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August 26, 2025
 

This year, we're standing up for thriving, connected communities.

Our local communities are spaces for us to connect with each other, care for each other, and to contribute to a future that benefits us all.

But division is making it harder for councils to make responsible, pragmatic decisions that benefit everyone in the long term.

This year, you can make a difference in your community by voting in your local election from 9 September to 11 October. Your council may also be voting on whether to keep its Māori ward.

Voting for valued, publicly owned services will allow your council to foster community and act with everyone's interests at heart.

Voting to keep Māori wards will help your council become a better reflection of your community, and have more ways to harness our collective strength.

Keep checking this page for information, events, and resources about key issues facing our members and our communities, and what you can do to contribute.

Which candidates have your back?

We’ve asked candidates across the motu to commit to pledges that will help build strong, Te Tiriti-honouring services in local government.

Click the links below so see how the candidates responded.

North and West Auckland candidate pledges

South and East Auckland candidate pledges

Palmerston North candidate pledges

Porirua candidate pledges

Upper Hutt candidate pledges

Hutt City candidate pledges

Wellington City candidate pledges

Christchurch candidate pledges

Dunedin candidate pledges

You can take the pledges below along to other election events to ask candidates and see if their priorities align with ours.

Learn more about your candidates

With so many candidates standing for local bodies, it can be hard to sort out who's who and what they stand for.

Take action to keep Māori wards

The PSA strongly supports Māori wards, and is supporting ActionStation's Decide Together, Thrive Together campaign to keep them.

Decide Together, Thrive Together has collected some ways you can gather and share information to support the campaign.

Read up on election issues

The latest issue of Te Mahinga Ora dived into the key issues facing workers and their communities at this election:

Why your voice for Māori wards matters more than ever

Support the living wage in local government

Young people have the power to make change in their communities

How you can support undervalued library workers in this local election

Think global, vote local

Democracy and local communities benefit from Māori wards

PSA members running for office

A diverse array of PSA members around the country committing to providing democratic leadership in their communities by putting themselves up as candidates in the local body elections.

Read profiles of PSA members running for local government

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