2025 Invercargill City Council election

2025 Invercargill City Council election

11 October 2025
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Tom Campbell Alex Crackett
Affiliation Independent Independent
Popular vote 6.948 5,202
Percentage 38.61% 28.91%

 
Candidate Ian Pottinger Ria Bond
Affiliation Independent Independent
Popular vote 2,322 1,803
Percentage 12.90% 10.02%

Mayor before election

Nobby Clark
LETS GO Invercargill

Elected mayor

Tom Campbell
Independent

Council election

12 seats on the Invercargill City Council
7 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/–
Independents

12 +4
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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

Voters elected the mayor of Invercargill, 12 city councillors, and other local representatives for the 2025–2028 term of the Invercargill City Council. Postal voting and the first-past-the-post voting system were used.

Tom Campbell, councillor and deputy mayor since 2022, was elected to the mayoralty, replacing retiring mayor Nobby Clark.