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• 2005 General Election : preliminary results
  Set up by the Chief Electoral Office to show election results.
  
  
• Binding citizens initiated referendums
  Site promoting BCIR (Binding Citizens Initiated Referendums), explaining the objectives of referendums and how the referendum process works. Includes contact details for MPs and newspaper editors.
  
  
• Citizens & Ratepayers : C&R
  Information about the Citizens & Ratepayers party, which is contesting local body elections across Auckland. Includes policies, press releases, and information about candidates.
  
  
• CityVision.org.nz
  Information about City Vision, Auckland City's centre-left local body political group, representing Labour, Greens, Alliance and community independents. Includes policies, candidates, news, and events.
  
  
• Early Wellington. Burgess roll for the Borough of Wellington, 1843.
  Pages 108-110 of the book: Early Wellington compiled by Louis Ward. Includes names and addresses of 152 residents in the Borough of Wellington, 1843. Hyperlinks provide additional information on some residents.
  
  
• Elections New Zealand
  Website of the New Zealand electoral agencies, the Electoral Enrolment Centre, Chief Electoral Office and the Electoral Commission. Designed to encourage New Zealand electors to understand and participate in the electoral process. It includes information about how New Zealand is governed, how to enrol, how to vote, the Maori roll, and electoral news. Resources include publications, statistics, registered political parties.
  
  
• Electorate profiles
  New Zealand parliamentary electorate information in PDF format, with search facility.
  
  
• Free Speech Coalition : speak your mind anytime --
  Site of an organisation formed to fight the threat to free speech posed by the Electoral Finance Act. Includes the activities of the Coalition, a blog, a newsletter, merchandise and supporter messages. It provides the means to make a donation and a list of donors.
  
  
• History of the vote
  Website for the exhibition, based on the book Adventures in democracy: a history of the vote in New Zealand, published Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press in association with the Electoral Commission, 2003. The exhibition traces the evolution of New Zealand's democracy over 150 years.
  
  
• New Zealand Election Study
  The New Zealand Election Study (NZES) is funded by the Foundation for Research, Science, and Technology (FRST). Through the analysis of political behaviour over five successive New Zealand elections it is monitoring the democratic process in New Zealand during a period of social and economic change and, most particularly, during the transition between electoral systems. The site provides a description of NZES and a bibliography of publications, many of which are availble in PDF format.
  
  
• Nzvotes.org
  Information about the 2005 general election for New Zealand voters. Includes details of the main NZ political parties, and their policies, a map and listing of electorates, a guide to voting under MMP, a summary of the NZ 2002 election results, press releases from the major NZ political parties in Parliament, educational resources, and candidate information.
  
  
• Peoples Choice
  Local election campaign website of the organisation, Peoples Choice Manukau. The site provides information on its candidates for the Manukau City Council forthcoming election, a community section including blogs, press articles, an events calendar and photographs of events. Includes online publications.