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Objections to the proposed electorates and boundaries are listed below.

Submissions may have been edited to remove contact information or other personal details, or to remove objectionable material. Submissions which only address issues the Representation Commission cannot consider have not been published.

Between 8 and 21 May you can have your say on issues raised in these objections.

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S12007 Jennifer Perano Objection Boundary

Jennifer Perano

Objection

Waitaki
This objection relates to a boundary change
This objection does not relate to a name change

Jennifer Perano

It is ridiculous that Geraldine is part of Waitaki electorate. We have far more in common with Rangitata electorate - both in proximity and with adjoining towns. Local election puts us in with Timaru.

Suggested solution

Move the boundary to incorporate Geraldine into the more logical Rangitata electorate.
S12008 Mrs Karen Ross Objection Boundary

Mrs Karen Ross

Objection

Waitaki
This objection relates to a boundary change
This objection does not relate to a name change

Mrs Karen Ross

I object that the township of Geraldine is included in the Waitaki Electorate when this town is part of SOUTH CANTERBURY for all other intents and purposes. We are not part of OTAGO! We have a relatively small population (of just over 3,000) which is not huge enough to greatly alter the population figures of the Rangitata Electorate. We pay our Rates to Timaru District Council; we go to Timaru Public Hospital for treatment and Specialist care, then referred to Christchurch Hospital if need be, not Dunedin. It seems to me to be ludicrous that Geraldine is included into the greater Waitaki region of the South Island.

Suggested solution

I would prefer to see this town INCLUDED in the Rangitata Electorate where we would be more proportionately represented on a local level than in the Waitaki Electorate.
S13001 Mike Michaels Objection Name

Mike Michaels

Objection

Dunedin
This objection does not relate to a boundary change
This objection relates to a name change

Mike Michaels

Name of seats

Suggested solution

Revert names of seats to Dunedin North and Dunedin South, (or South Dunedin-Clutha).
S15001 Fiona Bottcher Objection Boundary

Fiona Bottcher

Objection

Southland
This objection relates to a boundary change
This objection does not relate to a name change

Fiona Bottcher

I don't think that the move from Southland to Invercargill should be towards the rural/small towns of Nightcaps and Otautau.

Suggested solution

I think that the shift should be moving towards Winton. As Invercargill and Winton grow, the residents of these more urban areas have more in common than people in the rural areas around small towns.
S15002 Mike Michaels Objection Name

Mike Michaels

Objection

Southland
This objection does not relate to a boundary change
This objection relates to a name change

Mike Michaels

Name not fit for purpose - majority of Southland region population is in Invercargill, majority of Southland seat population is from Otago

Suggested solution

Suggest naming the seat either Southern Lakes or Wakatipu-Southland
S15003 Jon Mitchell Objection Boundary

Jon Mitchell

Objection

Southland
This objection relates to a boundary change
This objection does not relate to a name change

Jon Mitchell

The proposed boundaries for the electorates of the Otago and Southland regions no longer represent communities of interest or the changing demographics of the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago districts in particular.

The rapidly growing populations of the communities of the Whakatipu and Wanaka basins, as well as the Upper-Clutha Mata-Au parts of the Central Otago District, in and around Cromwell and Alexander, has seen an increasingly strong community of interest around health services, land and air transport, tourism, residential development, and political representation.

The current so-called "Southland" electorate has more residents in the Otago, in the Queenstown area, Alexandra, Roxburgh, and rural Clutha district. This results in none of the electorate being able to be effectively represented by any electorate MP. As evidenced in recent calls for improved health services in the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago parts of the inappropriately titled "Southland" and "Waitaki" electorates.

While Southland and Otago parts of the "Southland" electorate are experiencing very low if any population growth, the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago communities are not only experiencing some the fastest growth in the country, with that unequal growth and resultant confused representation are anticipated to continue well into the future.

Suggested solution

Realigning the boundaries of all of the of the Otago and Southland electorates, other than the Dunedin and Invercargill electorates, would result in far more effective representation of the respective communities of interest in all of the electorates.

Forming a new "Central Lakes" electorate, comprising all of the Queenstown Lakes District and most Central Otago, other than the Maniototo and Manuherikia, would result in an electorate (2023 census) population of 69,205. Only slightly less than the designated South Island electorate population of 70,037.

To provide for the loss of the Upper Clutha from the Waitaki electorate, the Maniototo and Manuhirikia part of Central Otago and the Taieri River valley parts the current Taieri electorate should be added to create a new "Waitaki-Taieri" electorate.

Half of the current actual Southland parts of the "Southland" electorate should be combined with the remaining parts of the current "Taireri" electorate, to create a new "Southland Heartland" electorate, including Te Anau-Manapouri, Lumsden, Gore, and Balclutha which would appreciably more effectively reflect the interests of neighbouring parts rural Southland and South-East Otago, and the distinctly rurally-oriented urban communities.

It is crucial that our electorates and their MPs represent current and future communities of interest, not arbitrary boundaries of convenience from the past.
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