Laws falls short in ORC bid

Michael Laws
Michael Laws

High profile Otago Regional Council candidate Michael Laws is 79 votes short of a seat on the council as one of the three Dunstan ward representatives.

Mr Laws told the Otago Daily Times a short time ago he was ''amazed'' to have done so well considering he had been a fulltime resident in the district for just six months.

Another feature of voting for the regional council was the defeat of long standing Dunstan candidate Gerard Eckhoff, while  Andrew Noone has completed a smooth transition from the Dunedin City Council to the regional council, as the second top polling candidate.

This result is based upon the counting of approximately 98% of the returned votes. 

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