The 2025 New Plymouth District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the New Plymouth 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 New Plymouth, 14 district councillors, and other local representatives for the 2025âÂÂ2028 term of the New Plymouth District Council. Postal voting and the single transferable voting system were used.
Councillor Max Brough won the mayoralty in a landslide, with incumbent mayor Neil Holdom not having stood for re-election.
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 remove the MÃÂori ward for future elections.
Voters in the district elected the mayor of New Plymouth, 14 councillors from 5 wards, and the members of five community boards (Clifton, Inglewood, Kaitake, Puketapu-Bell Block, and Waitara). They also elected members of the Taranaki Regional Council.
Te Purutanga Mauri Pà «manawa MÃÂori ward returned one councillor to the district council.
Kaitake-NgÃÂmotu general ward returned six councillors to the district council.
KÃ Âhanga Moa general ward returned one councillor to the district council.
North general ward returned one councillor to the district council.
Five councillors were elected at-large to the district council.