Mayor of Dunedin

Mayor of Dunedin
Coat of arms of the City of Dunedin
Incumbent
Jules Radich
since 8 October 2022
AppointerElected
Inaugural holderWilliam Mason
Formation1865
DeputySophie Barker
WebsiteOfficial website

The mayor of Dunedin is the head of the local government, the city council of Dunedin, New Zealand. The mayor's role is "to provide leadership to the other elected members of the territorial authority, be a leader in the community and perform civic duties".[1] The mayor is directly elected, using the single transferable vote (STV) system from 2007.[2] The current mayor is Jules Radich who was elected in 2022.[3]

The mayor has always been elected at large,[4] with the inaugural election in 1865.[5] Up until 1915, the term of mayor was for one year only.[6][7] From 1915 to 1935, the term was two years.[8] Since the 1935 mayoral election, the term has been three years.[8] The role of deputy mayor was established in 1917.[9] The city council translates the office and title of mayor as Te Koromatua o Ōtepoti.[10]

List of mayors of Dunedin

Key

  Independent   Citizens' Association   Labour   Green   Greater Dunedin   Team Dunedin

# Name Portrait Term of Office
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 Reeves 1876 1877
9 Richard Henry Leary 1877 1878
(7) Henry John Walter 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
(9) Richard Henry Leary 1886 1887
16 William Dawson 1887 1888
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
(4) Henry Fish 1893 1895
22 Nathaniel Wales 1895 1896
(17) Hugh Gourley 1896 1897
23 Edward 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
39 John Shacklock 1914 1915
40 James Clark 1915 1919
41 William Begg 1919 1921
42 James Douglas 1921 1923
43 Harold Tapley 1923 1927
44 William Taverner 1927 1929
45 Robert Black 1929 1933
46 Edwin Thoms Cox 1933 1938
47 Andrew Allen 1938 1944
48 Donald Cameron 1944 1950
49 Len Wright 1950 1959
50 Stuart Sidey 1959 1965
51 Russell Calvert 1965 1968
52 Jim Barnes 1968 1977
53 Cliff Skeggs 1977 1989
54 Richard Walls 1989 1995
55 Sukhi Turner 1995 2004
56 Peter Chin 2004 2010
57 Dave Cull 2010 2019
58 Aaron Hawkins 2019 2022
59 Jules Radich 2022 present

Notes

  1. ^ Department of Internal Affairs. "Councillors and Mayors". Local Councils. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  2. ^ "2007 Local Elections". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
  3. ^ "DCC and Community board preliminary results". No. 8 October 2022. Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  4. ^ McDonald 1965, p. 415.
  5. ^ "The Election of Mayor". Otago Daily Times. No. 1119. 22 July 1865. p. 4. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  6. ^ Griffiths, George (September 2005). "Dunedin's 19th Century Mayors" (PDF). Friends of the Hocken Collections. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  7. ^ McDonald 1965, pp. 415f.
  8. ^ a b McDonald 1965, p. 416.
  9. ^ McDonald 1965, p. 417.
  10. ^ for example on this plan consultation page on their website: Introduction | He kupu whakataki on DCC website, viewed 2022-11-03

References

  • McDonald, Kenneth Cornwell (1965). City Of Dunedin : A Century of Civic Enterprise. Dunedin: Dunedin City Corporation.
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