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The Dunedin City Council used the single transferable voting system to elect the Mayor of Dunedin and city councillors for the 2022-2025 term. [1] Voter turnout was 48.21%. [ 2 ] The positions of mayor and fourteen city councillors elected at-large were contested by the following candidates:
The 2022 Dunedin mayoral election between 16 September and 8 October 2022 was ... The mayoral election was combined with elections for the Dunedin City Council, ...
The Dunedin City Council (Māori: Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Ōtepoti) is the local government authority for Dunedin in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority elected to represent the 136,000 people of Dunedin. [1] Since October 2022, the Mayor of Dunedin is Jules Radich, who succeeded Aaron Hawkins. The council consists of a mayor who is elected ...
The mayor of Dunedin is the head of the local government, the city council of Dunedin, New Zealand. The mayor's role is "to provide leadership to the other elected members of the territorial authority, be a leader in the community and perform civic duties". [ 3 ]
Jules Vincent Radich (born 1954) [1] is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 59th mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand since 2022.He has also served as councillor for the Dunedin City Council since 2019. [2]
Lee Vandervis (born 1955) is a local-body politician who was first elected to the Dunedin City Council in the 2004 local elections. Vandervis has run for mayor in 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022; finishing second in 2007 and 2019. Vandervis failed to win mayor again in 2022, but he was re-elected to the Council.
Team Dunedin was formed by Dunedin City councillor Jules Radich in October 2021 to contest the 2022 Dunedin mayoral and Dunedin City Council elections. [4] Radich described the council's leadership by the progressive, Green Party mayor Aaron Hawkins as "autocratic" and overly influenced by party politics to the point of ignoring residents' interests. [5]
During the 2019 Dunedin mayoral election, Hawkins stood for re-election to council and for the mayoralty in 2019 as a representative of the Green Party. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] With 54.54% of the vote he was successful in the mayoral poll and was the first official Green Party candidate to win a mayoralty.