A proposal to have some or all Auckland City councillors elected "at large" has been given the thumbs down.
At an informal workshop this week, Auckland councillors agreed to keep 20 councillors in 13 wards.
The council has been going through the statutory process of looking at its governance structure, including introducing councillors on a city-wide basis rather than in wards, and reducing the number of local boards from 21.
But neither proposal has political backing, and North Shore councillor Chris Darby said there would be no reduction in the number of local boards on his watch.
Councillors believed six years of the Super City was too short a time to look at changes.