Posted: 24 August 2007
15 nominated for Regional Council
Fourteen people are to fight for seven remaining seats on the Northland Regional Council at this year’s 13 October local authority elections.
The Council’s Electoral Officer Linda Stansfield says the official candidate nomination period closed at noon today (Fri 24 August), with 15 nominations received for eight available seats.
Four Regional Councillors are required for the Whangarei District Constituency, three from the Far North, and one for the Kaipara Constituency.
Ms Stansfield says as current Council Chairman Mark Farnsworth was the sole candidate for election as Kaipara representative he was today declared re-elected.
That leaves 14 nominees - including five sitting Councillors – to contest the remaining seven seats.
The nominees are* (*denotes current Councillor):
Whangarei constituency (four seats);
- John Bain
- Gerry Brackenbury
- Craig Brown*
- Paul Gosling
- Kevin Grose
- Peter Jensen*
- Mike Kake
- Bill Rossiter*
Far North constituency (three seats);
- Joe Carr
- Lorraine Hill*
- Dugald MacDonald
- Des Mahoney
- Gary Russell
- Ian Walker*
*Note: denotes current Councillor
Ms Stansfield says voting papers will be sent out from Friday, 21 September 2007 and must be mailed to the Council by midday on Election Day, Saturday, 13 October 2007.