C&R has held all the seats on Auckland's Entrust for nine years.

How many of the following ingredients would get you interested enough to vote in an election?

* The five successful candidates are paid $60-90,000 for their part-time roles.

* Two of the five candidates may pick up an additional part-time role paying $100,000.

* They oversee a community asset worth $2.1 billion, paying a $350 dividend to 320,000 Aucklanders.

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* One political team has held all the seats for nine years.

* The other main team hints at a possible sell-down of the community asset - which it has denied.

* The encumbent team has inexplicably fractured.

* One team member has a High Court case alleging another was ineligible to stand in 2015 - which the member has denied.

* Two team members say they are now excluded from decision-making.

* The three-strong majority has ousted the chair of a listed company.

* One long-standing team member called that "lacking in transparency, and unprofessional".

* The entity that the five sit on has very little requirement to reveal anything of its business if it chooses not to.

* The chair of the entity has declined to comment to Stuff about a list of questions including legal costs incurred in the squabbles.

* Candidates standing for the entity haven't in living memory faced voters together for a public election campaign meeting.

* Among the 13 candidates are a former cabinet minister and two former MPs.

The three-yearly election of Entrust, formerly the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust, has always been a political sleeper.

It owns 75.1 per cent of the lines company Vector, and was created when power boards were turned into companies in the 1990's.

The "sleeper" label is gone this year with the meltdown inside the centre-right Communities and Residents team (C&R) which has held all five seats since 2009.

Four-term C&R member and trustee James Carmichael failed to be re-selected for the team this year, and soon after began High Court action against fellow team member and former National MP Paul Hutchison.

Hutchison denies the allegation he lived outside the trust area in 2015 and is ineligible.

Carmichael and the longest-standing trustee Karen Sherry are both trust-appointed directors on Vector.

Both are now offside with the three member majority, who withdrew support for long-time Vector chair Michael Stiassny causing him to not seek re-election in November.

The majority has continued to push for an emergency Vector shareholding meeting to dump Stiassny, before his resignation.

Despite the election creating the impression it was a public body, it was actually a private trust. There is no compulsion for Entrust to provide information that it would prefer to withhold.

The infighting is the least well-known political soap opera in Auckland and is not over yet.

Historically, interest in the election has been dismal, with a turnout of 12.84 per cent in 2015.

It's biggest fan base is in C&R heartland, the blue-belt stretching east from Mt Eden, through Orakei to Glendowie, where 16.67 per cent voted.

In some parts of central and southern Auckland, the former Auckland Electric Power Board area, a little more than 1 in 10 bothered to vote.

There are so many storylines still to play out.

Can the left-leaning City Vision team capitalise on its rival's division and grab seats?

Will C&R maintain a united front despite the internal fracas ?

Voting papers come your way - sorry West and North you got given shares in the mid-nineties and sold them - in just four weeks.