Mayor of New Plymouth

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The Mayor of New Plymouth is the head of municipal government of New Plymouth District, New Zealand. Since the 2022 local elections, the mayor is elected directly using the single transferable vote electoral system; prior to that, first-past-the-post voting was used. [1] The current mayor is Neil Holdom. [2]

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List of office holders

James Clarke was the town's first mayor to die in office. He died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash; [3] the three occupants of the plane he was in were killed on 11 November 1920. Clarke had foreshadowed that he intended to resign from the mayoralty that evening. [4]

New Plymouth has had more than 20 mayors:

NameTerm
1 Arthur Standish [5] 1876–1878
2 Albert Cracroft Fookes [6] 1878–1879
3 James Davidson [7] 1879–1881
4 William Bayly [8] 1881–1884
5 James Paul [9] 1884–1886
(4) William Bayly [8] 1886–1888
6 John Barton Roy [10] 1888–1889
7 James Bellringer [11] 1889–1893
(6) John Barton Roy [10] 1893–1897
8 Edward Dockrill [12] 1897–1903
9 Richard Cock [13] 1903–1906
(8) Edward Dockrill [12] 1906–1908
10 Gustave Tisch [14] 1908–1911
11G. W. Browne1911–1914
12J. E. Wilson1914–1915
13C. H. Burgess1915–1919
14 James Clarke 1919–1920
15F. E. Wilson [15] 1920–1927
16Victor Griffiths1927–1933
17 Everard Gilmour [16] 1933–1953
18 Edward Hill [16] 1953–1956
19 Alfred Honnor [16] 1956–1968
20 Denis Sutherland [16] 1968–1980
21 David Lean [16] 1980–1992
22 Claire Stewart [16] 1992–2001
23Peter Tennent [16] 2001–2010
24 Harry Duynhoven [16] [17] 2010–2013
25 Andrew Judd [2] [16] 2013–2016
26Neil Holdom [2] [16] 2016–present

List of deputy mayors

NameTermMayor
George Fry1951–1953Gilmour
Alfred Honnor1953–1956 Hill
William Dean1956–1965Honnor
Royden Burkitt1965–1968
Edmund Allen1968–1974Sutherland
Royden Burkitt1974–1980
Ron Barclay 1980–1989Lean
Thomas Watson1989–1992
Thomas Beeby1992–1994Stewart
W David Wilkinson1994–1995
Brian Bellringer1995–1998
Peter Tennent1998–2001
Lynn Bublitz2001–2007Tennent
Alex Matheson2007–2013
Duynhoven
Heather Dodunski2013–2016 Judd
Craig McFarlane2016–2017Holdom
Richard Jordan2017–present

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