Mayor of Chatham Islands

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Mayor of the Chatham Islands Council
Flag of Chatham Islands.svg
Unofficial flag of the Chatham Islands
Incumbent
Monique Croon
since 2019
Style Her Worship
Term length Three years
Inaugural holderPatrick Smith
Formation1995
DeputyKeri Lea Day
Website Official website

The Mayor of Chatham Islands is the head of the local government of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, and presides over the Chatham Islands Council.

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Patrick Smith served as mayor of the Chatham Islands from 1992 until his retirement in 2010. [1]

Smith was succeeded by deputy mayor Alfred Preece, who acted as mayor until he was elected to the position in 2010. [1] [2] [3] Preece had initially been invited to run for council by Mayor Smith. [4] He is the son of Alfred "Bunty" Preece QSO , a former chairman of the Chatham Islands County Council. [5] [6] [7]

Monique Croon is the current mayor of the Chatham Islands. [8] She was first elected in the 2019 local elections. [9]

List of mayors

NameTerm
Patrick Smith QSO 1992–2010
Alfred Preece2010–2019
Monique Croon2019–present

List of deputy mayors

NameTerm
Alfred Preece [2] [4] 2001–2010
Jeffrey Clarke [10] [11]  ?–2019
Greg Horler [12] [13] 2019–2022
Keri Lea Day [8] 2022–present

Mayoral elections

Mayoral elections take place in the Chatham Islands every 3 years, as part of the wider local elections in New Zealand. Under section 10 of the Local Electoral Act 2001, a "general election of members of every local authority or community board must be held on the second Saturday in October in every third year" from the date the Act came into effect in 2001. [14]

2001 Chatham Islands mayoral election

This was the first election held following the Local Electoral Act 2001. Patrick Smith won re-election, retaining the mayoralty.

2004 Chatham Islands mayoral election

This election was held using the single transferable vote (STV) system. [15]

Once again, Patrick Smith won re-election.

2007 Chatham Islands mayoral election

The Chatham Islands retained the STV system used in the prior election. [15] Patrick Smith won re-election.

2010 Chatham Islands mayoral election

For this election, the Chatham Islands Council abolished STV and adopted first-past-the-post voting. [16]

On 31 January 2010, Patrick Smith resigned from the mayoralty, and was immediately succeeded as acting mayor by his deputy, Alfred Preece. [1] Preece ran for the 2010 election and retained the mayoralty on 9 October, defeating challenger Joseph Tapara. [17]

2010 Chatham Islands mayoral election [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Alfred Preece (incumbent) 180 75.6% N/A
Independent Joseph Tapara5824.4%N/A
Total votes238 100%

2013 Chatham Islands mayoral election

Tapara unsuccessfully tried to oust Preece a second time in October 2013, only to be defeated by an even wider margin.

2013 Chatham Islands mayoral election [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Alfred Preece (incumbent) 172 85.1% +9.5%
Independent Joseph Tapara3014.9%−9.5%
Total votes202 100%

2016 Chatham Islands mayoral election

Preece won re-election.

2016 Chatham Islands mayoral election [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Alfred Preece (incumbent) 191 73.2% −11.9%
Independent Phillip Christiansen5721.8%N/A
Independent Noel Donaldson135%N/A
Total votes261 100%

2019 Chatham Islands mayoral election

Alfred Preece did not run for the 2019 mayoral election, allowing Monique Croon to take the mayoralty.

2019 Chatham Islands mayoral election [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Monique Croon 96 32.8% N/A
Independent Greg Horler8629.6%N/A
Independent Jack Daymond5619.1%N/A
Independent Keri Lea Day4114%N/A
Independent Alfie Johanson144.8%N/A
Total votes293 100%

2022 Chatham Islands mayoral election

Croon successfully ran for re-election. Although the election was officially non-partisan, [22] it was analysed within the wider context of polarised public opinion regarding the Sixth Labour Government's Three Waters reform programme. Croon was one of three elected mayors to strongly support Three Waters (in contrast, 6 mayors gave it soft support, 14 were on the fence, 30 gave it soft opposition and 13 gave it strong opposition). [23] After her election victory, Croon gave an interview on Te Ao Māori News. [24]

2022 Chatham Islands mayoral election [25] [26]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Monique Croon (incumbent) 124 51.7% +18.9%
Independent Greg Horler11648.3%+18.7%
Total votes240 100%
Turnout 24053%

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