Tauranga residents, keep an eye on your mailboxes! Voting packs are being sent out and will start arriving from Saturday, 29 June. The pack includes a voting paper, a return envelope, and a candidate information booklet. This year, returning your vote is easier than ever.
For the first time in Tauranga, residents can drop their completed voting papers into one of the many orange voting bins across the city. These secure bins will be available at all Tauranga supermarkets, Tauranga City Libraries, and the Mount Hub. To find the nearest voting bin, residents can use the orange bin locator on the Council’s elections webpage.
Alternatively, residents can mail their voting paper, in the return envelope, through any mailbox. Alastair McNeil, Tauranga City Council General Manager Corporate Services, encourages residents to read the candidate information booklet and watch the short candidate videos on the election webpage to make informed decisions.
This is the first time the Council will have bright orange voting bins at various locations around Tauranga, making it easier for residents to vote. Completed voting papers must be returned in the provided envelope either by post before Wednesday, 17 July, or to an orange voting bin before midday Saturday, 20 July.
The Council uses the single transferrable vote system, where voters rank their preferred candidates instead of ticking a box. Voters can choose as many or as few candidates as they want. If their first choice doesn’t get enough votes and is eliminated, their vote goes to their second choice, and so on until one candidate has a majority of votes. Voting opens on Saturday, 29 June and closes on Saturday, 20 July at 12pm. For more information, visit the election webpage.
