Final Results Out

Deputy Mayor kept busy in the battlefield

Mayor busy organising ready for new Council and its respective committees

 

 

Seems today have been a busy day today and for the right reasons rather than the rather sewerage reasons of recent.

This afternoon the final election results in the 2013 Local Government Elections came out for Auckland.

From Auckland Council via Scoop NZ

Auckland Council election final results

Final results for the Auckland Council elections confirm incumbent Mayor Len Brown has been re-elected for a second term with 55,410 votes ahead of his nearest rival John Palino.

On the basis of the final results, in the Whau ward, Ross Clow has beaten incumbent councillor Noelene Raffills by 51 votes.

This means that Mr Clow can no longer take up the position he won on the Whau Local Board. That position will pass to the next highest polling and unsuccessful candidate, Ami Chand.

The results also confirm the preliminary results that incumbent councillors Richard Northey (Maungakiekie-Tamaki) and Ann Hartley (North Shore) lost their seats. The new councillors-elect are Denise Krum for Maungakiekie-Tamaki and Chris Darby on the North Shore.

On the Great Barrier Island Local Board, the preliminary results had a tie for the fifth spot between Christina Spence and Nikki Watts on 208 votes each.

The final result is still tied with 220 votes each. The ballot will now be decided by lot under supervision of the New Zealand Police.

In other close results, in the Waitakere Licensing Trust Ward 1 (Te Atatu), Tracy Kirkley lost by 22 votes to John Tamihere and in the Waitakere Licensing Trust Ward 3 (Waitakere), Judy Lawley lost by two votes to Steve Tollestrup.

There were 1600 special votes, some of them needing to be verified with the Electoral Commission to ensure the voter is enrolled on the electoral roll. This check covered people who have recently moved address, re-enrolled or just turned 18. If they were not enrolled, their vote was not valid. If their vote was valid then it was among the special votes counted.

The results will be published on http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz and publicly notified on 21 October.

An unsuccessful candidate can request a judicial recount. This must be made within three days of the public declaration on 21 October and the application must be made to a District Court judge. The judge must be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for the recount, which must be undertaken as soon as practicable after the judge receives the application.

The final results for the Mayor are:

		Final Result
Issue: Mayor (1)		Date: 17/10/2013
Auckland Council		Time: 14:06:00
Candidate	Affiliation	Candidate No	Votes Received	Rank
BERRY, Stephen	Affordable Auckland	101	13650
BRIGHT, Penny	Independent	102	11723
BROWN, Len	Independent	103	164338	1
BUTLER, Jesse		104	1465
CHEEL, Tricia		105	1214
DUFFY, Paul		106	3083
GOODE, Matthew		107	2116
HUSSEY, Emmett	Independent	108	2974
KRUGER, Susanna Susara	Independent	109	2173
MINTO, John	Mana Movement	110	11591
O’CONNOR, Phil	Christians Against Abortion	111	3032
PALINO, John	Independent	112	108928
SHADBOLT, Reuben	Independent	113	3152
UNASA, Uesifili	Independent	114	8040
VERMUNT, Annalucia	Communist League	115	856
WILLMOTT, David	Roads First	116	1647
YOUNG, Wayne	Working for the Homeless	117	3943
INFORMAL		118	1584
BLANK		119	7147

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Deputy Mayor been kept busy in the battlefield

 

The battlefield folks being Auckland. I have noted while the affair over the Mayor has been ongoing our Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse has been out in Auckland tending to events and happenings. I also noted this morning that the Deputy Mayor was up in Orewa this morning checking alongside the Local Board on storm damage to the area after the violent winds Auckland suffered from recently.

Look I be straight, Penny said a city had to be run and she has stepped up very well performing the duties as well – “acting” Mayor (in the field) (while a sewerage problem gets dealt with else where and being a nasty distraction). Kudos and applause to our Deputy Mayor in keeping the city running and will hopefully see Penny tomorrow at the Generation Zero Micro Conference.

 

Mayor busy organising ready for new Council and its respective committees

However, while our Deputy Mayor (or acting Mayor – in the field) has been busy out in Auckland, our Mayor-Mayor has been busy with the 20 Councillors over the last two days. From what I have gleamed from social media remarks Mayor Len Brown has been meeting Councillors one-by-one discussing aspirations, strengths and of course policy. I would also be at a hazard-to-guess that Committees were discussed as well today as they and the chair of those respective committees get sorted out ready for October 29th.

So busy busy behind the scenes and what often gets missed in the media. The final results are out, our Deputy Mayor has been busy in the field and the Mayor is busy preparing the Council and Committees for the new term ahead. Boring stuff but critical stuff in running the city.

 

Oh once the full table of results is out I will post it ip.