Enrol
Enrolment packs arrive early April
Everyone on the electoral roll will be sent an enrolment update pack in the mail in the first two weeks of April 2025. When you receive your pack, open it, and check your details are correct, including your address and email, if you have one. If they’re correct, you don’t need to do anything.
If you need to update your details or change the roll you’re on, do it straight away to make sure your voting papers are sent to you in September. You can update your details online using your New Zealand driver licence, New Zealand passport or RealMe verified identity, or by completing and returning the form in your enrolment pack.
If you’re already on the electoral roll, you can vote in the local elections - your voting papers will be sent to your registered address by 22 September.
If you haven't voted before, you can enrol if you’re:
- 18 or older,
- a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, and
- have lived in New Zealand for more than one year continuously at some time in your life.
To vote in Masterton you need to live in the Masterton District. If you don't live in Masterton but own property here, you can enrol as a non-resident ratepayer elector.
If you enrol or update your address after 1 August 2025, you won’t get your voting papers sent to you in the mail. You’ll need to contact us to make a special vote, organise to make special vote by calling 06 370 6300, emailing harrietk@mstn.govt.nz or dropping into Waiata House, 27 Lincoln Road, Masterton.
Enrol or update your details online, or call 0800 36 76 56 for help.
Māori roll or general roll?
If you’re of New Zealand Māori descent, you can choose to enrol on the Māori roll or the general roll. The roll you choose may affect who you can vote for at local elections.
If you are enrolled and would like to change the roll you are on before the local elections, you need to do it by Thursday 10 July 2025.
