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Rakaia now belongs to Selwyn
BY SUE NEWMAN
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The people of Rakaia have become the Rangitata Electorate’s sacrificial lamb in the redraw of electoral boundaries. The Electoral Commission was forced to play a juggling game as it moved the lines between electorates to reshape those that had exceeded or plunged below population guidelines. The draft boundaries were released yesterday. With a population of 64,142, the Rangitata Electorate was seven times over the permitted 5 per cent variance on the 59,679 quota and a cluster of 1600 people in and around Rakaia township have been pushed into the Selwyn Electorate. The new boundary dividing Selwyn and Rangitata runs from Wolseley Road in Rakaia, down Ulundi Road, along Thompson’s Track to State Highway 1 as far as Waddells Road where it travels towards the coast joining Kyle Road at the Pendarves-Rakaia Road corner. It then swings into Awaroa School Road and then turns into Mainwarings Road. For the people of Rakaia, finding they
were destined to be part of the Selwyn Electorate was a huge disappointment, said community association chairman Neil Pluck. “We don’t see ourselves as part of Selwyn at all. We have a relationship that’s been built up over a period of time with Jo Goodhew ... the relationship is there, she’s connected to us,” he said. With Rakaia in the Selwyn Electorate and the rest of the district in the Rangitata Electorate, Mr Pluck said it would be complex when a member of parliament needed to be involved in district-wide issues. In having its political representation moved north, Mr Pluck said Rakaia wasn’t stepping into unknown territory as it had always had strong links with the area and the people across the Rakaia River. Once he’d had a chance to talk to the community and get their thoughts on the boundary change, Mr Pluck said the option of lodging an objection from the community association on the new boundary lines would be considered.
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