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Who is Eligible to Vote?

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Who is Eligible to Vote?


For local authority elections there are two rolls from which voter eligibility is confirmed.

1.  Residential roll which you are automatically on if you are on the Parliamentary roll for an address within the Kapiti Coast District Council area.  You do not need to take any further action if your details are correct on the parliamentary roll.  (The Electoral Enrolment Centre, who are responsible for the Parliamentary roll and supply this data to the council, will be commencing an enrolment update campaign on 9 July 2007.)

2.  Ratepayer roll There are several ways to be included on this roll, but you must confirm your details each election year to remain on that roll. The criteria are:

(a)  you live and are on the Parliamentary roll at an address outside Kapiti and you also pay rates on a property to Kapiti Coast District Council

(b)  you pay rates on more than one property in Kapiti and they are in different community board areas (you will be able to vote for the different community boards)

(c)  a firm, company, corporation or other legal entity pays rates on a property in the Kapiti Coast District. In this case the entity may nominate a person to be enrolled on its behalf. The nominee, however, must themselves reside, and be on a Parliamentary Roll, outside the Kapiti Coast District or the community board area of the property they are nominee for.




This page is maintained by the Elections department who can be contacted at Kapiti.Council@kapiticoast.govt.nz, or by phone on (04) 296-4700.
This page was last updated on 8/06/07.