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Tauranga City Council is the territorial authority for the city of Tauranga, New Zealand. The council consists of nine councillors, each elected from one of nine wards, and is presided over by the mayor , who is elected at large.
The election took place between 29 June and 20 July 2024, with the official results released on 25 July. It was the first election since the Minister of Local Government appointed a Crown Commission on 9 February 2021 to oversee all of Tauranga City Council's governance responsibilities.
The Tauranga City Council used the single transferable voting system to elect the Mayor of Tauranga and city councillors [2] for a term that will last until the 2028 local elections. [3] [4] Tauranga City Council created nine electoral wards for these elections.
The mayor of Tauranga is the head of local government in Tauranga, New Zealand's fifth-largest city. The mayor presides over the Tauranga City Council. The mayor is directly elected using the single transferable vote method. The current mayor is Mahé Drysdale, elected in the 2024 Tauranga local elections. He assumed office on 2 August. [3]
Anne Tolley was the commission chair from 2021 to 2024. On 9 February 2021, the New Zealand Government suspended the Tauranga City Council, the largest city in the Bay of Plenty Region, and appointed a government commission of four administrators to the territorial authority instead.
[1] [2] He was the chief executive for Tauranga City Council from July 2002 to October 2010. [4] He was a regional director for the Auckland/Northland region of the NZ Transport Agency from October 2010 to December 2013. [4] Since 15 January 2014, Town has been the chief executive for Auckland Council. He replaced the inaugural CEO, Doug McKay.
In October 2010 Baldock was successful in being elected back onto the Tauranga City Council. He was elected to the City Council again in 2016 and re-elected in 2019 and appointed deputy mayor of Tauranga by the newly elected Mayor Tenby Powell. He resigned as deputy mayor on 2 June 2020 after much internal fighting amongst the elected members.
Tauranga is located in the administrative area of the Tauranga City Council. The council consists of the Mayor of Tauranga and nine councillors. The mayor is elected by the city at-large , while the councillors are elected from nine wards (constituencies), each ward electing a single councillor.