The 2025 Gisborne District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the Gisborne District of New Zealand as part of that year's nation-wide local elections. Voters elected the mayor of Gisborne and 13 district councillors for the 2025âÂÂ2028 term of the Gisborne District Council. Postal voting and the single transferable voting system were used.
Incumbent mayor Rehette Stoltz was re-elected to a third-term.
The council introduced a MÃÂori 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 retain the MÃÂori ward.
Voters in the district elected the mayor of Gisborne and 13 district councillors in 2 wards.
TairÃÂwhiti MÃÂori ward returned five councillors to the district council.
The TairÃÂwhiti General ward returned eight councillors to the district council.
Overall turnout for the election was 48.1% (50.3% in the general ward, and 43.8% in the MÃÂori ward), with 16,377 voting papers returned. This was up from a turnout of 43.4% in the 2022 election, but down from a turnout of 50.1% in the 2019 election. Gisborne's turnout was 8.7% higher than the national average for this years elections.
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right" +2025 Gisborne mayoral election ! colspan="2" style="width:130px" Affiliation ! style="width:17em" Candidate ! style="width:5em" Primary vote ! style="width:3.5em" % -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Rehette Stoltz 8,147 49.75 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Colin Alder 5,984 36.54 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Jono Samson 1,851 11.30 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Quota 7,991 48.79 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Informal 46 0.28 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Blank 349 2.13 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Turnout 16,377
- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Registered
style="background:lightgrey;border-right:1px solid lightgrey" -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 1st iteration - colspan="5" style="background:#eaecf0;text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px" incumbent }
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right" +TairÃÂwhiti general ward ! colspan="2" style="width:130px" Affiliation ! style="width:17em" Candidate ! style="width:5em" Primary vote ! style="width:3.5em" % ! colspan="2" style="width:5em" Iteration vote -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Colin Alder 2,682 23.87 ! #1 2,682 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Rob Telfer 931 8.28 ! #3 1,207 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Samuel Gibson 1,008 8.97 ! #10 1,230 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Jeremy Muir 943 8.39 ! #10 1,219 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Alexandra Boros 679 6.04 ! #17 1,211 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Debbie Gregory 636 5.66 ! #19 1,167 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Larry Foster 645 5.74 ! #21 1,175 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Teddy Thompson 516 4.59 ! #23 1,159 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Andy Cranston 512 4.56 ! #23 1,022 - style="background:" style="text-align:left" Independent Green style="text-align:left" Jordan Walker 382 3.40 ! #18 675 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Ian Allan 357 3.18 ! #16 550 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Grant Brown 284 2.53 ! #14 492 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Jono Samson 265 2.36 ! #11 386 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Marchel Campbell 254 2.26 ! #9 342 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Ian Procter 273 2.43 ! #8 326 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Darin Brown 235 2.09 ! #6 287 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Jodie Curtis 139 1.24 ! #4 160 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Blake Webb 109 0.97 ! #3 127 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Gazza McKenzie 43 0.38 ! #2 51 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Quota 1,210 10.77 ! #23 1,142 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Informal 248 2.21 rowspan="4" colspan="2" style="background:lightgrey" - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Blank 97 0.86 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Turnout 11,238
- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Registered
style="background:lightgrey;border-right:1px solid lightgrey" -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 1st iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 3rd iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent gain from Independent on 10th iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent gain from Independent on 10th iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent gain from Independent on 17th iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 19th iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 21st iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 23rd iteration - colspan="7" style="background:#eaecf0;text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px" incumbent }
class="wikitable" style="text-align:right" +TairÃÂwhiti MÃÂori ward ! colspan="2" style="width:130px" Affiliation ! style="width:17em" Candidate ! style="width:5em" Primary vote ! style="width:3.5em" % ! colspan="2" style="width:5em" Iteration vote -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Aubrey Ria 1,163 22.63 ! #1 1,163 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Rhonda Tibble 769 14.96 ! #3 844 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Rawinia Parata 655 12.75 ! #7 836 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Nick Tupara 583 11.34 ! #12 872 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Anne Huriwai 466 9.07 ! #16 803 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Chris Haenga 402 7.82 ! #16 722 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Elizabeth Kerekere 365 7.10 ! #11 515 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Raawiri Gilgen 182 3.54 ! #7 217 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Jackie Akuhata-Brown 159 3.09 ! #6 198 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Mateawa Keelan 150 2.92 ! #4 159 -
style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Kat Taylor 135 2.63 ! #2 146 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Quota 838 16.31 ! #16 790 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Informal 81 1.58 colspan="2" rowspan="4" style="background:lightgrey" - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Blank 29 0.56 - ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Turnout 5,139
- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;font-weight:normal" Registered
style="background:lightgrey;border-right:1px solid lightgrey" -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 1st iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 3rd iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 7th iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent hold on 12th iteration -
colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"Independent gain from Independent on 16th iteration - colspan="7" style="background:#eaecf0;text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px" incumbent }