MVT, I hope that Phil Goff gets in as Auckland Mayor too. However, the first part of your post, I don't agree with. It belittles what positive changes there were, in those three terms. Wikipedia has a balanced opinion of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_...of_New_Zealand
Stacked up alongside what National has done in the last 6-7 years, Labour didn't need to sell off assets, they didn't post any deficits while they were in office, and no-one will ever know how much better the economy would have performed if Labour had been able to stay in after 2008. Treasury boffins mocked up forecasts for ongoing deficits in about 2008, and those are what National keeps quoting as verification of their expertise with the economy. They were just guesses, without the knowledge of record dairy receipts that were going to come through by 2013. Even then, National couldn't post a surplus. Unsurprising, when they are more comfortable with higher unemployment, lower taxes for the wealthy, and encouraging the spread of offshore manufacturing by providing R&D grants to bigger businesses, while ignoring the regions in other areas.