The 2004 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the

2004 New Zealand local elections Triennial elections for all 74 cities, districts, twelve regional councils and all district health boards in New Zealand were held on 9 October 2004. Most councils were elected using the first-past-the-post method, but ten (of which Wellingto ...

. On 9 October 2004, elections were held for the

Mayor of Wellington The Mayor of Wellington is the head of the municipal government of the City of Wellington. The mayor presides over the Wellington City Council. The mayor is directly elected using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representati ...

plus other local government roles.

Kerry Prendergast Dame Kerry Leigh Prendergast (née Ferrier, born 28 March 1953) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 33rd Mayor of Wellington between 2001 and 2010, succeeding Mark Blumsky. She was the second woman to hold the position, after Fran Wil ...

was re-elected for a second term as mayor of Wellington. This was the first Wellington mayoral election to be held under the

Instant runoff voting Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a type of ranked preferential voting method. It uses a majority voting rule in single-winner elections where there are more than two candidates. It is commonly referred to as ranked-choice voting (RCV) in the Un ...

system.

Candidates

There were seven candidates nominated for the election: *Bryon Charles Burke, a Newtown environmentalist *Rob Goulden, Councillor for the Eastern Ward since 1998 *Stephen Hay, an unemployed film-maker stood for the

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*Timothy O'Brien, a writer and broadcaster from Mount Cook *

, Incumbent Mayor since 2001 *Bryan Pepperell, Councillor for the Southern Ward since 1996 *Jack Ruben, former city councillor Bryon Burke withdrew from the Mayoral election on 13 September 2004.

Results

Ward results

Candidates were also elected from wards to the

Wellington City Council Wellington City Council is a territorial authority in New Zealand, governing the country's capital city Wellington, and ''de facto'' second-largest city (if the commonly considered parts of Wellington, the Upper Hutt, Porirua, Lower Hutt and ...

References

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