With just one day to go, three out of four Hamiltonians are yet to vote in Hamilton City Council’s elections.
Anyone that hasn’t cast their vote should return their voting packs to ballot box (by midday Saturday 8 October) to ensure it can be counted.
The city’s vote count increased by 1075 votes yesterday (6 Oct) – just 1% to take the total percentage to 24.2%. At the same point in 2019, 33.1% of votes had been returned.
A round of various locations where ballot boxes are kept hardly showed any significant activity.
At the Chartwell Library, NewsViews watched one voter pushing in a bunch of voting papers of his family. When asked if ballot box appeared full, reply was “No, I think mine were the only ones as I heard it touch the base.”
The enthusiasm of earlier elections seems to have vanished, and Hamilton is not the only city witnessing this trend.
The breakdown of votes returned by ward is: East – 14,125 votes, 27.0% of the 52,269 enrolled; West – 10,975 votes, 24.6% of the 44,667 enrolled and Kirikiriroa Maaori Ward – 1525 votes, 11.5% of the 13,247 enrolled.
Drive-thru ballot Box locations are: caro Street, Boundary Rd(Settlement Centre) and Whatawhata Rd (Dinsdale Countdown).
Ballot Boxes are also available at Council reception; and libraries at Central, Chartwell, Dinsdale, Glenview, Hillcrest and St Andrews.
– from NewsViews
