Wellington has a new mayor in Celia Wade-Brown, ending Kerry Prendergast’s three term run. In the end she pulled through with a majority of 176 votes, which will hopefully be enough to starve off a recount – Wellington does not need that right now.
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Bye bye Kerry!
Cue dancing in the streets. Congratulations Celia, I’m looking forward to the next three years.
something we can all agree on, Rex!
she’s got a slightly better council than the last mayor, too.
Cheers. Let’s hope she can get them all working together. Big ask but she has a better chance than Kerry did.
Well done Celia!!!!!
Bloody brilliant!
Fantastic stuff – and a majority of 176 too, far higher than could have been anticipated. She must have pulled in almost 2/3rds of the special votes to get a majority like that – anyone got the numbers?
A new page turned for Wellington. 🙂
Well done Celia, a stunning result. Looking forward to a good three years!
Celia picked up 453; Kerry 237.
Election 2010 – Final Results
Celia Wade-Brown Elected 24,881
Kerry Prendergast Not Elected 24,705
Jack Yan Not Elected 7,426
Bryan Robert Pepperell Not Elected 5,954
Bernard O’Shaughnessy Not Elected 1,174
Al Mansell Not Elected 542
According to Kiwiblog she’s nominating Andy Foster as Dep.
Congratulations Thomas on making comment #1000.
WCCWatch, does he win a chocolate fish?
Hrrrm, accordng to our stats we’ve had 880 comments in total…
The rest could have been my comments when I was a newbie.
Excellent result. 🙂
So now we have a new council in the supercity and a new mayor in Wellington that are very much in favour of public transport investments, but a central government deeply (very-very deeply) opposed to it. Trying to have a rational conversation with Steven Joyce will be like bashing their heads against a brick wall, but here’s hoping that by sticking together and being firm they can go some way to rebalancing this country’s outdated (and when it comes to RoNS outright whimsical) transport funding.
As one of her campaign team, I’m immensely proud of what Celia’s achieved and honoured that she trusted us all to help her become the Mayor. I’m really looking forward to the next three years in Wellington.
Fabulous result. Congratulations Celia and your campaign team. Looking forward to working with you and the Wellington City Council over the coming three years. Exciting times ahead.
15 years of Tory administration over. So sad.
Okay, so now that we have a new Mayor what exactly is going to change, other than the rhetoric we have listened to for the last 2 months?
The time for campaigning is finished and the time for action is upon us.
Anybody?