Julie Fairey

Fairey ran unsuccessfully as the Alliance candidate for Epsom in 2002.^[2][3] She ran as a list candidate in 2005.^[4]

Fairey was elected to the Puketāpapa Local Board in the 2010 Auckland local board elections.^[1] She served as the chair of the board from 2013 to 2016, and as the deputy chair for the first half of the 2019–2022 term.^[5]

In the 2022 local body elections, Fairey was elected as one of two councillors for the Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward.^[6] She took office on 16 October 2022.^[7] In 2024, she was appointed deputy chair of the council's community committee.^[8]

Fairey is running for re-election as a councillor in the 2025 elections.^[9][10]

Fairey's spouse is Mount Roskill former MP Michael Wood.^[11] Both ran campaigns as electorate MPs in 2002,^[3] and both were elected to the Puketāpapa Local Board in 2010.^[1]