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The Auckland mayoral election, 2010, was part of the New Zealand local elections, 2010. It was the first election of a mayor for the enlarged Auckland Council, informally known as the "super-city". The election was won by sitting mayor of Manukau City Len Brown with 48.7% votes, over sitting mayor of Auckland City John Banks with 35.17% and first-time candidate Colin Craig with 8.73%. The sitting mayor of North Shore City Andrew Williams polled fourth and actor/director Simon Prast fifth.〔 The election occurred on Saturday 9 October 2010, as per the Local Electoral Act 2001.〔(Local Electoral Act 2001 No 35 (as at 24 January 2009), Public Act )〕 Like the majority of New Zealand mayoral elections, the election was held by postal voting using the first-past-the-post system. It was the largest election of the 2010 local elections, with some 961,536 eligible voters (32.5% of all registered voters nationally) able to vote in the election.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Enrolment Statistics for Auckland Council - Elections New Zealand ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Enrolment Statistics for the whole of New Zealand - Elections New Zealand )〕 ==Candidates== Several candidates announced their intentions to run for mayor of Auckland before official nominations opened. * Manukau City mayor Len Brown announced his candidacy on 30 August 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=TVNZ )〕 * Auckland City mayor John Banks announced his candidacy on 10 November 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Banksy Launches His SuperMayor Campaign With Rail Promise )〕 He was later found guilty of filing a false electoral return after the election. * Actor/director Simon Prast announced his candidacy on 25 June 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=TVNZ )〕 *Direct democracy campaigner Colin Craig announced his candidacy on 28 June 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.3news.co.nz/Pro-smacking-campaigner-joins-Auckland-mayoralty-race/tabid/419/articleID/162227/Default.aspx )〕 *North Shore City mayor Andrew Williams announced his candidacy on 10 July 2010. Nominations opened on 23 July 2010, and closed at 12 noon NZST (UTC+12) on 20 August 2010. At the close of nominations, 23 candidates had put their name forward. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auckland mayoral election, 2010」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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