Constituency 2018

This dataset is the definitive set of regional council constituency boundaries as at 1 January 2018 as defined by the regional councils and Local Government Commission but maintained by Stats NZ (the custodian).Constituencies are established under the Local Electoral Act 2001 and result from the division of a region for electoral purposes.If a regional council decides to have a Māori constituency, the constituencies within the region are known as general constituencies and Māori constituencies.Constituencies are divisions of regional council areas. They are defined at meshblock level, and do not coincide with statistical area 1 (SA1) or statistical area 2 (SA2). They are created, based on population, to be the voting areas within councils. Constituencies are required to reflect communities of interest. Their boundaries, so far as is practicable, coincide with those of territorial authorities or wards. The boundaries of constituencies may be reviewed before each three-yearly local government election. Regional councils must review their representation arrangements at least once every six years. The provisions for such reviews are in the Local Government Act 2002. Constituencies are numbered based on their corresponding regional council. Each constituency has a unique four-digit code. The first two digits represent the regional council that the constituency lies within. The last two digits are sequential and represent the number of constituencies within a regional council. For example, the West Coast Regional Council (12) contains three constituencies, which are coded 1201, 1202, and 1203. Digital boundary data became freely available on 1 July 2007.本数据集为截至2018年1月1日的权威地区议会选区边界集合，由地区议会与地方政府委员会（Local Government Commission）划定，由新西兰统计局（Stats NZ，托管方）维护。选区依据《2001年地方选举法（Local Electoral Act 2001）》设立，源于为选举目的对地区进行的划分。若地区议会决定设立毛利选区，则该地区内的选区分为一般选区与毛利选区。选区是地区议会辖区的划分单元，以统计地块（meshblock）为基准划定，与统计区域1（SA1）及统计区域2（SA2）并不重合。选区基于人口规模划定，作为议会内部的投票区域，需体现利益共同体的诉求；在切实可行的范围内，其边界应与领地当局（territorial authorities）或选区（wards）的边界保持一致。每次三年一度的地方政府选举前，均可对选区边界进行修订。地区议会需至少每六年对其代表席位安排开展一次评估，相关修订条款载于《2002年地方政府法（Local Government Act 2002）》。选区编号依据其所属的地区议会确定，每个选区均配有唯一的四位数编码：前两位代表该选区所属的地区议会，后两位为顺序编号，代表该地区议会下辖的选区序号。例如，西海岸地区议会（West Coast Regional Council）下辖3个选区，编码分别为1201、1202及1203。数字化边界数据于2007年7月1日起免费开放。