The final results for Auckland Council races confirm Wayne Brown won the mayoral race by a decisive margin, while one local board has seen a shift in its winners.
With special votes now validated and counted, it is confirmed Wayne Brown won the mayoral race with a total of 181,810 votes ahead of Efeso Collins by 57,008.
"I hereby declare the results of the elections held on 8 October 2022," Dale Ofsoske, Electoral Officer - Independent Election Services, said in a statement.
"This declaration comes into effect as of tomorrow, 16 October 2022. All members take on their position for the Auckland Council's governing body and local boards on the day after they are declared to be elected."
Brown said he is flattered to know over 180,000 people supported him for mayor.
Brown said his focus this weekend is reading council documents, preparing a statement to be made tomorrow about "an industry important to Aucklanders," and surfing.
In the final count, a total of 405,149 votes were returned - just 35.5 per cent of enrolled voters.
In 2019's election, the voter turnout was 35.3 per cent.
A total of seven new councillors out of 20 are joining Auckland Council and 36 percent of local board members elected are new to the council.
For Waitākere Ranges Local Board there is a change between the final count and the official results declared.
Ken Turner was leading in both the Waitākere Ward Councillor position and Waitākere Ranges Local Board. Turner has been declared as Waitākere Ward Councillor, alongside Shane Henderson, and withdrawn from the local board seat.
This makes Mark Allen, the next highest polling local board candidate, elected to the sixth seat on the board. Allen received 5216 votes, polling in front of Angus Cathcart by 11 votes, who was leading in the preliminary round.
The full results can be found on the Auckland Council website.
Bay of Plenty
Voters elected a new mayor and 11 councillors for the Western Bay of Plenty District Council as well as 14 Bay of Plenty Regional Councillors.
The confirmed results released Friday show no change from the preliminary results released on October 9.
Western Bay mayor James Denyer, who was previously a Katikati-Waihī Beach Ward councillor, will govern four new councillors and the seven councillors who stood for re-election and retained their seats.
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