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Labour’s Poto Williams has a healthy lead in the Christchurch East by-election after the counting of advance votes.
With 3100 votes counted, Williams had collected 2035 of these with National’s Matthew Doocey a distant second on 743.
The by-election was triggered when Labour MP Lianne Dalziel resigned to successfully contest the Christchurch mayoralty.
Dalziel held a comfortable majority in the electorate which was severely hit by the Christchurch quakes.
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