2025 Whangārei District Council election

2025 Whangārei District Council election
11 October 2025
Turnout30,490 (45.00%)
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Ken Couper Vince Cocurullo
Affiliation Independent Independent
Primary vote 8,668 8,173
Percentage 28.43% 26.81%
Final vote 12,418 11,983
Percentage 50.89% 49.11%

 
Candidate Marie Olsen Brad Flower
Affiliation Independent Independent
Primary vote 6,746 5,786
Percentage 22.13% 18.98%
Final vote excluded excluded

Mayor before election

Vince Cocurullo
Independent

Elected mayor

Ken Couper
Independent

Council election

13 seats on the Whangārei District Council
7 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/–
Independent

12 −1
ACT Local

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

The 2025 Whangārei District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the Whangārei 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 Whangārei and 13 district councillors for the 2025–2028 term of the Whangārei District Council. Postal voting and the single transferable voting voting system were used.

Councillor Ken Couper won the mayoralty, defeating incumbent mayor Vince Cocurullo.

The council introduced a Māori ward at the 2022 election; in a referendum on its future held alongside this election (as part of a nation-wide series of referendums) voters elected to remove the Māori ward for future elections.