2024 Tauranga local elections

The 2024 Tauranga local elections were held via postal voting from 29 June 2024 to 20 July 2024. Elections in Tauranga covered one territorial authority, the Tauranga City Council.

These were the first elections for the Tauranga City Council since 2019, following the appointment by the Minister of Local Government of a Crown Commission to oversee Tauranga City Council's governance responsibilities on 9 February 2021.

The Tauranga City Council used the single transferable voting system to elect the Mayor of Tauranga and city councillors for a term lasting until the 2028 local elections.

Tauranga City Council created nine electoral wards for these elections. There were eight general wards (Mauao/Mount Maunganui, Arataki, Pāpāmoa, Welcome Bay, Matua-Otūmoetai, Bethlehem, Tauriko and Te Papa) and one Māori ward (Te Awanui, covering the entire city) which each returned one councillor.

Candidates
Nominations for candidates opened on 26 April 2024 and closed on 24 May 2024. The following 86 candidates have been confirmed to be running for the positions of mayor and the nine city councillors:

Results
Progress results were released on 20 July, and preliminary results followed on 21 July. The official results will be released on 25 July.

Based on the preliminary results, only one woman, Jen Scoular for the Mauao/Mount Maunganui ward, has been elected to the council. Two former councillors, Steve Morris and Rick Curach, were re-elected.