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The Dunedin mayoral election, 2010 occurred on Saturday, 9 October 2010 and was conducted under the Single Transferable Voting system.
The candidates for mayor included Peter Chin, the incumbent who contested for a third consecutive term. He faced six other candidates. Of these, three stood in the 2007 mayoral race (former councillor Lee Vandervis, who came second, Olivier Lequeux, who came fifth, and Jimmy Knowles, who finished last). Other candidates include incumbent city councillor Dave Cull, Aaron Hawkins and Kevin Dwyer.
Peter Wing Ho Chin CNZM is a lawyer and was the 56th Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand. He served two terms as Mayor from 2004 to 2010.
Lee Vandervis is a local-body politician who was first elected to the Dunedin City Council in the 2004 local elections. Vandervis has run for mayor in 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013, finishing second in 2007. He is currently an elected councillor.
Dave Cull won the mayoral election becoming Dunedin's 57th mayor. [1]
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Source | Date (published) | Chin | Cull | Vandervis |
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ODT [2] | (27 September) | 37.4% | 45.9% | 11% |
ODT [3] | 6 October | 31% | 54.2% | 11.8% |
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Candidate | Affiliation | First Preference | Last Iteration | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
Dave Cull | Greater Dunedin | 21,757 | 48.60 | 22,832 | 51.89 |
Peter Chin | Independent | 14,084 | 31.46 | 14,453 | 32.86 |
Lee Vandervis | 5,917 | 13.22 | 6,692 | 15.21 | |
Aaron Hawkins | Independent | 1,527 | 3.41 | (469) | - |
Olivier Lequeux | 1,164 | 2.60 | (227) | - | |
Kevin Dwyer | 197 | 0.44 | (60) | - | |
Jimmy Knowles | 124 | 0.28 | (37) | - | |
Informal votes | 57 | ||||
Turnout | 45,218 | 52.34 |
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