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| Turnout | 118,728 (43.82%) | |||||||||||||||
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The2022Christchurchmayoral election was a local election held from 16 September to 8 October inChristchurch, New Zealand, as part of that year'scity council election andnation-wide local elections. Voters elected themayor of Christchurch for the 2022–2025 term of theChristchurch City Council. Postal voting and thefirst-past-the-post voting system was used.
Incumbent third-term mayorLianne Dalziel did not run for re-election. Centre-right independentPhil Mauger narrowly defeated centre-left independentDavid Meates.
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Phil Mauger, who was first elected as a city councillor at the2019 local elections, was the first to declare his candidacy 14 months out from the election. He said in August 2021 that he would stand for mayor only and not also contest his incumbent council seat.[1]
The Wizard of New Zealand was the next to declare his candidacy in December 2021.[2]
David Meates, the formerCanterbury District Health Board chief executive, announced his candidacy in June 2022.[3][4]
A debate between the 2 frontrunner candidates Phil Mauger and David Meates was hosted byStuff on 16 September 2022.[5]
| Candidate[9] | Photo | Affiliation[9] | Notes | |
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| Carl Bromley | Independent | Founder of the Life Connection Missionary Baptist Fellowship[10] | ||
| Mark Chirnside | Chirny for Mayor | Business owner[10] | ||
| Tubby Hansen | Economic Euthenics | Perennial candidate[11] | ||
| Stephen Jelley | Stop the Stadium | |||
| Drucilla Kingi-Patterson | Independent | |||
| Phil Mauger | _(cropped).jpg) | Let's Get Stuff Done | Business owner and city councillor[1] | |
| David Meates | .jpg) | Listens, Leads, and Gets Results | FormerCanterbury District Health Board chief executive[4] | |
| Nikora Nitro | Independent | |||
| Sam Park | None | |||
| The Wizard of New Zealand | .jpg) | Independent | ||
| Peter Wakeman | Independent | Perennial candidate[11] | ||
| Date | Polling organisation | Carl Bromley | Mark Chirnside | Tubby Hansen | Stephen Jelley | Drucilla Kingi-Patterson | Phil Mauger | David Meates | Nikora Nitro | Sam Park | Peter Wakeman | The Wizard of New Zealand |
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| 29 August–4 September 2022 | Q+A–Kantar[18] | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 58 | 26 | <0.5 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Independent | Phil Mauger | 53,569 | 45.11 | ||
| Independent | David Meates | 51,298 | 43.21 | ||
| Independent | Mark Chirnside | 4,673 | 3.94 | ||
| Independent | Carl Bromley | 2,807 | 2.36 | ||
| Independent | The Wizard of New Zealand | 2,474 | 2.08 | ||
| Independent | Nikora Nitro | 1,035 | 0.87 | ||
| Independent | Peter Wakeman | 964 | 0.81 | ||
| Independent | Drucilla Kingi-Patterson | 800 | 0.68 | ||
| Independent | Sam Park | 479 | 0.40 | ||
| Economic Euthenics | Tubby Hansen | 293 | 0.25 | ||
| Independent | Stephen Jelley | 237 | 0.20 | ||
| Informal votes | 99 | 0.08 | |||
| Majority | 2,271 | 1.91 | |||
| Turnout | 118,728 | 43.82 | |||
| Registered electors | 270,959 | ||||
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