Nearly half of Auckland's special election votes discarded

Saturday 18 October 2025 · 7 outlets · 4 reports · updated Sat 18 Oct 2025, 4:49pm

In this story Wayne Brown, Victoria Short

Auckland Council has discarded 4,162 special votes in the local body elections due to incorrect or missing declaration details. This has delayed the final election results until Saturday afternoon. More than 10,000 special votes were originally received.

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1. RNZSat 18 Oct 2025, 3:54pm

   Almost half of Auckland's special local body election votes thrown out (opens in new tab)

2. Stuff via RNZSat 18 Oct 2025, 4:18pm

   Local elections: Almost half of Auckland's special votes thrown out (opens in new tab)

   Also on The Post (opens in new tab), The Press (opens in new tab), Waikato Times (opens in new tab)

3. 1News via RNZSat 18 Oct 2025, 4:40pm

   Almost half of Auckland's special local body election votes discarded (opens in new tab)

4. NZ HeraldSat 18 Oct 2025, 4:49pm

   Thousands of Auckland special votes ruled invalid in final election count (opens in new tab)