Other NI Results
October 13th, 2007 at 1:47 pm by David FarrarFormer MP Bob Simcock has just been elected Hamilton Mayor with three times as many votes as his closest rival.
However current Labour MP Di Yates failed to even win one of the six Council seats in the Hamilton East ward. How embarrassing!!
Stuff has a useful summary of results and fuller results.
Good to see Lawrence Yule easily back in Hastings. He won by around 2:1.
David Ogden has benefited from vote splitting in Hutt City and won re-election with 7,137 just ahead of Ray Wallace. Ken Laban only a bit further back than that. I actually thought Laban wouldn’t be a bad choice, even though he’s Labour.
Jenny Rowan has won Kapita with Alan Milne retiring.
Former ACT MP Penny Webster has won the Mayoralty of Rodney. Well done Penny.
Michael Laws has a pretty good 3,000 margin in his re-election, and over 50% of the vote. His ticket though doesn’t seem to have a majority.
For Wellington Regional Council, the likely winners for Wellington City ward are Chris Laidlaw, Fran Wilde, Judith Aitken, Sally Baber and Paul Bruce.
Wellington City results not yet known, again thanks to STV.
Related posts:
- Full Auckland City Details
- City Council backs waterfront stadium but only if it moves eastwards
- Yates retires
- Kerry stands again
October 13th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Diane yates is one down (in flames)
I hope Pippa Mahood is another one
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
One of the first things I learnt when living in Hamilton many years ago was that Di Yates was a complete lefty PC nutjob.
Interesting to see tv’s Kay Gregory has topped the poll in her ward.
I guess after a bit of training , she’ll be ready to be Hamilton’s mayor next time.
What will Paul Henry say about that?
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Fairfacts,,
Paul Henry would tell her she’d have a case of small town hysterics and tell her to get a haircut and a real job. His saving grace is that he’s too sophisticated to want politics
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Another socialist suckhole bites the dust, the day just gets better and better. Bring on 20008.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
News in from Rodney District.
Vote:Former ACT MP Penny Webster elected mayor by a comfortable margin.
Successes for the Penlink Team, who want a new road built to the Whangaroaoa peninsular.
Can’t say I’ve lived in the district long enough to conclude on left-to-right swings, etc.
http://www.rodney.govt.nz/
October 13th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Rodney’s definitely a conservative district (lived near there for 7 years). It’s mostly maid up up of rugby heads and dairy farmers.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
sorry … “made up of” …
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Overall results around the country seem to show the left getting a good bitch slapping from the electorate…………
The left here in Chch have had a bad day.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
A few more results from Stuff.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4236524a11.html
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
anyone seen a trend in socialists losing their positions around the country.
is the electorate that sophisticated. Have the reds truly shot themselves in both feet.
and I can’t believe how many votes liberterian Tim Wikiriwhi got,,
hope he’s encouraged.
The bullying of the major parties is making people aware of the grass roots politicians who are gradually sounding to make sense.
Kiwi’s just need time to click on
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
“is the electorate that sophisticated. Have the reds truly shot themselves in both feet.”
If by that you mean they don’t turn up to vote – then yes they’re very sophisticated.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Maybe the left is being sent a message that there is no longer any place for party politics in local bodies.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Anyone seen this bullshit:
“Incumbent Bob Harvey has won the Waitakere City mayoralty race again by over 4000 votes.
An emotional Mr Harvey told the Herald that over the last six weeks he has been subjected to a personal political campaign.
Mr Harvey was tearful when he described his love for Waitakere city and the quality of its residents.
“I’m the first to admit that it’s been 15 absolutely fantastic years for the West,” Mr Harvey said, referring to his first election win in 1992.
His nearest rival, John Tamihere, won 12,646 votes while Mr Harvey won 16,899.
Mr Harvey described Mr Tamihere as fierce opposition and said the campaign was “deeply personal and very aggressive, based on vengeance and utu”.
“I refused to slag or bag them and I promised integrity and trust. His campaign against me worked for me,” Mr Harvey said.
He said Al Gore winning the Nobel Prize this morning was a good omen.
