Local election results as they come in
Full preliminary results for 2016 local body elections for the North Island.
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UPDATE: Chadwick claims victory in mayoral race (+video)
3.05pm: Re-elected mayor Steve Chadwick has confirmed Dave Donaldson will again be her deputy mayor. Mrs Chadwick and her supporters
Local elections: The results
INTERACTIVE: Explore the local election results as they come in.
Poll: Who do you want to be mayor?
The race to elect a new mayor for Auckland and other cities and towns round the country is drawing to a close.
Sth Auckland voter turnout Super City's lowest
Voter numbers in South Auckland are the lowest across the entire Super City as the deadline for returning ballot papers looms.
Local Elections 2016: by the numbers
INTERACTIVE: Explore turnout maps, wasted votes and numbers of female candidates in the 2016 local elections.
Rudman: Is this how to run a democracy?
COMMENT: Once again the democratic process has been diverted by a large donation to a single candidate.
Young Monty coins his own mayoral chains
A Wellington boy was worried outgoing mayor Celia Wade-Brown would miss her mayoral chains - so he made her some new ones out of chocolate
Mayoral candidates views on food security
COMMENT: Fear of prime Pukekohe growing land being lost to development seems to have become a last-minute Auckland Mayoral race issue.
Editorial: Don't miss the vote
Voters need to assess which of candidates looks more capable of doing so. The elections matter and so does your vote.
Post your vote today, urge candidates
Please vote TODAY. Today is the last day to post voting papers to be sure they meet the Saturday deadline for the local body elections.
Soper: Shout out to the young, go and vote
It seems there's little motivation, especially for the young, to have their say on who should run our towns and cities.
Political Roundup: Who's to blame for a record low voter turnout?
Local government appears to be headed towards an existential crisis - a situation in which few of us care enough about the existence
Renewed calls for online voting
Latest figures show just 19.88 per cent of votes have been returned in Auckland, with some areas as low as 16.3 per cent.
#WillSheVote? Candidates pitch to lifelong non-voter
#WillSheVote? Lifelong Local Body election non-voter Hinekia Fitzgerald hears from candidates on her journey to the polls.
Calls for review after low voter turnout
Low voter turnout in Auckland is spurring a call for a major review of local body elections.
Last dash in race to be mayor
Phil Goff attended a church service for cats and dogs in central Auckland yesterday. Vic Crone kept out of the rain, criss-crossing the city's malls.
#WillSheVote? part 3
The Auckland Mayoral candidates address Hinekia directly to canvas for her vote in the current local body election
Goff's election day starts on the farm
Phil Goff's alarm clock will ring at 6am today. He will get up, put on gumboots and feed out baleage to the steers at his 8ha farmlet in Clevedon.
Len Brown: The man who died twice
Len Brown was the Super City's first mayor. However, it's arguable how he will be most remembered.
#WillSheVote? Experts share voting tips
Hinekia Fitzgerald has never voted in a Local Body election. Can two elections experts convince her why her vote matters?
Watch: Will she vote? Part 2
Part two of the #WillSheVote series. Hinekia speaks to two Massey Uni local government experts.
Council services affect you every day
From the moment you jump into the shower in the morning until you stagger back home later that night after a few post-work beers
Political Roundup: 20 unconventional election candidates
Elections benefit from colourful, quirky, and dissident candidates - even distasteful ones. So who are New Zealand local government's current crop of outsiders?
Battle for your vote: What they'd offer
We asked seven Auckland mayoral candidates how they would help some of our communities and their issues. Here are their responses.
#WillSheVote? Follow non-voter to polls
Hinekia Fitzgerald has never voted in a local body election. Will this election be different?
Watch: Social media spurs Chloe Swarbrick's success
If the race for Auckland's mayor was won on social media, Chloe Swarbrick would leave everyone else in her digital dust.
Young battling to engage with elections
Why are young people so alienated from politics? People aged 18-24 are the least likely age-group to vote in the upcoming local body elections.
Greg McKeown: Put council back in control
COMMENT: Auckland needs a new direction set by the elected representatives not the bureaucracy.
Communities have their say
We went to various communities to ask them what they want from a new mayor - here is what they said.