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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
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.
DCC takes hybrid route on governance
Otago Daily Times — November 24, 2025PHOTO: NICOLA WILHELMSEN/KELK PHOTOGRAPHY Portfolios have been assigned at the start of the 2025-28 term for the Dunedin City Council. Elected members are (from left) Crs Benedict Ong (technology deputy lead), Mickey Treadwell (environment and youth deputy), Andrew Simms (economic development co-lead), Brent Weatherall (heritage lead), Mandy Mayhem (culture and arts deputy), Jules Radich (infrastructure lead), Dunedin Mayor Sophie Barker (economic development co-lead), Cr Lee Vandervis, deputy mayor Cherry Lucas, Crs Doug Hall (technology lead), Christine Garey (culture and arts lead), Marie Laufiso (hauora health and wellbeing lead), Steve Walker (environment and youth lead), Russell Lund (heritage deputy) and John Chambers (hauora health and wellbeing deputy). A different style of council governance has been catching on in the South. It is touted as being more efficient but has also been called problematic. Grant Miller reports.
Dunedin mayoralty on knife-edge with slim margin between two frontrunners
RNZ — October 11, 2025Incumbent Jules Radich confirmed his bid for a second term was unsuccessful, with Sophie Barker and Andrew Simms in the lead.
Mayoral candidate says offer of $4k car discount for a vote was a joke, not a bribe
Stuff — September 18, 2025Andrew Simms claims a $4k vehicle discount was a tongue-in-cheek response, but it has led to an official complaint.
‘Let the vampire speak’: A night with the Dunedin mayoral candidates
The Spinoff — September 17, 2025Tara Ward attends the final mayoral debate in Dunedin to find out what a vampire would do for the city. There was standing room only in First Church’s Burns Hall last night for the final event in the Dunedin Area Citizens Association’s series of local election debates.
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