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 Aaron Hawkins who was elected in 2019.^[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]

1 List of mayors of Dunedin
2 Notes
3 References
4 External links

List of mayors of Dunedin

Key

Independent Citizens' Association Labour Green Greater 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	© Morris, CC BY-SA 3.0	1888	1889
18	John Roberts		1889	1890
19	John Carroll		1890	1891
20	Charles Robert Chapman	© Publisher - Cyclopedia Company Limited; photographer unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	1891	1892
21	Charles Haynes	© Publisher - Cyclopedia Company Limited; photographer unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	1892	1893
(4)	Henry Fish		1893	1895
22	Nathaniel Wales	© Photographer unidentified, CC BY-SA 3.0	1895	1896
(17)	Hugh Gourley	© Morris, CC BY-SA 3.0	1896	1897
23	Edward Cargill		1897	1898
24	William Swan	© Publisher - Cyclopedia Company Limited; photographer unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	1898	1899
25	Robert Chisholm		1899	1901
26	George Lyon Denniston	© Photographer unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	1901	1902
27	James Alexander Park		1902	1903
28	Thomas Scott	© Publisher - Cyclopedia Company Limited; photographer - Wrigglesworth and Binns, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	1903	1904
29	Thomas Reid Christie	© Publisher - Cyclopedia Company Limited; photographer - Wrigglesworth and Binns, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	1904	1905
30	Joseph Braithwaite		1905	1906
31	George Lawrence	© Publisher - Cyclopedia Company Limited; photographer - Wrigglesworth and Binns, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	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	© Photographer unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	1911	1912
37	John Wilson		1912	1913
38	William Downie Stewart Jr		1913	1914
39	John Shacklock		1914	1915
40	James Clark	© Dunedin City Council Archives, CC BY-SA 4.0	1915	1919
41	William Begg	© Publisher - Cyclopedia Company Limited; photographer - Wrigglesworth and Binns, CC BY-SA 3.0 nz	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	© Dunedin City Council Archives, CC BY 2.0	1959	1965
51	Russell Calvert	© Dunedin City Council Archives, CC BY 2.0	1965	1968
52	Jim Barnes	© Dunedin City Council Archives, CC BY 2.0	1968	1977
53	Cliff Skeggs	© Dunedin City Council Archives, CC BY 2.0	1977	1989
54	Richard Walls	© Dunedin City Council Archives, CC BY 2.0	1989	1995
55	Sukhi Turner	© Governor-General of New Zealand, CC BY-SA 4.0	1995	2004
56	Peter Chin	© Benchill, CC BY-SA 3.0	2004	2010
57	Dave Cull		2010	2019
58	Aaron Hawkins	© Kimberley Collins, CC BY-SA 4.0	2019	present

Notes

^ "2007 Local Elections" . Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
^ "Dunedin City Council Final Results" . Dunedin City Council. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. 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.
^ ^a ^b 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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