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. [2] Elections were held in October 1962, and Whitford Brown was elected the first mayor of Porirua. [3] 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. [4] 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. [5]
Brown retired from the mayoralty in 1983. [3] He was succeeded by John Burke, who had been Deputy Mayor since 1977. Burke remained mayor for 15 years (five terms) until 1998. [6]
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. [7] She was a Northern Ward councillor in 1983–89 and 1995–98. [8]
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, [9] 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. [10] [11] In October 2016, Leggett was succeeded by Mike Tana.
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