Local elections in New Zealand
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Local elections are held every three years ending on the second Saturday in October in New Zealand to elect local government politicians using postal voting.
Background
Elections for the city, district and regional councils of New Zealand have a fixed election date, unlike general elections. Under section 10 of the Local Electoral Act 2001,[1] elections must be held on the "second Saturday in October in every third year" from the date the Act came into effect in 2001. The last local body elections were held on 8 October 2022. The next will be held on 11 October 2025. Local elections are mostly organised by district and city councils, with other organisations (for example the Electoral Commission, and the Department of Internal Affairs) having peripheral roles. The elections determine the membership of district, city, and regional councils. In some places, licensing trusts and local boards are also voted for.[2] Elections are held by postal voting.[2]
Under New Zealand law, those who are eligible to enrol (18 year of age, lived in New Zealand continuously for at least one year at some time, and are either a New Zealand citizen or a permanent resident) must do so. People can vote in the area where they live, and it is up to voters to decide which address they consider their home (e.g. a student may choose to enrol where they live during term time, or their parents' place if they go home during the holidays).[3] If a person owns property in which they do not live, they can also apply to be put onto the ratepayer roll for local elections. That is, an individual may be eligible to vote in more than one voting area for local elections.[2]
Mayoral elections
Auckland City
- 1919 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1921 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1923 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1925 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1927 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1929 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1931 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1933 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1935 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1938 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1941 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1944 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1947 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1950 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1953 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1956 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1957 Auckland City mayoral by-election
- 1959 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1962 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1965 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1968 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1971 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1974 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1977 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1980 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1983 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1986 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1989 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1990 Auckland City mayoral by-election
- 1992 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1995 Auckland City mayoral election
- 1998 Auckland City mayoral election
- 2001 Auckland City mayoral election
- 2004 Auckland City mayoral election
- 2007 Auckland City mayoral election
Auckland
Christchurch
- 1876 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1878 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1881 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1895 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1933 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1935 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1936 Christchurch mayoral by-election
- 1938 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1941 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1944 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1947 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1950 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1953 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1956 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1959 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1962 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1965 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1968 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1971 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1974 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1977 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1980 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1983 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1986 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1989 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1992 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1995 Christchurch mayoral election
- 1998 Christchurch mayoral election
- 2001 Christchurch mayoral election
- 2004 Christchurch mayoral election
- 2007 Christchurch mayoral election
- 2010 Christchurch mayoral election
- 2013 Christchurch mayoral election
- 2016 Christchurch mayoral election
- 2019 Christchurch mayoral election
- 2022 Christchurch mayoral election
Dunedin
- 1865 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1929 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1931 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1933 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1935 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1938 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1941 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1944 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1947 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1950 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1953 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1956 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1959 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1962 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1965 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1968 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1971 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1974 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1977 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1980 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1983 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1986 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1989 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1992 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1995 Dunedin mayoral election
- 1998 Dunedin mayoral election
- 2001 Dunedin mayoral election
- 2004 Dunedin mayoral election
- 2007 Dunedin mayoral election
- 2010 Dunedin mayoral election
- 2013 Dunedin mayoral election
- 2016 Dunedin mayoral election
- 2019 Dunedin mayoral election
- 2022 Dunedin mayoral election
Hamilton
- 1976 Hamilton mayoral by-election
- 2013 Hamilton mayoral election
- 2016 Hamilton mayoral election
- 2019 Hamilton mayoral election
- 2022 Hamilton mayoral election
Invercargill
- 1871 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1874 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1876 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1877 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1878 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1879 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1880 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1882 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1883 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1884 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1885 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1886 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1887 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1889 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1890 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1892 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1893 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1894 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1895 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1896 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1898 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1899 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1901 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1903 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1905 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1907 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1908 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1909 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1912 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1913 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1914 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1915 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1917 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1919 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1921 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1923 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1927 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1929 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1931 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1933 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1938 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1944 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1947 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1953 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1962 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1965 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1968 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1971 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1974 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1980 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1983 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1986 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1989 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1992 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1993 Invercargill mayoral by-election
- 1995 Invercargill mayoral election
- 1998 Invercargill mayoral election
- 2004 Invercargill mayoral election
- 2007 Invercargill mayoral election
- 2010 Invercargill mayoral election
- 2013 Invercargill mayoral election
- 2016 Invercargill mayoral election
- 2019 Invercargill mayoral election
- 2022 Invercargill mayoral election
Lower Hutt
- 1933 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1935 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1938 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1941 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1944 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1947 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1950 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1953 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1956 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1959 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1962 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1968 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 2016 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 2019 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 2022 Lower Hutt mayoral election
Nelson
Napier
Porirua
Rangitikei
Rotorua
Tauranga
Upper Hutt
Wellington
- 1875 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1876 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1901 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1903 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1904 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1905 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1907 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1909 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1910 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1911 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1912 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1913 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1915 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1917 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1919 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1921 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1923 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1925 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1927 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1929 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1931 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1933 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1935 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1938 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1941 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1944 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1947 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1950 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1953 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1956 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1959 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1962 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1965 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1968 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1971 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1974 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1977 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1980 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1986 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1989 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1992 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1995 Wellington City mayoral election
- 1998 Wellington City mayoral election
- 2001 Wellington City mayoral election
- 2004 Wellington City mayoral election
- 2007 Wellington City mayoral election
- 2010 Wellington City mayoral election
- 2013 Wellington City mayoral election
- 2016 Wellington City mayoral election
- 2019 Wellington City mayoral election
- 2022 Wellington City mayoral election
Local elections by region
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- 2010 Auckland local elections
- 2013 Auckland local elections
- 2016 Auckland local elections
- 2019 Auckland local elections
- 2022 Auckland local elections
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Rangitikei
- 1986 Wellington local elections
- 1989 Wellington local elections
- 1992 Wellington local elections
- 1995 Wellington local elections
- 1998 Wellington local elections
- 2001 Wellington local elections
- 2004 Wellington local elections
- 2007 Wellington local elections
- 2010 Wellington local elections
- 2013 Wellington local elections
- 2016 Wellington local elections
- 2019 Wellington local elections
- 2022 Wellington local elections
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Christchurch
Dunedin
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See also
References
- ^ "Local Electoral Act 2001 No 35 (as at 24 January 2009), Public Act". Parliamentary Counsel Office. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ a b c "What are local elections?". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
- ^ "Enrol and Vote for the First Time". Electoral Commission. 30 March 2016. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
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