{"id":71159,"date":"2025-10-11T02:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71159\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T02:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:07:07","slug":"local-elections-2025-follow-all-the-election-results-as-they-come-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71159\/","title":{"rendered":"Local elections 2025: Follow all the election results as they come in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Council voting systems<\/p>\n

Both the Northland Regional Council and Kaipara District Council use First Past the Post (FPP). <\/p>\n

The voting system means the candidate\/s with the most votes win. <\/p>\n

Both Far North District Council and Whang\u0101rei District Council use Single Transferable Voting (STV). <\/p>\n

Whang\u0101rei District Council made the change this election after having used FPP since 2001<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Under STV, voters are able to rank candidates in terms of preference. <\/p>\n

The results of the voting system are said to more likely reflect the preferences of a greater number of voters since other preferences are taken into account. <\/p>\n

Voter turnout<\/p>\n

Voter turnout for the local elections has reportedly been low around the country. <\/p>\n

In Northland, voter turnout in Kaipara was the highest recorded in six years<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Latest data showed 46.5% of Kaipara\u2019s 18,327 voters had had their say on this year\u2019s candidates.<\/p>\n

In the Far North, 41.4% of the district\u2019s 48,451 eligible voters had returned their ballot papers. <\/p>\n

Whang\u0101rei\u2019s voter turnout was last recorded as 36.3% of an eligible 67,004. <\/p>\n

The Northland Regional Council has a total of 133,713 voters, 39.6% of whom had done so at last count. <\/p>\n

Who are you voting for? <\/p>\n

Whang\u0101rei had 44 candidates. Five were vying for mayor, and the remaining 31 were eyeing 13 available councillor positions across six wards. <\/p>\n

The Whang\u0101rei mayoral candidates are: Vince Cocurullo, Ken Couper, Marie Olsen, Brad Flower, and Fiona Green. <\/p>\n

In the Far North, there were a total of 66 candidates. Three were for mayor while the others were across 10 councillor positions in four wards and 19 community board member spots.<\/p>\n

Far North mayoral candidates are: Moko Tepania, Ann Court, and Joshua Riley. <\/p>\n

Kaipara had 32 candidates to choose from for eight positions made up of the mayor and seven councillors across three wards.<\/p>\n

Kaipara\u2019s mayoral hopefuls are: Ash Nayyar, Jonathan Larsen, Snow Tane and Jason Smith.<\/p>\n

The Northland Regional Council had 23 candidates jostling for nine positions covering six constituencies.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to The Northern Advocate to see results as they land. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council voting systems Both the Northland Regional Council and Kaipara District Council use First Past the Post (FPP).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,1443,5263,806,8615,5903,7797,5346,9189,71,1668,78,12027,440,56427,111,43,139,11225,69,56426,5909,8810,223,8229,1961,1865,1533,1530],"class_list":["post-71159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-about","tag-all","tag-as","tag-come","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-expected","tag-follow","tag-from","tag-front","tag-in","tag-learn","tag-local","tag-midafternoon","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northlanders","tag-nz","tag-progressive","tag-results","tag-runners","tag-the","tag-they","tag-this","tag-today","tag-will","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}