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Mrs Janet Pixie McNeill

Under the new electoral boundaries I will move from Western Bay (Tauranga) to Rotorua. This will effectively mean I do not get local representation as these two areas are extremely disparate and a distance apart. The Rotorua candidates will have no interest in the area of Western Bay so you are effectively cancelling my ability to vote for a local voice. You have tried to sell these changes by saying they are fairer. This is far from true.

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Dairne Fitzpatrick

I live in [street name] (a dead end road, near Tauriko) and we were previously in the Bay of Plenty electorate. While I can understand the need to balance electorates, the proposed changes effectively cut off the top part of [street name] and put us in the Rotorua electorate. We cannot get to Rotorua without having to come back into and around through the Tauranga electorate to get there.
We are isolated and cut-off from Rotorua. The MP for Rotorua would need to come through Tauranga to visit any of us - this seems incredibly ineffective, inefficient and senseless. We have no impact on Rotorua and their impact on us in our everyday life is virtually nil. We aren't associated with Rotorua in any way. We pay our rates to the Western BOP district. We live, play, gather socially and work in Tauranga. We support Tauranga businesses and outlets, we work with Tauranga citizens.

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Stephen Prendergast

The Taranaki KC northern boundary encroaches significantly into Waikato District residences. The focus of this electorate is susbtantially furter south and has been extended into Taumaranui and the central plateau region. In the commentary on this proposed ammendment no mention of the northern aspects occurrs - thus misdescribing the elctorate as a southern Waikato area.
Retaining the current boundary is failure to adequately consider the impact of such a large geographical catchment and the disparity between local government elctorates and general election electorates. These residents are strongly attached to central and north Waikato issues and have a substantial ratepayer and community attachment to the region, its social and business communities as well as the surrounding townships of Ngaruawahia, Huntly, Te Kauwhata, Te Kowhai and Taupiri.
The current population based boundaries are arbitrary and without sufficient merit. They fail to consider those cohesive community attachments I have previously identified. Additionally there is a complete lack of attchment and cohesion between the northern and southern areas of Taranaki King Country. According to the publicly availble data there are circa 1500 people in this catchment who are poorly represented byb the existing boundaries.
Turnout by SA2 indicates that 738 voters are enrolled in the Ngaruawahia and Horotiu catchments with larger numbers in Te Kowhai and Whatawhata.
The exclusion of rural lifestyle from urban electorates is no longer fit for purpose, given the ongoing growth centered around urban centres, particulalry major centres who have direct day to day representation at local government level much more appropriately aligned.
This has led to ineffective representation, very little engagement from the electorate MP, and the focusing on issues which have little, or in many cases no direct, connection to our lives.
The Waikato is a substantial and important part of New Zealand. It is essential the cohorts are represented appropriately and cohesively based on both national and regional issues informed by local contexts.
This is currently wildly diluted by the insistence that a numerical equivalence will represent an equivlance of representation.The more appropriate measure would consider overall electorate size in area, clustering of communities with bordering locations, and the continuing development of the urban fringe population who are largely urban in their behaviours.

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Mr Ryan Maguire

To the Electorate Boundary Review Committee,

I believe that the residents of Waitara, specifically those living on Armstrong Avenue (or off a branch street) should shift from the Taranaki-King Country electorate into the New Plymouth electorate. As far as Stats NZ's public electoral map records go back (2002), this area of Waitara has always been arbitrarily placed into the Taranaki-King Country electorate, despite being geographically very close to the town centre, and closer to the town centre than residents of Waitara on Princess Street (or off a branching street), who do reside in the New Plymouth electorate. While my proposed change would only affect at the most a few hundred people (as judged by a Google Maps sattelite image of houses in the affected area), I believe it is nonetheless important to keep the Waitara township community under a unified electorate voice, and that now is the right time to propose changes like these to correct overlooked past boundary irregularities.

Thank you.

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John Waldmann

Taranaki -King Country electorate still makes zero representative sense. It spans two mountain ranges, and several watersheds, and two very distinct regions, and is far too many dispersed as populations to make representation meaningful.

