{"id":74149,"date":"2025-10-12T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74149\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:03:09","slug":"whakatane-election-nandor-tanczos-edges-out-victor-luca-for-mayoralty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74149\/","title":{"rendered":"Whakat\u0101ne election: Nandor T\u00e1nczos edges out Victor Luca for mayoralty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final result will be confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n

In the referendum on whether to retain M\u0101ori wards in the district, 7306 people voted in favour and 4803 against keeping them.<\/p>\n

Mark Inman was third place for the mayoralty with 1657 by Andrew Iles with 1536, Philip Jacobs with 1293 and Wilson James with 821.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Hamill has proven hugely popular with voters for one of four seats on the Whakat\u0101ne-\u014chope ward with 4142 votes.<\/p>\n

Lesley Immink (3172) and Julie Jukes (2985) also look to have been returned, and Malcolm Whitiker (2537) is leading Brendon Horan (2382).<\/p>\n

Chris Barnard (2046) and Dave Stewart (1969) are trailing.<\/p>\n

M\u0101ori ward candidates Toni Boynton and Tu O\u2019Brien are on track to return and current community board member Jessie Morgan-Ranui is well in the lead for the Toi ki Uta M\u0101ori ward seat being vacated by Ngapera Rangiaho. <\/p>\n

Special votes will be counted this week. <\/p>\n

– Additional reporting Rotorua Daily Post.<\/p>\n

\u2013 LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final result will be confirmed on Friday. In the referendum on whether to retain M\u0101ori wards in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[696,1558,36423,58140,5903,2082,58141,13620,58138,21942,58020,58136,111,43,139,69,3111,1534,58139,58137,43510,7246,2240],"class_list":["post-74149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-announced","tag-been","tag-edges","tag-edging","tag-election","tag-for","tag-incumbent","tag-leading","tag-luca","tag-mayoralty","tag-mayorelect","tag-nandor","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-out","tag-saturday","tag-tanzcos","tag-tnczos","tag-victor","tag-votes","tag-whakatne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74149","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=74149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}