Local radio announcer, and former X Factor New Zealand contestant, Steve Broad has been confirmed as the winner of the recent Invercargill City Council (ICC) by-election.

On provisional results Broad recorded 2760 votes, which is over 1000 votes from his closest rival, David Meades (1576).

13,158 ordinary votes have now been counted leaving just 213 special votes still to be processed.

13,158 votes were recorded at 12.56pm on 7th August, representing 34.1% of eligible voters.

Broad will be sworn in ahead of Council’s Community Wellbeing Committee meeting on Tuesday 8 August.

ICC Mayor Nobby Clark was looking forward to working with him.

“I welcome Steve to the table and look forward to working with him on Council.”

Invercargill City Council 2023 By-election Preliminary Result

BROAD, Steve 2,760

MEADES, David 1,576

TOU-MCNAUGHTON, Lisa 1,529

LEWIS, Graham 1,513

DUTT, Asha 1,484

REEVES, Ian 881

POTTINGER, David 672

FABRE, Sebastien 648

KING, Terry 507

MURRELL, Andrea 421

HEENAN, Carl 360

HICKS, David 357

TE MAIHAROA, Rob 319

MORTON, Tom 70

INFORMAL 45

BLANK 16