Local body elections for Tauranga City Council are scheduled for 20 July 2024, the first since 2019.

The Government has decided to extend the stay of Tauranga City Council’s commissioners for a further two-and-a-half years.

The dissolution of the elected council in February 2021 was always meant to be a temporary emergency measure with full local democracy restored in 2022. However, the Wellington-appointed commissioners asked the Government to delay local elections for at least another year, which the Minister of Local Government, Nanaia Mahuta, obligingly extended until July 2024.