Local Elections 2025

Declaration of Results

The final declaration of results for the 2025 Waitomo District Local Elections are in.

Mayor

  • John Robertson

Te Kūiti Urban Ward

  • Eady Manawaiti
  • Dan Tasker
  • Isaiah Wallace

Waitomo Rural Ward

  • Olivia Buckley
  • Allan Goddard
  • Janette Osborne 

Congratulations to our new and returning elected members.

Our voter return was 46% being 2761 votes including special votes.

View the PDF of the Declaration of Results (PDF 109 KB)

 

Waitomo District Results

 

Preliminary Results

View the PDF of the Preliminary Results. (PDF 108 KB)

Please note that due to there only being a one vote difference in the Rural Ward, the DECLARATION OF RESULTS will determine who our third elected member will be.

Progress Results

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Voting is now officially closed – thank you to everyone who has voted.
And thank you to our candidates! It takes real courage and commitment to run for council, and that act alone shows how much you care about this community.
We'll be sharing the progress results as soon as we can this afternoon.

Voting in the local elections is now closed.

Waitomo District Daily Returns

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The elections are conducted under the Local Electoral Act 2001, the Local Electoral Regulations 2001 and the Local Government Act 2002.

 

Media release: Candidates confirmed

Public Notice of  2025 Triennial Local Authority Elections (PDF 125 KB)

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Pre-Election Report 2025

Download it here (PDF 3.12 MB)

 

 

 

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Council resources must not be used for candidate electioneering/campaigning purposes, Council’s social media pages must remain non-political. Council will use social media to promote and encourage people to STAND for election, and to promote and encourage people to VOTE.

Any obvious electioneering/campaigning OR comments that can be taken as electioneering/campaigning will be removed and the writer blocked for the duration of the election period. All political comments OR comments that can be perceived as political either for or against any candidate and/or potential candidate will be deleted, and the writer blocked for the duration of the elections period if commenting continues.

Please do not also "tag" any of Council's social media pages into any posts that relate to a campaign or support of a preferred candidate.

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https://www.facebook.com/waitomodistrict/

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https://www.facebook.com/WaitomoDistrictPlanReview

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