On the Wednesday following the election, after the counting of 632 special votes, Celia Wade-Brown beat incumbent Kerry Prendergast by a total of 176 votes, 24,881 to 24,705 votes, with voter turnout of 40.11 percent, a slight increase on the 2007 election turnout of 40 percent. Christchurch mayoral -- Incumbent Bob Parker won with 68,245 votes, a majority of 16,679 over Wigram MP Jim Anderton. Initially second-place to Anderton, the vote swung in Parker's favour after _his_ response and unintentional publicity following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake that damaged the city five weeks to the day before the election. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Anderton <sep>, B: Parker