“It was like a badge of honour, an endorsement for us. Sustainable cities and a sustainable world,” Mr Harvey said.”
Someone pass me a bucket please…..bleeeeeeeeech
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
roger nome, “….If by that you mean they don’t turn up to vote…..”,
I’d be interested to know if in your opinion, the reason why they didn’t turn up was because they felt likely to be out voted, or because they were discouraged due to things like rate rises, petrol prices, rent/mortgage etc.
That is a place of work sentiment, versus a domestic, in the home sentiment?
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Provisional Lower Hutt results are in, with Ogden 7137 over Wallace 6807, Laban 6655, Thomas 3343 and Jamieson 2557. Wallace and Jamieson get council seats.
Ogden’s Ticket has 4 seats, Wallace’s ticket has 2 seats, and the rest Independants/No Affiliation given.
Councillors to lose their seats are Englebretsen (2020/Northern), Milne (OCOF/Central), Barratt (Wallace/Eastern) and Pollard (Ind./Wainui).
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Not sure David B. Left leaning/lower socio-economic demographics usually have a lower turn out rate in elections at every level. Traditionally this has been accounted for by lower education levels = lower awareness = apathy. Also feelings of personal disempowerment and helplessness (higher amongst lower socio-economic groups) cause apathy amongst people in any situation – i.e. people experiencing a famine are more likely to lay down and die/starve than go around murdering others for their food.
No doubt some people on the right will have a different explanation – i.e. welfare dependency … yada yada yada.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I hope Hamilton result is a reflection of next years national election. In the past it has been said decides the national election.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Failed to turn up? Weren’t they mailed voting papers?
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Hamilton is the reflection of the entire national electorate,
Bizarre, but thoroughly intriguing.
If that is true Helen will be visiting Hamilton next year.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Michael Laws looks to have won Wanganui’s mayoralty (pass me another bucket please!) with a majority of around 3000 over John Martin, BUT (and it’s a BIG but!), he no longer has a majority in Council with only 5 Vision Wanganui councillors elected (out of 12 places), Cr Murray Hughes looking like missing out. That may temper His Eyelineredness’s joy somewhat!
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
If Hamilton is a reflection of the National electorate then a former Narional MP won the mayoralty in a landslide and a Labour MP would not even get one of 6 places in her former electorate. Now what does that say. Glad to see the silly old bint get a punch on the nose. Perhaps she gets the message this time. Piss Off.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Wellington results won’t be in until at least 10.30pm. Kerry is quietly confident.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Jono Naylor has won the mayoralty of Palmerston North. Naylor polled 12035, Heather Tanguay 7798 and Les Baty, 2786.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
I don’t agree with you re Lawrence Yule in Hastings. I like what I have seen fo Simon Nixon and he might have been very good for HB if he had been elected.
He seems to have more `get up and go’ than Yule.
The Regional Council is a bit of a worry. I haven’t seen any results but there were a lot of anti progress people standing and god forbid the get into a controlling position.
Off thread but could some one tell the bloody referee in the HB v Auckland game to look at both sides – Auckland are getting away with everything but murder.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
pdm,,
mighty Auckland can get away wif these things if the ref is as 2nd division as HB,, meaning Hawkes Bay ??
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Has anyone heard about Penny Sifuiva
are her junkets all over ?
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
However current Labour MP Di Yates failed to even win one of the six Council seats in the Hamilton East ward. How embarrassing!!
How embarrasing indeed. I realise she’s being pushed out of central politics – as she’s widely seen as ineffective – but is this the first case of a current MP standing as a local counciller? John Banks for a time? No one else immediately comes to mind.
Vote:October 13th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
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?
And no, I’m not buying Phillip John/Roger Nome’s sour grapes argument that they couldn’t be bothered voting (“If by that you mean they don’t turn up to vote – then yes they’re very sophisticated.”). A decision not to vote still affects the outcome, and you get the result you deserve.
Vote:October 14th, 2007 at 12:14 am
I see two clear trends – made stark by the Wellington and Greater Wellington results – negative for Labour (eg Deputy Mayor Shaw and Ken Laban) and positive for Green (Paul Brice and Iona P). Kerry P extending her margin and Pep bombing out should be seen a a real warning light for the non-geen left.
