Mayor of Porirua

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Mayor of Porirua
Anita Baker July 2023.jpg
Incumbent
Anita Baker
since 2019
Style Her Worship
Term length Three years
Inaugural holder Whitford Brown
Formation1962
DeputyKylie Wihapi
Website Official website

The Mayor of Porirua is the head of the municipal government of Porirua, New Zealand, and presides over the Porirua City Council. The mayor is directly elected using the single transferable vote electoral system. There have been six mayors since the establishment of the borough council in 1962: the current mayor is Anita Baker, who was elected in October 2019.

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History

The locality was part the Makara County Council, abolished on 31 August 1962. The rural area became part of Hutt County, the urban area becoming Porirua Borough Council. [1] Elections were held in October 1962, and Whitford Brown was elected the first mayor of Porirua. [2] During Brown's term, Porirua achieved city status on 2 October 1965. At the time, this required having a population of at least 20,000. [3] In the first triennium the mayor received honorarium for their duties of £750 per annum. At the first council meeting following the 1965 elections councillors voted to keep the honorarium at the same amount after the council was upgraded from a borough to a city. [4]

Brown retired from the mayoralty in 1983. [2] He was succeeded by John Burke, who had been Deputy Mayor since 1977. Burke remained mayor for 15 years (five terms) until he was defeated in 1998. [5]

Jenny Brash was first elected mayor in 1998, succeeding Burke. She held the mayoralty for 12 years (four terms) until her retirement in October 2010. [6] She was a Northern Ward councillor in 1983-89 and 1995-98. [7]

Nick Leggett was elected mayor on 9 October 2010, defeating Deputy Mayor Litea Ah Hoi. He had been endorsed by his predecessor plus former mayor John Burke, [8] and was first elected as a councillor in Porirua in 1998, when he was 19 years old. Aged 31 on his election to mayor, he was at the time the youngest mayor in New Zealand. [9] [10] In October 2016, Leggett was succeeded by Mike Tana.

List of mayors of Porirua

Porirua has had six mayors:

Key

   Independent    Labour

#NamePortraitTermElections
1 Whitford Brown Whitford J.R Brown.jpg 1962–1983 196219651968
197119741977
1980
2 John Burke

John Burke, 1973.jpg

1983–1998 198319861989
19921995
3 Jenny Brash Jenny Brash QSO (cropped).jpg 1998–2010 19982001
20042007
4 Nick Leggett Nick Leggett 2012 (cropped).jpg 2010–2016 20102013
5 Mike Tana Mike Tana.jpg 2016–2019 2016
6 Anita Baker Anita Baker (crop).jpg 2019–present 20192022

List of deputy mayors of Porirua

NameTerm of officeMayor
Ernie Maxwell19621968 Brown
Jill Nixon19681971
Tutuira Wi Neera19711972† [11]
Hec Stuart19721977
John Burke 19771983
Bill Herewini19831985† [12] Burke
Hec Stuart
1985† [13]
Ivan Hardgrave19851989
Jasmine Underhill19892001 [14]
Brash
Kevin Watson20012004
Euon Murrell 20042007 [15]
Litea Ah Hoi20072010 [16]
Liz Kelly20102013 [17] Leggett
'Ana Coffey20132016 [18]
Izzy Ford 20162022 Tana
Baker
Kylie Wihapi2022present [19]

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