Elections 2010

Neither Google nor Facebook could help businessman Trevor Turner secure victory in last month's Dunedin City Council election.

Dunedin City Council candidate Bev Butler has dropped her bid for an election recount and raised the spectre of future recounts becoming the preserve of the rich and well-connected.

Bev Butler's application for a recount after her defeat in the Dunedin City Council election has been granted, and she has until next Tuesday to decide whether she wants to proceed.

Dunedin City Council candidate Bev Butler has applied for a full recount of the election results, claiming the close vote, and similarity of names on the poll, as reasons to check almost 34,000 voting papers.

He has presented television programmes such as Renovators, Open Home, Town and Country and Master Builders' House of the Year Awards. He has written and published many books, including Big Weather South. He was born in Invercargill, remains a fan of Yes Minister and has a taste for Central Otago wine. His name is Dave Cull and, on October 26, he will be sworn in as the 57th mayor of Dunedin. Mark Price spoke to him this week.

Another of the men arrested in connection with an alleged Auckland local body elections voting scam can now be named.

Wellington's new mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the closeness of her victory over incumbent Kerry Prendergast highlights the need for inclusiveness in her term as mayor.

Auckland super city Mayor-elect Len Brown today appointed Penny Hulse as deputy mayor of the new council.

Police have arrested a third man in relation to an alleged scam involving a candidate in last week's Auckland super city elections.

Wellington's new mayor will remain unknown until Wednesday afternoon at the earliest, says the Wellington City Council.