The Albany ward is an Auckland Council ward which elects two councillors and covers the area of the Hibiscus and Bays and Upper Harbour local boards. The two councillors are currently John Watson and Victoria Short for the 2025-2028 term.

Demographics Albany ward covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.

Albany ward had a population of 190,992 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 24,138 people (14.5%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 47,493 people (33.1%) since the 2013 census. There were 93,375 males, 97,008 females and 606 people of other genders in 65,652 dwellings. 3.0% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age was 39.4 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 35,697 people (18.7%) aged under 15 years, 33,342 (17.5%) aged 15 to 29, 90,375 (47.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 31,578 (16.5%) aged 65 or older.

People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 65.1% European (Pākehā); 6.7% Māori; 2.7% Pasifika; 30.6% Asian; 2.8% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.2% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 92.9%, Māori language by 1.1%, Samoan by 0.3%, and other languages by 31.1%. No language could be spoken by 2.1% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.3%. The percentage of people born overseas was 47.0, compared with 28.8% nationally.

Religious affiliations were 31.8% Christian, 2.0% Hindu, 1.3% Islam, 0.2% Māori religious beliefs, 1.5% Buddhist, 0.3% New Age, 0.2% Jewish, and 1.2% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 55.4%, and 6.2% of people did not answer the census question.

Of those at least 15 years old, 53,556 (34.5%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 67,665 (43.6%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 34,080 (21.9%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. The median income was $47,200, compared with $41,500 nationally. 27,738 people (17.9%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 81,450 (52.4%) people were employed full-time, 21,012 (13.5%) were part-time, and 3,384 (2.2%) were unemployed.

Councillors

ElectionCouncillors electedAffiliationVotesNotes 20101 Michael Goudie Independent 92012 Wayne Walker Putting People First 8547 20131 Wayne Walker Putting People First 139182 John Watson Putting People First 12936 20161 John Watson Putting People First 193242 Wayne Walker Putting People First 17938 20191 John Watson Putting People First 285102 Wayne Walker Putting People First 24768 20221 John Watson Putting People First 205752 Wayne Walker Putting People First 20007 20251 Victoria Short Fix Auckland 164102 John Watson Putting People First 15449

Election results Election Results for the Albany Ward:

2025 { class="wikitable" style="text-align:right" +Albany ward ! colspan="2" style="width:130px" Affiliation ! style="width:17em" Candidate ! style="width:5em" Votes ! style="width:3.5em" %

style="text-align:left" Fix Auckland style="text-align:left" Victoria Short 16,410

style="text-align:left" Putting People First style="text-align:left" John Watson 15,449

style="text-align:left" Putting People First style="text-align:left" Wayne Walker 14,885

style="text-align:left" Fix Auckland style="text-align:left" Gary Brown 10,269

style="text-align:left" ACT Local style="text-align:left" Samuel Mills 7,771

style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Dylan Davey 5,108

style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Kyle Parker 4,977

style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" Callum Blair 3,172

style="text-align:left" Independent style="text-align:left" John McCallum 1,372

- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right" Informal 105

- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right" Blank 1,267

- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right" Turnout

- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:right" Registered 141,257 style="background:lightgrey"

colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" Fix Auckland gain from Putting People First

colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" Putting People First hold - colspan="5" style="background:#eaecf0;text-align:left;padding-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px" incumbent }

2022

+Albany WardAffiliationCandidateVotes% Putting People FirstJohn Watson20,57540.43 Putting People FirstWayne Walker20,00739.31Independent LocalsVictoria Short14,96829.41 Your Community FutureJake Law9,12017.92 Your Community FutureSylvia Yang7,29814.34IndependentTony Corbett6,52912.83IndependentCallum Blair6,48012.73Communities FirstJohn Davies3,1896.27IndependentAlezix Heneti1,3812.71Informal870.17Blank3,0736.04Turnout50,892

2016 Election Results NameAffiliationVotes% 1John WatsonPutting People First19,32424.4%2Wayne WalkerPutting People First17,93822.6%Lisa Whyte Auckland Future15,92620.1% Graham Lowe Auckland Future15,54919.6% John Bensch Independent5,1266.5% Alezix Heneti Independent1,5381.9%Blank3,8524.9%Informal740.1Turnout79,327

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