Mayor of Dunedin
The Mayor of Dunedin is the head of the municipal government of Dunedin, New Zealand, and presides over the Dunedin City Council. The Mayor is directly elected, using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system in 2007.[1]
The current Mayor is Dave Cull who was first elected in 2010 and confirmed in 2013.[2]
The mayor has always been elected at large,[3] with the inaugural election in 1865.[4] Up until 1915, the term of mayor was for one year only.[5][6] From 1915 to 1935, the term was two years.[7] Since the 1935 mayoral election, the term has been three years.[7] The role of Deputy Mayor was established in 1917.[8]
List of Mayors of Dunedin
# | Name | Term of Office | Affiliation (if any) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Start | End | |||
1 | William Mason | 1865 | 1867 | |
2 | John Hyde Harris | 1867 | 1868 | |
3 | Thomas Birch | 1868 | 1870 | |
4 | Henry Fish | 1870 | 1873 | |
5 | Andrew Mercer | 1873 | 1874 | |
6 | Keith Ramsay | 1874 | 1875 | |
7 | Henry John Walter | 1875 | 1876 | |
8 | Charles Stephen Reeves | 1876 | 1877 | |
9 | Richard Henry Leary | 1877 | 1878 | |
Henry John Walter, 2nd time | 1878 | 1879 | ||
10 | Archibald Hilson Ross | 1880 | 1881 | |
11 | James Gore | 1881 | 1882 | |
12 | John Bryce Thomson | 1882 | 1883 | |
13 | William Parker Street | 1883 | 1884 | |
14 | Arthur Scoullar | 1884 | 1885 | |
15 | John Barnes | 1885 | 1886 | |
Richard Henry Leary, 2nd time | 1886 | 1887 | ||
16 | William Dawson | 1887 | 1888 | Liberal |
17 | Hugh Gourley | 1888 | 1889 | |
18 | John Roberts | 1889 | 1890 | |
19 | John Carroll | 1890 | 1891 | |
20 | Charles Robert Chapman | 1891 | 1892 | |
21 | Charles Haynes | 1892 | 1893 | |
Henry Fish, 2nd time | 1893 | 1895 | Liberal | |
22 | Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales | 1895 | 1896 | |
Hugh Gourley, 2nd time | 1896 | 1897 | ||
23 | Edward Bowes Cargill | 1897 | 1898 | |
24 | William Swan | 1898 | 1899 | |
25 | Robert Chisholm | 1899 | 1901 | |
26 | George Lyon Denniston | 1901 | 1902 | |
27 | James Alexander Park | 1902 | 1903 | |
28 | Thomas Scott | 1903 | 1904 | |
29 | Thomas Reid Christie | 1904 | 1905 | |
30 | Joseph Braithwaite | 1905 | 1906 | |
31 | George Lawrence | 1906 | 1907 | |
32 | John Loudon | 1907 | 1908 | |
33 | John McDonald | 1908 | 1909 | |
34 | James Hamlin Walker | 1909 | 1910 | |
35 | Thomas Cole | 1910 | 1911 | |
36 | William Burnett | 1911 | 1912 | |
37 | John Wilson | 1912 | 1913 | |
38 | William Downie Stewart, Jr. | 1913 | 1914 | Reform |
39 | John Bradley Shacklock | 1914 | 1915 | |
40 | James John Clark | 1915 | 1919 | Reform |
41 | William Begg | 1919 | 1921 | Liberal |
42 | James Sandilands Douglas | 1921 | 1923 | |
43 | Harold Livingstone Tapley | 1923 | 1927 | Reform |
44 | William Burgoyne Taverner | 1927 | 1929 | United |
45 | Robert Black | 1929 | 1933 | United |
46 | Edwin Thoms Cox | 1933 | 1938 | Labour |
47 | Andrew Henson Allen | 1938 | 1944 | National |
48 | Donald Charles Cameron | 1944 | 1950 | |
49 | Leonard Morton Wright | 1950 | 1959 | |
50 | Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey | 1959 | 1965 | National |
51 | Russell John Calvert | 1965 | 1968 | Labour |
52 | Jim Barnes | 1968 | 1977 | National |
53 | Cliff Skeggs | 1977 | 1989 | |
54 | Richard Walls | 1989 | 1995 | National |
55 | Sukhi Turner | 1995 | 2004 | Green |
56 | Peter Chin | 2004 | 2010 | |
57 | Dave Cull | 2010 | present | Greater Dunedin |
Notes
- ↑ "2007 Local Elections". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
- ↑ "Dunedin City Council Final Results". Dunedin City Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
- ↑ McDonald 1965, p. 415.
- ↑ "The Election of Mayor". Otago Daily Times (1119). 22 July 1865. p. 4. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ↑ Griffiths, George (September 2005). "Dunedin's 19th Century Mayors" (PDF). Friends of the Hocken Collections. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ↑ McDonald 1965, pp. 415f.
- 1 2 McDonald 1965, p. 416.
- ↑ McDonald 1965, p. 417.
References
- McDonald, Kenneth Cornwell (1965). City Of Dunedin : A Century of Civic Enterprise. Dunedin: Dunedin City Corporation.
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