New Zealand Political Studies Association (NZPSA) Annual Conference

Constitutional issues
1.00-1.25pm Dean Knight (Victoria University) Constitutional norms in local government: Application, crystallisation, execution.

Voter participation
1.25-1.50pm Matthew Gibbons (Victoria University) Voting and non-voting at local elections: The use of validated big data sets to explore voting in local and general elections.
1.50-2.15pm Kyle Whitfield (Otago University) Youth and local government – do the two ever meet? Participation of young people in local government elections.

Result analysis
2.15-2.40pm Maria Bargh (Victoria University) Māori representation in the 2019 local government elections including Māori constituencies and wards