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Andrew Simms’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 3 races — 2 elected 1 not elected
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Council - At LargeDunedin City CouncilAffiliation: Future DunedinFinal ElectedVote share • 10.9%7,540 votes
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MayorDunedin City CouncilAffiliation: Future DunedinFinal Not electedVote share • 25.9%14,976 votes
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Final ElectedVote share • 16.8%1,836 votes
Offices held
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Council - At LargeDunedin City CouncilAffiliation: Future DunedinOct 2025 – present
In the News
Simms outspends others, fronts team
Otago Daily Times — December 16, 2025Andrew Simms. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Campaign finance of more than $70,000 was provided by unsuccessful Dunedin mayoral candidate Andrew Simms to members of his team, including two who jumped ship.
Big-spending Simms stumped up thousands for teammates
Otago Daily Times — December 15, 2025Andrew Simms. Unsuccessful Dunedin mayoral candidate Andrew Simms has declared campaign costs of $45,000 and has stumped up tens of thousands more for his teammates.
Sophie Barker haunted Dunedin’s Larnach Castle – now she’s running the city
The Spinoff — December 12, 2025Just the second female mayor in the city’s history, Sophie Barker wants to make Dunedin the best little city in the land. As a child growing up in Larnach Castle, Sophie Barker loved being a ghost. Whenever busloads of visitors came to tour the historic home high on the hill above Otago Peninsula, the young Barker would hide under a bed in one of the castle’s 25 rooms and wait for the guests to wander in. Then, as the unwitting tourists lingered nearby, possibly contemplating all the stories about Larnach Castle being haunted , Barker would thrust her cold hands out from beneath the bedcovers to grab the nearest pair of ankles, sending the visitors screaming from the room.
Letters to Editor: listening to constituents, fears for stadium's future
Otago Daily Times — December 5, 2025Dunedin city councillors and Surrey St residents meet. Pictured (from left): Cr Jules Radich (seated), Surrey Street Flood Action Group member Julian Doorey, resident Lyndon Weggery, Cr Andrew Simms, group convener Lynne Newell, Cr John Chambers, Cr Lee Vandervis and resident Peter MacDonald. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the importance of listening to constituents and fears for our ratepayer-funded stadium's future.
Surrey St response a ‘disgrace’
Otago Daily Times — November 29, 2025Dunedin city councillors and residents met yesterday to discuss wastewater overflows in Surrey St, South Dunedin. Pictured (from left) Cr Jules Radich (seated), Surrey Street Flood Action Group member Julian Doorey, resident Lyndon Weggery, Cr Andrew Simms, group convener Lynne Newell, Cr John Chambers, Cr Lee Vandervis and resident Peter MacDonald. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH The "unacceptable" treatment of residents in a South Dunedin street blighted by sewage overflows demands an apology, a councillor says.
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