2022 Auckland local elections

2022 Auckland local elections
	Mayoral election
Registered	1,142,237
Turnout	404,541 (35.4%)
Mayor before election; Phil Goff;	Elected mayor ; Wayne Brown;
	Council election

The 2022 Auckland local elections took place between September and October 2022 by postal vote as part of nation-wide local elections. The elections were the fifth since the merger of seven councils into the Auckland Council, which is composed of the mayor and 20 councillors, and 149 members of 21 local boards. Thirty-five members of 5 licensing trusts were also elected.

Mayoral election

The incumbent mayor, Phil Goff, did not stand for re-election.^[1] Wayne Brown was elected mayor.

Governing body elections

Twenty members were elected to the Auckland Council, across thirteen wards, using the first past the post vote system.^[2]

The final candidate list was released on 16 August.^[3] Provisional results were announced on 8 October.^[4] Preliminary results were released on 9 October.^[5] Official and final results were released on 15 October.^[6]

Rodney ward (1)

Incumbent Greg Sayers was re-elected.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	Greg Sayers	13,539
Rodney First	Beth Houlbrooke	5,850
Independent	Rob Ryan	1,447
Independent	Anne Perratt	1,109
–	Hannah North	1,048
	Informal/blank	842

Albany ward (2)

Incumbents Walker and Watson were re-elected.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Putting People First	John Watson	20,575
Putting People First	Wayne Walker	20,007
Independent Locals	Victoria Short	14,968
Your Community Law	Jake Law	9,120
Your Community Law	Sylvia Yang	7,298
Independent	Tony Corbett	6,529
Independent	Callum Blair	6,480
Communities First	John Davies	3,189
Independent	Alezix Heneti	1,381
	Informal/blank	3,160

North Shore ward (2)

Incumbents Darby and Hills were re-elected.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
A Positive Voice for the Shore	Richard Hills	19,269
For the Shore	Chris Darby	17,123
C&R North Shore	Danielle Grant	14,584
C&R North Shore	George Wood	12,009
Independent	Tony Bunting	4,370
–	Raymond Tan	3,857
–	Adrian Tyler	3,270
	Informal/blank	1,237

Waitākere ward (2)

Incumbents Linda Cooper and Shane Henderson sought re-election. Henderson was re-elected and Cooper lost her seat to Ken Turner.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Labour	Shane Henderson	16,545
WestWards	Ken Turner	14,654
Independent	Linda Cooper	13,995
WestWards	Shawn Blanchfield	8,472
Independent	Peter Chan	8,199
Independent	Tua Schuster	3,278
Independent	Aimela Hansen	2,648
Independent	Michael Coote	2,550
	Informal/blank	1,589

Waitemata and Gulf ward (1)

Incumbent Pippa Coom sought re-election and was defeated by Mike Lee.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Auckland Independents	Mike Lee	9,415
City Vision	Pippa Coom	8,254
Rock The Vote	Mike Burton	1,032
–	Andi Liu	636
	Informal/blank	1,495

Whau ward (1)

Incumbent Tracy Mulholland sought re-election and was defeated by Kerrin Leoni.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Labour	Kerrin Leoni	8,373
C&R – Communities and Residents	Tracy Mulholland	8,011
	Informal/blank	1,559

Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward (2)

Incumbent Christine Fletcher sought re-election and Cathy Casey retired.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
C&R – Communities and Residents	Christine Fletcher	20,021
City Vision	Julie Fairey	16,966
C&R – Communities and Residents	Will McKenzie	16,182
City Vision	Red Tsounga	14,013
Independent	Stewart Brown	6,211
–	Frank Fu	3,662
	Informal/blank	2,248

Maungakiekie-Tamaki ward (1)

Incumbent Josephine Bartley was re-elected.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Labour	Josephine Bartley	8,877
C&R – Communities and Residents	Troy Elliott	6,868
Independent	John Pebbles	1,812
–	Christopher Carroll	1,213
	Informal/blank	983

