2013 Wellington City mayoral election

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2013 Wellington City mayoral election
Wellington Coat Of Arms.svg
  2010 12 October 2013 [1] 2016  
Turnout25,931 (40.85%)
  Celia Wade-Brown, 2013.jpg John Francis Maclean Morrison.jpg Jack Yan at SFD Wellington 2010.jpg
Candidate Celia Wade-Brown John Morrison Jack Yan
Party Independent Independent Independent
Popular vote27,17124,6919,996
Percentage52.39
(Last iteration)
47.61
(Last iteration)

Mayor before election

Celia Wade-Brown

Elected Mayor

Celia Wade-Brown

The 2013 Wellington City mayoral election is part of the New Zealand local elections. On 12 October 2013, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Wade-Brown was re-elected.

Contents

Wellington is one of eight local bodies in New Zealand that uses the Single transferable vote system to elect its Mayor and Councillors. [2] The 2013 local government election will be the first time that the Greater Wellington Regional Council will use STV in it elections, and the first time a regional council has used STV for elections in New Zealand. [3]

Candidates

When nominations closed there were six candidates for the Wellington mayoralty.

Dr Keith Johnson, an economist from Island Bay who ran as a Labour candidate for the Southern Ward in 2010, initially proposed to stand. [8] He subsequently withdrew, saying that There was not much resonance in the concerns I had for debt control and against the rebalancing of rates. [9]

Results

Wade-Brown was re-elected. [10] The following table shows preliminary results for first preference votes, [11] and final results for the last iteration. [12]

2013 Wellington City mayoral election [13]
PartyCandidateFPv%Count
12345
Independent Celia Wade-Brown 37.6121,25921,44922,02123,22827,171
Independent John Morrison 33.4418,90419,064 19,769 21,433 24,691
Independent Jack Yan 14.338,1058,346 8,782 9,996  
Independent Nicola Young7.994,5204,612 5,108   
Independent Rob Goulden4.472,5312,607    
Independent Karuna Muthu1.65935    
Electorate:  Valid: 56,524  Spoilt: 71  Quota: 25,931  Turnout: 40.85%  

    Ward results

    Candidates were also elected from wards to the Wellington City Council.

    Party/ticketCouncillors
    Independent 9
    Greens 3
    Labour 2

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