2025 Hastings District Council election

2025 Hastings District Council election

11 October 2025
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Wendy Schollum Marcus Buddo
Affiliation Independent Independent
Popular vote 7,212 6,613
Percentage 27.0% 24.7%

 
Candidate Steve Gibson Damon Harvey
Affiliation Independent Independent
Popular vote 5,810 5,569
Percentage 21.7% 20.8%

Mayor before election

Sandra Hazlehurst
Independent

Elected mayor

Wendy Schollum
Independent

Council election

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

13 −2
Independent Green

1 +1
CARE for Hastings

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

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

Voters elected the mayor of Hastings and 15 district councillors for the 2025–2028 term of the Hastings District Council. Postal voting and the first-past-the-post voting system were used.

Councillor Wendy Schollum won the mayoralty, with fellow councillor Marcus Buddo coming in second-place.

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 remove the Māori ward for future elections.