Council and Mayoralty
Fowler was first elected to the Wellington City Council in 1968, and was elected mayor in 1974, a post that he held until 1983.
His 1977 re-election campaign was against Carmen, who ran with the support of local businessman Sir Bob Jones, with the slogans "Get in behind" and "Carmen for Mayor" and a platform of gay marriage and legalised brothels (although neither of these are local-government matters in New Zealand).
Fowler was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1981 Queen's Birthday Honours.
Wellington's principal concert performance hall, the Michael Fowler Centre, opened in 1983, was named in his honour.
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