Team Dunedin is a

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which contests local elections in

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

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Leadership and policies

It is led by

Jules Radich Jules Vincent Radich (born ) is a New Zealand politician who has served as the 59th mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand since 2022. He has also served as councillor for the Dunedin City Council since 2019. Radich also serves as deputy Chair of Infrast ...

, the mayor of Dunedin. Radich describes the ticket as

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, encompassing ideas from both the left and right of politics.

History

Team Dunedin was formed by Dunedin City councillor Jules Radich to contest the 2022 Dunedin mayoral and

Dunedin City Council The Dunedin City Council ( mi, Kaunihera ā-Rohe o Ōtepoti) is the local government authority for Dunedin in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority elected to represent the people of Dunedin. Since October 2022, the Mayor of Dunedin is Jules ...

elections. Other members of Team Dunedin have included business owner Brent Weatherall,

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candidate Callum Steele-MacIntosh, Otago Peninsula Community Board member and school teacher Cheryl Neill, restaurant proprietor Riah McLean, and Dunedin City councillor Andrew Whiley. On 8 October, Radich was elected as

Mayor of Dunedin The Mayor of Dunedin is the head of the local government, the city council of Dunedin, New Zealand. The Mayor's role is "to provide leadership to the other elected members of the territorial authority, be a leader in the community and perform c ...

, defeating the incumbent Aaron Hawkins who stood on the

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ticket. Whiley was also re-elected to the Dunedin City Council on the Team Dunedin ticket. In addition, two fellow Team Dunedin members Weatherall and Kelvin Gilbert were elected to the Council.

References

2022 establishments in New Zealand Political groupings in New Zealand Politics of Dunedin {{NewZealand-poli-stub