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All in Elections
Veteran Newstalk ZB journalist and now frequent opinion columnist Barry Soper has wrongly claimed that Tory Whanau only won Wellington’s 2022 mayoral election because of the city’s Single Transferrable Vote system. Because Soper evidently has no idea what the election results actually were, Local Aotearoa is setting the record straight.
Political party affiliated or independent? Does it make a difference? How much do voters care? What are the advantages and disadvantages? With council elections little more than a year away an age old debate is rearing its head over the role of political parties in local government and the merits and pitfalls of candidates standing as party aligned or independents.
