{"id":71452,"date":"2025-10-11T05:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71452\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:46:07","slug":"local-elections-2025-hawkes-bay-regional-council-restanding-councillors-keep-their-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/71452\/","title":{"rendered":"Local elections 2025: Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Council restanding councillors keep their seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preliminary results will be announced on Monday. They include votes received today, but special votes are still not included.<\/p>\n

Current councillor Neil Kirton and chair Hinewai Ormsby were on Saturday in the box seat to be elected to the Ahuriri ward, while Jerf van Beek won the Ng\u0101ruroro ward. Jock Mackintosh and Sophie Siers were the top polling councillors in the Heretaunga ward and retain their seats as a result.<\/p>\n

There will still be several fresh faces on council due to seats being vacated by Martin Williams, Xan Harding, Charles Lambert and new Central Hawke\u2019s Bay mayor Will Foley.<\/p>\n

Louise Parsons, who has been outspoken in her criticism over HBRC\u2019s response to Cyclone Gabrielle, will now be sitting at the table contributing to decisions on it.<\/p>\n

The race for the Tamatea-Central Hawke\u2019s Bay seat vacated by Foley will go to the wire with Tony Kuklinski and Tim Aitken separated by 17 votes.<\/p>\n

Voters in the council\u2019s M\u0101ori ward referendum chose to remove it.<\/p>\n

Ahuriri\/Napier Regional Constituency (3 vacancies) Votes Received<\/p>\n

KIRTON, Neil 9,325<\/p>\n

PARSONS, Louise 7,984<\/p>\n

ORMSBY, Hinewai 7,267<\/p>\n

BROWNE, Hayley 6,809<\/p>\n

BAILEY, Paul 4,917<\/p>\n

IQBAL, Syed Khurram 4,049<\/p>\n

The voter return percentage was 40.41%, being 16,698 votes, excluding votes in transit to the processing centre and special votes.<\/p>\n

Ng\u0101ruroro Regional Constituency (1 vacancy) Votes Received<\/p>\n

VAN BEEK, Jerf 3,948<\/p>\n

ORMOND, Marcus 2,262<\/p>\n

The voter return percentage was 46.29%, being 6,564 votes, excluding votes in transit to the processing centre and special votes.<\/p>\n

Tamatea\/Central Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Constituency (1 vacancy) Votes Received<\/p>\n

KUKLINSKI, Tony 1,845<\/p>\n

AITKEN, Tim 1,828<\/p>\n

ROPIHA, Keri 699<\/p>\n

The voter return percentage was 48.33%, being 4,636 votes, excluding votes in transit to the processing centre and special votes.<\/p>\n

Heretaunga\/Hastings Regional Constituency (3 vacancies) Votes Received<\/p>\n

MACKINTOSH, Jock 8,274<\/p>\n

SIERS, Sophie 8,154<\/p>\n

WAITOA, Conrad 6,380<\/p>\n

MACKAY, Bruce 5,724 <\/p>\n

The voter return percentage was 38.94%, being 13,623 votes, excluding votes in transit to the processing centre and special votes.<\/p>\n

M\u0101ui ki te Raki M\u0101ori Regional Constituency (1 vacancy) Votes Received<\/p>\n

MCILROY (NEE LEWIS), Michelle 1,455<\/p>\n

WHITE, Shelton 822<\/p>\n

The voter return percentage was 25.61%, being 1,402 votes, excluding votes in transit to the processing centre and special votes.<\/p>\n

M\u0101ui ki te Tonga M\u0101ori Regional Constituency (1 vacancy) <\/p>\n

Thompson HOKIANGA is elected unopposed.<\/p>\n

M\u0101ori Constituency Poll (1 vacancy) Votes Received<\/p>\n

REMOVE THE M\u0100ORI CONSTITUENCIES 24,507<\/p>\n

KEEP THE M\u0100ORI CONSTITUENCIES 20,236<\/p>\n

LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preliminary results will be announced on Monday. They include votes received today, but special votes are still not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,1863,1561,5205,26519,7797,305,1976,809,440,111,43,139,69,13194,56639,5914,56637,5909,56638,37451,7809,165,27051],"class_list":["post-71452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-back","tag-bay","tag-council","tag-councillors","tag-elections","tag-have","tag-hawkes","tag-keep","tag-local","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-progress","tag-reelection","tag-regional","tag-restanding","tag-results","tag-seats","tag-sitting","tag-suggest","tag-their","tag-themselves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71452","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=71452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}