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Have your say on who represents your community by voting in the 2025 local elections.
Local elections decide who represents us on our city, district, and regional councils.
The people elected to local councils get to make decisions about our daily lives and the future of our towns and cities. They set and collect rates, oversee town planning, and provide services like rubbish collection, parks and libraries.
In some parts of New Zealand, local elections are also held for local and community boards, licensing trusts, and some other organisations.
Local councils run the local elections, and our role is limited to enrolment. For more information about the local election in your area, contact your council.
Find out more about the local elections
Māori ward polls
Some local councils that have Māori wards or constituencies held polls at the 2025 local elections to ask voters whether or not they support keeping them.
Enrol to have your say
If you’re on the electoral roll, you can vote in the local elections where you live.
You can enrol if you’re 18 or older, a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident, and have lived in New Zealand for more than one year continuously at some time in your life.
You can enrol or update your details online, or call and ask us on 0800 36 76 56 for help.
If you enrol after Friday 1 August
If you enrolled or updated your address after 1 August 2025, voting papers would not be sent to you in the mail. You needed to contact your council’s electoral officer.
The last day to enrol to vote in the local elections was Friday 10 October 2025.
Māori roll or general roll?
If you’re of New Zealand Māori descent, you can choose to enrol on the Māori roll or the general roll. The roll you choose may affect who you can vote for at local elections.
To change the roll you are on for the local elections, you needed to do it by Thursday 10 July 2025.