{"id":74880,"date":"2025-10-13T03:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74880\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:23:07","slug":"local-election-results-new-mayors-after-razor%e2%80%91thin-vote-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/74880\/","title":{"rendered":"Local election results: New mayors after razor\u2011thin vote margins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kaipara\u2019s mayoralty race was just as close, with preliminary results showing that Jonathan Larsen beating Snow Tane by five votes.<\/p>\n

Third place Jason Smith has a vote count 31 behind leader Larsen. <\/p>\n

Whang\u0101rei\u2018s race for mayor was slightly less tight than those already mentioned, with independent Ken Couper provisionally elected ahead of second-placed Vince Cocurullo by 307 votes.<\/p>\n

An extremely tight race in Hastings means the mayoralty will be decided by special votes.<\/p>\n

Initial results had Wendy Schollum as the new Mayor of Hastings, winning 324 more votes than her closest rival Marcus Buddo.<\/p>\n

\" Wendy Schollum has thanked Hastings for electing her as mayor.<\/p>\n

However, Buddo chose not to concede at the weekend and waited for the final results.<\/p>\n

Preliminary results have Schollum receiving 7007 votes, up nearly 900 from her initial 6177, and gives her a lead of 545 votes over Buddo.<\/p>\n

Big upsets<\/p>\n

Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau will be out of office after she failed to win election for the Te Whanganui-a-Tara M\u0101ori Ward, losing out to Labour\u2019s Matthew Rewiti.<\/p>\n

Whanau pulled out of the mayoral race after incoming Mayor Andrew Little decided to run. She said she would focus on returning as a councillor. <\/p>\n

\"IncomingIncoming Wellington Mayor Andrew Little and former Mayor Tory Whanau. Photos \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n

This result brings an end to Whanau\u2019s turbulent three years as mayor of the capital city, including false sexual rumours<\/a> from other council members. <\/p>\n

Elsewhere, a 24-year mayoral stint for Wayne Guppy comes to an end after his loss to challenger Peri Zee by 999 votes. <\/p>\n

\"WayneWayne Guppy was first elected as Upper Hutt Mayor in 2001. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell <\/p>\n

Other incumbent mayors to lose their positions include Dunedin\u2019s Jules Radich who finished fourth, Sam Broughton in Selwyn who received more than 13,000 fewer votes than eventual winner Lydia Gliddon and Kirsten Wise in Napier.<\/p>\n

Victor Luca in Whakat\u0101ne, David Trewavas in Taup\u014d and Tracey Collis in Tararua also did not return as mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kaipara\u2019s mayoralty race was just as close, with preliminary results showing that Jonathan Larsen beating Snow Tane by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,21323,5903,7797,3011,266,6093,440,57334,10934,17250,117,111,43,139,69,58632,5909,22215,5905,7246],"class_list":["post-74880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-candidates","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-four","tag-government","tag-little","tag-local","tag-margins","tag-mayor","tag-mayors","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-razorthin","tag-results","tag-separated","tag-vote","tag-votes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74880","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=74880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}