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Hastings vote to keep Lawrence Yule, Napier's sticking with Bill Dalton in the top seat

Author
NZME staff,
Publish Date
Sat, 8 Oct 2016, 2:42PM
Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule (Herald).

Hastings vote to keep Lawrence Yule, Napier's sticking with Bill Dalton in the top seat

Author
NZME staff,
Publish Date
Sat, 8 Oct 2016, 2:42PM

Hastings District Council’s preliminary election results are in, with Lawrence Yule again elected mayor.

LISTEN ABOVE: Lawrence Yule speaks about the gastro crisis

Incumbent Yule, mayor for 16 years, received 10,458 votes, ahead of contenders Guy Wellwood (7280) and Adrienne Pierce (4480).

The incumbent received a three-thousand vote lead over his closest rival.

He said it was a particularly tough campaign, especially after the Havelock North water disaster.

Yule said some people blamed him for the gastro, and he was never knew how that was going to affect the election results.

The 14 councillors who will join him around the council table (subject to final results) are: George Lyons, Rod Heaps, Ann Redstone, Jacoby Poulan, Henare O'Keefe, Sandra Hazlehurst, Malcolm Dixon, Kevin Watkins, Damon Harvey, Geraldine Travers, Bayden Barber, Simon Nixon and Adrienne Pierce.

Tania Kerr was elected unopposed in her electorate.

Central Hawke's Bay has a new mayor, Alex Walker, who has come out on top in the preliminary count.

She has about twice the vote of rival Sally Butler with just over 3000 votes.

Three current Napier City councillors - Mark Herbert, Mark Hamilton and Michelle Pyke - appear to have lost their seats with 98 per cent of the vote counted in the local government elections.

After 18 years on the council, Mr Herbert lost his Ahuriri seat to Westshore beach campaigner Larry Dallimore.

Ms Pyke, a two-term councillor lost out to former Napier Girls' High School Claire Hague, who is the new face of the six councillors elected in the At-large ward. Kirsten Wise, Tony Jeffery, Richard McGrath, Faye White, and Keith Price all return for another term.

The Nelson Park ward has been filled by running pair Maxine Boag and Apiata Tapine, believed to be the first Maori city councillor in Napier.

In Taradale, Graeme Taylor has retained a seat, and will be joined by former councillor Tania Wright.

An un-opposed Bill Dalton is mayor.

 

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