The 2010 Dunedin mayoral election occurred on Saturday, 9 October 2010 and was conducted under the
Single Transferable Voting
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
system.
The candidates for mayor included
Peter Chin
Peter Wing Ho Chin, CNZM () (born 1941) is a lawyer and was the 56th Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand. He served two terms as Mayor from 2004 to 2010.
Early life and career
Peter Chin is a descendant of the earliest Chinese immigrants to New Z ...
, the incumbent who contested for a third consecutive term. He faced six other candidates. Of these, three stood in the
2007 mayoral race (former councillor
Lee Vandervis
Lee Vandervis (born 1955) is a local-body politician who was first elected to the Dunedin City Council in the 2004 local elections. Vandervis has run for mayor in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022; finishing second in 2007 and 2019 ...
, who came second, Olivier Lequeux, who came fifth, and Jimmy Knowles, who finished last). Other candidates include incumbent city councillor
Dave Cull
David Charles Cull (1 April 1950 – 27 April 2021) was the mayor of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. He became the 57th Mayor of Dunedin in October 2010 and was re-elected in both the 2013 mayoralty race and 2016 mayoral election. Before ...
,
Aaron Hawkins and Kevin Dwyer.
Dave Cull won the mayoral election becoming
Dunedin's 57th mayor.
Opinion polling
Results
44770
See also
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2010 Dunedin local elections
The Dunedin local elections, 2010 were part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards. The Dunedin elections are used to elect the Mayor of Dunedin and to elect councilors to the Dunedin City Coun ...
References
External links
Dunedin City Council Results
2010 elections in New Zealand
2010
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Politics of Dunedin
2010s in Dunedin
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