1993 Invercargill mayoral by-election

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1993 Invercargill mayoral by-election
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  1992 20 March 1993 1995  
Turnout30,211 (79.45%)
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Candidate Tim Shadbolt Bruce Pagan Mark Winter
Party Independent Independent Independent
Popular vote10,0785,7524,795
Percentage33.3519.0315.87

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CandidateMirek CvigrDougal Soper
Party Independent Independent
Popular vote3,9151,972
Percentage12.956.52

Mayor before election

Dougal Soper (acting)

Elected mayor

Tim Shadbolt

The 1993 Invercargill mayoral by-election was held on 20 March 1993 as a result of the death of Mayor Eve Poole on Boxing Day the previous year.

Contents

Background

Since losing the Waitemata City mayoralty in 1989, Tim Shadbolt had made several unsuccessful electoral runs, including 1992 mayoral elections in Auckland and Dunedin, in both of which he placed third.

The election attracted an unusually large pool of 14 candidates, including the incumbent deputy mayor and the two deputy mayors preceding him. Former Southland County Council chairman and father of candidate Janet Malloch, [1] Sir Erskine Bowmar, described it as "a bit of a joke". [2]

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
Neil
Boniface
Mirek
Cvigr
Janet
Malloch
Bruce
Pagan
Geoff
Piercy
Tim
Shadbolt
Dougal
Soper
Anne
Stoddart
Mark
Winter
Undecided
The Southland Times [3] 1 March 1993519± 4.5%2%8.86%4.24%12.91%3.47%21.39%7.13%3.47%6.94%22%
The Southland Times [4] 10 March 1993615± 4.5%1.6%8.9%3.4%16.1%2.4%26.2%5.8%1.6%10.2%17%

Results

The following table gives the election results:

1993 Invercargill mayoral by-election [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Tim Shadbolt 10,078 33.35
Independent Bruce Pagan5,75219.03−16.16
Independent Mark Winter 4,79515.87
Independent Mirek Cvigr3,91512.95−13.96
Independent Dougal Soper1,9726.52
Independent Geoff Piercy1,2214.04
Independent Janet Malloch7652.53
Independent Anne Stoddart7182.37
Independent Neil Boniface4161.37
Independent Marjory Jones2680.88
Independent George Ngatai1160.38
Independent Katherine Hart550.18
Independent Richard Osborn500.16
Independent Owen Houliston420.13
Majority 4,32614.32
Turnout 30,21179.45

References

  1. Malloch, Janet (1992). From the tops: a daughter reminisces on the life of Erskine Bowmar. OCLC   154215383.
  2. "Nominations Now Open For Local Government Candidates". 20 July 2019. Archived from the original on 20 August 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  3. "Poll puts Shadbolt in front". The Southland Times. 6 March 1993.
  4. "26pc support for Shadbolt in poll". The Southland Times. 13 March 1993.
  5. "Tim Shadbolt to be sworn in tomorrow". The Southland Times. 24 March 1993.