It’s fant­ast­ic that we’re get­ting so many answers to the ques­tions we sent out to can­did­ates, but we were flood­ing our homepage with them, so we’re now tidy­ing responses away under­neath the Elec­tions 2013 cat­egory. You can also check out responses by area, assum­ing the can­did­ates actu­ally men­tioned where they were run­ning, AND there’s a full list below in reverse chro­no­lo­gic­al order. Please note: It’s get­ting pretty close to vot­ing time, so we are no longer accept­ing answers. 

Wellington City Ward map
Wel­ling­ton City Ward map

Update: By now though you’re prob­ably won­der­ing: what Ward do I live in? There’s detailed maps at the Coun­cil web­site but on the right you can get an idea of the bound­ar­ies.

And for con­veni­ence, here’s the Can­did­ate responses grouped by Ward plus those for the May­or­alty:

Vot­ing papers get sent out three weeks before the offi­cial elec­tion date 12 Octo­ber, so expect your postal bal­lot papers in the mail from about 23 Septem­ber onwards.

You can mail these back any­time, but just make sure they’ll get back before the 12th. The offi­cial details around all this are on the Coun­cil web­site too.

There is in fact lots of dry but use­ful inform­a­tion on the Coun­cil’s elec­tion web­site, includ­ing can­did­ate pro­files and a list of upcom­ing “Meet the Can­did­ates” meet­ings. There’s also the semi-offi­cial look­ing vote.co.nz web­site which con­tains a list of many of the can­did­ates’ top five issues.

And finally, we’d be remiss if we did­n’t also men­tion the great cov­er­age on the WCC Watch web­site. Tire­less, those guys.