Invercargill City Council’s final election results have confirmed the Mayor of Invercargill is Mayor Nobby Clark with 7357 votes.
Polls for the local government elections closed at midday Saturday.
Invercargill City Council Deputy Electoral Officer Michael Morris said the counting of 594 special votes meant the final two positions would be filled by sitting Councillor Peter Kett and newcomer
Barry Stewart.
The new Council will take office from Friday 14 October, and will be officially sworn in at a ceremony on Thursday 20 October.
Morris said he was happy with the way the Vote Murihiku collaboration ensured the wider Southland community were kept both informed and enabled to vote.
“It was great to be able to share this with Southland District, Gore District and Environment Southland council partners. We all put in a lot of work in our respective areas to present a
cohesive campaign and I think everyone has benefitted from that.”
FINAL RESULTS
Mayoralty
CLARK, Nobby 7,357
BIDDLE, Toni 4,408
LUSH, Marcus 4,376
LUDLOW, Darren 2,089
SHADBOLT, Tim 958
BOND, Ria 610
MORTON, Tom 323
CHERNISHOV, Stevey 176
WALTER, Jacqueline 114
PETERSON, Noel James 91
INFORMAL 61
BLANK VOTING PAPERS 223
Nobby CLARK is declared elected.
Council – At Large (12 vacancies)
SKELT, Nigel Dean 8,390
CAMPBELL, Tom 8,284
LUDLOW, Darren 8,037
POTTINGER, Ian 7,754
DERMODY, Grant 7,736
ARNOLD, Allan 7,575
BOND, Ria 7,205
BOYLE, Trish 6,794
SOPER, Lesley 6,584
CRACKETT, Alex 6,562
KETT, Peter Warren 6,373
STEWART, Barry 6,295
LEWIS, Graham 6,269
KING, Terry 6,108
HAPUKU, Kerry L5,645
AMUNDSEN, Rebecca 5,592
TOU-MCNAUGHTON, Lisa 5,487
MURRELL, Rick 4,688
BROWN, Kevin 4,462
MULROONEY, Kevin 4,324
HERMAN, Karl 4,279
POTTINGER, David 4,151
SMITH, Bevan 4,085
MARSHALL, Peter 3,817
GRABER, Kari 3,658
SHADBOLT, Tim 3,411
ALLEN, Dene 3,402
LOAN, Malcolm 3,174
MORTON, Tom D 2,579
EDWARDS, Ian 2,540
KNOWLES, Francine 2,525
LOUDON, Dave 1,451
PETERSON, Noel James 1,441
BLACKBURN, Eddie 1,200
INFORMAL 87
BLANK VOTING PAPERS 360
Allan ARNOLD, Ria BOND, Trish BOYLE, Tom CAMPBELL, Alex CRACKETT, Grant DERMODY, Peter Warren KETT, Darren LUDLOW, Ian POTTINGER, Nigel Dean SKELT, Lesley SOPER and Barry STEWART are declared elected.
Bluff Community Board (5 vacancies)
TOPI, Tammi 716
SUTHERLAND, Justin 630
FIFE, Ray 561
STOCKWELL, Terina 551
GRAHAM, Sam 279
CHRISTENSEN, Murray 250
TORETTO, Monica 180
BAILEY, Rach 129
JARVIS, Marc 68
FERNANDEZ, Miguel 61
MOORE, Lyn 36
INFORMAL 7
BLANK VOTING PAPERS 15
Ray FIFE, Sam GRAHAM, Terina STOCKWELL, Justin SUTHERLAND and Tammi TOPI are declared elected.
Invercargill Licensing Trust (6 vacancies)
O’BRIEN, Paddy 10,989
PRENTICE, Suzanne 9,571
NEWELL, Angela 7,593
HAWKES (HAWKSY), Graham 6,002
BELLEW, Sean 5,712
CAREY, Sheree 5,389
EVANS, Louise 5,359
MCDONALD, Reece 5,308
DIACK, Kirsten 4,366
BILLCLIFF, Mark 3,372
SANFORD, Mike 2,458
LOWE, Nigel 2,033
INFORMAL 17
BLANK VOTING PAPERS 876
Sean BELLEW, Sheree CAREY, Graham HAWKES (HAWKSY), Angela NEWELL, Paddy O’BRIEN and Suzanne PRENTICE are declared elected.
