From justinemccabe at earthlink.net Mon Oct 18 10:34:38 2010 From: justinemccabe at earthlink.net (Justine McCabe) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:34:38 -0400 Subject: {news} Fw: USGP-INT Fwd: [GGNetwork] Green Mayor election in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington Message-ID: <9C412436510644C088F4D87036518C77@JUSTINE> Begin forwarded message: From: Miriam Solomon Date: October 13, 2010 2:07:14 AM EDT To: APGN forum , GGN , Australian Greens Global Issues Networking Group Cc: Peter Davis Subject: [GGNetwork] Green Mayor election in New Zealand's capital city, Wellington Hi all, Excellent news from Pete Davis in New Zealand. More electoral success!!! Please forward any messages of congratulations to Pete at peter.davis at fuzion.co.nz Miriam Solomon On 13/10/10 2:19 PM, "Peter Davis" wrote: Greetings, I am not sure if this is a 'world first' but a Green candidate has just been elected as the Mayor of the capital city in New Zealand. While Celia Wade-Brown stood as an Independent, she is a Green Party member and has been a very visible city councillor for many years, elected on a Green ticket. You can read more about her here http://www.celiaformayor.org.nz The election was held using the Single Transferable Vote system. On election night, the right-wing incumbent was 40 votes ahead. After the Special Votes were counted, Celia won by 176 votes. Phew. Her opponent had been Mayor for 9 years and had a majority of 11,000 votes in the previous election. http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=28512 Pete -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- peter davis International Secretary Green Party of Aotearoa - New Zealand 021 832 458 : 04 973 5737 : peter.davis59 (skype) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ network mailing list network at lists.globalgreens.org http://lists.globalgreens.org/listinfo.cgi/network-globalgreens.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ usgp-int mailing list usgp-int at gp-us.org http://forum.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/usgp-int -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: