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Len Brown, as polls predicted, will be Auckland’s first supermayor.
With victory clear, John Banks brought forward a planned news conference to 1.30pm to make a brief statement to the waiting media to congratulate Mr Brown.
Preliminary results of 95% counted show:
Brown 221365
Banks 161167
Craig 40483
Others:
Austin 1552
Barr 692
Bright 2529
Chapman 1878
Dave 840
Fong 1434
Gillies 467
Kahui 1120
McCulloch 1520
McDonald 643
Neeson 3885
Oconnor 1209
Prasst 3578
Presland 278
Ross 3076
Vermunt 427
Williams 3813
Willmott 519
Young 553
Informal 1261
The 56 year old lawyer first entered politics when he was elected to the Manukau City council in 1992, serving as a councillor until 2004. He also served as chairperson of the Counties Manukau Health Council and was founder and co-coordinator of the Howick Free Legal Service and co-founder of the Greenmount East Tamaki Business Association.
Len ran for the Manukau City mayoralty in 2004, losing by a narrow 600 votes to long serving mayor Sir Barry Curtis. He returned to his legal profession before running for a second time for the Manukau mayoralty in 2007, winning the contest by more than 14,000 votes.
Len is married to fellow lawyer Shan Inglis. They have three children: Samantha, Olivia, and Victoria. He suffered a serious heart condition in May 2008.
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10 Comments
Horaaaaaaaayyy ! NOT.
That’s a good result. 48.7%, which means he could potentially get a true majority, not just a plurality, once the remaining votes are counted.
The best part is that even a challenge to the Papatoetoe result cannot change this outcome, because his lead over Banks is greater than the number of voters in the ward.
So happy that Len Brown will be the first Auckland Council Mayor! Congratulations Len!
This is fantastic snub to Rodney Hide who won’t like the fact that the first mayor of the new Super City that he’s set up is a Centre Left mayor.
Now that Auckland finally has a supermayor – let’s see if effective change can happen under an executive governance & long standing bickering on the issues that affect Auck can be moved forward – we’ll all be watching
Wow, Penny Bright did much better than I expected.
Well enough. Now for the hard yards. At least it looks like the Council should be on his side too.
Lets hope he can live up to his election campaign, I wish him all the best and lets get these rail projects built.
Congratulations Len. At least he is a Mayor with a vision. Banks showed he had nothing to offer in terms of better public transport.
I can imagine the Govt won’t be having a party tonight – Auckland wants rail, Auckland will get more rail.
Congratulations Mayor Len Brown kia kaha!!
I am selfish
on this regard.
The only reason I was supporting him was for more rail.
rail , rail, rail. I just like rail.