There are three new faces on the council.<\/p>\n
It will also be the first term under new governance arrangements, with a mayor and nine councillors. Previously, there were 11 councillors.<\/p>\n
Darlene Dinsdale will be the district\u2019s first Ma\u014dri ward councillor, preliminary results show.<\/p>\n
It will be her only term as the Waka Kai Uru M\u0101ori ward councillor. The district voted to remove the ward in a binding referendum.<\/p>\n
Preliminary results show this vote was 8359 to remove against 5788 to retain.<\/p>\n
Allan Sole and Rodney Joyce have been re-elected as Katikati-Waih\u012b Beach Ward councillors, based on preliminary results.<\/p>\n
Margaret Murray-Benge was runner-up for mayor and re-elected to the Kaimai Ward.<\/p>\n
Newcomer Graeme Elvin will join current councillors Murray-Benge and Tracey Coxhead in the Kaimai ward.<\/p>\n
In the Maketu-Te Puke ward, Grant Dally and Laura Rae have been re-elected.<\/p>\n
First-time councillor Shane Beech will take the third Maketu-Te Puke seat. He had to pull out of the 2022 election at the last minute for health reasons.<\/p>\n
Former councillor Anne Henry has been elected to the Katikati Community Board alongside John Clements, James Sayer and Norm Mayo.<\/p>\n
The other Maketu Community Board members are Aleisha Waterhouse, Cecil Thomas and Elliott.<\/p>\n
Wayne Stevenson, Gail Kelly, Heather Guptill and Ross Goudie are the Waih\u012b Beach Community Board members.<\/p>\n
Under the new representation arrangements, two community boards now have subdivisions.<\/p>\n
The new \u014cmokoroa members of the \u014cmokoroa-Kaimai Community Board are Chris Dever and Murray Marshall.<\/p>\n
The Kaimai West members of the \u014cmokoroa-Kaimai Community Board are Tina Akuhata and Tania Tuhakaraina.<\/p>\n
Kaimai East members of the \u014cmokoroa-Kaimai Community Board are Bevan Rakoia and Keith Wisnesky.<\/p>\n
Te Puke members of the Te Puke\u2013East Community Board Subdivision are Dale Snell, Karen Summerhays and Marara Williams.<\/p>\n
The east members are Sally Benning and Manvir Singh Mann, who were elected unopposed because two people stood for the two vacant seats.<\/p>\n
Bay of Plenty Regional Council<\/p>\n
Bay of Plenty Regional Council preliminary results have not yet landed. <\/p>\n
Progress results show a mix of new and familiar faces and one very close race.<\/p>\n
Current councillor Stuart Crosby is joined by Tim Maltby, Kate Graeme and Glenn Dougal in the Tauranga Constituency.<\/p>\n
Two current councillors are in a tight race for the final Tauranga spot – Andrew von Dadelszen has a five-vote lead over Kat Macmillan, so this result may change.<\/p>\n
Former Western Bay of Plenty Deputy Mayor John Scrimgeour has been elected to the Western Bay constituency alongside current regional councillor Ken Shirley.<\/p>\n
Matemoana McDonald has been re-elected to the Mauao M\u0101ori Constituency.<\/p>\n
– Additional reporting Alisha Evans, Local Democracy Reporting. LDR is local body journalism co-funded by RNZ and NZ On Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only change from Saturday\u2019s progress results was in the Maketu Community Board, where Weina Moko replaced Ieni…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[836,1561,2372,651,29861,58364,7797,2082,440,58365,111,43,139,69,58363,7798,5909,3457,6027],"class_list":["post-74504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-836","tag-bay","tag-board","tag-close","tag-confirm","tag-denyers","tag-elections","tag-for","tag-local","tag-maketu","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-preliminary","tag-race","tag-results","tag-western","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74504","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=74504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}