Each of the six metropolitan Council wards elect two Councillors, while only one Councillor is elected by the Banks Peninsula ward.
The six metropolitan Community Boards each has seven members, comprising five directly elected members and two members appointed by the Council, being the two Councillors elected within the ward in which the community is located. The Lyttelton/Mt Herbert and Akaroa/Wairewa Community Boards each have six members, comprising five directly elected members and one appointed member, being the Councillor elected within the Banks Peninsula ward.
In the case of the six metropolitan Community Boards and the Lyttelton/Mt Herbert Community Board, the five elected members are elected at large across the whole of the community. However, in the case of the Akaroa/Wairewa Community Board, three members are elected by the Akaroa subdivision of that community, with the remaining two members being elected by the Wairewa subdivision of the community.
2010 boundary maps
2007 boundary maps
