These are taken from the detailed iteration reports. “First preference” means the person received a 1 next to their name on the ballot paper, and these are counts of the ‘1’s.
When there are several candidates a complicated mathematical formula is used with second and subsequent preferences to calculate a quota for a candidate to be successful based on the number of available seats.
There has been a lot of discussion in Kapiti about whether STV is better than First Past the Post, used by most councils in the country. Your editors’ view is that despite the difficulty, on balance it is.
Mayor
Guru 7830
Compton 5846
Elliott 2696
Halliday 2043
Councilors
Compton 3577
Buswell 2012
Holborow 1948
Elliott 1933
McCann 1572
Cardiff 1287
Turver 1275
Wilson-Goldman 1232
Wilson 996
Derby 522
Forsdyke 491
Scott D 467
Parry 405
Johnson 355
I suggest the biggest disappointments are the failure of Iride McCloy and Nigel Wilson to get elected, as they would have had both the experience and the guts to resist the nonsense that has for years been dominating council; while the re-election of Penny Gaylor is I suppose one of those cosmic mysteries that are yet to be rationally explained. While there are several excellent candidates who did get elected, one has to wonder about the election of several wastes of space, a narcissistic liar, and a grinning fool who in another time and place would have walked about the village with a brightly coloured tunic, and pointed and shoes with bells affixed.
A redeeming feature is the relatively large number who voted for David Scott, despite his not campaigning, inane threats of boycotting meetings by Three Banshees and a failed Anarchist, his unofficial withdrawal from the candidacy, and in particular over two years of continual smear-mongering bilge by the media, with the aid of halfwits and miscreants in police uniforms. At least it shows there are still hundreds of individuals in Kapiti whose thought processes are not controlled by a particularly scabrous element of the media.
We agree that Nigel Wilson’s failure to get elected was also a big disappointment, but like Neil MacKay he left his campaign much too late. Both should have begun their campaigns in May at the latest.
Welcome to the results of our first Trump-style fake news filled election.
The Kapiti News, a.k.a. the Guru Pictorial News played its part.