2022 Rotorua mayoral election

The 2022 Rotorua mayoral election took place on 8 October 2022 to determine the Mayor of Rotorua. Incumbent mayor Steve Chadwick did not run for re-election.

Declared candidates

 * Kalaadevi Ananda, businesswoman
 * Raj Kumar, district councillor
 * Reynold Macpherson, district councillor
 * Ben Sandford, lawyer, former winter Olympian, and Labour candidate in the 2017 general election
 * Fletcher Tabuteau, former New Zealand First MP
 * Tania Tapsell, district councillor and National candidate in the 2020 general election.

Declined to be candidates

 * Steve Chadwick, incumbent mayor
 * Dave Donaldson, deputy mayor
 * Todd McClay, National MP
 * Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, district councillor
 * Mercia Yates, district councillor