David Bublitz has claimed a seat at the New Plymouth District Council table after a week of not knowing if he had made it or not.
Preliminary results released last week had shown just 10 votes between three of the candidates, with that count giving Anneka Carlson and Phil Quinneya seat while David Bublitz was out.
With special votes now counted, that result has changed, giving David a seat, and moving Phil out.
It was a tight race in South Taranaki as well, with Celine Filbee holding onto her seat by five votes ahead of Raquel Cleaver.
Stratford's vote counts had large enough differences for no change to results from preliminary results to the final ones, although the special vote count did move Grant Boyde back into the top polling position for the rural ward. He ended up with 894 votes, just two ahead of newcomer Amanda Harris.
Final Vote Count for Stratford District Council elections: Mayor: Elected - Neil Volzke: 2,271 Graham Kelly: 737 Rawinia Henderson: 332 Rural Ward: Elected - Grant Boyde: 894 Elected - Amanda Harris: 892 Elected - Rick Coplestone: 791 Elected - Vaughan Jones: 499 Nicole McDonald: 475 Graham Kelly: 399 Stephen Dravitski: 295 Urban Ward: Elected - Jono Erwood: 1490 Elected - Gloria Webby: 1353 Elected - Alan Jamieson: 1300 Elected - John Sandford: 1164 Elected - Peter Dalziel: 1088 Elected - Min McKay: 879 Rawinia Henderson: 682 Mathew Watt: 566 Christopher James: 404 Laurie Gooch: 356 John Gray: 305 Tony Milham: 331 Ivan Toopi: 242
