2010 Auckland mayoral election

2010 Auckland mayoral election
← 2007 Auckland City
← six other councils		 9 October 2010[1] 2013 →
Registered961,536
Turnout487,703 (50.1%)[2]
 
Candidate Len Brown John Banks Colin Craig
Party Independent Independent Independent
Popular vote 237,487 171,542 42,598
Percentage 49.2% 35.6% 8.8%
Mayor before election

Position created

 Elected mayor

Len Brown

The 2010 Auckland mayoral election, was part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections. It was the first election of a mayor for the enlarged Auckland Council, informally known as the "super-city". The election was won by sitting mayor of Manukau City Len Brown with 48.7% votes, over sitting mayor of Auckland City John Banks with 35.17% and first-time candidate Colin Craig with 8.73%. The sitting mayor of North Shore City Andrew Williams polled fourth and actor/director Simon Prast fifth.[2]

The election occurred on Saturday 9 October 2010, as per the Local Electoral Act 2001.[3] Like the majority of New Zealand mayoral elections, the election was held by postal voting using the first-past-the-post system. It was the largest election of the 2010 local elections, with some 961,536 eligible voters (32.5% of all registered voters nationally) able to vote in the election.[4][5]

  1. ^ "2007 Local Elections". Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008.
  2. ^ a b "Final Results - Mayor". Auckland Council. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  3. ^ Local Electoral Act 2001 No 35 (as at 24 January 2009), Public Act
  4. ^ "Enrolment Statistics for Auckland Council - Elections New Zealand". 20 August 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2010. [dead link]
  5. ^ "Enrolment Statistics for the whole of New Zealand - Elections New Zealand". 20 August 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2010.