Candidates for council elections
21 August 2013
Nominations for the local body elections closed last Friday.
There are five candidates for the mayoralty. They are Janine Bosma, Steve Chadwick, Helen Hindmarsh, Rob Kent, and Kevin Winters.
There are 31 candidates for council. They are Hemi Bennett, Peter Bentley, Yvonne Bidois, Leandra Bowen, Julie Calnan, Nick Chater, Dave Donaldson, Mark Gould, Bill Hedges, Helen Hindmarsh, Karen Hunt, Rob Kent, Alexis LewGor, Reynold Macpherson, Mike McVicker, Trevor Maxwell, Fraser Newman, June Parata, Dave Patterson, Debs Rahurahu, Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, Kingsley Ridings, Carolyn Santiago, Glenys Searancke, Victor Storey, Charles Sturt, Tania Tapsell, Ratu Tibble, Mericia Waqanimaravu, Janet Wepa and Waitsu Wu.
There are six candidates for Rotorua Lakes Community Board. They are Harry Dixon, John Dyer, Davey Gardiner, Leo Meharry, Geoff Palmer and Phill Thomass.
Voting papers for the postal vote will start being dispatched by mail to enrolled voters from 20 September and completed voting papers need to be returned by noon on 12 October. Preliminary results are expected to be announced that afternoon.