Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 21, 2023 4:19:49 GMT 12
INTERGENERATIONAL CHANGE RE-SHAPES THE MĀORI ELECTORATES
The result also portends an intergenerational change in Māori voting. While 900,000 Pākehā aged over-50 are the largest voting demographic nationally, over the last three elections rangatahi aged 18-34 have become the largest voting Māori cohort.
This revolution will grow further. Currently, 65% of the Māori population, the under-35 age group, is growing rapidly. Two to five times more new Māori voters, most of them young, opt for the Māori roll in every Māori Electoral Option.
Forthright, assertive, increasingly bi-lingual, confident in identity and ancestry, and educated and street-wise, new Māori leaders are emerging at younger ages....
waateanews.com/2023/10/20/intergenerational-change-re-shapes-the-maori-electorates-special-votes-could-change-some-results/
The result also portends an intergenerational change in Māori voting. While 900,000 Pākehā aged over-50 are the largest voting demographic nationally, over the last three elections rangatahi aged 18-34 have become the largest voting Māori cohort.
This revolution will grow further. Currently, 65% of the Māori population, the under-35 age group, is growing rapidly. Two to five times more new Māori voters, most of them young, opt for the Māori roll in every Māori Electoral Option.
Forthright, assertive, increasingly bi-lingual, confident in identity and ancestry, and educated and street-wise, new Māori leaders are emerging at younger ages....
waateanews.com/2023/10/20/intergenerational-change-re-shapes-the-maori-electorates-special-votes-could-change-some-results/