{"id":71209,"date":"2025-10-11T02:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71209\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T02:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:43:06","slug":"local-elections-2025-richard-mcgrath-new-napier-mayor-ousts-kirsten-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71209\/","title":{"rendered":"Local elections 2025: Richard McGrath new Napier Mayor, ousts Kirsten Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\n         They do not include<br \/>\n         special votes or votes received this morning.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Preliminary results will be announced on Monday. They include votes received today, but special votes are still not included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Final results and official results include all votes, including special votes. They will be released by Friday October 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">As of Friday afternoon, 38.7% of a total of 46,278 eligible voters had voted in Napier, compared to the final count of 39.55% in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Ahuriri General Ward (3 vacancies)<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Roger Brownlie, Keith Price, and Sally Crown were leading on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Napier Central General Ward (3 vacancies)<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Greg Mawson, Craig Morley and Te Kira Lawrence are leading. McGrath is withdrawn, given his elevation to  Mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Taradale General Ward (3 vacancies)<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Graeme Taylor, Ronda Chrystal, and Nigel Simpson are leading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Te Whanga M\u0101ori Ward (2 vacancies)<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Shyann Raihania and Whare Isaac-Sharland are leading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">M\u0101ori Ward Poll<\/p>\n<p>Vote to remove\u00a0M\u0101ori Ward \u2013 10,067.Vote to keep\u00a0M\u0101ori Ward \u2013 7,162.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They do not include special votes or votes received this morning. Preliminary results will be announced on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,6726,7797,56456,440,10934,56454,3607,117,111,43,139,69,56458,56455,15160,56457],"class_list":["post-71209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-become","tag-elections","tag-kirsten","tag-local","tag-mayor","tag-mcgrath","tag-napier","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ousted","tag-ousts","tag-richard","tag-wise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71209","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=71209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}