Manukau ward (2)

Incumbents Alf Filipaina was re-elected and Efeso Collins retired to stand for Mayoralty. Lotu Fuli was elected in Collins' place.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Labour	Alf Filipaina	16,734
Labour	Lotu Fuli	14,935
C&R – Communities and Residents	Malcolm Turner	8,512
Outdoors	Hine Afeaki	5,699
	Informal/blank	1,372

Manurewa-Papakura ward (2)

Incumbents Daniel Newman and Angela Dalton were re-elected.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Manurewa-Papakura Action Team	Daniel Newman	15,214
–	Angela Dalton	12,055
Manurewa-Papakura Action Team	Rangi McLean	7,948
Labour	Sago Feagaiga	6,315
Labour	Ilango Krishnamoorthy	4,049
–	Karin Kerr	3,046
	Informal/blank	966

Franklin ward (1)

Incumbent Bill Cashmore did not stand for re-election. The contest was won by Andy Baker.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Team Franklin	Andy Baker	14,187
Independent	Keven Mealamu	9,279
	Informal/blank	830

Ōrākei ward (1)

Incumbent Desley Simpson was re-elected.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
C&R – Communities and Residents	Desley Simpson	24,634
Independent	Fatin Aaron	4,724
	Informal/blank	2,059

Howick ward (2)

Incumbents Stewart and Young both sought re-election. Stewart was re-elected and Young lost his seat to former MP Maurice Williamson.^[6]

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	Sharon Stewart	16,013
Independent	Maurice Williamson	14,544
#Burns&Young	Paul Young	11,876
#Burns&Young	Bo Burns	11,491
Independent	Damian Light	9,825
–	Morgan Xiao	3,840
	Informal/blank	1,325

Local board elections

Licensing trustee elections

35 members were elected to 5 licensing trusts across Auckland.^[6]

Birkenhead Licensing Trust (6)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Your Community Trust/Shore Action	Paula Gillon	5,513
Your Community Trust	Stuart Weir	4,834
Shore Action	Alexander Croft	4,586
Your Community Trust	Marilyn Nicholls	4,302
Your Community Trust	Shane Prince	4,209
Labour	Liz Hurley	3,319
Labour	Sesalina Setu	3,250
–	Frances Mary Waaka	2,325
–	James Mark Doleman	1,349
	Informal/blank	1,031

Mt Wellington Licensing Trust (6)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
C&R – Communities and Residents	Tania Batucan	2,775
C&R – Communities and Residents	Troy Elliott	2,623
Labour	Nerissa Henry	2,523
C&R – Communities and Residents	Tabetha Elliott	2,485
C&R – Communities and Residents	Michael Pepper	2,276
Labour	Tanner Vili	2,129
Labour	Deborah Misiuepa	2,007
C&R – Communities and Residents	Shengtong Xin	1,817
United Local	Leanne Cross	1,789
Labour	Ian Pattison	1,777
United Local	Alan Verrall	1,693
United Local	Allyson Wood	1,587
Independent	Patrick Gordon O'Meara	1,429
United Local	Greg Woodcock	1,404
	Informal/blank	878

Portage Licensing Trust

Ward No. 1 – Auckland City (3)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
City Vision	Marcus Amosa	5,149
City Vision	Margi Watson	4,903
City Vision	Mark Beavis	4,093
Trusts Action Group	Barry Hutchison	3,353
Independent	Peter Hine	3,149
Community Independents	Kathryn Mary Davie	2,703
Community Independents	Paul Clifford Davie	2,367
	Informal/blank	1,561

Ward No. 2 – New Lynn (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Labour	Leanne Taylor	2,153
Independent	Rob Hulse	1,864
Labour	Gayleen Maurice	1,678
	Informal/blank	441

Ward No. 3 – Glen Eden (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Trusts Action Group	Joe Bergin	1,940
Independent	Jacqui Harema	1,607
Independent	Janet Clews	1,535
	Informal/blank	379

