Voting Local 2010
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JLM,
Dunedin and Wellington are both STV - that will take longer.
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The incumbent Hokitika mayor, Maureen Pugh, has retained her office.
YAY! indeed for Auckland, but yah boo sucks for the CHCH result.
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JLM,
Pasted these from the Herald - can someone tell me what they mean - are both names elected?
Rodney ward:
Penny Webster 8063
Christine Rose 5553Albany ward
Michael Goudie 8538
Wayne Walker 8007North Shore ward
George Wood 14,116
Ann Hartley 12,767Waitakere ward
Penny Hulse 16,875
Sandra Coney 12,567Waitemata and Gulf ward
Mike Lee 10,523
Alex Swney 4979Whau ward
Noelene Mary Raffills 7158
Ross Clow 6740Albert-Eden-Roskill ward
Chris Fletcher 19,492
Cathy Casey 14,081Orakei ward
Cameron Brewer 17,021
Doug Armstrong 10,433Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward
Richard Northey 8614
Alred Ngaro 6880Howick ward
Sharon Stewart 22,537
Jami-Lee Ross 18,382 -
At least an actual majority voted, 50.54% in ChurChur.
For local body elections that is good.It does look like there has been a small gain in the left on council. But a lot of unknown quantities out there.
As the Mayor has one vote that might work to hold him back a bit, this time.
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can someone tell me what they mean - are both names elected?
Yes.
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Tim Shadbolt has hosed in in Invercargill.
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I thought this was funny, from the first Herald story:
Mr Brown polled 221,167 votes, compared to 161,167 votes for Mr Banks, a victory by 60,198 votes, according to the first progress result declared after the polls closed at midday.
Businessman Colin Craig was in third place with 60,198 votes.
The numbers seem too perfect - a margin between the two leading candidates exactly equal to the third place getter - and it was, of course, wrong. The replacement there now isn't much better:
Mr Brown polled 221,167 votes, compared to 161,167 votes for Mr Banks, a victory by 60,198 votes, according to the first progress result declared after the polls closed at midday.
Businessman Colin Craig was in third place with 40,483 votes.
The tallies of the first and second are the same as the first story, but still aren't right - the numbers they give don't have a difference of 60,198 votes, but exactly 60,000 votes. Maybe those are the fake votes? :-)
Someone should get John Banks comments on the real numbers, though:
He had not dissected why he lost, but noted the 60,000 votes won by "another first-class candidate" - a reference to business-minded Colin Craig.
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JLM,
Not according to the updated herald which has put in the number of seats per ward. They make it:
Rodney ward:
Penny Webster 8063
Albany ward
Michael Goudie 8538
Wayne Walker 8007North Shore ward
George Wood 14,116
Ann Hartley 12,767Waitakere ward
Penny Hulse 16,875
Sandra Coney 12,567Waitemata and Gulf ward
Mike Lee 10,523
Whau ward
Noelene Mary Raffills 7158
Albert-Eden-Roskill ward
Chris Fletcher 19,492
Cathy Casey 14,081Orakei ward
Cameron Brewer 17,021
Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward
Richard Northey 8614
Howick ward
Sharon Stewart 22,537
Jami-Lee Ross 18,382http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10679274
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Any idea when we can expect the Wellington results?
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Any idea when we can expect the Wellington results?
I'm told around six.
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I'm imagining John Key and Rodney Hide com ing out of a hastily called meeting on "What to do about Auckland Now" and Nelson Muntz standing there going "ha-ha!"
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From: Judy Martin's southern slough
A digression I know, but .. how do you pronounce this, Judy?
Slow rhyming with cow?
Slow rhyming with, well, slow?
Slew?
Sluff?
Sloff? -
Bob Parker's just won Christchurch, too.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo.......
....aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhHHHHH!the election poster
the result!
I don't think I can take another
3 years of this Joker.... -
So do you think they'll sack Brown and appoint commissioners straight off, or wait till after the Nats get re-elected?
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JLM,
A digression I know, but .. how do you pronounce this, Judy?
Slow rhyming with cow?
Slow rhyming with, well, slow?
Slew?
Sluff?
Sloff?I go with the "cow" version, myself Carol, not that I know for sure - one of the hazards of being a reader before a listener.
Not despondent at all at the moment, especially anticipating good election results from Dunedin
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Ah thanks Judy, in your southern slough-rhyming-with-cow, and hope you are pleased with your local results.
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JLM,
Congratulations to Christopher Dempsey and Julie Fairey - two names I recognize from this community. Are there any more?
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Does anyone know how the Auckland Council results breakdown by left/right?
Cit/Rats and City Vision?
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Both established factions short of overall majorities, C&R down to 5. Seen nothing very authoritative yet, Orsman seems bit light on detail and others have painted a far closer left/right balance.
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Does anyone know how the Auckland Council results breakdown by left/right?
Cit/Rats and City Vision?
Don't actually think that's a very useful way of looking at it. Whoever won the headline race, I thought they'd need some pretty strong people, from both left and right, to provide a reality check on a pair of desperately mediocre, platitude-addled candidates. Don't think we've done too badly.
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"slough" can be pronounced slew, sloff, sluff, or ryhme with cow - depending on where you live.
The Heinemann NZ dictionary gives the pronunciations "rhymes with cow" (for a swampy area) and "sluff" (for casting off, as in a crayfish sloughing its shell.) -
Ian D - just had an email from whanau (who had printed out the poster and had it taped to the back window of his van):
"Fuck it, that does it. We're moving to Dunedin."
Sideshow Bob - worse than the earthquake...
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Lara,
Bob Parker's just won Christchurch, too.
Not happy at all....
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JLM,
And he's calling it a mandate...
Meanwhile, Prendergast leading Wade-Brown by 40 votes. Go Ceila!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/local-elections-2010/4215814/Wellington-too-close-to-call
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Not happy at all....
Neither is Jim Anderton, whose performance on One News was spectacularly churlish. Here's an FYI: When you're being outclassed by John Banks you've scored the mother of all #epicfail.
(And speaking of One News, perhaps this wasn't the occasion for a cheap and stupid attempt to score a point off Rodney Hide? FFS, the Local Government Minister wasn't going to pull a Tizzard and bitch Len Brown so quit fucking trolling.)
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