Waimairi ward
One of Christchurch City Council’s sixteen electoral wards, the ground that elects one councillor, centred on Avonhead, Russley. Its community board is Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood.
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
6,391 council reports filed under the suburbs it centres on, most often Trees & parks and Roads & footpaths, 4,896 with a photograph. The newest:
The crash record
313 crashes that hurt somebody on record across the suburbs it centres on, 9 people killed, 80 seriously hurt. The corner that keeps appearing: State Highway 1S at Ryans Road, 13 injury crashes. A crash counts under the suburb its point landed in.
How long the council takes here
The median council work order in Waimairi ward took 6 days to resolve, th fastest of 16 wards, on the jobs the council has finished. The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 585 tickets are open in the ward now, the oldest filed 24 Dec 2018.
MyCouncilTicket, the council’s own work-order stream, 22,728 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
Sam MacDonald holds the seat, Independent Citizens, declared 16 October 2025. The ward enrolled 17,377 electors; 6,441 papers came back, 37.1% 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 Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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: 4,944 council reports across 2 suburbs.
Avonhead, Russley, a suburb counts where its centre falls; ward edges don’t always follow suburb lines.
Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood, the board the ward’s councillor also sits on.
Sam MacDonald (Independent Citizens), 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/waimairi.md.