Congratulations to the newly elected Mayor, Councillors and Wanaka Community Board.

Based on provisional results (98% of the votes cast), the successful candidates are:

Mayor – Jim Boult

Council – Penny Clark, “Ferg” Ferguson, Alexa Forbes, Tony Hill, John MacDonald and Valerie Miller in the Queenstown/Wakatipu Ward; Ella Lawton, Calum MacLeod and Ross McRobie in the Wanaka Ward, and Scott Stevens in Arrowtown.

Wanaka Community Board: Rachel Brown, Ruth Harrison, Quentin Smith and Ed Taylor.

The full provisional results are below. They don’t include votes received in Queenstown or Wanaka this morning, and special votes. These will be included in the final count this week. We expect to declare the results by the end of the week.

The progress result for the Queenstown Lakes District Council elections held on Saturday 8th October is as follows.

This result is based upon the counting of approximately 98% of the returned votes.  The progress result does not include some special votes and votes returned today that are still in transit to the processing centre.  The outcome of these elections may change once all votes have been counted.

 

MAYORALTY

Boult, Jim:  5,531

Cocks, Lyal:  2,409

Tompkins, Roger:  954

Mann, John:  845

Angus, Al:  654

Informal:  6

Blank:  192

 

QUEENSTOWN-WAKATIPU WARD (6 vacancies)

Hill, Tony: 3,258

Forbes, Alexa: 2,847

Miller, Valerie:  2,695

Ferguson, Craig (Ferg):  2,562

Penny Clark: 2,233

MacDonald, John:  2,062

 

Anderson, Terri: 1,967

Faul, Peter: 1,923

Aoake, Merv: 1,599

Stamers-Smith, Simon: 1,414

Turnbull, Hudson: 1,303

Gladding, Nikki: 1,238

Ramsay, Michael: 961

Maruera, Tamati Daniel:  666

Informal: 6

Blank : 99

 

WANAKA WARD (3 vacancies)

MacLeod, Calum:  3,110

Lawton, Ella: 2,459

McRobie, Ross: 1,850

 

Battson, Jude: 1,670

Smith, Quentin: 1,560

Informal: 6

Blank: 56

 

WANAKA COMMUNITY BOARD (4 vacancies)

Taylor, Ed: 2,357

Brown, Rachel: 2,306

Smith, Quentin: 2,050

Harrison, Ruth: 1,745

 

Lloyd, Bryan: 1,724

O’Connor, Mike: 1,435

Bruce, Barry: 1,272

Informal: 0

Blank: 100

 

The voter return was 51.58%, being 10,899 votes, excluding votes in transit to the processing centre and special votes.