John Bain received the most votes in the Northland District Health Board elections at the weekend. Photo / File
Five of the seven Northland District Health Board members have been re-elected in Saturday's local body elections.
DHB elections take place at the same time as local authority elections and seven members are elected by registered voters from the Northland community for the NDHB, with up to four further board
members - and the chair - appointed by the Minister of Health. All seven incumbent public appointees stood and when the results came back five had been voted back in.
The 27 lining up for a seat on the health board were: Pauline Allen-Downs (incumbent), Florence Annison, John Bain (incumbent), Dennis Bowman, Craig Brown (incumbent), Shirleyanne Brown, David Collard, Beth Cooper, Brent Doncliff, Irene Durham, Debbie Evans, Mike Fitzgerald, Michael Gardam, Jill Garret, Libby Jones (incumbent), Colin Kitchen (incumbent), Maureen Lyons-Adair, Sally Macauley (incumbent), Ros Martin, Chris Reid, Dover Samuels, Bill Sanderson (incumbent), Kevin Singleton, Rosanne Taylor, John Vujcich, Mike Ward and Jonny Wilkinson.
The seven successful candidates, in order, were: Mr Bain, Mr Kitchen, Mr Sanderson, Ms Macauley, Mr Reid, Mr Brown and Ms Evans.
The NDHB uses the Single Transferable Voting (STV) system, where voters receive a single (transferable) vote no matter whether there is one vacancy or several.
