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Nominations in for local body elections

For immediate release: Friday 24 August 2007

Nominations are in and all but one Regional Council seat will be contested during the upcoming local body elections.

By close off at noon today, Environment Bay of Plenty electoral officer Lucinda Butt had received 33 nominations for the 13 constituency seats.

Ms Butt says an election will need to be held for all constituencies except Mauao which has one nomination for its one seat. In a change to this year’s numbers, Rotorua has had its seats cut from three to two following a representation review in 2006.

One current regional councillor is standing down this year. This is Athole Herbert (Tauranga).

Nominations

General Constituencies
Eastern Bay of Plenty (two seats): Jim Mansell, Russ Martin, Bryan Riesterer, Lucy Steel, Malcolm Whitaker
Rotorua (two seats): Bill Cleghorn, Robin Ford, Neil Oppatt, Linda Persson
Tauranga (four seats): Larry Baldock, John Cronin, Grant Dyson, Rob Paterson, Noel Petersen, Michael Pittar, Philip Sherry, Karen Summerhays, Andrew von Dadelszen
Western Bay of Plenty (two seats): Mark Dean, Jane Nees, Ian Noble, Kelvin O’Hara, Jim Pringle, Peter Rae, James Redwood, Tom Walters, Tommy KAPAI Wilson

Maori Constituencies
Kohi (one seat): Tiipene Marr, Waaka Vercoe
Mauao (one seat): Raewyn Bennett (no election required)
Okurei (one seat): Tai Eru, Hawea Vercoe, Matt Wepa

Candidate profile statements will be posted on www.envbop.govt.nz after being cleared by the electoral officer. The profiles will also be included in voting papers to be delivered from September 21. All votes must be returned by October 13.

For more information on the election, including maps showing the constituency boundaries, please visit www.envbop.govt.nz or call Environment Bay of Plenty on 0800 ENV BOP (368 267).

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