Max Brough

Currently serving: Mayor, New Plymouth
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Max Brough’s Elections & Candidacies

Note: This database contains data from the 2023, 2020, 2017 and 2014 general elections, the 2025 local government election and is gradually being backfilled with other election data.

Contested 2 races — 2 elected

2025 NZ Local Government • October 11, 2025 Local
  • Mayor
    New Plymouth
    Ballot name: Max Brough
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 41.5%
    13,984 votes
2022 NZ Local Government • October 8, 2022 Local
  • District Wide Ward
    New Plymouth
    Final Elected
    Vote share • 12.4%
    4,105 votes
Offices held
  • Mayor
    New Plymouth
    Oct 2025 – present
  • District Wide Ward
    New Plymouth
    Oct 2022 – Oct 2025
In the News
New Plymouth mayor spent $26k on election campaign
The Post — December 26, 2025

First-time mayor Max Brough spent $21,000 more on his campaign than any rival mayoral candidates did.

Positive Ageing mobilises after council scraps aged working party
RNZ — December 11, 2025

The working party is being disestablished under new Mayor Max Brough's committee structure.

Debate on pay turns up the heat in NPDC chamber
The Post — December 11, 2025

A decision by New Plymouth mayor Max Brough to appoint three deputy mayors for the district continues to cause tension around the council table six weeks after it was first announced.

NPDC announce council appointments
The Post — December 9, 2025

The New Plymouth District Council will be represented on the Taranaki Arts Festival Trust and the Womad New Zealand Community Trust by mayor Max Brough.

‘It’s time that we got town looking good again’: Mayor says action coming to tidy up CBD
The Post — December 9, 2025

New Plymouth mayor Max Brough has hinted there could soon be action to address continuing problems with rough sleepers in the city’s central business district.

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