If you live in one area and pay rates on a property in another area, you may be eligible to vote in both areas during local elections.
You need to be enrolled as a parliamentary elector at your residential address before you can enrol on the ratepayer roll. There are two types of electors:
Residential Electors – If you are registered to vote on the electoral roll, you are automatically enrolled to vote
in local authority elections. You will receive a voting document so that you can vote by post.
Ratepayer Electors – You may also be eligible to enrol as a non-resident ratepayer elector in a council
district if both of these apply:
- you are on the district valuation roll and pay rates in the council district
- the address where you are registered as a Parliamentary elector is outside that council district.
You can apply online or download a form and email it to nrr@electionz.com
You can find more information on the Vote Local website.
