The Wellington election results

This is how the vote went for the WCC Mayoral election, on the provisional results.

1. Celia Wade-Brown won 38% of the first preferences to 34% for John Morrison
2. Jack Yan picked up the biggest slice of Karuna Muthu’s first preferences
3. John Morrison picked up the biggest slice of Rob Goulden’s preferences
4. Nicola Young’s support split three ways – 30% to Wade-Brown and Yan and 40% to Morrison.
5. At this point there is only 3% in it and Yan has 18%.
6. But Yan’s votes go 55% Wade-Brown and 45% Morrison giving her a 4.4% margin

Of interest 4,363 voters did not fully rank all preferences and hence did not get a say in the final decision between Morrison and Wade-Brown. This is a larger number that the margin of 2,284. Now they presumably made a conscious decision that they thought both candidates were equally undesirable (which is a perfectly appropriate view to have), but it does show the importance of ranking all preferences if you do want as full a say as possible.