Invercargill City Councillors Preliminary Results Confirmed

Invercargill City Council’s preliminary election results have confirmed the position of new Mayor Nobby Clark and several returning and new Councillors.
Polls for the local government elections closed at midday Saturday.

Preliminary results delivered on Sunday afternoon, after a slight delay, confirmed Invercargill has elected Nobby Clark to be Mayor, with 7260 votes.

Invercargill City Council Deputy Electoral Officer Michael Morris said the update had resulted in one change to the progress results announced yesterday, with (Let’s Go Invercargill) candidate Barry Stewart moving ahead of Graham Lewis.

With only 594 special votes still to be counted, sitting Councillors Lesley Soper and Alex Crackett will also be returned, and Ria Bond and Trish Boyle were also confirmed as new councillors, he said.

The return of sitting councillors Nigel Skelt, Darren Ludlow, Ian Pottinger and Allan Arnold (Let’s Go Invercargill), and new Councillors Tom Campbell (Let’s Go Invercargill) and Grant Dermody (Let’s Go Invercargill) were confirmed in yesterday’s progress results.

The final two positions, currently filled by sitting Councillor Peter Kett and Barry Stewart, would be confirmed in the final results due this week, Morris said. The voter return, excluding special votes, is currently at 51.8%, being 20,357 votes.

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Preliminary Results Mayoralty

• CLARK, Nobby 7,260 (Let’s Go Invercargill)
• BIDDLE, Toni 4,303
• LUSH, Marcus 4,262
• LUDLOW, Darren 2,047
• SHADBOLT, Tim 935

BOND, Ria Independent 595
MORTON, Tom 317
CHERNISHOV, Stevey 168
WALTER, Jacqueline Independent 110
PETERSON, Noel James 84

Council – At Large (12 vacancies)

1. SKELT, Nigel Dean 8,242
2. CAMPBELL, Tom 8,177 (Let’s Go Invercargill)
3. LUDLOW, Darren 7,876
4. POTTINGER, Ian 7,631
5. DERMODY, Grant 7,628 (Let’s Go Invercargill)
6. ARNOLD, Allan 7,470 (Let’s Go Invercargill)
7. BOND, Ria 7,050
8. BOYLE, Trish 6,676
9. SOPER, Lesley 6,460
10. CRACKETT, Alex 6,424
11. KETT, Peter Warren 6,295
12. STEWART, Barry 6,205 (Let’s Go Invercargill)

LEWIS, Graham 6,192
KING, Terry 6,021
HAPUKU, Kerry 5,546 (Let’s Go Invercargill)
AMUNDSEN, Rebecca 5,481
TOU-MCNAUGHTON, Lisa 5,346
MURRELL, Rick 4,613
BROWN, Kevin 4,404 (Let’s Go Invercargill)
MULROONEY, Kevin 4,258
HERMAN, Karl 4,210 (Let’s Go Invercargill)
POTTINGER, David 4,080
SMITH, Bevan 4,020
MARSHALL, Peter 3,751 (Let’s Go Invercargill)
GRABER, Kari 3,582
SHADBOLT, Tim 3,332
ALLEN, Dene 3,328
LOAN, Malcolm 3,131
MORTON, Tom D 2,529
EDWARDS, Ian 2,489
KNOWLES, Francine 2,471
LOUDON, Dave 1,422
PETERSON, Noel James 1,403
BLACKBURN, Eddie 1,178

Bluff Community Board (5 vacancies)

• TOPI, Tammi 707
• SUTHERLAND, Justin 621
• FIFE, Ray 554
• STOCKWELL, Terina 544
• GRAHAM, Sam 277
  CHRISTENSEN, Murray 247
  TORETTO, Monica 177
  BAILEY, Rach 125
  JARVIS, Marc 65
  FERNANDEZ, Miguel 59
  MOORE, Lyn New Nation Party 35

Invercargill Licensing Trust (6 vacancies)

1. O’BRIEN, Paddy 10,802
2. PRENTICE, Suzanne 9,394
3. NEWELL, Angela 7,465
4. HAWKES (HAWKSY), Graham 5,922
5. BELLEW, Sean 5,627
6. CAREY, Sheree 5,294

EVANS, Louise 5,254
MCDONALD, Reece 5,215
DIACK, Kirsten 4,285
BILLCLIFF, Mark 3,307
SANFORD, Mike 2,416
LOWE, Nigel 1,996