2025 Porirua City Council election

2025 Porirua City Council election

11 October 2025
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Anita Baker Kathleen Filo Ura Wilson-Pokoati
Affiliation Independent Independent Independent
Primary vote 8,517 7,225 1,565
Percentage 48.33% 41.00% 8.88%
Final vote 8,935 8,033 excluded
Percentage 52.60% 47.29%

Mayor before election

Anita Baker
Independent

Elected mayor

Anita Baker
Independent

Council election

10 seats on the Porirua City Council
6 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/–
Independent

8 0
Labour

2 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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

Voters elected the mayor of Porirua and 10 city councillors for the 2025–2028 term of the Porirua City Council. Postal voting and the single transferable vote system were used.

Incumbent mayor Anita Baker won re-election 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 keep the Māori ward.

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