{"id":73374,"date":"2025-10-12T06:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73374\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:50:07","slug":"late-super-saturday-voter-turnout-may-yet-swing-hamilton-mayoralty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73374\/","title":{"rendered":"Late ‘Super Saturday’ voter turnout may yet swing Hamilton mayoralty"},"content":{"rendered":"

A large voter turnout on Saturday is expected to alter the final standings in Hamilton’s local election race.<\/a><\/p>\n

Progress results showed Tim Macindoe as frontrunner to become the city’s new mayor.<\/p>\n

However, the council declared ‘Super Saturday’ and said the volume of last-minute votes would have an effect.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s progress result excluded special votes and votes received on election-day morning.<\/p>\n

More than 5500 votes were cast on Saturday in Hamilton.<\/p>\n

If Macindoe was confirmed as mayor, then the standings in the East Ward, where he was the top-ranked candidate, would have to be recalculated under the city’s single transferable vote system (STV).<\/p>\n

STV involved ranking candidates by number, rather than ticking a certain number of preferred candidates.<\/p>\n

The Internal Affairs website said candidates must reach a certain number of votes to get elected.<\/p>\n

“If a candidate is elected, they keep only the proportion of the vote they need to reach the quota. The surplus part of each vote is transferred to the voter’s second preference.”<\/p>\n

This continues down through the candidates, until no more candidates have enough support to get elected.<\/p>\n

“The transfer of votes is done in order of voters’ preferences. This means that surplus votes are not ‘wasted’ but are available to help other candidates to get elected.”<\/p>\n

With 13,600 votes to retain and 13,010 votes to remove, a small majority voted to retain the Kirikiriroa M\u0101ori Ward, but this was also likely to be affected by the Saturday votes.<\/p>\n

Updated preliminary results are also expected today.<\/p>\n

By Libby Kirkby-McLeod of rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large voter turnout on Saturday is expected to alter the final standings in Hamilton’s local election race.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9001,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-73374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-hamilton-waikato","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374","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=73374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}