2025 Wellington City Council election

2025 Wellington City Council election
11 October 2025
 
Candidate Andrew Little Karl Tiefenbacher Ray Chung
Affiliation Labour Independent Independent Together
Primary vote 46,016 11,494 8,532
Percentage 56.41% 14.09% 10.46%
 
Candidate Alex Baker Diane Calvert
Affiliation Independent Independent
Primary vote 7,506 4,093
Percentage 9.20% 5.02%
Mayor before election

Tory Whanau
Green

Elected mayor

Andrew Little
Labour

Council election
15 seats on the Wellington City Council
8 seats needed for a majority
Party Vote % Seats +/–
Independent

36.68 5 −3
Labour

29.21 5 +1
Green

20.37 4 +1
Independent Together

10.33 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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

Voters elected the mayor of Wellington, 15 city councillors, and other local representatives for the 2025–2028 term of the Wellington City Council. Postal voting and the single transferable vote voting system were used.

Incumbent mayor Tory Whanau ultimately did not run for re-election as mayor, instead running to be the Māori ward councillor. Whanau lost that election to Labour's Matthew Reweti.

Overall turnout was 49.99%, the highest in 30 years, with former Labour leader Andrew Little winning the mayoralty in a landslide.

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.

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