Feeling sad that the good progressive candidate (and former mayor), who got more first-preference votes than anyone else, looks to have lost the Dunedin City Council by-election to a right-wing newbie 😭
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https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/jo-galer-track-win-dunedin-election
Jo Galer on track to win Dunedin by-election
Jo Galer is on track to win the Dunedin City Council by-election over former mayor Aaron Hawkins. At 1.30pm today, Ms Galer (8845 votes) was in...
Ooh, there’s still hope. Can’t link sorry because the ODT story is behind a paywall, but this evening Galer’s lead is down to 250 votes over Hawkins, with 548 special votes still to be processed 👀
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