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Mr Kevin Allan

[See separate attachments for objections on boundary and name for East Coast]

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Mr Tom Newman

"I believe electorates should be based on regional boundaries, not arbitrary lines. Our electorate should correspond to the region we pay rates to, not a different one."

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Mr Morgan Kemp

My objection stems from the recent boundary changes that moved me from the East Coast electorate into the Napier electorate. While the Napier electorate already included Wairoa, it has now expanded northward to incorporate rural communities previously part of the Gisborne region, specifically Patutahi, Manutuke, and Waituhi. The 'Napier' name alone fails to accurately represent this expanded electorate, causing a loss of regional identity and misrepresenting these newly included communities. I believe the name should be changed to reflect the broader geographical and communal makeup of the electorate.

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Mrs Sarah Gault

My objection is that Matawai is currently in the Napier electorate, and Motu and Te Karaka are also to be added to this electorate. Matawai is 270 kms from Napier but only 70 kms from Gisborne. Motu is 280 kms from Napier and 80 kms from Gisborne. Te Karaka is 230 kms from Napier but only 30 kms from Gisborne.
Before the last election no Napier MP visited Matawai, and no MP has visited since. MP, Katie Nimon, was booked to meet constituents in Matawai before the last election, but failed to turn up. If MPs are not interested in their constituents they should not be representing them. They all lost my vote.

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Amanda Newman

I don't agree with our electorate being changed from East coast to HB.
We live in quite a different economy to HB.
We don't visit HB very often so have limited knowledge of the region, let along any knowledge of the MP's in the HB region. Making communication difficult
Infrastructure links aren't great between the 2 regions

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Gisborne Business & Professional Women

The proposal to extend the Napier Electorate to include constituents, whose centre for Health Services, Education,
Sport and recreation and other amenities is less than 20 minutes away makes no sense.
Napier is at least three hours away and it will make it impossible for some to be able to have a face to face meeting with their "Local" MP.

The current East Coast MP or her successor, will have to travel past many of these new Napier constituents gates to get to the rest of her East Coast constituents.The East Coast is already isolated. Never more so than during Cyclone
Gabrielle when the roading network was severly compromised.

A Napier MP would struggle to serve their constituents, equally, as the changes propose.

I appreciate the boundaries are based on numbers but surely there needs to be consideration for exceptions when
the changes actually impact on the MP's ability to adequately serve their constituents.

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Mr Rhys Hurley

I believe the addition of the Ruapehu district into the Whanganui electorate isn't justified. My reasoning is that communities of interest are not being meet here in the best way even with large rural electorates have different considerations due to sparse populations. There is multiple districts being rolled into one here that have less shared shared economic, cultural and historical shared points.

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Jacqueline Hollman

I live in Stratford.Taranaki 1/2 hour south of New Plymouth. I vote in Whanganui electorate. Whanganui is 1 1/2 hours from Stratford. Who thought that was an intelligent idea ? A 14 year old with a crayon ?? I have always thought it was stupid but i see the 14 year old decided to keep a stupid boundary even when they had the opportunity to put this right.
I know you dont care about me or my little opinion. Why should you. I am just a nobody to you and you are probably having a good laugh.Go have your morning tea and think about your nice safe comfortable job. If you worked in the private sector you would all have been fired a long time ago. However your jobs are safe because no one in your Dept gives a toss about logic.
Regards
Jacqueline Hollman
PS please dont bother to give me a reply. It would just be psycho babble anyway. Go have a tea break

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Michael Vance

I strongly object to the moving of Horowhenua to rangatikei electorate
Which is predominantly land used for farming. An electorate that wouldn't I imagine go out of its way to stand up for Levin interests. Levin has more connection with the Kapiti area currently in the Otaki electorate

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Patricia Vance

I strongly object to the moving of Horowhenua to Rangatikei electorate Which is predominantly land used for farming an electorate that wouldn't I imagine go out of its way to stand up for Levin interests. Levin has more connection with the Kapiti area currently in the Otaki electorate