Mayor of Auckland City

The Mayor of Auckland City was the directly elected head of the Auckland City Council, the municipal government of Auckland City, New Zealand. The office existed from 1871 to 2010, when the Auckland City Council and mayoralty was abolished and replaced with the Auckland Council and the Mayor of Auckland.

History

Auckland obtained its first local government in 1851, when the Borough of Auckland was created, covering an area of 58,000 acres (230 km²). This short-lived entity, which existed for about one year, had only one mayor, Archibald Clark.[1]

When the City of Auckland was formally incorporated in 1871, it covered a much smaller area of 623 acres (2.52 km²). Its municipal council was led by a chairman, Walter Lee. Soon afterwards the office of Mayor of Auckland was created. At first, the mayor was elected by the councillors. In 1875, Benjamin Tonks was the first mayor elected at large, i.e. by the ratepayers.[1] There were 39 holders of the position. The longest-serving was Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, who held the post for 18 years, and was the first person to serve non-consecutive terms.[2] There were two female Mayors; Catherine Tizard in 1983 and Christine Fletcher in 1998.

The city council was abolished on 31 October 2010. The area has since been governed by the Auckland Council, which also governs the rest of the Auckland Region.

List of mayors of Auckland City

Key

Independent Citizens & Ratepayers Labour

†: Died in office

	Name	Term of Office
1	Philip Philips	1871	1874
2	Henry Isaacs	1874
3	Frederick Prime	1874	1875
4	Benjamin Tonks	1875	1876
5	William Hurst	1876	1877
6	Henry Brett	1877	1878
7	Thomas Peacock	1878	1880
8	James Clark	1880	1883
9	William Waddel	1883	1886
10	Albert Devore	1886	1889
11	John Upton	1889	1891
12	William Crowther	1891	1893
13	James Job Holland	1893	1896
14	Abraham Boardman	1896	1897
15	Peter Dignan	1897	1898
16	David Goldie	1898	1901
17	John Logan Campbell	1901
18	Alfred Kidd	1901	1903
19	Edwin Mitchelson	1903	1905
20	Arthur Myers	1905	1909
21	Charles Grey	1909	1910
22	Lemuel Bagnall	1910	1911
23	James Parr	1911	1915
24	James Gunson	1915	1925
25	George Baildon	1925	1931
26	George Hutchison	1931	1935
27	Ernest Davis	1935	1941
28	John Allum	1941	1953[3]
28	John Allum	1941	1953[3]
29	John Luxford	1953	1956
29	John Luxford	1953	1956
30	Thomas Ashby	1956	1957†
31	Keith Buttle	1957	1959
32	Dove-Myer Robinson	1959	1965
33	Roy McElroy	1965	1968
(32)	Dove-Myer Robinson	1968	1980
34	Colin Kay	1980	1983
35	Catherine Tizard	1983	1990
36	Les Mills	1990	1998
37	Christine Fletcher	1998	2001
38	John Banks	2001	2004
39	Dick Hubbard	2004	2007
(38)	John Banks	2007	2010

List of deputy-mayors