Local election voting packs to start arriving
Published on 09 September 2025
Thames-Coromandel’s local election is about to land in your letterbox.
From this week, voting packs will start arriving, giving Thames-Coromandel residents and ratepayers everything they need to help shape our future elected Council. The packs include a voting paper, return envelope, and candidate profiles.
People have until midday Saturday 11 October to vote in the Thames-Coromandel District Council election. They can do this by posting their completed voting documents to the return address or by dropping their completed voting documents in a ballot box. Our district has boxes at each of our Council service centres in Whangamatā, Whitianga, Coromandel Town, Thames and the Tairua Library.
An interactive map showing people their closest ballot box location is available.
In the 2022 local election, just 51.4% of Thames-Coromandel’s eligible population voted.
Our Council is keen to boost this number and have more people involved in choosing who represents them as Mayor, Councillors and Community Board members.
As part of this, our Council has introduced candidates profile statements plus 90-second video interviews with our Mayoral and Councillor candidates on our website.
Our election team will also be travelling around our rohe over the next few weeks with special mobile ballot boxes to better enable all of our communities to vote. If people are unable to make it into a Council office, they can vote by joining us at the following locations on key dates listed below.
Monday 29 September
- Te Rerenga School, 9am – 11am
- Kūaotunu Hall, 12pm – 2pm
- Pāuanui Hub, 10am – 12pm
Thursday 2 October
- Colville Hall, 9am – 11am
Saturday 27 September (National Voting Day)
- The three Thames-Coromandel District library branches - Thames Library, Mercury Bay Library, and Tairua Library, 9am – 12pm.
More dates and locations are expected and will be added to our Council website.
Our Council has also published a Pre-election Report, outlining the key challenges and opportunities facing the Thames-Coromandel.
Alongside the election, Thames-Coromandel communities are being asked to take part in a referendum - whether to retain or disestablish the Māori ward for the Thames-Coromandel District Council. The outcome of this binding poll will apply to the 2028 and 2031 triennial elections.
Our candidate profiles, videos, Pre-election Report, ballot box location map and more information on the election and referendum are all available here.