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Mayor of New Plymouth | |
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Style | His/Her Worship |
Term length | Three years, renewable |
Inaugural holder | Arthur Standish |
Formation | 1876 |
Deputy | David Bublitz [1] |
Salary | $160,757 [2] |
Website | Official website |
The Mayor of New Plymouth officiates over the New Plymouth District Council. 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. [3] The current mayor is Neil Holdom. [1]
New Plymouth has had 26 mayors:
Name | Term | |
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1 | Arthur Standish [4] | 1876–1878 |
2 | Albert Cracroft Fookes [5] | 1878–1879 |
3 | James Davidson [6] | 1879–1881 |
4 | William Bayly [7] | 1881–1884 |
5 | James Paul [8] | 1884–1886 |
(4) | William Bayly [7] | 1886–1888 |
6 | John Barton Roy [9] | 1888–1889 |
7 | James Bellringer [10] | 1889–1893 |
(6) | John Barton Roy [9] | 1893–1897 |
8 | Edward Dockrill [11] | 1897–1903 |
9 | Richard Cock [12] | 1903–1906 |
(8) | Edward Dockrill [11] | 1906–1908 |
10 | Gustave Tisch [13] | 1908–1911 |
11 | George William Browne | 1911–1914 |
12 | J. E. Wilson | 1914–1915 |
13 | Charles Hayward Burgess | 1915–1919 |
14 | James Clarke | 1919–1920 |
15 | Frank Edwin Wilson [14] | 1920–1927 |
16 | Victor Griffiths | 1927–1933 |
17 | Everard Gilmour [15] | 1933–1953 |
18 | Edward Hill [15] | 1953–1956 |
19 | Alfred Honnor [15] | 1956–1968 |
20 | Denis Sutherland [15] | 1968–1980 |
21 | David Lean [15] | 1980–1992 |
22 | Claire Stewart [15] | 1992–2001 |
23 | Peter Tennent [15] | 2001–2010 |
24 | Harry Duynhoven [15] [16] | 2010–2013 |
25 | Andrew Judd [1] [15] | 2013–2016 |
26 | Neil Holdom [1] [15] | 2016–present |
Name | Term | Mayor |
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George Fry | 1951–1953 | Gilmour |
Alfred Honnor | 1953–1956 | Hill |
William Dean | 1956–1965 | Honnor |
Royden Burkitt | 1965–1968 | |
Edmund Allen | 1968–1974 | Sutherland |
Royden Burkitt | 1974–1980 | |
Ron Barclay | 1980–1989 | Lean |
Thomas Watson | 1989–1992 | |
Thomas Beeby | 1992–1994 | Stewart |
W David Wilkinson | 1994–1995 | |
Brian Bellringer | 1995–1998 | |
Peter Tennent | 1998–2001 | |
Lynn Bublitz | 2001–2007 | Tennent |
Alex Matheson | 2007–2013 | |
Duynhoven | ||
Heather Dodunski | 2013–2016 | Judd |
Craig McFarlane | 2016–2017 | Holdom |
Richard Jordan | 2017–2022 | |
David Bublitz | 2022–present | |
James Clarke died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash while in office; [17] when the three occupants of the plane he was in were killed on 11 November 1920. [18] Clarke had foreshadowed that he intended to resign from the mayoralty that evening. [19]
Gustave Tisch also died while in office as the result of an illness. [20]