Wellington City Council
The Wellington City Council represents a population of (June 2012 estimate), and consists of a mayor and fourteen councillors elected from five wards (Northern, Onslow-Western, Lambton, Eastern, Southern) using the Single Transferable Vote system.
Current mayor Celia Wade-Brown is not in favour of Wellington adopting a 'super city' type council like the one in Auckland, though is in favour of reducing the number of councils in the greater Wellington area from nine to "three or four".
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