Tauranga City Council election results

A much smaller but reinvigorated council will govern Tauranga for the next three years.
Voters kept the political powerhouse intact, despite five of the 13 councillors losing their seats in Saturday's election.
Three new faces were elected thanks to sitting councillors not challenging for the Mount/Papamoa ward seat, Stuart Crosby winning the mayoralty and Brad Shipton's unsuccessful bid for the Te Papa/Welcome Bay seat.
A key driver for the election was the controversial restructuring of Tauranga City Council by the Local Government Commission, which whittled numbers from 13 to 10.
It meant the election boiled down to who won, rather than how many lost their seats.
With 11 sitting councillors vying for seven at-large seats, some had to go. The losers were Bob Harnor, Joel van Ameringen, Jane Lyndon and Hylton Rhodes.
Mr Crosby's mayoral victory meant he did not need his poll-topping 20,518 votes for a council seat to remain in power. Instead, the count down the list started with second-highest polling Bill Faulkner and finished with newcomer Anne Pankhurst in 8th place. She tipped out sitting councillor Bob Harnor by just 466 votes.
The rest of the council's new blood came from two of the three ward seats.
Sitting councillor and former police detective Brad Shipton did not even come close in the Te Papa/Welcome Bay Ward. Greerton Village revitalisation powerhouse Terry Molloy won by a comfortable margin from Bill Humphrey.
The Mount/Papamoa ward ended up a two-horse race between well-known professional photographer Bob Tulloch and Bay of Plenty Times journalist Graham Skellern.
Between them, they took 60 per cent of the vote. Despite strong campaigning by Mr Skellern to bridge the gap in name recognition - including being part of Team Tauranga - he was edged out by Mr Tulloch by 396 votes.
There was scarcely any contest for the Otumoetai/Bethlehem Ward. Deputy Mayor Greg Brownless romped home ahead of relative unknown Jason Yule.
The at-large contest saw Mr Faulkner securing nearly 17,700 votes - nearly 3000 votes more than third place-getter David Stewart.
The irrepressible Murray Guy, another councillor who boosted his profile by going for the mayoralty, was fourth - 74 votes behind Mr Stewart.
Councillors finishing down the order but who did enough to keep their seats were zany election campaigner Rick Curach and the ever-steady Mary Dillon and Bob Addison.
Unsuccessful candidates who polled fairly well were Bob Harnor, Joel van Ameringen and Mike Baker.
They each attracted more than 7000 votes, with a big step down to the also-rans, led by Jane Lyndon with 5741 votes. Hylton Rhodes finished in 14th place.