Jules Radich
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Jules Radich’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Contested 4 races — 2 elected 1 not elected 1 withdrawn
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Council - At LargeDunedin City CouncilAffiliation: IndependentFinal ElectedVote share • 4.2%2,916 votes
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MayorDunedin City CouncilAffiliation: IndependentFinal Not electedVote share • 7.2%4,174 votes
Offices held
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Council - At LargeDunedin City CouncilAffiliation: IndependentOct 2025 – Jan 2026
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MayorDunedin City CouncilAffiliation: Team DunedinOct 2022 – Oct 2025
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Council - At LargeDunedin City CouncilOct 2019 – Oct 2022
In the News
Praise, appreciation for Radich
Otago Daily Times — January 5, 2026Former Dunedin mayor Jules Radich speaks last year outside the new inpatient building. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH Shocked colleagues of former Dunedin mayor Jules Radich have paid tribute to his dedication for the city and collegial approach.
Former mayor of Dunedin dies after heart attack
Stuff — January 4, 2026Jules Radich lost the mayoralty last year but was elected as a councillor.
Former Dunedin mayor Jules Radich dies
Otago Daily Times — January 4, 2026Jules Radich served one term as Dunedin's mayor. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON Dunedin city councillor and former mayor Jules Radich has died.
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.
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