1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,280 Speaker 1: Get to our reporters around the country for the results. 2 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: For those who did vote, Callum Proctor and Dneedan. Callum, 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: good morning, your morning. Right, So Jules Radick's gone? Who's 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: Sophie Barker. 5 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 2: Sophie Barker is well, the previous deputy and now the 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 2: mayor elect of Duned and confirmation late last night actually 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 2: of Dunedin's preliminary results, they confirm that Sophie Barker is 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: now our new mayor elect, with an updated margin of 9 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 2: more than seven hundred votes over second placed Andrew Simms. 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 2: Here the incumbent Jewels Raddick came in third in the end, 11 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 2: he'll remain on council, though he says he's celebrating his 12 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 2: wins as mayor, including shifting the council's focus to infrastructure 13 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 2: and doubling spending on water. Elsewhere in the South Go 14 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 2: Mayor Ben Bale's been re elected after a tumultuous three years, 15 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 2: and John Glover has unseated Glenn Lewis. In Queenstown, Tom 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 2: Campbell's replaced outgoing Nobby Clarke and Inviicargo. 17 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: How's your weather? 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 2: Showers today, possibly heavy in thundery this afternoon. Easterly wins 19 00:00:58,400 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: the high twelve. 20 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: Cheers Callum Claire christ Morning Claire, Good morning. Major back 21 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: in charge. Hasn't quite got the council he wanted those. 22 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:06,479 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. 23 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 4: Phil Major has been re elected mayor with a decisive 24 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 4: victory in the end over outgoing councilor Sarah Templeton. But 25 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 4: the troubler is fulfilled Major he'll once again lead a 26 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 4: left leaning council. This was tipped to be a very 27 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 4: tight race, but in the end Major walked away with 28 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 4: twenty thousand more votes. News Talks he'd be was with 29 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 4: Major in his living room after the results came through. 30 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 4: He told us he would have liked counsel to look 31 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 4: a bit different c Ie, perhaps a little less left leaning, 32 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 4: but it has worked for the past three years and 33 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 4: he'll make it work again. Meanwhile, Counselor Lydia Glidden swept 34 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 4: to power in Selwyn, unseating Sam Broughton in a landside 35 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 4: victory Dan Gordon. He's been re elected in wy Marcaretti, 36 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 4: while eighty two year old transgender woman Jackie Grant's been 37 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 4: leading in Westland. She's on track to unseat Helen lash On. 38 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: Very good, how's your weather. 39 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 4: Some cloudy periods, but of scattered rain around midday in 40 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 4: north least turning easterly and we should make twenty degrees. 41 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: Cheers, clear sounds, BARMEI have a nice day Mix in Wellington. 42 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 3: Morning Mix, Good morning. 43 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: Now what's the biggest story? Is it Tory or is 44 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: it Andrew? 45 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 3: Good question? You know, it could have been an interesting 46 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 3: race had Torri Fano stayed in, perhaps Ray Chung may 47 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,799 Speaker 3: have had a better shot. Perhaps that could have been 48 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 3: said before his old gossiping ways came back to haunt him. 49 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 3: I think Andrew dil would have still run, and once 50 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 3: he announced he was running, I think it was effectively over. 51 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 3: You talk about the rest of the country, but Wellington 52 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 3: has shown itself to be a liberal town still Andrew 53 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 3: little coasting home to the Meryalty some success, I think 54 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 3: in coming runner up for a local businessman, Kyle Tiefenbaker. 55 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 3: But the two big stories I think are the left 56 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,239 Speaker 3: majority actually increasing at council level, a lot of labour 57 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 3: now around that table. Tory Fanno of course not being 58 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 3: able to win a seat at all, defeated by Matthew 59 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 3: at Awti in the Marii ward. The final hammer coming 60 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 3: down on her Merylty, finding it guilty of incompetence. Big 61 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 3: local name Ken Laban winning a Lower Hut That wasn't surprising, 62 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 3: but what was as well was Perry z. I'm told 63 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 3: it's pronounced za, but I don't believe it looking at it. 64 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 3: Beating the batter than Wayne Guppy was quite intriguing. She's 65 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 3: Appahad's first new mayor in twenty four years, campaigning on 66 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 3: revantilizing the central city. What city there is? This central street? 67 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 3: The central street, she says, is daying. People are going 68 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 3: to Lower Hut to shop. She's an urban planner and 69 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 3: transport advisors, so quite intriguing to see her beat Wayne 70 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 3: Guppy there. 71 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: Sadly is geez, you pecked a lot in the max. 72 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 3: How's your weather? Cloudy, rainey, strong winds sixteen. 73 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: Nice j one, thank you, enjoy and Michael sergles with 74 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: us in Auckland morning. Michael, good morning. Now you've been 75 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: right across this all weekend. And Wayne Brown is back. 76 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: Lots of new councilors in Auckland too. 77 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 5: Yes, four councilors have retired and been replaced, and one 78 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 5: of Wayne Brown's sort of endorsed candidates has replaced one 79 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 5: of his opponents, so a quarter of the council will 80 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 5: be new. Wayne Brown says he's ready to get a 81 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 5: new team together. Elsewhere, former National Minister to Macando will 82 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 5: be the new mayor of Hamilton and a blast from 83 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 5: the past, Nandel Tanjil remember him. Yeah, he's on track 84 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 5: to be the new mayor of Fokatane. 85 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: He's still got the same dreads. I think it's sitting 86 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: in a select committee room and this is when I 87 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: was like very young and he used to go and 88 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: watch Parliament because I was a geek. And he was 89 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: sitting there in a chair and he leaned back and 90 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: his entire dread, which he had up in like a 91 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: beehive thing, fell off his head onto the floor and 92 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: he dragging it around the room, even picks it up, 93 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: pops it back on. Anyway, Now he's a mayor. 94 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 5: And he's actually campaigned for higher rates rises, so he's 95 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 5: probably the only one of the country doing that. 96 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 3: Wow. 97 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 5: In terms of national trends, initial numbers show turn out 98 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 5: hovering around that thirty three percent mark, but there are 99 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 5: lots of late and special votes that will push that 100 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 5: number up, lots of really, really close races at this 101 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 5: election in the Far North, the top three candidates there's 102 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 5: just thirty one votes between those top three candidates, so 103 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 5: it could go either way or any of those three 104 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 5: ways in that particular race. Miyas who oversaw large rate 105 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 5: rises either opting to stand aside or being unseated. And 106 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 5: lots of cases, more than half of me is who 107 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 5: are now in charge of councils weren't in charge during 108 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 5: the COVID pandemic went in charge more than three years ago. 109 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 5: Only a handful of now been in the job more 110 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 5: than six years. Okay, interesting, how's our weather showers turning 111 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 5: to rain this evening? 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