Leo Molloy

NZ Herald reports that the poll shows Molloy at third behind Labour and Greens-backed Efeso Collins and former Far North mayor Wayne Brown. Molloy said "cowboys ...

At a mayoralty debate hosted by the Penrose Business Association, he threatened an interjector with a slap. In an interview with 1News on Wednesday, before he pulled out of the race, Molloy said of his suitability as mayor: "Give me the opportunity and judge me afterwards." He said he had a new hospitality project in the works.

Molloy says polls suggest he couldn't win the Auckland mayoralty race and withdrawing is the right thing to do.

He hinted at a run in 2025 and said he had no regrets. Molloy did not endorse another candidate but said he may do so once he had scrutinised their policies in more detail. Molloy said polls suggested he would not win the election.

Leo Molloy has quit the race to become Auckland's next mayor. The Herald can reveal he is expected to announce his withdrawal today - on the same day a new.

The initial results will be announced shortly afterwards and final results about a week to 10 days later. Just one in three Aucklanders voted at the Auckland Council elections in 2019. "Collins still hasn't galvanised the left and is struggling to crack 25 per cent. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 per cent. It's time they stepped up," Van Veen said. An eleventh-hour intervention by National Party power brokers would change the race dramatically.

"I have a new restaurant/bar to design and build, and I'm looking forward to concentrating on that project."

ANALYSIS: The Auckland mayoral election has been thrown into turmoil with the shock withdrawal of Leo Molloy in the dying hour before nominations closed today.

In the previous four mayoral contests, Len Brown and Phil Goff secured 50 per cent of the vote by treading a middle path that appealed to centre-right voters. This is borne out by Collins' poll numbers, which are stuck in the mid 20s. What was left of Molloy's campaign team held a "hui" this morning. With 14.5 per cent of the vote in today's poll, Molloy's tens of thousands of supporters are unlikely to pivot towards Collins, the status quo candidate who has the backing of Labour and the Greens. Beck, who has the backing of National's de facto local government arm Communities and Residents, is struggling and slipped further in today's poll to just 12.5 per cent. "The trend is your friend and the trend is going against me," he told the Herald.

Hours after the Auckland Ratepayers Alliance Curia poll was released, Auckland Mayoral Candidate Leo Molloy has withdrawn from the race.

In that respect, Uffindell’s defenders on the streets of Tauranga risk sounding a bit like the psychiatrist Kargol played by Graham Chapman on Monty Python. Some of the media commentary has also noted how the Uffindell saga has taken the shine off National’s good poll results and distracted us all from the unveiling of an important welfare policy at the recent National Patty conference. Sam Uffindell’s defenders keep reminding us that he was only 16 at the time of the King’s College incident, and haven’t we all done things in our teens that, as adults, we look back on with shame and embarrassment? Join us and support the publication of trustworthy, relevant, public interest news, freely accessible to all New Zealanders:Become a member Find out more

Controversial businessman Leo Molloy says he will be back for another tilt at the mayoralty in 2025. In a press conference this afternoon, Molloy blamed ...

That is closing, but Molloy is set to revamp the O'Hagan's Irish pub just a few venues down from Headquarters in the Viaduct marina. If I do endorse it'll be a fiscally responsible candidate - not a reckless spender." It's time they stepped up," Van Veen said. An eleventh-hour intervention by National Party power brokers would change the race dramatically. "Some aspects of my polling are still strong, however there are clear trends emerging that suggest I cannot win – this time. I'm getting on with my other life as a hospo legend. The hospitality figure had run Headquarters bar and restaurant in Auckland's Viaduct for many years. "Regardless of the news today, we are going to continue to be focused on our campaign for creating a more just, sustainable Auckland. But I wish Leo Molloy well and I appreciate the energy and passion he has brought to this race," Collins said. On frontrunner Efeso Collins, Molloy said he believed he was the most "reckless and irresponsible" of all the candidates. He said he couldn't guarantee that if he had left his name in the ring, he wouldn't be "orchestrating a result" for the left. Molloy said three years goes by in a flash in his life and it was highly likely he would be back on the radar again. Molloy said he were hoping rival candidate from the right Viv Beck would have "waved the white flag" but she didn't "so we had to make a decision".