Auckland City Council Results
12.55 – Just heard Banks by 10,000 votes!!
Also C&R won all seats in Hobson and Avondale-Roskill.
1.02 – City Vision and allies are being routed. With some results to come in, C&R and Banks already have a majority on Council. 12/20 from our initial results.
1.09 – Ward results are C&R have 2/2 in Eastern Bays, 4/4 in Avondale-Roskill, 3/3 Hobson, 1 in Tamaki (Sam) and 1 in Western Bays. None in Eden-Albert due to vote splitting.
On ARC, C&R have won 3/4 in Akl City, Christine Rankin has won in North Shore.
1.12 – Banks 44,085, Hubbard 33,786, Crow 4,948, Hinchliff 4,956, Swney 10,169.
1.14 – results now online.
1.17 – Faye Storer from Waiheke Island has lost by 11 votes to Denise Roche
5.25 – the C&R function is now over, and at 7 pm the Banks function starts. As one can expect everyone is delighted, or stronger. No-one expected the left would be reduced to five seats on Council. Also the fact that even Mike Lee just held on to his ARC seat, and was the bottom polling Regional Councillor in his ward. It will be interesting to see if he will be able to hold onto the Chairmanship over Michael Barnett who won far more votes than him in their ward.
Lots of thank you speeches from various people. Aaron Bhatnagar held out for special praise for all his work both on the strategy, but also by personally topping Hobson Ward.
October 13th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
You just beat the Herald to it – which has it at 11,000.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10469691
October 13th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Now to see if the Leopard has really changed his spots.
October 13th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
ChCh is in (98%): Parker won (as expected)
October 13th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
This and the others suggest a substantial swing to the Right.
Roll on 2008.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Now lets watch daddio push for the super city which of course he will be mayor of.
If the police are pushing sth auks now, just wait till daddio takes it over
dawn raids all over again
October 13th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Will be a very interesting six months!
October 13th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Shit Banks won Dockland the left will be in a real lather how sad never mind.
October 13th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I wonder if the Minister for Auckland was the first to congratulate Banksie.
October 13th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Well, if Auckland has indicated a right wing swing, this may be more impact on the 9th floor than any opinion poll I can think of!
October 13th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Does jafa land have its own minister ??
The honourable member for jafa
Now I know hamiltons gonna be called lower Sth Auckland
October 13th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
I see Glenda Freyer is still there. A lot less support on council for her now, will she pull her head in?
October 13th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Oh balls its a right wing swing. Everybody knows that Auckland hardly ever tolerates mayors for more than one term. Banksie was just the guy next to the incumbant with the greatest name recognition. I look forward to 2010 when Banksie is out on his arse again and all you punters start predicting a massive “left wing swing” for 2011.
Yeah, right.
October 13th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Charlie Tan:
Perhaps you’d care to read this comment of mine from another thread:
Your thoughts please?
October 14th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Since we’re recycling, here’s my post from The Standard:
I will add that I immediately dismissed most of the idiots running for the Auckland mayoralty as retarded since their paragraph in the voting book focused on issues that only have bearing at a governmental level.
It’s easy to see why Hubbard won despite being terrible at politics. Between him and Banks only two candidates could answer a simple question without fucking it up.
October 14th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Er, why Hubbard won last time that is.
October 14th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Nih:
An interesting contribution from you.
I think there’s arguably a distinction between central and local government elections, if only because the former is focused, as you suggest, on certain macro-issues. By contrast, in my experience, the latter have generally focused on “we will not increase rates”, “I promise to build this white elephant for ratepayers to remember me by”, and other trivial nonsense.
Does that distinction (if accepted) mean anything? I’d say yes: with macro-issues, the campaign becomes more overtly “left” and “right” – but this can be fudged more easily at the local government level.
Having said that, though, I do see an increasing trend towards party politics being introduced into local government politics – so candidates stand under a “banner” – backed by one party or other. Is that something you support?
October 14th, 2007 at 12:29 am
I think it could be a dangerous prospect under different circumstances, but one has to ask: when only a fifth of the eligible voters turn out to vote for the Auckland Central election, does it really matter?
Is leaving politics up to the politically inclined even a problem? I would rather 110k informed voters came out than 500k uninformed people casting votes based on vague recollections of reputation and peer suggestion.
In the end NZ is trying to move away from a two-party system and introducing these political brands at a local level goes against that. A mayoral candidate shouldn’t need the support of one of the major governmental parties to win on merit alone.
