Deputy keen to replace mayor

NOMINATED: Deputy mayor John Booth. PHOTO/LYNDA FERINGA

Deputy mayor John Booth has been nominated to stand for the Carterton mayor byelection.

Mr Booth has been Carterton's acting mayor since Ron Mark resigned to take up his role as an MP for NZ First.

Nominations for the mayoralty close at noon on October 28.

If no other nominations are received, Mr Booth will be elected unopposed and no byelection would be required.

Carterton District Council chief executive Colin Wright said Mr Booth had been nominated by Dick Booth and Neil Wadham.

"At this stage he is the only nomination for the mayoralty elections ... he was one that was expected - he is the deputy mayor at the moment."

However, if a byelection is required, delivery of voting documents will start on December 2 and voting will close at noon on Christmas Eve.

If a sitting councillor becomes mayor, a second byelection would be needed to fill the councillor vacancy.