Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) is the regional council for a region that includes eight territorial authorities and spans a diverse range of urban and rural communities, each with discrete needs. The sometimes-divisive debate in 2015 on amalgamation for the region was advocated for strongly by the previous chair of the Wellington regional councillor. The next cycle of Greater Wellington Regional Council committee meetings will be cancelled due to COVID-19, with more regular full Council meetings taking place. He was elected at the 2007 local elections with 24,757 votes, the greatest number of votes for any candidate that year. A chair and deputy chair were elected and sworn in today at the first meeting of the newly elected Greater Wellington Regional Council, the term of which will run from October 2016-October 2019. The region is administered by the Wellington Regional Council, which uses the promotional name Greater Wellington Regional Council.
Laidlaw was a councillor and chair of the Wellington Regional Council and represented the Wellington constituency. Greater Wellington Regional Council has released its spend on external contractors brought in over the problem-plagued reinvention of the capital's bus … Outgoing Greater Wellington Regional Council chairman Chris Laidlaw fronts a select committee over the region's bus problems in September last year. It …

Daran Ponter (born 20 February 1968) is a New Zealand local-body politician who on the 30th of October 2019 succeeded Chris Laidlaw as the chair of the Greater Wellington Regional Council The Wellington local elections, 2010 are part of the 2010 New Zealand local elections, to elect members to sub-national councils and boards.The Wellington elections cover one regional council (the Greater Wellington Regional Council), eight territorial authority (city and district) councils, three district health boards, and various local boards and licensing trusts.