Office briefing
Onepoto General Ward — councillor
Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.
New Zealand · Porirua City Council / Onepoto General Ward · council · councillorNZ-PORIRUA-ONEPOTO-2026
No sanitized original HTML briefing was supplied for this office. Structured records, sources and caveats from the country package are shown below.
Dates and roster require full-notice recheck; source pages intermittently blocked retrieval.
1. What office, where, and when is the next election?
- Geography
- Porirua City Council / Onepoto General Ward
- Next election
- 2026-10-16
- Linked upcoming event
- next-6d6d16aaaf87ca0b6162a02f
- Registry qualification
- Unknown
2. How certain is that date?
2026-10-16 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.
3. Who won earlier selected elections?
Latest-three comparable history is not complete for this batch.
No selected historical cycles are supplied.
4. Competition and volatility
competition index
WithheldUnknown0–100 historical closeness
No result yet. Historical evidence and a ballot-compatible method are required; missing metrics are not zero.
Comparison status: withheld · No result yet. Historical evidence and a ballot-compatible method are required; missing metrics are not zero.
Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=null, previous_gap=null, oldest_gap=null
5. Officeholder evidence
Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.
| Person | Role | As of | Affiliation | Principal? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joanne Dow | Declared candidate (election not held) | 2026-10-16 | Unknown | unknown |
| Caroline Mareko | Declared candidate (election not held) | 2026-10-16 | Unknown | unknown |
| Zac Painting | Declared candidate (election not held) | 2026-10-16 | Unknown | unknown |
| Siobhan Samuel | Declared candidate (election not held) | 2026-10-16 | Unknown | unknown |
| Jess Te Huia | Declared candidate (election not held) | 2026-10-16 | Unknown | unknown |
6. Polling context
No local poll supplied.
7. Unresolved issues and sources
Recheck full official notices and candidate profiles; recover 2025 and 2022 STV stage reports and establish a pre-2022 boundary crosswalk.
registry gap · open
Recheck full official notices and candidate profiles; recover 2025 and 2022 STV stage reports and establish a pre-2022 boundary crosswalk.
other · open
Complete a national council and community-board screen for additional in-window by-elections. This batch is not a census.
other · open
Add an explicit adapter and ingestion tests before exposing this research batch in the observatory. Existing Latin America importer does not consume it.
registry gap · open
Collect officeholder context, boundaries, polling and briefings; assess enacted governance changes separately from proposed reforms.
Sources
- Porirua City Council: Council elections 2026 · rights unknown
- Porirua City Council: Voting packs for by-election on their way · rights unknown
- Porirua City Council: Five candidates confirmed for Onepoto General Ward By-election · rights unknown
- Porirua City Council: How voting works · rights unknown
Cite this record
Center for Digital Democracy. “Onepoto General Ward — councillor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/NZ-PORIRUA-ONEPOTO-2026. Sources: new-zealand--NZ-S06, new-zealand--NZ-S07, new-zealand--NZ-S08, new-zealand--NZ-S09.