Celia Wade-Brown

Celia Margaret Wade-Brown QSO MP (born 12 July 1956) is a New Zealand politician who has been a Green Party list MP since 19 January 2024. She previously served as the 34th mayor of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, from 2010 until 2016.

Celia Wade-Brown
QSO MP
Wade-Brown in 2023
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Green party list
Assumed office
19 January 2024
Preceded byGolriz Ghahraman
34th Mayor of Wellington
In office
27 October 2010  10 October 2016
DeputyIan McKinnon (2010–13)
Justin Lester (2013–16)
Preceded byKerry Prendergast
Succeeded byJustin Lester
Member of the Wellington City Council for the Southern Ward
In office
13 October 2001  27 October 2010
Preceded byAlick Shaw
Succeeded byPaul Eagle
In office
30 April 1994  10 October 1998
Preceded byMerrin Downing
Succeeded byAlick Shaw
Personal details
Born (1956-07-12) 12 July 1956
Paddington, London, England
Political partyGreen
Other political
affiliations
Alliance (1991–1997)
Spouse
Alastair Nicholson
(m. 1993)
ChildrenTwo

Wade-Brown was the third female mayor of the city, replacing centre-right Kerry Prendergast. She defeated Prendergast by 176 votes in the 2010 single transferable vote mayoral election. Wade-Brown won a second term in 2013. She was the second mayor of a major New Zealand city to have been a member of the Green Party, after Dunedin's Sukhi Turner, but she stood as an independent candidate. Wade-Brown did not contest the Wellington mayoralty in the 2016 local election for a third term.

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