2025 New Plymouth District Council election

2025 New Plymouth District Council election
11 October 2025
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Max Brough David Bublitz Sarah Lucas
Affiliation Independent Independent Independent
Final vote 13,984 6,286 5,763

Mayor before election

Neil Holdom
Independent

Elected mayor

Max Brough
Independent

Council election

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

13 −1
ACT Local

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

The 2025 New Plymouth District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the New Plymouth 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 New Plymouth, 14 district councillors, and other local representatives for the 2025–2028 term of the New Plymouth District Council. Postal voting and the single transferable voting system were used.

Councillor Max Brough won the mayoralty in a landslide, with incumbent mayor Neil Holdom not having stood for re-election.

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.