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Triennial elections for all 73 cities and districts, twelve regional councils and all district health boards (DHBs) in New Zealand were held on 13 October 2007. Most councils were elected using the first-past-the-post voting method, but eight (of which Wellington City was the largest) were elected using single transferable vote.
The single transferable vote (STV) method was first used at the 2004 local elections, when ten districts and city councils employed this alternative to first-past-the-post voting (FPP). Of those ten, two district councils—Papakura and Matamata-Piako—reverted to FPP. The remaining eight councils that used STV in 2007 were Kaipara, Thames-Coromandel, Kāpiti Coast, Porirua, Wellington, Marlborough, Dunedin, and the Chatham Islands. [1]
All DHBs have been using STV since the 2004 local elections. [2]
New mayors were elected in Auckland City, [3] North Shore City, Manukau City, Christchurch, [4] Rodney District, Whangārei, Far North District, [5] Nelson, [6] Taupō, Stratford, South Taranaki District and Buller District. [7]
Voter turnouts were generally lower than normal for local body elections in New Zealand. [8] [9]
Peter Chin was re-elected in the Dunedin mayoral election.
| Northland Region | |||||
| district | councillors | community boards | regional councillors | Mayor | link |
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| Far North District | 9 | 3 | 3 |  Wayne Brown , (new) | |
| Whangarei District | 13 | – | 4 | Stan Semenoff (new) | |
| Kaipara District | 10 | – | 1 | Peter King , re-elected | [ permanent dead link ] |
| Auckland Region | |||||
| district | councillors | community boards | regional councillors | Mayor | link |
| Rodney District | 12 | – | 1 | Penny Webster , re-elected | |
| North Shore City | 15 | 66 | 2 |  George Wood , defeated by Andrew Williams | |
| Waitakere City | 14 | 4 | 2 | Bob Harvey , re-elected | |
| Auckland City | 19 | 9 | 4 | Dick Hubbard , defeated by John Banks | |
| Manukau City | 17 | 8 | 3 | Sir Barry Curtis , did not run. Len Brown won | |
| Papakura District | 8 | – | 1 1 | John Robertson | |
| Franklin District | 12 | 2 | 1 1, 2 | Mark Ball | |
| 1 Franklin and Papakura districts jointly elected one regional councillor. 2 The south part of Franklin District is in the Waikato Region. | |||||
| Waikato region | |||||
| district | councillors | community boards | regional councillors | Mayor | link |
| Waikato District | 13 | 4 | 23 | Peter Harris | |
| Hamilton City | 13 | – | 4 | Bob Simcock , new | |
| Waipa District | 13 | 2 | 1 | Alan Livingston | |
| Matamata-Piako District | 11 | 3 | 1 | Hugh Vercoe | |
| Otorohanga District | 7 | 2 | 1 4 | Dale Williams | |
| Waitomo District | 6 | – | 1 4 | Mark Ammon | |
| South Waikato District | 10 | – | 1 | Neil Sinclair | |
| Taupō District | 12 | – | 2 5, 6 | Clayton Stent | |
| Hauraki District | 13 | – | 1 | John Tregidga | |
| Thames-Coromandel District | 8 | 5 | 1 | Philippa Barriball | |
| 3 Waikato jointly elects one regional councillor with Franklin District and elects another in its own right. 4 Otorohanga and Waitomo districts jointly elect one regional councillor. 5 Parts of Taupō District are in the Bay of Plenty, Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay Regions. 6 Elects two councillors jointly with Rotorua District. | |||||
| Bay of Plenty Region 7 | |||||
| district | councillors | community boards | regional councillors | Mayor | link |
| Western Bay of Plenty District | 12 | 5 | 2 | Graeme Weld | |
| Tauranga District | 10 | – | 4 | Stuart Crosby | |
| Rotorua District | 12 | – | 38 | Kevin Winters | |
| Whakatāne District | 12 | 2 | 29 | Colin Holmes | |
| Kawerau District | 8 | – | 29 | Malcolm Campbell | |
| Opotiki District | 11 | 1 | 29 | John Forbes | |
| 7 Three regional councillors are elected in three separate Māori wards. 8 in conjunction with part of Taupō District. 9 Whakatane, Kawerau and Opotiki districts jointly elect two regional councillors. | |||||
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