Auckland local elections, 2013

The Auckland local elections, 2013 took place between 20 September and 12 October and were conducted by postal vote. The elections were the second since the merger of seven councils into the Auckland Council, composed of the mayor, 20 members of the Council, and 149 members of 21 Local Boards. Twenty-one district health board members and 41 licensing trust members were also elected. The previous elections were in 2010. Early (not final) voting figures are below. The overall effect of the election was a shift of the Auckland Council to the right.^[1]

Mayoral election

Incumbent Len Brown was re-elected.^[2]^[3]

Auckland Mayor

Auckland mayoral election, 2013^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Len Brown	164,338	47.78	-1.46
	Independent	John Palino	108,928	31.67	—
	Affordable Auckland	Stephen Berry	13,650	3.97	—
	Independent	Penny Bright	11,723	3.41	+2.85
	Mana	John Minto	11,591	3.37	—
	Independent	Uesifili Unasa	8,040	2.34	—
	Working for the Homeless	Wayne Young	3,943	1.15	+1.03
	Independent	Reuben Shadbolt	3,152	0.92	—
	None	Paul Duffy	3,083	0.90	—
	Christians Against Abortion	Phil O'Connor	3,032	0.88	+0.61
	Independent	Emmett Hussey	2,974	0.86	—
	Independent	Susanna Susara Kruger	2,173	0.63	—
	None	Matthew Goode	2,116	0.62	—
	Roads First	David Willmott	1,647	0.48	+0.37
	None	Jesse Butler	1,465	0.43	—
	None	Tricia Cheel	1,214	0.35	—
	Communist League	Annalucia Vermunt	856	0.25	+0.16
Majority			55,410	16.11	+2.44
Total valid votes			343,925	99.54
Informal votes			1,584	0.46
Turnout			345,509	34.72	-15.45
Registered electors			995,206

Governing body elections

20 members were elected to governing body of the Auckland Council across thirteen wards.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Rodney (1)

	Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
	Independent	Penny Webster	8587
	Independent	Steven Robert Garner	5616

Albany (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Putting People First	Wayne Walker	13918
Putting People First	John Watson	12936
Independent	Lisa Whyte	11646
Independent	Julia Parfitt	11075
Independent	Brent Robinson	7782
Independent	Mary-Anne Benson-Cooper	3967
Independent	Kevin Moorhead	3480
Independent	Tricia Cheel	1728

North Shore (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Taking The Shore Forward	Chris Darby	14802
Fair Deal For Shore	George Wood	14086
Independent	Ann Hartley	13072
Team of Independents	Grant Gillon	12273
Fair Deal For Shore	Joseph Bergin	9515
Independent	Calum Macpherson	4749

Waitakere (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
West At Heart	Penny Hulse	19498
Independent	Linda Cooper	11437
Independent	Christine Rose	9877
Independent	Brian Neeson	8964
Affordable Auckland	Peter Chan	7413
Independent	Jason Woolston	3500
Mana Movement	Douglas Robertson	2067
Independent	Allan Fazakerley	1932

Waitemata & Gulf (1)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	Mike Lee	8886
Independent	Greg Moyle	4061
Independent	Rob Thomas	3155
Affordable Auckland	Stephen Berry	1435
Independent	Charlotte Fisher	1055
Independent	Aleksandar Zivaljevic	398

Whau (1)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Labour Party	Ross Clow	6227
Independent	Noelene Raffills	6176
Community First	Duncan MacDonald	3843

Albert-Eden-Roskill (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Communities and Residents	Christine Fletcher	17939
City Vision	Cathy Casey	16545
Communities and Residents	Nigel Turnbull	13233
City Vision	Peter Haynes	10180
Liveable Communities	Phil Chase	5995
Transparency New Zealand	Grace Haden	4021

Maungakiekie-Tamaki (1)

	Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
	Communities and Residents	Denise Krum	8483
	Labour Party	Richard Northey	7585

Manukau (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Labour Party	Alf Filipaina	17441
Independent	Arthur Anae	12961
Labour Party	Tunumafono Ava Fa'amoe	11842
Mana Movement	Roger Fowler	4213
Independent	Avtar Hans	3679
Mana Movement	Joe Trinder	2192
Communist League	Baskaran Appu	1154

Manurewa-Papakura (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent for Manurewa-Papakura	John Walker	15577
Independent for Manurewa-Papakura	Calum Penrose	13696
Team South	Colleen Brown	10331
Team South	Peter Goldsmith	5205
Mana Movement	James Papali'i	2537
Mana Movement	Barry Tumai	1644

Franklin (1)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Team Franklin C&R	Bill Cashmore	8178
Independent	Lynn Murphy	4295
Affordable Auckland	Niko Kloeten	3727

Orakei (1)

	Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
	Independent	Cameron Brewer	elected unopposed

Howick (2)

	Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
	Independent	Dick Quax	elected unopposed
	Independent	Sharon Stewart	elected unopposed

Local Body elections

149 members were elected to Local Boards

Wellsford Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board (1)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	James George Colville	534
Independent	Thomas De Thierry	349
Independent	Tony Snowden	262
Conservatives	Thomas O'Rourke	217

Warkworth Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board (3)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	Steven Robert Garner	2723
Independent	Beth Houlbrooke	2323
Independent	Greg Sayers	1837
Conservatives	Nathaniel Heslop	1668
Action With Results	June Turner	1543
Independent	Anne Martin	1461
Independent	Bruce Manson	1449
Independent	Bruce Alan Scoggins	1112
Independent	Geoffrey Bowes	931
Conservatives	Regan Monahan	656

Kumeu Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board (4)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	Brenda Steele	3045
Independent	Thomas Grace	2587
Independent	Phelan Michael Pirrie	2557
Independent	Warren William Flaunty	2512
Independent	Bob Howard	2367
Independent	Morgan Hancock	1967
Independent	Paula Daye	1913
Conservatives	Oliver Vitali	1660
Independent	Vivien Dostine	733

Dairy Flat Subdivision of the Rodney Local Board (1)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	John Mclean	683
Independent	Peter Brydon	457
Conservatives	Ross Craig	392

Hibiscus Coast Subdivision of the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board (4)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
People and Penlink First	Greg Sayers	8070
People and Penlink First	John Watson	7995
Loving the Coast	Gaye Anne Harding	5536
Independent	Janet Fitzgerald	4399
People and Penlink First	Lovisa Chloe Kronqvist	3760
People and Penlink First	Saunil Hagler	3576
Conservatives	Simonne Dyer	3422
Loving the Coast	Lovisa Chloe Kronqvist	3099
Conservatives	Danny Mountain	2834
Independent	Mary-Anne Benson-Cooper	2036

Notes

References

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External links

2013 Election candidates aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

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