Mayor of New Plymouth

The mayor of New Plymouth officiates over the New Plymouth District Council in New Zealand. Since the 2022 local elections, the mayor is elected directly using the single transferable vote electoral system; prior to that, first-past-the-post voting was used.^[3] The current mayor is Neil Holdom.^[1]

Mayor of New Plymouth
Incumbent Neil Holdom since 2016
Style	His/Her Worship
Term length	Three years, renewable
Inaugural holder	Arthur Standish
Formation	1876
Deputy	David Bublitz[1]
Salary	$160,757[2]
Website	Official website

List of office holders

New Plymouth has had 26 mayors:

	Name	Portrait	Term
1	Arthur Standish[4]		1876–1878
2	Albert Cracroft Fookes[5]		1878–1879
3	James Davidson[6]		1879–1881
4	William Bayly[7]		1881–1884
5	James Paul[8]		1884–1886
(4)	William Bayly[7]		1886–1888
6	John Barton Roy[9]		1888–1889
7	James Bellringer[10]		1889–1893
(6)	John Barton Roy[9]		1893–1897
8	Edward Dockrill[11]		1897–1903
9	Richard Cock[12]		1903–1906
(8)	Edward Dockrill[11]		1906–1908
10	Gustave Tisch[13]		1908–1911
11	George William Browne		1911–1914
12	J. E. Wilson		1914–1915
13	Charles Hayward Burgess		1915–1919
14	James Clarke		1919–1920
15	Frank Edwin Wilson[14]		1920–1927
16	Victor Griffiths		1927–1933
17	Everard Gilmour[15]		1933–1953
18	Edward Hill[15]		1953–1956
19	Alfred Honnor[15]		1956–1968
20	Denis Sutherland[15]		1968–1980
21	David Lean[15]		1980–1992
22	Claire Stewart[15]		1992–2001
23	Peter Tennent[15]		2001–2010
24	Harry Duynhoven[15][16]		2010–2013
25	Andrew Judd[1][15]		2013–2016
26	Neil Holdom[1][15]		2016–present

List of deputy mayors

Name	Term	Mayor
George Fry	1951–1953	Gilmour
Alfred Honnor	1953–1956	Hill
William Dean	1956–1965	Honnor
Royden Burkitt	1965–1968
Edmund Allen	1968–1974	Sutherland
Royden Burkitt	1974–1980
Ron Barclay	1980–1989	Lean
Thomas Watson	1989–1992
Thomas Beeby	1992–1994	Stewart
W David Wilkinson	1994–1995
Brian Bellringer	1995–1998
Peter Tennent	1998–2001
Lynn Bublitz	2001–2007	Tennent
Alex Matheson	2007–2013
		Duynhoven
Heather Dodunski	2013–2016	Judd
Craig McFarlane	2016–2017	Holdom
Richard Jordan	2017–2022
David Bublitz	2022–present

Deaths in office

James Clarke died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash while in office;^[17] when the three occupants of the plane he was in were killed on 11 November 1920.^[18] Clarke had foreshadowed that he intended to resign from the mayoralty that evening.^[19]

Gustave Tisch also died while in office as the result of an illness.^[20]