2025 Gisborne District Council election

2025 Gisborne District Council election

11 October 2025
Turnout16,377 (48.07%)
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Rehette Stoltz Colin Alder Jono Samson
Affiliation Independent Independent Independent
Popular vote 8,147 5,984 1,851
Percentage 49.75% 36.54% 11.30%

Mayor before election

Rehette Stoltz
Independent

Elected mayor

Rehette Stoltz
Independent

Council election

14 seats on the Gisborne District Council
8 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/–
Independent

13 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2025 Gisborne District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the Gisborne District of New Zealand as part of that year's nation-wide local elections. Voters elected the mayor of Gisborne and 13 district councillors for the 2025–2028 term of the Gisborne District Council. Postal voting and the single transferable voting system were used.

Incumbent mayor Rehette Stoltz was re-elected to a third-term.

The council introduced a Māori ward at the 2022 election. In a referendum on its future held at this election, as part of a nation-wide series of referendums, voters elected to retain the Māori ward.