Mayor of New Plymouth


The Mayor of New Plymouth is the head of municipal government of New Plymouth District, New Zealand. The mayor is elected directly using the first-past-the-post electoral system. The current mayor is Neil Holdom.

List of Mayors of New Plymouth

was the town's first mayor to die in office. He died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash; 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.
New Plymouth has had more than 20 mayors:
NameTerm
1Arthur Standish1876–1878
2Albert Cracroft Fookes1878–1879
3James Davidson1879–1881
4William Bayly1881–1884
5James Paul1884–1886
'William Bayly1886–1888
6John Barton Roy1888–1889
7James Bellringer1889–1893
'John Barton Roy1893–1897
8Edward Dockrill1897–1903
9Richard Cock1903–1906
Edward Dockrill1906–1908
10Gustave Tisch1908–1911
11G. W. Browne1911–1914
12J. E. Wilson1914–1915
13C. H. Burgess1915–1919
14James Clarke1919–1920
15F. E. Wilson1920–1927
16H. V. S. Griffiths1927–1933
17Everard Gilmour1933–1953
18Edward Hill1953–1956
19Alfred Honnor1956–1968
20Denis Sutherland1968–1980
21David Lean1980–1992
22Claire Stewart1992–2001
23Peter Tennent2001–2010
24Harry Duynhoven2010–2013
25Andrew Judd2013–2016
26Neil Holdom2016–present

List of Deputy Mayors of New Plymouth