If you love Christchurch, enrol to vote so you can have a say on the people who will make decisions that shape your community.

Innes ward Community Board by-election

The by-election for someone to represent the Innes ward, to fill the vacancy on the Waipapa Papanui-Innes-Central Community Board, was held on 17 February 2023. Read more on Newsline.(external link)

Enrol or update your details

You can enrol or update your details at any time. Find out which ward you are in.

Enrolment information is also available in:

The Electoral Commission(external link) also has a lot of useful, accessible resources in different formats.
  

There are two types of electors

If you are registered to vote on the electoral roll, you are automatically enrolled to vote in local authority elections on the residential roll. You will receive a voting document so that you can vote by post.

If you are registered to vote in parliamentary elections, you will be automatically enrolled on the local body residential electoral roll as a residential elector at the address where you live.

Any changes to the residential roll, such as your address, should be made by:

If you are on the residential electoral roll in one area and pay rates on a property in another area, you may be eligible for enrolment on the non-resident ratepayer roll. This qualifies you to vote more than once in the local elections.

A Council district includes a city, district and regional council area, and a community board area.

If you are on the electoral roll in one area and pay rates on a property in another area, you may be eligible for enrolment on the non-resident ratepayer roll. This qualifies you to vote more than once in the local elections.

You may be eligible as a non-resident ratepayer elector in Christchurch City Council if both of these apply:

  • You are on the district valuation roll and pay rates in the Christchurch City Council district.
  • The address where you are registered on the residential roll is outside of the Christchurch city ward or community board area.

Your eligibility to enrol or be nominated may also depend on your individual circumstances as determined by criteria in the Local Electoral Act 2001 and its regulations.

An organisation can nominate one of its members or officers to vote on its behalf

If a firm, company, trust, corporation, society partners, joint tenants and tenants in common collectively play rates on a property in a council district, one of the group may be nominated to be the ratepayer elector.

The person nominating and the nominated person must be registered as a residential elector outside the council district where the property is located.

You can only enrol once 

You can only enrol, or be nominated to enrol, once in a council district, no matter how many properties you own in that council district. A Council district includes a city, district and regional council area, and a community board area.

New ratepayer electors

If you have questions about whether you may be eligible to enrol or to nominate someone as a ratepayer elector, please contact the Electoral Officer Jo Daly on 03 941 8581 or at jo.daly@ccc.govt.nz

Download the 2022 ratepayer enrolment form [PDF, 171 KB].

You can check your eligibility and complete an online enrolment form at Electionz.com(external link).