Auckland local elections, 2013
The Auckland local elections, 2013 took place between 20 September and 12 October and were conducted by postal vote. The elections were the second since the merger of seven councils into the Auckland Council, composed of the mayor, 20 members of the Council, and 149 members of 21 Local Boards. Twenty-one district health board members and 41 licensing trust members were also elected. The previous elections were in 2010. Early (not final) voting figures are below. The overall effect of the election was a shift of the Auckland Council to the right.[1]
Mayoral election
Incumbent Len Brown was re-elected.[2][3]
Auckland Mayor
| Auckland mayoral election, 2013[4][5] |
| Party |
Candidate |
Votes |
% |
±% |
|
Independent |
Len Brown |
164,338 |
47.78 |
-1.46 |
|
Independent |
John Palino |
108,928 |
31.67 |
— |
|
Affordable Auckland |
Stephen Berry |
13,650 |
3.97 |
— |
|
Independent |
Penny Bright |
11,723 |
3.41 |
+2.85 |
|
Mana |
John Minto |
11,591 |
3.37 |
— |
|
Independent |
Uesifili Unasa |
8,040 |
2.34 |
— |
|
Working for the Homeless |
Wayne Young |
3,943 |
1.15 |
+1.03 |
|
Independent |
Reuben Shadbolt |
3,152 |
0.92 |
— |
|
None |
Paul Duffy |
3,083 |
0.90 |
— |
|
Christians Against Abortion |
Phil O'Connor |
3,032 |
0.88 |
+0.61 |
|
Independent |
Emmett Hussey |
2,974 |
0.86 |
— |
|
Independent |
Susanna Susara Kruger |
2,173 |
0.63 |
— |
|
None |
Matthew Goode |
2,116 |
0.62 |
— |
|
Roads First |
David Willmott |
1,647 |
0.48 |
+0.37 |
|
None |
Jesse Butler |
1,465 |
0.43 |
— |
|
None |
Tricia Cheel |
1,214 |
0.35 |
— |
|
Communist League |
Annalucia Vermunt |
856 |
0.25 |
+0.16 |
| Majority |
55,410 |
16.11 |
+2.44 |
| Total valid votes |
343,925 |
99.54 |
|
| Informal votes |
1,584 |
0.46 |
|
| Turnout |
345,509 |
34.72 |
-15.45 |
| Registered electors |
995,206 |
|
|
Governing body elections
20 members were elected to governing body of the Auckland Council across thirteen wards.[6][7][8]
Rodney (1)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent | Penny Webster | 8587 |
| | Independent | Steven Robert Garner | 5616 |
Albany (2)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Putting People First | Wayne Walker | 13918 |
| | Putting People First | John Watson | 12936 |
| | Independent | Lisa Whyte | 11646 |
| | Independent | Julia Parfitt | 11075 |
| | Independent | Brent Robinson | 7782 |
| | Independent | Mary-Anne Benson-Cooper | 3967 |
| | Independent | Kevin Moorhead | 3480 |
| | Independent | Tricia Cheel | 1728 |
North Shore (2)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Taking The Shore Forward | Chris Darby | 14802 |
| | Fair Deal For Shore | George Wood | 14086 |
| | Independent | Ann Hartley | 13072 |
| | Team of Independents | Grant Gillon | 12273 |
| | Fair Deal For Shore | Joseph Bergin | 9515 |
| | Independent | Calum Macpherson | 4749 |
Waitakere (2)
Waitemata & Gulf (1)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent | Mike Lee | 8886 |
| | Independent | Greg Moyle | 4061 |
| | Independent | Rob Thomas | 3155 |
| | Affordable Auckland | Stephen Berry | 1435 |
| | Independent | Charlotte Fisher | 1055 |
| | Independent | Aleksandar Zivaljevic | 398 |
Whau (1)
Albert-Eden-Roskill (2)
Maungakiekie-Tamaki (1)
Manukau (2)
Manurewa-Papakura (2)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent for Manurewa-Papakura | John Walker | 15577 |
| | Independent for Manurewa-Papakura | Calum Penrose | 13696 |
| | Team South | Colleen Brown | 10331 |
| | Team South | Peter Goldsmith | 5205 |
| | Mana Movement | James Papali'i | 2537 |
| | Mana Movement | Barry Tumai | 1644 |
Franklin (1)
Orakei (1)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent | Cameron Brewer | elected unopposed |
Howick (2)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent | Dick Quax | elected unopposed |
| | Independent | Sharon Stewart | elected unopposed |
Local Body elections
149 members were elected to Local Boards
Wellsford Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board (1)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent | James George Colville | 534 |
| | Independent | Thomas De Thierry | 349 |
| | Independent | Tony Snowden | 262 |
| | Conservatives | Thomas O'Rourke | 217 |
Warkworth Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board (3)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent | Steven Robert Garner | 2723 |
| | Independent | Beth Houlbrooke | 2323 |
| | Independent | Greg Sayers | 1837 |
| | Conservatives | Nathaniel Heslop | 1668 |
| | Action With Results | June Turner | 1543 |
| | Independent | Anne Martin | 1461 |
| | Independent | Bruce Manson | 1449 |
| | Independent | Bruce Alan Scoggins | 1112 |
| | Independent | Geoffrey Bowes | 931 |
| | Conservatives | Regan Monahan | 656 |
Kumeu Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board (4)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent | Brenda Steele | 3045 |
| | Independent | Thomas Grace | 2587 |
| | Independent | Phelan Michael Pirrie | 2557 |
| | Independent | Warren William Flaunty | 2512 |
| | Independent | Bob Howard | 2367 |
| | Independent | Morgan Hancock | 1967 |
| | Independent | Paula Daye | 1913 |
| | Conservatives | Oliver Vitali | 1660 |
| | Independent | Vivien Dostine | 733 |
Dairy Flat Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board (1)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | Independent | John Mclean | 683 |
| | Independent | Peter Brydon | 457 |
| | Conservatives | Ross Craig | 392 |
Hibiscus Coast Subdivision of the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board (4)
| | Affiliation (if any) | Name | Votes |
| | People and Penlink First | Greg Sayers | 8070 |
| | People and Penlink First | John Watson | 7995 |
| | Loving the Coast | Gaye Anne Harding | 5536 |
| | Independent | Janet Fitzgerald | 4399 |
| | People and Penlink First | Lovisa Chloe Kronqvist | 3760 |
| | People and Penlink First | Saunil Hagler | 3576 |
| | Conservatives | Simonne Dyer | 3422 |
| | Loving the Coast | Lovisa Chloe Kronqvist | 3099 |
| | Conservatives | Danny Mountain | 2834 |
| | Independent | Mary-Anne Benson-Cooper | 2036 |
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