Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Vote: Bills — Local Electoral (Equitable Process for Establishing Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill
— First Reading
🗳️ That the Local Electoral (Equitable Process for Establishing Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill be now read a first time
Moved by
Hon Marama Davidson
(Green Party of Aotearoa / New Zealand — List Member)
MARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Whoo! My goodness, I do not even know where to start. This is a bill to improve Māori representation in local government—the Māori local electoral amendment bill. It is simply to make the process the same as the... Read more →
🛑 Bill failed here — this reading vote failed, and a bill can't proceed
past a failed reading. So even though this isn't the third reading, it's the last we saw
of this bill: it doesn't get another vote after this one.
✕ Failed by a narrow margin
(48 Ayes – 71 Noes)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 0 | 1 |
| Green Party | 14 | 0 |
| Māori Party | 2 | 0 |
| New Zealand First | 0 | 12 |
| New Zealand Labour | 31 | 0 |
| New Zealand National | 0 | 58 |
| United Future | 1 | 0 |