western Heights School, Rotorua

 Voting Officials from 9KE

Landslide for Maxwell

Who will be Mayor? Who will be our Councillors? These are the decisions that Year 9 Social Studies students of Western Heights High School in Rotorua had to make on their voting day in October 2007. The voting procedures were overlooked by Mrs Wood (our teacher) and our elected Returning Officer Joe O'Donoghue. 

The students came up and received their voting paper for their particular ward and were marked off our electoral roll.  They then waited until they were permitted to enter the voting booth to cast their vote.  After they had cast their vote, they were given a sticker that indicated that they had voted.

The following week, six students were then selected to count the cast votes made by all the year 9 students for the final election results. The final results were:

Western Heights Year 9 Voting Results

Election of Mayor         Lee, Cliff                             23

                                    Maxwell, Trevor                 105

                                    Raukawa-Tait, Merepeka    15

                                    Thurston, Lyall                  26

                                    Winters, Kevin                   50

 The following candidates were elected for Wards:

 North ward:

                                    Hunt, Karen

                                    Martin, Bob

                                    Sturt, Charles

South Ward:

                                    Nathan, Oscar

                                    Folley, Kathy

                                    Deverson, Alan

East Ward

                                    Judd, Russell

                                    Gould, Mark

                                    Bentley, Maggie

West Ward

                                    Maxwell, Trevor

                                    Wepa, Janet

                                    Kenny, Geoff

  Written by Ben Hopper and Elisha Meihana