You can see who they are on this KCDC webpage
In Waikanae there are 4 candidates for the council seat as there were in 2016, but only two — Michael Scott, the incumbent, and his prime challenger, Iride McCloy — stood last time.
For the community board there are 8 candidates, only 2 of them incumbents (James Westbury and Jocelyn Prvanov). The challengers are Geoffrey & Margaret Stevenson-Wright, Eric Gregory, who was the Chair over 2015-2016 when he was unseated by voters, plus 3 largely unknowns who have not previously stood for anything.
Incumbent WCB members Jeremy Seamark and Tonci Begovich are not seeking reelection; in Jeremy’s case he is still recovering from a brain aneurysm that afflicted him at the beginning of 2018; and in the latter case it’s disillusionment with the role coupled with the need to build his business.
District-wide there are 3 challengers to Mayor Guru and 14 candidates for the 5 district-wide seats. Sitting Crs Buswell, Cardiff, Elliott and Holborow are trying again. David Scott was a councilor until June when the Appeal Court unseated him, but is trying again.
Cr Cootes in Otaki is also trying again — and will probably be successful: although we have clashed with him on issues, he is hard working.
Cr Benton is trying again in Paraparaumu, but we think has a real contest with the other 3 candidates for the 2 ward seats.
Cr Holborow has vacated the Paekakariki seat to stand district-wide. Guy Burns, who contested the seat in 2016, is the odds-on favourite this time.
We’ll profile a few newcomers we like over the next few weeks.
I dont know if I agree with you in the ward with guy burns. I think sophie has more of a shot, I’ll be voting for her.
Although the present council seem to have been quietly changing from a spend, spend, spend and borrow, borrow, borrow, they will just as easily change back again. It will be very interesting too see the mayoral challengers caste in stone manifestos, although to be fair, Guru is a step behind after his 180 on the hated water meters.