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Polls have closed in the Dunedin City Council by-election.

Fourteen candidates stood for the vacant position, after Cr Jules Radich died in January.

A progress result is expected to be known this afternoon.

Voting opened about a month ago and the polls closed at midday today.

At 10.51am, voting turnout was sitting at 29.74%.

Among the last-minute voters in the Octagon was Ellen MacGregor, who handed in the forms for herself, her husband and 21-year-old son at 11.57am.

She had been keen to meet the deadline, she said.

The forms had been filled out for a while, but it was then a matter of dropping them in.

"I had actually headed home at 10 o'clock thinking I would get sorted and back in to drop them off," Mrs MacGregor said.…