Central Hutt

Central Ward By Election Results – Hutt City Council

Brief summary

Glenda Barratt wins with 606 votes, a previous sitting councillor.

Only 3282 votes cast, which represented 24.1% of the vote.

No doubt COVID DELTA lockdown had a impact on peoples interest in local by election, and the ability of prospective councillors to walk the talk.

Final results below:

Hutt City Central Ward councillor (1 vacancy) 

Family nameFirst name(s)AffiliationVotes received
BarrattGlendaIndependent606
CaswellPhil 33
ClaytonHenryIndependent567
FoxAndrewIndependent69
HiltonAndrea 592
LulichMichaelIndependent528
MonradSimon 161
MorganThomasIndependent75
RichterEvelyn 69
RoperAsh 99
ShahzhadFaranIndependent370
WilsonColinIndependent92
    
Informal  8
Blank Voting Papers  13

Glenda BARRATT is declared elected.

The voter return was 24.15%, being 3282 votes.

Henry Clayton (who ran third) candidate, is encouraging all voters to support single transferable vote (STV) at the referendum to be held with the full Hutt City Council elections in October 2022.

Twelve candidates for By Election in Central Ward in Lower Hutt 2021

Twelve candidates for Hutt City Council Central Ward By-Election – who are they?

The resignation of David Bassett has resulted in a by election for the Central Ward in Lower Hutt – with one year left to run before the next city wide election.

Voting will be by postal vote with voting papers starting to arrive in the mail to households in the Central Ward from 19 August

Voting will close at noon on 10 September.

The Central ward geographically covers:-

Lower Hutt Central Ward Geographical Boundaries

Candidates do not have to reside in the geographic area, or within Lower Hutt.

So who are the candidates – all have stated they are politically Independent and are:-

  • Glenda Barratt
  • Phil Caswell
  • Henry Clayton
  • Andrew Fox
  • Andrea Hilton
  • Michael Lulich
  • Simon Monrad
  • Thomas Morgan
  • Evelyn Richter
  • Ash Roper
  • Faran Shahzad
  • Colin Wilson

The Twelve Candidates for Hutt City Council Central ward vacancy at Public meeting in Library 11 August

To help in the search for further detail about the candidates, as we are all time poor, compiled below is their social media links and any other details found online around their political aspirations, not their personal (it is not complete and will be updated as more become available or are advised)-

In no particular order:

Thomas Morgan

https://www.facebook.com/Thomas-Morgan-Hutt-City-Central-Ward-2021-By-election-Candidate-101123198921482

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2108/S00228/covid-19-sir-david-is-right.htm

Faran Shahzad

https://www.facebook.com/FaranforCentralWard

Henry Clayton

https://www.facebook.com/henryforthehutt

Michael Lulich

https://www.facebook.com/MichaelLulichforCentralWardCouncillor

Glenda Barratt

https://www.facebook.com/Glenda-Barratt-for-Central-Ward-105274611842239

If you have any further political profiles for any the above candidates please let us know.

Candidates Flyers Gallery

Also listen to the candidates in their own words courtesy of the Hutt Zone

Lower Hutt: House Fire Cornwall Street Update

From Police website

Lower Hutt

 

Lower Hutt Residents Evacuated From Inferno

Part of a Lower Hutt residential street remains cordoned off today while Fire and Police investigators attempt to determine the cause of a large blaze that has destroyed or extensively damaged 6 addresses.

An unoccupied address under construction in Cornwall Street was discovered well alight by a passing Police patrol at about 1.30 am this morning.

Numerous fire appliances struggled to contain the fire that was fanned by strong and blusterous winds. Before the fire was controlled 4 neighbouring addresses were extensively damaged with others suffering smoke damage.

Detective Sergeant Mike Sears of the Lower Hutt CIB said “This was an incredibly dangerous situation. Emergency staff, assisted by members of the public, did an outstanding job evacuating all those exposed to risk despite the obvious risks to their own safety. It is amazing that no-one was physically harmed.”

Given the extent of the damage it will take some time before we are in a position to determine the cause of the fire. At this stage we are simply not in a position to say if it was deliberately lit or not.

Despite this we urgently need to speak to anyone who was in the area at the time, regardless of whether they think they saw anything suspicious or not.” Please call the Lower Hutt Police on 5602600.

Mike Sears
Detective Sergeant
Lower Hutt CIB

 

Full photos and article courtesy of  Hutt Valley Fire Police Unit from the night of the incident.