2025 Hutt City Council election

2025 Hutt City Council election

11 October 2025
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Ken Laban Brady Dyer
Affiliation Independent Independent
Popular vote 8,704 6,974
Percentage 34.48% 27.63%

 
Candidate Karen Morgan Prabha Ravi
Affiliation Independent Independent
Popular vote 5,529 3,608
Percentage 21.90% 14.29%

Mayor before election

Campbell Barry
Labour

Elected mayor

Ken Laban
Independent

Council election

13 seats on the Hutt City Council
7 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/–
Independent

11 +3
Labour

1 0
Independent Green

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

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

Voters elected the mayor of Lower Hutt, 13 city councillors, and other local representatives for the 2025–2028 term of the Hutt City Council. Postal voting and the first-past-the-post voting system were used.

Ken Laban was elected as mayor, becoming New Zealand's first Pasifika mayor.

The council voted to introduce a Māori ward at this election; in a referendum on its future held at this election (as part of a nation-wide series of referendums) voters elected to keep the Māori ward.

A majority of voters also voted in favour of exploring amalgamation with the Wellington, Upper Hutt, Porirua and Greater Wellington councils, in an indicative poll on the issue.