Dame Kerry Leigh Prendergast is a New Zealand politician who served as the 33rd Mayor of Wellington between 2001 and 2010,succeeding Mark Blumsky. She was the second woman to hold the position,after Fran Wilde.
John Francis Maclean Morrison is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 17 Tests and 18 One Day Internationals for New Zealand. From 1998 to 2013,he was a Wellington City Councillor;his political career ended when he stood for mayor only.
Ian William Lawrence was an Australian-born New Zealand lawyer,who served as the mayor of Wellington from 1983 to 1986.
Ian Duncan McKinnon is a New Zealand educator and local politician,and is a former deputy mayor of Wellington.
The 2010 Wellington City mayoral election is part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections. On 9 October 2010,elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Sitting Green Party councillor Celia Wade-Brown defeated incumbent mayor Kerry Prendergast and four other candidates.
Celia Margaret Wade-Brown is a New Zealand politician who served as the 34th Mayor of Wellington,the capital city of New Zealand,from 2010 until 2016.
The Mayor of Porirua is the head of the municipal government of Porirua,New Zealand,and presides over the Porirua City Council. The mayor is directly elected using the single transferable vote electoral system. There have been six mayors since the establishment of the borough council in 1962:the current mayor is Anita Baker,who was elected in October 2019.
Nicholas Oliver Leggett is a former New Zealand politician and,as of 2016,a member of the New Zealand National Party. He was the previous Mayor of Porirua,and at the time of his election in October 2010,he was the youngest mayor in New Zealand.
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.
William Raymond Wallace is a New Zealand politician. He served as mayor of Lower Hutt from 2010 to 2019.
The 2016 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections and was held on 8 October to determine the next Mayor of Wellington. The incumbent was Celia Wade-Brown,who was first elected in the 2010 mayoral election. Wade-Brown did not seek re-election. Her title was pursued by her deputy,Justin Lester,councillors Jo Coughlan,Andy Foster,Helene Ritchie and Nicola Young,former mayor of Porirua City Nick Leggett and independent candidates Keith Johnson and Johnny Overton.
The 2019 New Zealand local elections were triennial elections to select local government officials and district health board members. Under section 10 of the Local Electoral Act 2001,a "general election of members of every local authority or community board must be held on the second Saturday in October in every third year" from the date the Act came into effect in 2001,meaning 12 October 2019.
Tahere Paul Eagle is a New Zealand politician and member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Rongotai electorate. He was a Wellington City Councillor from 2010 to 2017 and was the first person of Māori descent to be Deputy Mayor of Wellington,but was defeated in a landslide when he sought the mayoralty as an independent candidate in 2022.
Andrew John Whitfield Foster is a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Wellington from 2019 to 2022. Foster served on the Wellington City Council for nine terms from 1992 until 2019.
The 2019 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections and was be held on 12 October to determine who would serve as Mayor of Wellington for the next three-year term. It was won by Andy Foster,who unseated the incumbent Justin Lester by 62 votes.
Tamatha-Kaye Erin Paul is a New Zealand activist and politician who currently serves in the Wellington City Council for the Pukehīnau Lambton Ward. In 2018 she was the first Māori woman to be elected President of the Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Running as an independent Paul was elected to the city council in 2019. She joined the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand ahead of the 2022 elections.
The 2022 Wellington City mayoral election,part of the Wellington local elections in October 2022,determined who would serve as Mayor of the City of Wellington for the next three-year term. It was won by Tory Whanau,a former Green Party parliamentary chief of staff.
Tory Awatere Whanau is a New Zealand politician. She was elected mayor of Wellington at the 2022 election. Previously she served as the parliamentary chief of staff for the Green Party.
Jillian Marie Day is a New Zealand politician. She is the president of the New Zealand Labour Party,and was deputy mayor of Wellington from 2017 to 2019.
