2022 Dunedin City Council election

The 2022 Dunedin City Council election was held via postal voting between September and October 2022 as part of the wider 2022 New Zealand local elections.

Council

The Dunedin City Council used the single transferable voting system to elect the Mayor of Dunedin and city councillors for the 2022-2025 term. Voter turnout was 48.21%. The positions of mayor and fourteen city councillors elected at-large were contested by the following candidates:

Mayor

Jules Radich, a city councillor from 2019 to 2022, and candidate for mayor in the 2019 election, won the mayoral election, defeating incumbent Green candidate Aaron Hawkins.

Incumbent candidate

Councillors

Withdrawn due to being elected as mayor<br/> Incumbent candidate

Other local elections

Depending on where in Dunedin they lived, voters also voted in concurrent local elections for the:

• Otago Regional Council:
• Dunedin Constituency, or
• Molyneux Constituency

and

• Strath Taieri Community Board
• Waikouaiti Coast Community Board
• Mosgiel-Taieri Community Board
• Saddle Hill Community Board
• West Harbour Community Board, or
• Otago Peninsula Community Board

and/or

• Oamaru Licensing Trust.

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