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Progress results in for Invercargill City Council

Progress results have confirmed the first members of Invercargill City Council, with polls in this year’s local body elections now officially closed.

Polls throughout New Zealand closed at midday on Saturday, 11 October. Progress results delivered to Invercargill City Council at 1 pm have not yet delivered clear winners in the Mayoralty race.

Invercargill City Council Deputy Electoral Officer Michael Morris said sitting councillors Steve Broad and Alex Crackett had been re-elected, having received 9,589 and 8,350 votes respectively.

Tom Campbell is leading the race for the mayoralty with 6,064 votes so far. The next candidate in line, Alex Crackett, has received 4,167 votes — a difference of 1,897 votes.

With 2,256 ordinary votes and 354 special votes yet to be counted, it was not yet possible to determine the outcome for all of the council candidates or the winner of the race for the top job, he said.

Meanwhile, of the seven candidates standing for the Bluff Community Board, the top five at the time of the progress vote return were Jo Eruera, Justin Sutherland, Ray Fife, Haylee Simeon, and Frazer Murdoch.

For the Invercargill Licensing Trust, which has six vacancies, the leading contenders were Paddy O’Brien, Suzanne Prentice, Angela Newell, Graham Hawkes, Sheree Carey, and Nick Jeffrey.

Progress results include all votes cast up until late on Friday, 10 October. However, these do not include the final votes cast yesterday or any votes returned to ballot boxes today. Progress results also do not include special votes.

Preliminary results were expected on Sunday and would include all votes except for special votes, Morris said.

It had been pleasing to see the community engaged in the local body elections, he said.
“Our community is a passionate and vocal one, and it was great to see that translate into a turnout of voters who were motivated to help guide their city through the next three years.”