It looks like Doug Leeder and Bill Clark have taken to the two vacancies in the Eastern Bay of Plenty general constituency.

Doug has 6491 of the progress results for the Bay of Plenty Regional Council, while Bill has 6233.

In the Tauranga constituency, Paula Thompson, former Tauranga Mayor Stuart Crosby, John Cronin, David Love and Andrew von Dadelzson have taken the five spots on the board.

Paula currently has 17,922 of the votes, Stuart has 17,520, John has 15,245, David has 12,960 and Andrew has 12,057.

For the WBOP constituency, Norm Brunning and Jane Nees ran unopposed.

It looks like Tipene Marr has taken Kotahi Maori constituency of the board, with 1345 votes.

Arapeta Tahana has taken the Okurei Maori constituency with 1521 votes. Gina Mohi is currently sitting at 1468 votes.

Awanui Black appears to have edged out Carlton Bidois for the Mauao Maori constituency with 873 votes to 729.

Kevin Winters and Lyall Thurston appear to have taken the two vacancies for the Rotorua General constituency. Lyall has 7556 votes and Kevin has 7001 votes.

These are the preliminary results for the Bay of Plenty Regional Council.

Special votes are expected to be announced tomorrow and, depending on the numbers, the above results could change.

The official results, including ordinary and special votes, are expected to be confirmed on Monday, October 10.