2022 Rotorua mayoral election

The 2022 Rotorua mayoral election took place on 8 October 2022 to determine the Mayor of Rotorua. Incumbent mayor Steve Chadwick did not run for re-election.

Candidates

Declared candidates

• Kalaadevi Ananda, businesswoman
• Raj Kumar, district councillor
• Reynold Macpherson, district councillor
• Ben Sandford, lawyer, former winter Olympian, and Labour candidate in the 2017 general election
• Fletcher Tabuteau, former New Zealand First MP
• Tania Tapsell, district councillor and National candidate in the 2020 general election.

Declined to be candidates

• Steve Chadwick, incumbent mayor
• Dave Donaldson, deputy mayor
• Todd McClay, National MP
• Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, district councillor
• Mercia Yates, district councillor

Results

References