Innes ward
One of Christchurch City Council’s sixteen electoral wards, the ground that elects one councillor, centred on Saint Albans, Mairehau, Edgeware, Shirley and 1 more. Its community board is Papanui-Innes-Central.
The boundary
The council’s own electoral boundary in ink; the suburb outlines inside it. A suburb belongs where its centre falls, an address near an edge can sit in the neighbouring ward.
The suburbs inside it
A suburb counts where its centre falls, the ward edges the council drew don’t always follow suburb lines.
The reports on its ground
30,377 council reports filed under the suburbs it centres on, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 24,254 with a photograph. The newest:
The crash record
1,295 crashes that hurt somebody on record across the suburbs it centres on, 16 people killed, 261 seriously hurt. The corner that keeps appearing: Marshland Road at Prestons Road, 50 injury crashes. A crash counts under the suburb its point landed in.
How long the council takes here
The median council work order in Innes ward took 3 days to resolve, th fastest of 16 wards, on the jobs the council has finished. The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 840 tickets are open in the ward now, the oldest filed 8 Oct 2018.
MyCouncilTicket, the council’s own work-order stream, 35,619 finished jobs counted inside this ward’s boundary. A median counts only closed work; what is still open is named as open. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.
Who decides here
Pauline Cotter holds the seat, The People’s Choice, declared 16 October 2025. The ward enrolled 17,951 electors; 6,280 papers came back, 35% of them. The council’s elected-members list is the live record, a by-election can move the name between this site’s bakes.
The Papanui-Innes-Central community board is the local layer under it. The mechanics: how community boards work · how councils work · how local elections run · what rates buy.
Questions, answered briefly
One of Christchurch City Council’s sixteen electoral wards, the ground that elects one councillor at each triennial election. This page counts the public record inside its boundary: 23,925 council reports across 5 suburbs.
Saint Albans, Mairehau, Edgeware, Shirley, Marshland, a suburb counts where its centre falls; ward edges don’t always follow suburb lines.
Papanui-Innes-Central, the board the ward’s councillor also sits on.
Pauline Cotter (The People’s Choice), declared 16 October 2025. The council’s own elected-members list is the live record, a by-election can move the name between this site’s bakes.
The record behind this
The boundary comes from the council’s electoral layer, the same map the elections run on. The suburb list is a centre-point join, so a suburb that straddles a boundary counts under the ward its centre sits in; the suburb pages say the same from the other side. Report counts are the suburb records' own.
Every ward and board: /wards. This page as markdown: /wards/innes.md.