Celia Wade-Brown

Quick Facts

Full Name	Celia Wade-Brown
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jul 12, 1956(1956-07-12)
Age	68
Birthplace	London
Country	New Zealand
Horoscope	Cancer

Celia Wade-Brown Biography

Celia Wade-Brown is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 12, 1956 in London, New Zealand. Celia Margaret Wade-Brown QSO (born 12 July 1956) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 34th Mayor of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, from 2010 until 2016.

Wade-Brown first stood for the Green Party as a list candidate (ranked 44th) under the Alliance banner in the 1996 election. In the 1999 election, she stood for the Green Party as a list candidate (ranked 29th). In the 2002 election, she stood for the Green Party as a list candidate (ranked 15th) in the Rongotai electorate and placed third. She has not appeared on the Green Party list since the 2005 election.

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.

Wade-Brown was re-elected as Mayor of Wellington in October 2013, beating her main rival John Morrison 27,171 to 24,691 after five rounds of vote allocation.

Wade-Brown was a founding member of the New Zealand Internet Society (now known as InternetNZ). InternetNZ is a non-profit organisation set up in 1995 dedicated to protecting and promoting the Internet in New Zealand. In 2002 Wade-Brown founded Living Streets Aotearoa, a walking-advocacy organisation with 15 branches. It holds collective membership of the International Federation of Pedestrians.

Celia Wade-Brown Net Worth

Celia Wade-Brown is one of the richest Politician from New Zealand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Celia Wade- Brown 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Paddington, West London, to a British military officer father Paul Wade-Brown, Wade-Brown grew up in a council flat. She attended The Holt School in Wokingham, Berkshire, England. After school, she took a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham. She started her professional life with IBM in the United Kingdom, and moved to Wellington in 1983.

Wade-Brown served as a Wellington City Councillor for the Southern Ward in 1994–1998 and 2001–2010.

In 2010 Wade-Brown decided to run to be the Mayor of Wellington, and not in the Southern Ward seat which she previously held. Wade-Brown beat the incumbent Mayor, Kerry Prendergast, by 176 votes—some media outlets reported that this was the closest margin seen in the Wellington Mayoral race. In total, Wade-Brown received 24,881 votes, compared to Prendergast’s 24,705 votes.

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After a four year hiatus from politics, Wade-Brown was selected as the Green Party’s candidate for the Wairarapa general electorate seat at the 2020 election, campaigning to maximise the Green’s party vote.

Facts & Trivia

Celia Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in New Zealand. Celia Wade-Brown celebrates birthday on July 12 of every year.