Vote:October 14th, 2007 at 6:46 am
You could say that the Lower Hutt results were bad for Labour, but I think most people would be surprised at how well Laban did do. The mayoralty campaign here did not have the feel of a close 3-way battle, it was Ogden-Wallace, with Laban off to the side.
The bigger disappointment for Labour is that they do not have anyone from their ticket on council anymore, with Englebretsen dumped from the Northern Ward and failing to pick up a seat anywhere else. They even lost their majority on the Petone C/B, a traditionally Labour-dominated board.
Vote:October 14th, 2007 at 8:19 am
“is the electorate that sophisticated. Have the reds truly shot themselves in both feet.”
If only. The tragedy is that NZ citizens think that as the cost of living increases, real wages decline, and society continues to decay into a stinking morass of violence, immorality and hopelessness, the people they have elected, left or right, are going to save them from their predicament.
They think that by painting the front of their Potemkin village another colour, it will become a real village. They think government has brought this predicament upon them, and that by changing government, they will find relief.
Like drug addicts once believed that a full transfusion of blood would free them from their addiction, not acknowledging the real problem was their mind, their personality, their character, their inner self.
Things will only get better for NZers when they fully reject government as the solution to their problems. They’ll go on changing the shop fronts and wonder why the reality stays the same. Eventually they’ll hit rock bottom, do the cold turkey, and perhaps snap out of their sick Marxist addiction.
But they haven’t even come close to that event in these elections. Neither will they come close in any upcoming election. Not for a generation or two. Or three. Because its going to take that long for the real negative outcomes of left wing ideology and its steady sneaking subversive integration into NZ’s culture to really hit home.
Keep whining people, but always know this. You did it to yourselves.
Vote:October 14th, 2007 at 10:31 am
“Things will only get better for NZers when they fully reject government as the solution to their problems.”
200% correct.
Less government, more freedom! Individual responsibility above all.
Vote:October 14th, 2007 at 10:40 am
pdm: I hear you on both counts, I really though Lawrence had pissed off everyone with Nelson Park and Ocean Beach, but I guess not.
Mainly the magpies inexperience with a wet ball killed them last night… but the ref did miss a number of calls in the first half (he did get better).
hinamanu: Like it or not HB was the 4th best first division team in NZ this year. Look out for them next year now they can afford some name players. (and now they know they have to practice under sprinklers).
Back on thread:
I better head over to my website and take down all the “Cr.” references now that I have officially stepped down.
If you all want to see what happens during an election when a council has done a truly good job, have a look at Napier’s results; only three changes two of whom were because one of us died (Tony Reid – rest in peace) and I stepped down. It helps when you deliver a well under inflation rate increase and publicly surveyed confidence in council is well over 90% positive. It always pays to be a non personal “get the job done” orientated centrist council, the last time one of us publicly attacked another was during the 2004 election.
Vote:October 14th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
It is difficult to “read the tea-leaves” when having to peer into so many cups.
Vote:However, I am familiar with the workings of several councils round the country and it seems to me that the “upsets” have occurred where the voters have recognised that the bureaucrats are out of control and running riot with interventions and grand spending and are hoping that a new Mayor and a few new councillors will be able to change things by reining them in.
This is not easy but can be done. But the newly elected have to realise that the bureaucrats have been preparing for such changes and will immediately try to stop their efforts in their tracks.
Certainly, the most interventionist councils have seen the biggest turnovers. (speaking about those I know about.)
October 14th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
“But the newly elected have to realise that the bureaucrats have been preparing for such changes and will immediately try to stop their efforts in their tracks.”
Exactly. left wing high taxing big spending regulation mad politicians are only part of the problem. Equally as damaging is the collective left wing mindset of many of the faceless bureaucrats who are entrenched behind the counters of council offices, and they are not accountable to the voters or the public.
Elected politicians have to show more spine in dealing with these self serving arseholes if they really want to bring about effective and lasting change. Most of them (the politicians) aren’t up to it, so sadly, not much will alter.
Vote: