The 2019 Invercargill mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections that were held on 12 October 2019 to elect the

Mayor of Invercargill The Mayor of Invercargill is the head of the municipal government of Invercargill, New Zealand, and leads the Invercargill City Council. The mayor is directly elected using a First Past the Post electoral system every three years. The current m ...

. Incumbent mayor

Tim Shadbolt Sir Timothy Richard Shadbolt (born 19 February 1947) is a New Zealand politician. He was the Mayor of Invercargill and previously Mayor of Waitemata City. Early life Shadbolt was born in the Auckland suburb of Remuera in 1947. His father died ...

was re-elected to his ninth term with a reduced majority.

Key dates

Key dates for the election were: *1 July: Electoral Commission enrolment campaign starts. *19 July: Nominations open for candidates. Rolls open for inspection. *16 August: Nominations close at noon. Rolls close. *21 August: Election date and candidates' names announced. *20 to 25 September: Voting documents delivered to households. Electors can post the documents back to electoral officers as soon as they have voted. *12 October: Polling day. Voting documents must be at the council before voting closes at noon. Preliminary results will be available as soon as all ordinary votes are counted. *17 to 23 October: Official results, including all valid ordinary and special votes, declared.

Candidates

Declared candidates

*Rebecca Amundsen, incumbent Deputy Mayor of Invercargill *Steve Chernishov, candidate for city council in 2016 *Darren Ludlow, Invercargill City Councillor and former Deputy Mayor of Invercargill *

, incumbent Mayor of Invercargill

Rejected candidates

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, former

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list MP

Withdrawn candidates

*Toni Biddle, Invercargill City Councillor

Declined to be candidates

* Paddy O'Brien, ILT board member and former international rugby union referee

Results

The following table gives the election results:

References

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