green mayor Aaron Hawkins, who presided over heavy capital spending in the city in favour of mode shift. New Dunedin mayor, 67-year-old Jules Radich, campaigned against council spending and to reduce debt. He said the plan would make it too hard for motorists and he wanted to make it so “everybody was happy”. “I would like to think we can soften it up a bit. He also opposed a $22.6m cycleway on Harewood Rd that removes two lanes for cars and 300 car parks. The new Christchurch Mayor, 56-year-old Phil Mauger, told The Press this morning he did not want to see the congestion charging and road tolls in a recent council transport plan aimed at reducing emissions, and wanted to ditch a levy on new private car parks. He said yesterday he would put out a statement on the council’s finances today after a briefing this morning from officials. “Let me be very clear: Wellington’s job is to listen to what Aucklanders say are our priorities, and to fund them – not impose ideological schemes like the $30 billion airport tram, untrammelled housing intensification and Three Waters on a city that doesn’t want them.” – Wayne Brown.īrown then went on to sing songs with his supporters in Saturday night celebrations, including this one (F… off Goff), and then cancelled scheduled media appearances on Sunday to spend time with family and go surfing.ĭespite the latest results showing two left-leaning candidates overtake their opponents in the Albert-Eden and Whau wards, Brown will still have a more centre-right council to work with, given at least half of the 20 on council are seen as also opposed to densification and want to cut back on council spending. ![]()
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