On 1 June, four councillors were declared elected unopposed: Hugh R. McKenzie (Māngere Riding); Sydney J. Harbutt (Ōtāhuhu), John Consentine Bryant (Papatoetoe) and Captain Frank Colbeck (Papakura).
The other three elected at the polls on 10 June were Alexander David Bell (Wairoa), Francis Henry Brownhill (Turanga) and Alfred Edward Hattaway (Pakuranga).
The new city was divided into the Clevedon, Māngere, Manurewa, Otara and Pakuranga wards for electoral purposes.
The successful candidates at the polls were: Jim Anderton, Roger Douglas, Clyde Ellett and Hugh Graham for Mangere; Harry Beaumont, William Berridge, Jack Cloherty, Chris Mountfort, Bernard Ross and Robert Ross for Manurewa; Pearl Baker, Alexander Cowie and Murray Freer for Otara; and Laurence Gregory, Frank Malcolm, Charles Mason and Desmond Molesworth for Pakuranga.
Anderton resigned in August 1968 when he moved to Remuera, and Douglas did not stand for re-election in 1968, but successfully stood for parliament in the Manukau electorate in the 1969 election.