Local Government election results 2007

Auckland City welcomes back John Banks to the mayoral chair.

This is an unofficial list of the main results of today's Local Government elections, as they come in.

A full and comprehensive list of results for the whole country will be available online tomorrow.

Auckland

Mayoralty:
John Banks 44,085
Dick Hubbard 33,768
Alex Sweny 10,169

Council:
Citizens & Ratepayers - 11 of 19 seats

Christchurch

Mayoralty:
Bob Parker 46,000
Megan Woods 31,000

North Shore

Mayoralty:
Andrew Williams 19,024
George Wood 17,376

Manukau City

Mayoralty:
Len Brown 31,000
Dick Quax 17,000
Arthur Anae 10,396

Waitakere City

Mayoralty:
Bob Harvey 16,899
John Tamihere 12,646

Hamilton

Mayoralty:
Bob Simcock 16,013
Roger Hennebry 5,693
Gordon Chesterman 4,533

Papakura

Mayoralty:
Calum Penrose 4,953
John Robertson 3,609

Rodney

Mayoralty:
Penny Webster 6,496
Wayne Walker 4,612
Larry Mitchell 4,305

Hutt City

Mayoralty:
David Ogden 7,137
Ray Wallace 6,807
Ken Laban 6,655

Far North District

Mayoralty:
Wayne Brown 8,894
Yvonne Sharp 4,674

* Most figures above are based on 98 per cent of the votes having been tallied.