Rangitikei District Council

Rangitikei District Council
Type
Type
History
Founded1989 (1989)
Leadership
Deputy Mayor
Dave Wilson
Seats11
Elections
First-past-the-post[1]
Last election
2022
Next election
2025
Meeting place
Rangitikei District Council
Rangitikei District Council Building,
46 High St, Marton
Website
www.rangitikei.govt.nz

The Rangitikei District Council is the local government authority for Rangitikei District in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority elected to represent the 16,650 people of Rangitikei.[2] Since October 2013, the Mayor of Rangitikei is Andy Watson, who succeeded Robert "Chalky" Leary. The council consists of a mayor who is elected at large, and 11 councillors elected across five (three in 2019) wards, one of whom gets chosen as deputy mayor. There are also two community boards – for Rātana and Taihape. The councillors are elected under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system in triennial elections.

  1. ^ "Voting and becoming a councillor". Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Aotearoa Data Explorer". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2024.