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Updated: A timeline of Dunedin councillor Benedict Ong’s dramatic first term

A ballot box is seen behind a chain-link fence, with a metallic humanoid robot in the foreground and a glowing red eye, suggesting themes of voting security and artificial intelligence.

Wtf: we are throwing out so many votes for no good reason

Dunedin City Councillor Benedict Ong wears a suit and looks directly at the camera

A timeline of Dunedin councillor Benedict Ong’s dramatic first term

A collage featuring four video call participants, each with a small cartoon brain illustration, surrounding an illustrated brain at the center. Other faces are edited onto the background, partially visible around the edges.

Four new mayors on rolling a grenade down the road for future generations

Sophie Barker wears a red dress and smiles at the camera. IN the background there is a photo of the Dunedin railway station

Sophie Barker haunted Dunedin’s Larnach Castle – now she’s running the city

Papatoetoe-Otara ActionTeam

Did NZ’s most brazen electoral fraud just take place in Papatoetoe?

A smiling man with a grey beard and a purple hat stands by a river on a sunny day, with a walkway and greenery in the background under a clear blue sky.

Reintroducing Nándor Tánczos, the most normal abnormal mayor

Where to from here, with the country’s new crop of young councillors

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

Three orange ballot boxes labeled "Put your vote in here" stand against a blue patterned background. Surrounding them are newspaper headlines about electoral fraud and complaints in Auckland local elections. A green "Local Elections 25" badge is visible.

Some extremely weird stuff is happening with our local elections

an orange photo of a table in a library saing 'vote' and three green maps/graphs on top with a local elections sticker

The local election results, by the numbers