Almost three million voters have enrolled for this year's local elections.
The Electoral Enrolment Centre reported today that 91.3 percent of the eligible population, or a total of 2.956 million people, were on the roll.
Electoral rolls for this year's local council and district health board elections closed last Friday.
Main centre city council enrolment numbers:
• Auckland Council 961,536 or 90.1 percent enrolled;
• Hamilton City Council 93,112 or 89.2 percent;
• Wellington City Council 136,098 or 87.9 percent;
• Christchurch City Council 256,645 or 89 percent;
• Dunedin City Council 86,400 or 86.9 percent.
Full details of the enrolment statistics, including by council, are available from http://www.elections.org.nz/councils/ages/.