News Dunedin DCC 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. "And then a few jobs cropped up, and so yes, I was hopeful that I could make it." She did not want to be somebody who complained about the council while not voting.…