The 2025 Queenstown-Lakes District Council election was a local election held from 9 September to 11 October in the Queenstown-Lakes 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 Queenstown-Lakes, 11 district councillors, and other local representatives for the 2025âÂÂ2028 term of the Queenstown-Lakes District Council. Postal voting and the first-past-the-post voting system were used.
John Glover won the mayoralty, defeating incumbent mayor Glyn Lewers.
Voters in the district elected the mayor of Queenstown-Lakes, 11 district councillors in 3 wards, and the members of the WÃÂnaka-Upper Clutha Community Board. They also elected several members to the Otago Regional Council.
Queenstown-Whakatipu general ward returned four councillors to the district council.
WÃÂnaka-Upper Clutha general ward returned four councillors to the district council.
Arrowtown-Kawarau general ward returned three councillors to the district council.
Overall turnout for this election was 41.16%, with 12,927 voting papers returned.
With the final results, the following candidates were declared elected:
John Glover won the mayoralty, defeating incumbent mayor Glyn Lewers.