Elections to be held for the Manukau Youth Council

Manukau City Council has received 34 nominations for the 24 places available on the Manukau Youth Council.

Elections will take place on 26 April for the following areas:
· Howick
· Mangere
· Manurewa
· Otara
· Papatoetoe.

There were no nominations from Clevedon and one vacancy for the Botany area. The new council will look at how to attract full representation from these wards.

The number of nominations matched the places available for Pakuranga and Botany therefore those nominated have been elected unopposed. They are:

Botany
Tommy Long, Dannemora.

Pakuranga
Elaine Cavanagh, Pakuranga.
Ben Dowdle, Half Moon Bay.
Dhruv Divekar, Bucklands Beach.

The elections, to be held in the Civic building, 31-33 Wiri Station Road, Manukau, will start at 5pm and close at 7pm and the results will be announced the same evening. Those voting will need to be aged between 15 to 25 years and live in the same area as the candidate they are voting for.

Manukau City Council’s youth planner Rex Hewitt says that this is a good response for the election and has provided an excellent choice of candidates, all who have different skills and perspectives.

The candidate’s profiles will be available at the elections and can be found on the website www.manukau.govt.nz/youthcouncil.

ENDS

List of candidates

Howick (3 vacancies)
Rebecca Chaplin
Gabriel Goh
Harmeet Kaur
Katrina Lynch

Mangere (4 vacancies)
Kirstie Lomu
Fuatino Mareko
Charles Piutau
William Po'ese
O'Rdriana Schaumkel
Meliame Taimani

Manurewa (5 vacancies)
Flora Apulu
Joyce Leevard
Linda Lew
Lise Malaeimi
Adeleina Lotu-Meleisea
Peter Martin
Jonathon Miller
Jennifer-Lee Pritchard
Tay Simati
Faith Sola
Joel Sutton
Mereana TePere
Zac Thomas

Otara (3 vacancies)
Leia Tapu
Michael Tapu
Anna Zhang
Darren Zhang

Papatoetoe (3 vacancies)
Te Wai Barbarich
Danielle Faalolo
Shrutika Gunanayagam
Krish Naidu