Ward No. 4 – Titirangi/Green Bay (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Trusts Action Group	Ben Goodale	3,850
Independent	Ross Clow	3,422
Future West	Mark Roberts	3,297
Future West	Barrie-John Partridge	2,583
	Informal/blank	1,130

Ward No. 5 – Kelston West (1)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	Darren Leckey	1,119
–	Ami Chand	684
Trusts Action Group	Jordan Tarplett-Lee	447
	Informal/blank	312

Waitākere Licensing Trust

Ward No. 1 – Te Atatū (2)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Trusts Action Group	Amanda Roberts	3,349
Labour	Brooke Loader	3,307
Trusts Action Group	Nick Smale	3,085
Labour	Peter Kaiser	2,920
–	Rex Chaney	968
	Informal/blank	737

Ward No. 2 – Lincoln (3)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	Linda Cooper	8,057
Independent	Warren William Flaunty	5,753
Trusts Action Group	Jared Patterson	5,113
Independent	John Loau	4,819
Transparency	John Riddell	4,509
Labour	Gurdeep Singh Talwar	3,613
	Informal/blank	1,771

Ward No. 3 – Waitākere (1)

	Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
	Future West	Mark Allen	Elected Unopposed

Ward No. 4 – Henderson (1)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Independent	Sunil Kaushal	2,795
Labour	Vincent Naidu	2,175
	Informal/blank	739

Wiri Licensing Trust (6)

Affiliation (if any)	Name	Votes
Manurewa Action Team	Daniel Newman	6,504
Manurewa Action Team	Rangi Mclean	5,457
#LoveManurewa	Joseph Allan	4,811
Manurewa Action Team	Glenn Murphy	4,507
#LoveManurewa	Andrew Lesa	4,468
Manurewa Action Team	Brian Blake	4,342
Labour	Sago Feagaiga	4,163
Labour	Gadiel Asiata	4,025
Manurewa Action Team	Cheryl Louise Hunia	3,839
Labour	Jonaan Ngamoni Mcleod	3,547
#LoveManurewa	Ally Billaney	3,526
Manurewa Action Team	Kelvin Hieatt	3,508
#LoveManurewa	Kriss Rapana	2,955
#LoveManurewa	Joe Lukupa	2,801
#LoveManurewa	Luella Linaker	2,451
	Informal/blank	979

Notes

^ Endorsed by Labour and the Greens

References

^ "Auckland mayoralty: Phil Goff stepping down at end of term, retiring from politics". 14 February 2022. Archived from the original on 30 March 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ "Local elections 2022". 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ "Full list of candidates for all positions in Local elections 2022" (PDF). 16 August 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ "Local elections 2022 progress results for all positions" (PDF). Local elections 2022 progress results for all positions. Auckland Council. 8 October 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
^ "Local elections 2022 – Ward councillor preliminary results" (PDF). Local elections 2022 – Ward councillor preliminary results. Auckland Council. 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "Local elections 2022 – Official results" (PDF). Local elections 2022 – Official results. Auckland Council. 15 October 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

[1] Endorsed by Labour and the Greens

[2] "Auckland mayoralty: Phil Goff stepping down at end of term, retiring from politics". 14 February 2022. Archived from the original on 30 March 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

[3] "Local elections 2022". 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

[4] "Full list of candidates for all positions in Local elections 2022" (PDF). 16 August 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

[:0-5] "Local elections 2022 progress results for all positions" (PDF). Local elections 2022 progress results for all positions. Auckland Council. 8 October 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2022.

[:1-6] "Local elections 2022 – Ward councillor preliminary results" (PDF). Local elections 2022 – Ward councillor preliminary results. Auckland Council. 9 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.

[:2-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "Local elections 2022 – Official results" (PDF). Local elections 2022 – Official results. Auckland Council. 15 October 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

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