In 2025 there are a number of NZ organisations using STV for voting at present. This core information was sourced from STV.govt with extra links and notes added by us.
In 2025 STV is being used to elect members of these local authorities:
- Dunedin City Council Note: The DCC has used Single Transferable Voting (STV) in its elections since 2004.
- Far North District Council
- Gisborne District Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Hamilton City Council See below.
- Kapiti Coast District Council
- Marlborough District Council
- Nelson City Council
- New Plymouth District Council
- Otago Regional Council (1st time)
- Palmerston North City Council
- Porirua City Council
- Ruapehu District Council
- Wellington City Council
- Whangarei District Council (1st time)
Invercargill was considering STV in 2023 but appears to have stayed with FPP..
In July 2025 the InternetNZ Board elected two new board members.
“A total of 2,785 votes were cast in this year’s election, with no invalid ballots recorded — a turnout of 62.40% of Eligible Members, up from 43% last year. The election was held using the Single Transferable Vote system and two positions were available.”
There are other private organisations within New Zealand using STV for board or similar elections. Your local authority may benefit from using STV. For example here are three previous petitions on using STV locally.
The Vote STV for Hamilton was successful in 2020.
The Whangarei District Council is using STV for the first time in 2025.
A current campaign is Stop “wasted” votes influencing Auckland’s future – change to the Single Transferable Vote system by Andy Liu.
To quote the organiser
“Our Auckland local elections currently use the First Past the Post (FPP) voting system. If the candidate we vote for doesn’t make the threshold, our votes are “wasted”. There is a modern alternative. The Single Transferable Vote (STV) system will allow us the freedom of choice to rank our candidates and recycle our “wasted” votes. When our votes are guaranteed to count like this, it shows more respect to our individual sovereignty and needs, rather than forcing us to vote under the duress of the fear of “wasted” votes “vote-splitting”.
Note. We have no connection with any of these local bodies or campaigns but it is significant that others are recognising that STV is a better system for these elections.
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