Photo: ODT filesClutha residents are being left dizzy by regularly being shuffled between electorates, Clutha District mayor Bryan Cadogan says. Mr Cadogan today told a Representation Commission public hearing in Dunedin that the Clutha territorial authority faced being ‘‘sliced and diced’’ between three electorates if draft electorate boundaries were approved. ‘‘We are being fragmented for no good reason.’’The Representation Commission is set up every six years to determine electorate boundaries for the following two elections. Under the Electoral Act there must be 16 general seats in the South Island, and the commission’s draft borders for the southern electorates have attracted dozens of objections. Public hearings of submissions continue this month; electorate boundaries and names will be finalised in April.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 11, 2020 02:15 UTC