Progress election results for the Bay of Plenty Regional Council are now available.

Tipene Marr has lost his Kohi Maori constituency seat to Toi Kai Rakau Iti , son of activist Tame Iti. Toi has 1956 votes and Tipene 1212 votes.

Kevin Winters, with 8522 votes and Lyall Thurston, 7499 votes, have been re-elected to their Rotorua Regional Constituency seats. Matemoana McDonald, with 1345 votes, has also been successful, keeping the Mauao Maori Regional constituency seat.

Jane Nees, with 6070 votes and Norm Bruning with 4830 votes, have been elected as councillors for the Western Bay of Plenty General constituency.

Bill Clark and Douglas Leeder, both from Eastern Bay of Plenty, were uncontested, so will be filling the two vacancies.

Te Taru White was the only person nominated for the Okurei Maori constituency, so has also been successful in securing that seat.

Also uncontested, and therefore successful were Stuart Crosby, David Love, Stacey Rose, Paula Thompson and Andrew von Dadelszen who have taken up the five vacancies in the Tauranga General constituency.

Preliminary results for the remaining constituencies of the BOPRC are expected to be available from 4pm on Sunday October 13. Final results are expected to be declared no earlier than Thursday October 17.