2025 Tasman District Council election

2025 Tasman District Council election
11 October 2025
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Tim King Timo Neubauer
Affiliation Independent Independent
Popular vote 10,209 4,127
Percentage 50.51% 20.42%

 
Candidate Richard Johns Maxwell Clark
Affiliation Independent Independent
Popular vote 3,931 1,220
Percentage 19.45% 6.04%

Mayor before election

Tim King
Independent

Elected mayor

Tim King
Independent

Council election

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

12 −1
Sensible, Affordable and Ethical

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

The 2025 Tasman District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the Tasman 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 Tasman, 14 district councillors, and eight community board members for the 2025–2028 term of the Tasman District Council. Postal voting and the first-past-the-post voting system were used.

Incumbent mayor Tim King won re-election to a third term.

A Māori ward was introduced for this election, won by Paul Morgan who was unopposed. 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.