Nominations for October’s election closed at noon yesterday and while there were no lines forming outside Dunedin’s electoral office, a handful of candidates arrived to submit their paperwork in the final half-hour.
Waikouaiti Coast Community Board candidate Stefan Mutch, of Waikouaiti, said people had been asking him to run for the community board, where he was confident he could make "meaningful change".
"I woke up this morning going, ‘[I’ve] had a good sleep, I’ll do it’.
"So I wandered in, and they said, ‘cool, you’ve got an hour and a-half to get your nominations, your photograph, your bank statements, all of the bits and pieces [in]’."
Mr Mutch said he had two nominators lined up but they were both working from home, leading to a last-minute scramble to find people to sign his nomination.
He made it with five minutes to spare.
Not so lucky was one prospective community board candidate, whose two nominators were not on the electoral roll and therefore not able to nominate him.
Faced with the prospect of finding two enrolled people living within his community board area in the 15 minutes before nominations closed, he chose to withdraw his nomination.
