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Wellington City mayoral election, 2013

Wellington City mayoral election, 2013
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← 2010 12 October 2013 2016 →
  Celia Wade-Brown, 2013.jpg Jack Yan at SFD Wellington 2010.jpg
Candidate Celia Wade-Brown John Morrison Jack Yan
Party Independent Independent Independent
Popular vote 27,171 24,691 9,996

Mayor before election

Celia Wade-Brown

Elected Mayor

Celia Wade-Brown


Celia Wade-Brown

Celia Wade-Brown

The 2013 Wellington City mayoral election is part of the New Zealand local elections. On 12 October 2013, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Wade-Brown was re-elected.

Wellington is one of eight local bodies in New Zealand that uses the Single transferable vote system to elect its Mayor and Councillors. The 2013 local government election will be the first time that the Greater Wellington Regional Council will use STV in it elections, and the first time a regional council has used STV for elections in New Zealand.

When nominations closed there were six candidates for the Wellington mayoralty.

Dr Keith Johnson, an economist from Island Bay who ran for the Southern Ward in 2010, initially proposed to stand. He subsequently withdrew, saying that There was not much resonance in the concerns I had for debt control and against the rebalancing of rates.

Wade-Brown was re-elected. The following table shows preliminary results for first preference votes, and final results for the last iteration.


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