Updated election results for the Otago Regional Council have not changed the picture since early information on election day.
The one-term councillor missed out, while Green Party candidate Alan Somerville kept his spot.
Assuming no result is overturned on special votes, the rest of the council is set to be made up of Dunedin representatives Hilary Calvert, Andrew Noone, Gretchen Robertson and Chanel Gardner, Moeraki ward member Kevin Malcolm, Molyneux representatives Robbie Byars and Kate Wilson, and Dunstan constituency members Michael Laws, Gary Kelliher, Matt Hollyer and Neil Gillespie.
Preliminary results confirmed a swing to the right at the council.
The preliminary count was released yesterday afternoon, more than 48 hours after the polls closed.
Ms Calvert said election services provider electionz.com was surely able to do better.
Mr Laws said the pace of counting votes was not good enough.
The situation was made worse by the introduction of the single-transferable vote system (STV), "which was imposed upon the region by left-leaning councillors of the time who, ironically, lost their seats", he said.
"Bring back first past the post."
It was quicker, he said.
