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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Get to our reporters around the country for the results.
For those who did vote, Callum Proctor and Dneedan. Callum,
good morning, your morning. Right, So Jules Radick's gone? Who's
Sophie Barker.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Sophie Barker is well, the previous deputy and now the
mayor elect of Duned and confirmation late last night actually
of Dunedin's preliminary results, they confirm that Sophie Barker is
now our new mayor elect, with an updated margin of
more than seven hundred votes over second placed Andrew Simms.
Here the incumbent Jewels Raddick came in third in the end,
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he'll remain on council, though he says he's celebrating his
wins as mayor, including shifting the council's focus to infrastructure
and doubling spending on water. Elsewhere in the South Go
Mayor Ben Bale's been re elected after a tumultuous three years,
and John Glover has unseated Glenn Lewis. In Queenstown, Tom
Campbell's replaced outgoing Nobby Clarke and Inviicargo.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
How's your weather?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Showers today, possibly heavy in thundery this afternoon. Easterly wins
the high twelve.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Cheers Callum Claire christ Morning Claire, Good morning. Major back
in charge. Hasn't quite got the council he wanted those.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Phil Major has been re elected mayor with a decisive
victory in the end over outgoing councilor Sarah Templeton. But
the troubler is fulfilled Major he'll once again lead a
left leaning council. This was tipped to be a very
tight race, but in the end Major walked away with
twenty thousand more votes. News Talks he'd be was with
Major in his living room after the results came through.
He told us he would have liked counsel to look
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a bit different c Ie, perhaps a little less left leaning,
but it has worked for the past three years and
he'll make it work again. Meanwhile, Counselor Lydia Glidden swept
to power in Selwyn, unseating Sam Broughton in a landside
victory Dan Gordon. He's been re elected in wy Marcaretti,
while eighty two year old transgender woman Jackie Grant's been
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leading in Westland. She's on track to unseat Helen lash On.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Very good, how's your weather.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Some cloudy periods, but of scattered rain around midday in
north least turning easterly and we should make twenty degrees.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Cheers, clear sounds, BARMEI have a nice day Mix in Wellington.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Morning Mix, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Now what's the biggest story? Is it Tory or is
it Andrew?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Good question? You know, it could have been an interesting
race had Torri Fano stayed in, perhaps Ray Chung may
have had a better shot. Perhaps that could have been
said before his old gossiping ways came back to haunt him.
I think Andrew dil would have still run, and once
he announced he was running, I think it was effectively over.
You talk about the rest of the country, but Wellington
has shown itself to be a liberal town still Andrew
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little coasting home to the Meryalty some success, I think
in coming runner up for a local businessman, Kyle Tiefenbaker.
But the two big stories I think are the left
majority actually increasing at council level, a lot of labour
now around that table. Tory Fanno of course not being
able to win a seat at all, defeated by Matthew
at Awti in the Marii ward. The final hammer coming
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down on her Merylty, finding it guilty of incompetence. Big
local name Ken Laban winning a Lower Hut That wasn't surprising,
but what was as well was Perry z. I'm told
it's pronounced za, but I don't believe it looking at it.
Beating the batter than Wayne Guppy was quite intriguing. She's
Appahad's first new mayor in twenty four years, campaigning on
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revantilizing the central city. What city there is? This central street?
The central street, she says, is daying. People are going
to Lower Hut to shop. She's an urban planner and
transport advisors, so quite intriguing to see her beat Wayne
Guppy there.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Sadly is geez, you pecked a lot in the max.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
How's your weather? Cloudy, rainey, strong winds sixteen.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Nice j one, thank you, enjoy and Michael sergles with
us in Auckland morning. Michael, good morning. Now you've been
right across this all weekend. And Wayne Brown is back.
Lots of new councilors in Auckland too.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yes, four councilors have retired and been replaced, and one
of Wayne Brown's sort of endorsed candidates has replaced one
of his opponents, so a quarter of the council will
be new. Wayne Brown says he's ready to get a
new team together. Elsewhere, former National Minister to Macando will
be the new mayor of Hamilton and a blast from
the past, Nandel Tanjil remember him. Yeah, he's on track
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to be the new mayor of Fokatane.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
He's still got the same dreads. I think it's sitting
in a select committee room and this is when I
was like very young and he used to go and
watch Parliament because I was a geek. And he was
sitting there in a chair and he leaned back and
his entire dread, which he had up in like a
beehive thing, fell off his head onto the floor and
he dragging it around the room, even picks it up,
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pops it back on. Anyway, Now he's a mayor.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
And he's actually campaigned for higher rates rises, so he's
probably the only one of the country doing that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
In terms of national trends, initial numbers show turn out
hovering around that thirty three percent mark, but there are
lots of late and special votes that will push that
number up, lots of really, really close races at this
election in the Far North, the top three candidates there's
just thirty one votes between those top three candidates, so
it could go either way or any of those three
ways in that particular race. Miyas who oversaw large rate
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rises either opting to stand aside or being unseated. And
lots of cases, more than half of me is who
are now in charge of councils weren't in charge during
the COVID pandemic went in charge more than three years ago.
Only a handful of now been in the job more
than six years. Okay, interesting, how's our weather showers turning
to rain this evening? Northwesterly's twenty two degrees Michael, thank
you for more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
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