2025 Whanganui District Council election

2025 Whanganui District Council election

11 October 2025
Turnout17,024 (50.10%)
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Andrew Tripe Josh Chandulal-Mackay Peter Oskam
Affiliation Independent Independent Independent
Popular vote 9,147 5,286 1,895
Percentage 53.73% 31.05% 11.13%

Mayor before election

Andrew Tripe
Independent

Elected mayor

Andrew Tripe
Independent

Council election

12 seats on the Whanganui District Council
7 seats needed for a majority
Party Seats +/–
Independents

12 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The 2025 Whanganui District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the Whanganui 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 Whanganui, 12 district councillors, and other local representatives for the 2025–2028 term of the Whanganui District Council. Postal voting and the first-past-the-post voting system were used.

The council voted to introduce a Māori ward at this election; its future was decided in a referendum on the issue, as part of a nation-wide series of referendums.

Incumbent mayor Andrew Tripe was re-elected to a second term.