October 14th, 2007 at 12:31 am
By the way, isn’t it quiet tonight.
Someone must have had a nazi rally to attend.
October 14th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Nih – what do you mean by that comment? Comments like that are not welcome.
October 14th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Seeing as I’m obviously talking about redbaiter, the hypocrisy in your comment is stunning. That filthy-minded national front troll can compare others to jews cowering before hitler for years and run free in your backyard. Likewise your obvious tolerance for Dad4Justice. You are filthy by comparison.
The only real question is motive. Is that the ‘classic libertarian’ freedom of speech shining through, or are you just impressed by relentless bullies? Seeing how quickly anyone with an obvious left lean gets banned for far less, the answer is obvious.
I know you hate being questioned in any fashion, so here’s your pretext to do me too. I grow tired of your deceptive patronage.
October 14th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Well said nih. Well the Ball’s in you court David. Can you honestly say that if a left-wing equivalent of redbaiter started commenting here, that they would last more than a few days before they were banned?
October 14th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I guess that nih can see the “writing on the wall”.
Looks probable that an unhappy feeling of “hurt” is rising in the rate paying, tax paying, non WFF taking group of working people.
My belief is that this showing of yesterday will smoulder on, fueled by rising prices only to flare up again at budget time.
It is even possible that when Cullen does talks of “tax cuts” he will get a huge adverse reaction, whereas the same talk by Key would be believed.
October 14th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
David: It is even possible that when Cullen does talks of “tax cuts” he will get a huge adverse reaction, whereas the same talk by Key would be believed.
It would not surprise me. One can only be taunted and lied to so many times before the boy who cries tax cuts is no longer believed.
October 14th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Peak,
“One other thing: will the Auckland mayoralty result be accepted by those who normally support democracy in action – even if it’s not the result they wanted?”
I don’t see how my comments above smack of non-acceptance of the result. John Banks is mayor. I accept that. I think he’s a pugnacious little dickwad and probably a fraud – in a broad political but non-legal sense – but I accept the result. What I was commenting on was the tendency of Aucklanders to oust mayoral candidates fairly regularly and therefore the spuriousness of arguments that claim his victory is some sort of injection of right wing ideology into the average Auckland citizen. As for the C&R candidates, I would have to say they won because City Vision really really sucked this time around not because the ratepayers of Auckland have “shifted to the right”.
October 14th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
“Nih – what do you mean by that comment? Comments like that are not welcome.”
He’s just another dimwitted commie desperate for attention, and so dumb and so bogged down in his illiterate, outdated and doctrinal ideas on left and right he cannot grasp the fact that anyone cheering for the all powerful totalitarian government of the Nazis would today be far closer to the big government left than the pro-individual small powerless government right.
No right wing government as promoted by Redbaiter would ever have the power to send law abiding citizens en masse to death camps. Like Pilger and Chomsky and so many other would be elitist academics who say the blood on their hands is only red paint, leftists deny that it is the followers of their ideology, as exampled by the totalitarian murderers Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao and Castro (and so many others that are their poster boys) that has been most guilty by far of resorting to this course of action.
Nih’s problems go much deeper than just being dumb. He has already threatened my life on this forum. I think he is a dangerous and deranged zealot who should not be permitted to post here.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Phillip John/Roger Nome:
Well said nih. Well the Ball’s in you court David. Can you honestly say that if a left-wing equivalent of redbaiter started commenting here, that they would last more than a few days before they were banned?
I recall a shady character posting as “Blueballs”. Something like the antithesis of Redbaiter. There was, to my knowledge, no ban imposed. Blueballs simply died off, perhaps in the same way that “Cadmus” seems to have moved on.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
thanks for the prompt election results David. It’s given me a reason to come here other than to laugh at the wild gesticulations of the commenters.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Just to clarify:
“Well said nih. Well the Ball’s in you court David. Can you honestly say that if a left-wing equivalent of redbaiter started commenting here, that they would last more than a few days before they were banned?”
That was quoting Phillip John/Roger Nome.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
POC:
To be honest I don’t remember “Blueballs” being anything like this …..
http://kiwiblogblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/is-redbaiter-for-real/
October 14th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Phillip John/Roger Nome:
Like what? The link is speculation about whether Redbaiter’s for real – what’s that say about BlueBalls?