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Newstalk ZB Reporters round up the local election results · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Get to our reporters around the country for the results.
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  Speaker 1: For those who did vote, Callum Proctor and Dneedan. Callum,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, your morning. Right, So Jules Radick's gone? Who's
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  Speaker 1: Sophie Barker.
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  Speaker 2: Sophie Barker is well, the previous deputy and now the
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  Speaker 2: mayor elect of Duned and confirmation late last night actually
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  Speaker 2: of Dunedin's preliminary results, they confirm that Sophie Barker is
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  Speaker 2: now our new mayor elect, with an updated margin of
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  Speaker 2: more than seven hundred votes over second placed Andrew Simms.
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  Speaker 2: Here the incumbent Jewels Raddick came in third in the end,
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  Speaker 2: he'll remain on council, though he says he's celebrating his
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  Speaker 2: wins as mayor, including shifting the council's focus to infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: and doubling spending on water. Elsewhere in the South Go
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  Speaker 2: Mayor Ben Bale's been re elected after a tumultuous three years,
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  Speaker 2: and John Glover has unseated Glenn Lewis. In Queenstown, Tom
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  Speaker 2: Campbell's replaced outgoing Nobby Clarke and Inviicargo.
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  Speaker 1: How's your weather?
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  Speaker 2: Showers today, possibly heavy in thundery this afternoon. Easterly wins
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  Speaker 2: the high twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Cheers Callum Claire christ Morning Claire, Good morning. Major back
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  Speaker 1: in charge. Hasn't quite got the council he wanted those.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Phil Major has been re elected mayor with a decisive
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  Speaker 4: victory in the end over outgoing councilor Sarah Templeton. But
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  Speaker 4: the troubler is fulfilled Major he'll once again lead a
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  Speaker 4: left leaning council. This was tipped to be a very
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  Speaker 4: tight race, but in the end Major walked away with
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  Speaker 4: twenty thousand more votes. News Talks he'd be was with
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  Speaker 4: Major in his living room after the results came through.
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  Speaker 4: He told us he would have liked counsel to look
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  Speaker 4: a bit different c Ie, perhaps a little less left leaning,
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  Speaker 4: but it has worked for the past three years and
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  Speaker 4: he'll make it work again. Meanwhile, Counselor Lydia Glidden swept
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  Speaker 4: to power in Selwyn, unseating Sam Broughton in a landside
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  Speaker 4: victory Dan Gordon. He's been re elected in wy Marcaretti,
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  Speaker 4: while eighty two year old transgender woman Jackie Grant's been
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  Speaker 4: leading in Westland. She's on track to unseat Helen lash On.
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  Speaker 1: Very good, how's your weather.
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  Speaker 4: Some cloudy periods, but of scattered rain around midday in
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  Speaker 4: north least turning easterly and we should make twenty degrees.
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  Speaker 1: Cheers, clear sounds, BARMEI have a nice day Mix in Wellington.
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  Speaker 3: Morning Mix, Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Now what's the biggest story? Is it Tory or is
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  Speaker 1: it Andrew?
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  Speaker 3: Good question? You know, it could have been an interesting
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  Speaker 3: race had Torri Fano stayed in, perhaps Ray Chung may
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  Speaker 3: have had a better shot. Perhaps that could have been
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  Speaker 3: said before his old gossiping ways came back to haunt him.
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  Speaker 3: I think Andrew dil would have still run, and once
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  Speaker 3: he announced he was running, I think it was effectively over.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about the rest of the country, but Wellington
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  Speaker 3: has shown itself to be a liberal town still Andrew
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  Speaker 3: little coasting home to the Meryalty some success, I think
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  Speaker 3: in coming runner up for a local businessman, Kyle Tiefenbaker.
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  Speaker 3: But the two big stories I think are the left
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  Speaker 3: majority actually increasing at council level, a lot of labour
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  Speaker 3: now around that table. Tory Fanno of course not being
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  Speaker 3: able to win a seat at all, defeated by Matthew
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  Speaker 3: at Awti in the Marii ward. The final hammer coming
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  Speaker 3: down on her Merylty, finding it guilty of incompetence. Big
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  Speaker 3: local name Ken Laban winning a Lower Hut That wasn't surprising,
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  Speaker 3: but what was as well was Perry z. I'm told
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  Speaker 3: it's pronounced za, but I don't believe it looking at it.
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  Speaker 3: Beating the batter than Wayne Guppy was quite intriguing. She's
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  Speaker 3: Appahad's first new mayor in twenty four years, campaigning on
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  Speaker 3: revantilizing the central city. What city there is? This central street?
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  Speaker 3: The central street, she says, is daying. People are going
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  Speaker 3: to Lower Hut to shop. She's an urban planner and
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  Speaker 3: transport advisors, so quite intriguing to see her beat Wayne
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  Speaker 3: Guppy there.
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  Speaker 1: Sadly is geez, you pecked a lot in the max.
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  Speaker 3: How's your weather? Cloudy, rainey, strong winds sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Nice j one, thank you, enjoy and Michael sergles with
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  Speaker 1: us in Auckland morning. Michael, good morning. Now you've been
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  Speaker 1: right across this all weekend. And Wayne Brown is back.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of new councilors in Auckland too.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, four councilors have retired and been replaced, and one
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  Speaker 5: of Wayne Brown's sort of endorsed candidates has replaced one
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  Speaker 5: of his opponents, so a quarter of the council will
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  Speaker 5: be new. Wayne Brown says he's ready to get a
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  Speaker 5: new team together. Elsewhere, former National Minister to Macando will
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  Speaker 5: be the new mayor of Hamilton and a blast from
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  Speaker 5: the past, Nandel Tanjil remember him. Yeah, he's on track
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  Speaker 5: to be the new mayor of Fokatane.
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  Speaker 1: He's still got the same dreads. I think it's sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a select committee room and this is when I
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  Speaker 1: was like very young and he used to go and
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  Speaker 1: watch Parliament because I was a geek. And he was
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  Speaker 1: sitting there in a chair and he leaned back and
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  Speaker 1: his entire dread, which he had up in like a
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  Speaker 1: beehive thing, fell off his head onto the floor and
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  Speaker 1: he dragging it around the room, even picks it up,
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  Speaker 1: pops it back on. Anyway, Now he's a mayor.
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  Speaker 5: And he's actually campaigned for higher rates rises, so he's
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  Speaker 5: probably the only one of the country doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: In terms of national trends, initial numbers show turn out
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  Speaker 5: hovering around that thirty three percent mark, but there are
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  Speaker 5: lots of late and special votes that will push that
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  Speaker 5: number up, lots of really, really close races at this
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  Speaker 5: election in the Far North, the top three candidates there's
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  Speaker 5: just thirty one votes between those top three candidates, so
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  Speaker 5: it could go either way or any of those three
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  Speaker 5: ways in that particular race. Miyas who oversaw large rate
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  Speaker 5: rises either opting to stand aside or being unseated. And
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  Speaker 5: lots of cases, more than half of me is who
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  Speaker 5: are now in charge of councils weren't in charge during
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  Speaker 5: the COVID pandemic went in charge more than three years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Only a handful of now been in the job more
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  Speaker 5: than six years. Okay, interesting, how's our weather showers turning
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  Speaker 5: to rain this evening? Northwesterly's twenty two degrees Michael, thank
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  Speaker 5: you for more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.
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