2013 Wellington City mayoral election


The 2013 Wellington City mayoral election is part of the New Zealand local elections. On 12 October 2013, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government roles. Wade-Brown was re-elected.
Wellington is one of eight local bodies in New Zealand that uses the Single transferable vote system to elect its Mayor and Councillors. The 2013 local government election will be the first time that the Greater Wellington Regional Council will use STV in it elections, and the first time a regional council has used STV for elections in New Zealand.

Candidates

When nominations closed there were six candidates for the Wellington mayoralty.
Dr Keith Johnson, an economist from Island Bay who ran as a Labour candidate for the Southern Ward in 2010, initially proposed to stand. He subsequently withdrew, saying that There was not much resonance in the concerns I had for debt control and against the rebalancing of rates.

Results

Wade-Brown was re-elected. The following table shows preliminary results for first preference votes, and final results for the last iteration.

Ward results

Candidates were also elected from wards to the Wellington City Council.
Party/ticketCouncillors
Independent9
Greens3
Labour2