Mahé Drysdale has won the Tauranga mayoralty by about 6,100 votes, according to final election results released tonight. The same nine councillors named in Sunday’s preliminary results have also been confirmed, Tauranga City Council announced. The final voter turnout was 38.7%, slightly lower than 2019’s 40.3% but a bit higher than 2016’s 38.1%.
Drysdale, a two-time Olympic gold-medallist rower, received 16,606 votes in the single-transferable vote system. He was followed by former Tauranga Mayor Greg Brownless with 10,510 votes, singer Ria Hall with 9,077, and former deputy mayor Tina Salisbury with 7,388.
The new council, consisting of nine men and one woman, will be sworn in on August 2 and will serve a four-year term, a first for New Zealand. The newly elected ward councillors are:
Mauao/Mount Maunganui: Jen Scoular
Matua-Otūmoetai: Glen Crowther
Te Papa: Rod Taylor
Bethlehem: Kevin Schuler
Tauriko: Marten Rozeboom
Welcome Bay: Hautapu Baker
Arataki: Rick Curach
Pāpāmoa: Steve Morris
Te Awanui: Mikaere Sydney
This election marks Tauranga City Council’s first since 2019 and the first to include a Māori ward, Te Awanui.
very interesting
I loved reading it because, I never knew that maybe chocolate might be gone in the future!
save the chocolate…
I enjoyed this reading because
it show what climate changes does!!
they might have to move most chocolate into a colder place, since the climate clock is getting low
so temperature might get higher.
i love chocolate
I’m allergic to dairy, but this makes me sad for my best friends all around NZ (don’t think it’s weird because I actually do). And my chocolate loving cousin, her name is Dana (I’m from South Korea and she told me how to spell her name in Korean but its not pronounced like Dana).
I know that there are chocolate lovers around the world so, poor them or if you like chocolate poor you (even though I’m allergic to dairy, or to make it easy dairy products: cheese, milk, butter etc).