2022 Hutt City Council election


The 2022 'Hutt City Council election' was a local election held from 16 September until 8 October in Lower Hutt, New Zealand as part of that year's nation-wide local elections. Voters elected the mayor of Lower Hutt and 12 city councillors for the 2022–2025 term of the Hutt City Council. Postal voting and the first-past-the-post voting system were used.

Background

Electoral System

Alongside the mayor, there are six wards returning one councillor each with a further six councillors being elected at large. All officials were elected through a first-past-the-post system via postal voting.

List of candidates

Mayor

The incumbent Mayor, Campbell Barry, stood for a second term. He was opposed by retailer Falgoon Patel and former Hutt City Council chief executive Tony Stallinger.

Results

Council

At-large ward

The At large ward returned six councillors to the city council.

Central ward

There Central ward returned one councillor to the city council.

Eastern ward

The Eastern ward returned one councillor to the city council.

Harbour ward

The Harbour ward returned one councillor to the city council.

Northern ward

The Northern ward returned one councillor to the city council.

Wainuiomata ward

The Wainuiomata ward returned one councillors to the city council.

Western ward

There Western ward returned one councillor to the city council. Chris Parkin was endorsed by the Green Party.

Electoral system referendum

In 2021 the Hutt City Council resolved to conduct a referendum for which electoral system to use in the 2025 and 2028 local elections. The referendum asked voters to choose between the First Past the Post and Single Transferable Voting electoral systems.

Other local elections

Depending on where in Lower Hutt they lived, voters also voted in concurrent local elections for the: