2025 Dunedin City Council election

2025 Dunedin City Council election
11 October 2025
Turnout43,295 (45.39%)
 
Candidate Sophie Barker Andrew Simms Lee Vandervis
Affiliation Independent Future Dunedin Independent
Primary vote 10,382 11,377 7,234
Percentage 23.98% 26.28% 16.71%
Final vote 16,874 15,976 excluded
Percentage 51.37% 48.63%
 
Candidate Jules Radich Marie Laufiso
Affiliation Independent Building Kotahitaka
Primary vote 3,485 2,437
Percentage 8.05% 5.63%
Final vote excluded excluded
Mayor before election

Jules Radich
Team Dunedin

Elected mayor

Sophie Barker
Independent

Council election
14 seats on the Dunedin City Council
8 seats needed for a majority
Party Vote % Seats +/–
Independent

57.22 10 0
Future Dunedin

23.90 1 +1
Building Kotahitaka

5.94 1 +1
Green

5.11 1 +1
Labour

4.50 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2025 Dunedin City Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in Dunedin, New Zealand, as part of that year's territorial authority elections and other local elections held nation-wide.

Voters elected the mayor of Dunedin and 14 city councillors, and other local representatives for the 2025–2028 term of the Dunedin City Council. Postal voting and the single transferable vote system were used.

Councillor Sophie Barker won the mayoralty, defeating incumbent mayor Jules Radich.

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