Dunedin mayoral election, 2016

Last updated March 26, 2019

The Dunedin mayoral election, 2016 was held on Saturday, 8 October 2016 and was conducted under the single transferable voting system. Dave Cull, Dunedin's 57th mayor, was re-elected after seeing off ten challengers.

The single transferable vote (STV) is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting in multi-seat organizations or constituencies. Under STV, an elector (voter) has a single vote that is initially allocated to their most preferred candidate. Votes are totalled and a quota derived. If their candidate achieves quota, he/she is elected and in some STV systems any surplus vote is transferred to other candidates in proportion to the voters' stated preferences. If more candidates than seats remain, the bottom candidate is eliminated with his/her votes being transferred to other candidates as determined by the voters' stated preferences. These elections and eliminations, and vote transfers if applicable, continue until there are only as many candidates as there are unfilled seats. The specific method of transferring votes varies in different systems.

David Charles "Dave" Cull, JP is the mayor of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. He became the 57th Mayor of Dunedin in October 2010 and was re-elected in both the 2013 mayoralty race and 2016 mayoral election. Before politics, he was a presenter for Television New Zealand and an author.

The Mayor of Dunedin is the head of the municipal government of Dunedin, New Zealand, and presides over the Dunedin City Council. The Mayor is directly elected, using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system in 2007.

Results

Cull was re-elected, defeating centre-right challenger Lee Vandervis in the tenth and final iteration of votes; however, Cull's first preference vote was severely reduced.

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.

Candidate	Affiliation	First Preference			Last Iteration
Candidate	Affiliation	Votes	%	+/-	Votes	%
Dave Cull	Independent	10,816	27.1	-22.2	17,441	59.4
Lee Vandervis	Independent	7,063	17.7	+2.5	11,938	40.6
Barry Timmings		5,613	14.0
Andrew Whiley		4,647	11.6	+4.4
Aaron Hawkins	Green Dunedin	3,108	7.7	+0.2
Jim O'Malley		2,501	6.2
Conrad Stedman	Independent	2,086	5.2
Rachel Elder		1,734	4.3
Scout Barbour-Evans		945	2.3
Abe Gray		734	1.8
Athold Bayne	Stand up for Dunedin	612	1.5
Informal votes		N/A ^[1]
Turnout		39,859

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References

↑ "Declaration of Result" (PDF). Dunedin City Council. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

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[1] "Declaration of Result" (PDF). Dunedin City Council. Retrieved 28 November 2016.