Elections Press Releases

Prime Minister John Key congratulates new Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown following today’s announcement that she has been elected to lead the city.

Progress results for the 2010 election show Mayor Bob Parker has been re-elected as Mayor of Christchurch.

Minister of Local Government Hon Rodney Hide today congratulated Len Brown on becoming the first elected Mayor of the new Auckland Council.

Invercargill’s voters have re-elected Tim Shadbolt to serve a sixth term as Mayor, Invercargill City Council Electoral Officer Graham Low announced today. Mr Shadbolt won the Mayoralty with 16,275 votes over Mayoral candidates Suzanne Prentice with 5,311 votes and Carl Heenan with 669 votes.

Rick Cooper has retained his lead by 134 votes ahead of Mark Burton, but the public have voted for change with currently only three of the former councillors in the new line up and Maggie Stewart the only Turangi-Tongariro Community Board member returning.

Mayor Kerry Prendergast has an election night lead of 40 votes over Celia Wade-Brown, but it won’t be known who’s won the race until special votes have been processed. Some 960 special votes were issued. The result may not be known until Wednesday.

Justice Minister Simon Power has said that voters will be able to re-enrol and update their details online for next year’s general election.