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Triennial elections for all 74 cities, districts, twelve regional councils and all district health boards in New Zealand were held on 9 October 2004. Most councils were elected using the first-past-the-post method, but ten (of which Wellington City was the largest) were elected using the single transferable vote (STV) method. It was the first time that the STV method was available; the change came through successful lobbying by Rod Donald. [1]
Elections for the 21 district health boards (DHBs) were first held alongside the 2001 local elections. The government had hoped to use the STV voting method from the start but this could not be achieved and in 2001, first-past-the-post voting (FPP) was used based on local wards. [2] For the 2004 elections, the STV method was used. From 2004 onwards, DHB candidates have been elected at large (i.e. across the whole voting area). [3]
Apart from the district health boards, ten district or city councils used the STV method for the 2004 local elections: Kaipara, Papakura, Matamata-Piako, Thames-Coromandel, Kapiti Coast, Porirua, Wellington, Marlborough, Dunedin, and the Chatham Islands. [4]
A private company, elections.com and its subsidiary Datamail, had been engaged by seven councils, eighteen DHBs, and one licensing trust with operating the STV elections. During the weekend of the elections, it was discovered that when voting papers were transferred to computer-readable data, not all data were correctly recorded. The Office of the Auditor-General became involved and tasked with confirming the election results. The final results for these elections became available in early November, nearly one month after the local election. The government initiated a select committee inquiry. [5]
| Northland Region | |||||
| district | councillors | community boards | regional councillors | Mayor | link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Far North District | 9 | 3 | 3 |  Yvonne Sharp , re-elected | [6] |
| Whangarei District | 13 | – | 4 | Pamela Peters (new) | [7] |
| Kaipara District | 10 | – | 1 | Peter King (new) | [8] |
| Auckland Region | |||||
| district | councillors | community boards | regional councillors | Mayor | link |
| Rodney District | 12 | – | 1 |  John Law , did not run,Penny Webster won | [9] |
| North Shore City | 15 | 66 | 2 | George Wood , re-elected | [10] |
| Waitakere City | 14 | 4 | 2 | Bob Harvey , re-elected | [11] |
| Auckland City | 19 | 9 | 4 | John Banks , defeated by Dick Hubbard | [12] |
| Manukau City | 17 | 8 | 3 | Sir Barry Curtis | [13] |
| Papakura District | 8 | – | 1 1 | John Robertson | [14] |
| Franklin District | 12 | 2 | 1 1, 2 | Mark Ball | [15] |
| 1 Franklin and Papakura districts jointly elected one regional councillor. 2 The south part of Franklin District is in the Waikato Region. | |||||
| Waikato region | |||||
| district | councillors | community boards | regional councillors | Mayor | link |
| Waikato District | 13 | 4 | 23 | Peter Harris | [16] |
| Hamilton City | 13 | – | 4 | Michael Redman , new | [17] |
| Waipa District | 13 | 2 | 1 | Alan Livingston | [18] |
| Matamata-Piako District | 11 | 3 | 1 | Hugh Vercoe | [19] |
| Otorohanga District | 7 | 2 | 1 4 | Dale Williams | [20] |
| Waitomo District | 6 | – | 1 4 | Mark Ammon | [21] |
| South Waikato District | 10 | – | 1 | Neil Sinclair | [22] |
| Taupo District | 12 | – | 2 5, 6 | Clayton Stent | [23] |
| Hauraki District | 13 | – | 1 | John Tregidga | [24] |
| Thames-Coromandel District | 8 | 5 | 1 | Philippa Barriball | [25] |
| 3 Waikato jointly elects one regional councillor with Franklin District and elects another in its own right. 4 Otorohanga and Waitomo districts jointly elect one regional councillor. 5 Parts of Taupo District are in the Bay of Plenty, Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay regions. 6 Elects two councillors jointly with Rotorua District. | |||||
| Bay of Plenty Region 7 | |||||
| district | councillors | community boards | regional councillors | Mayor | link |
| Western Bay of Plenty District | 12 | 5 | 2 | Graeme Weld | [26] |
| Tauranga District | 10 | – | 4 | Stuart Crosby | [27] |
| Rotorua District | 12 | – | 38 | Kevin Winters | [28] |
| Whakatāne District | 12 | 2 | 29 | Colin Holmes | [29] |
| Kawerau District | 8 | – | 29 | Malcolm Campbell (unopposed) | [30] |
| Opotiki District | 11 | 1 | 29 | John Forbes | [31] |
| 7 Three regional councillors are elected in three separate Māori wards. 8 in conjunction with part of Taupo District. 9 Whakatane, Kawerau and Opotiki districts jointly elect two regional councillors. | |||||
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