Dunedin North or South? Boundary Politics
The New Zealand Electoral Commission has announced that the Dunedin South and North electorate boundaries are to be changed. Big deal you might say, how will this affect the Otago Peninsula? The proposal is to remove all of the Otago Peninsula from Ocean Grove to Taiaroa Head from Dunedin South electorate and add it to Dunedin North. The NZ Electoral commission are required under the Electoral Act (1993) to use a complex population formula based on our previous flawed census…