Local authority elections will be held on Saturday, 11 October this year. This notice tells you how to enrol, and who can enrol as a ratepayer elector, so you can vote in the elections.
The Electoral Roll closes on Friday 1 August 2025. If you enrol after this date, you will need to cast a ‘special vote’ at the election. You can vote by post. Make sure you are on the Electoral Roll to receive your postal voting document.
You can only enrol, or be nominated to enrol, once in a council district, no matter how many properties you own in that council district.
What ‘Council District’ means in this Notice
- city, district and regional council areas
- a community board area, if established
- the area of Auckland Council and the local boards.
If you are registered to vote in Parliamentary elections (a Parliamentary elector), you are automatically enrolled as a residential elector to vote in local authority elections. The address where you are registered as a Parliamentary elector must be in the council district for the local authority elections.
Ratepayer Electors
- you are on the district valuation roll and pay rates in the council district
- the address where you are registered as a Parliamentary elector is outside that council district.
An organisation can nominate one of its members or officers to vote on its behalf
Any organisation, firm, company, trust, corporation or society or association that pays rates on one or more properties in a council district may nominate one of its members or officers to be the ratepayer elector.
If more than one person pays rates on the same property
If partners, joint tenants and tenants in common collectively pay rates on a property in a council district, one of the group may be nominated to go on the Electoral Roll. The person nominating and the nominated person must be registered as Parliamentary electors at addresses outside the council district where the property is located.
Existing Ratepayer Electors should have received an enrolment confirmation form
- you were enrolled as a ratepayer elector for the 2022 local authority elections, or since then
- you enrolled or were nominated as a ratepayer elector.
- you are still waiting to receive your Enrolment Confirmation Form or other advice about your non-resident ratepayer status
- you have misplaced your Enrolment Confirmation Form.
- go to www.ratepayer.co.nz to check your eligibility
- get an Enrolment Form for Ratepayer Electors from the local council where you pay your rates
- get this form early so you can get answers to any questions you have about the form or being on the Electoral Roll before the roll closes on Friday 1 August 2025.
Your local council’s Electoral Officer will be able to help you with your application:
This public notice is issued pursuant to section 39(1)(a), Local Electoral Act 2001.
