2016 Dunedin mayoral election

The 2016 Dunedin mayoral election was held on Saturday, 8 October 2016 and was conducted under the single transferable voting system. Dave Cull, Dunedin's 57th mayor, was re-elected after seeing off ten challengers.

2016 Dunedin mayoral election

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Candidate Dave Cull Lee Vandervis Party Independent Independent Popular vote 17,441 11,938 Percentage 59.4 40.6

Mayor before election Dave Cull Independent Elected mayor Dave Cull Independent

Results

Cull was re-elected, defeating centre-right challenger Lee Vandervis in the tenth and final iteration of votes; however, Cull's first preference vote was severely reduced.

Candidate	Affiliation	First Preference			Last Iteration
		Votes	%	+/-	Votes	%
Dave Cull	Independent	10,816	27.1	-22.2	17,441	59.4
Lee Vandervis	Independent	7,063	17.7	+2.5	11,938	40.6
Barry Timmings		5,613	14.0
Andrew Whiley		4,647	11.6	+4.4
Aaron Hawkins	Green Dunedin	3,108	7.7	+0.2
Jim O'Malley		2,501	6.2
Conrad Stedman	Independent	2,086	5.2
Rachel Elder		1,734	4.3
Scout Barbour-Evans		945	2.3
Abe Gray		734	1.8
Athold Bayne	Stand up for Dunedin	612	1.5
Informal votes		N/A [1]
Turnout		39,859