Candidate nominations for this year’s elections have now closed.
Local elections
Local elections allow communities to make democratic decisions about who leads them, and to have a say in how their towns, cities and regions work, grow and develop.
In 2025, postal voting opens in September and closes at midday on Saturday, 11 October.
Confirmed candidates
Local Government Elections 2025 Candidate Handbook
Dunedin CC Candidate Briefing Presentation 2025
-
Councillor information requests
- 2025-26 Budget Operating Expenditure (PDF File, 1.2 MB | New window)
- Bowling Clubs (PDF File, 1.5 MB | New window)
- Civic Centre Upgrade Budget (PDF File, 311.1 KB | New window)
- Debt to Equity Ratio for Council and Group (PDF File, 330.0 KB | New window)
- Grants review workshop (PDF File, 254.4 KB | New window)
- Municipal Chambers and Town Hall Restoration (PDF File, 197.6 KB | New window)
- Road issues on Rattray Street (PDF File, 174.5 KB | New window)
- Food Truck at Macandrew Bay (PDF File, 164.2 KB | New window)
- George Street Playground (PDF File, 20.6 MB | New window)
- Heritage Advisory Group (PDF File, 232.2 KB | New window)
- Firebrand - work for Council during COVID (PDF File, 159.0 KB | New window)
- International Education contribution to the city (PDF File, 266.1 KB | New window)
- Project China (PDF File, 243.1 KB | New window)
- Community Housing Portfolio Numbers (PDF File, 155.9 KB | New window)
- Dunedin City Kāinga Ora Housing Stock FY 23_24 and FY 24_25 (PDF File, 208.8 KB | New window)
- Dunedin Airport planter boxes blocking scores of parking spaces (PDF File, 11.3 MB | New window)
- Municipal Waste (PDF File, 1.5 MB | New window)
- Wastewater Warrington and Waikouaiti (PDF File, 350.4 KB | New window)
- Otago Daily Times Smooth Hill Fact check (PDF File, 200.4 KB | New window)
- SH88 Work Roseneath (PDF File, 1.5 MB | New window)
- Lead in Soil Letter to MfE (PDF File, 876.3 KB | New window)
- 9YP Zero Carbon Information (PDF File, 294.8 KB | New window)
- Impact of the Albany Street Connection project on current rates (PDF File, 240.1 KB | New window)
- Ownership of Middlemarch Railway Station (PDF File, 155.5 KB | New window)
- FTEs in Housing Plan (PDF File, 176.4 KB | New window)
- Te Aka Ōtākou Signage (PDF File, 195.8 KB | New window)
- Operational Parking Costs (PDF File, 318.8 KB | New window)
- University and Government Department Rates (PDF File, 194.1 KB | New window)