The official declaration of results from the Rotorua District Council byelection has been made public.
The results show no change to the result of the election after the final 164 late votes were counted.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, a former head of Women's Refuge, won the byelection by 1156 votes from her closest rival, Brett Marvelly, who got 3893 votes.
In third was Victor Storey with 2459, fourth was Cliff Lee with 1722, fifth was Dianne Western on 1314 and sixth was Bill Hedges with 1170 votes.
Informal votes remained at 30 while there were 48 blank voting papers received by the electoral office.