Canterbury's Urban-Rural Voter Split 2004

Claire Browning is interested in the representation weighting between rural and urban constituencies of Environment Canterbury's councillors. In 2004, the 8 urban councillors represented 43,012 voters each. The 6 rural councillors represented 29,417 voters each.

The rural to urban weighting of Ecan constituencies for 2004 and 2007 is found in 'Local Government Commission Determination of the representation arrangements to apply for the election of the Canterbury Regional Council to be held on 13 October 2007', by Sue Piper (Chair) and Gwen Bull (Commissioner), 10 April 2007. (http://www.lgc.govt.nz/lgcwebsite.nsf/Files/CanterburyRC2007/$file/CanterburyRC2007.pdf)

Environment Canterbury constituencies 2004 local body election
Constituency	Type	Population	Councillors	Population/councillor
Waitaki	Rural	12,300	1	12,300
Ashburton	Rural	26,700	1	26,700
North Canterbury	Rural	55,300	2	27,650
Selwyn-Banks Peninsula	Rural	39,100	1	39,100
South Canterbury	Rural	43,100	1	43,100
		176,500	6	29,417
East Christchurch	Urban	81,300	2	40,650
West Christchurch	Urban	85,200	2	42,600
South Christchurch	Urban	85,500	2	42,750
North Christchurch	Urban	92,100	2	46,050
		344,100	8	43,012
Total		520,600	14	37,186