Special votes Election 2023: Hawke’s Bay’s final results are out

The winning electorate candidates in Hawke's Bay, clockwise from upper left: Catherine Wedd for National in Tukituki, Mike Butterick for National in Wairarapa, Katie Nimon for National in Napier and Cushla Tangaere-Manuel for Labour in Ikaroa-Rāwhiti. Photos / File

The official election result has been released three weeks after election night because the Electoral Commission needed time to count the estimated 567,000 special votes.

The votes have been counted and the final results for Tukituki, Napier, Ikaroa-Rāwhite and Wairarapa are in for 2023.

In Hawke’s Bay, the four electorates were decided by the preliminary count but the special votes did change some of the margins.

Meka Whaitiri, standing for Te Pāti Māori, will not return to Parliament despite the party celebrating its most successful election result in history with six seats.

For the Napier electorate, the margin between Labour’s Mark Hutchinson and National’s Katie Nimon widened from 8100 to 8870.

The margin between National’s Catherine Wedd and Labour’s Anna Lorck in Tukituki widened to an even greater degree after the special vote count, from 8978 to 10,118.

In Ikaroa-Rāwhiti, the gap was relatively static. The margin between Labour’s Cushla Tangaere-Manuel and Te Pāti Māori’s Meka Whaitiri shifted from 2860 to 2843.

Finally, for the Wairarapa electorate, which includes part of Central Hawke’s Bay, the gap between National’s Mike Butterick and Labour’s Kieran McAnulty increased slightly, widening from 2481 to 2816.

You can see the latest updates on the special vote count around the country here.

Below are the updated numbers for votes in each electorate.

National's Katie Nimon with husband Jeremy Lawson in Napier on election night. Photo / Warren Buckland

FINAL COUNTS

Napier Electorate: National Party - Katie Nimon 21,344

Labour Party - Mark Hutchinson 12,474

Green Party - Julienne Dickey 2190

Margin for top two: 8870 Turnout: 81.37%

Party vote:

National Party 16,670

Labour Party 10,810

Act New Zealand 4503

Tukituki Electorate: National Party - Catherine Wedd 21,981

Labour Party - Anna Lorck 11,863

Green Party - Nick Ratcliffe 2383

Margin for top two: 10,118 Turnout: 80.91%

Party vote:

National Party 17,165

Labour Party 10,518

Act New Zealand 5117

Ikaroa-Rāwhiti Electorate: Labour Party - Cushla Tangaere-Manuel 13,678

Te Pati Māori - Meka Whaitiri 10,835

Vision New Zealand - Ata Tuhakaraina 784

Margin for top two: 2843 Turnout: 67.63%

Party vote:

Labour Party 14,703

Te Pāti Māori 6700

Green Party 1792

Wairarapa Electorate: National Party - Mike Butterick 20,313

Labour Party - Kieran McAnulty 17,497

Act New Zealand - Simon Francis Casey 1907

Margin for top two: 2816 Turnout: 82.66%

Party vote:

National Party 17,397

Labour Party 12,223

Act New Zealand 4752