Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use New Zealand English The mayor of Hamilton is the head of the municipal government of Hamilton, New Zealand, and presides over the Hamilton City Council.

The incumbent is Paula Southgate, who was first elected in the 2019 local government elections.

History

Hamilton had East and West Town Boards until it was constituted under the Municipal Corporations Act 1876 on 24 December 1877 as a Borough Council, with a mayor. Mayoral elections were originally held annually but have been triennial since 1935. Elections were initially held in December, in April or May from 1901–1947, and have most recently taken place in October.

In 1989, Evans was the first woman to be elected Mayor of Hamilton. Following her retirement in 1998, all subsequent incumbents were defeated at their next election until Julie Hardaker's 2013 re-election.

List

	Name	Portrait	Term of office		Reason for leaving office
1	Isaac Richardson Vialou	File:Isaac Richardson Vialou.jpg	February 1878	December 1878	Did not contest the following election
2	John Blair Whyte	File:John Blair Whyte, 1882.jpg	December 1878	December 1879	Did not contest the following election
3	Thomas Dawson	File:No image.png	December 1879	March 1880	Resigned
4	Bernard Charles Beale	File:Beale-bernard-charles-wm.jpg	March 1880	December 1880	Did not contest the following election
5	John Knox	File:No image.png	December 1880	December 1883	Did not contest the following election
6	Robert Peat	File:No image.png	December 1883	December 1884	Defeated
7	William Australia Graham	File:William Australia Graham (cropped).jpg	December 1884	May 1887	Resigned
8	Charles Barton	File:No image.png	June 1887	January 1888	Resigned
9	Isaac Coates	File:Isaac Coates in 1901.jpg	January 1888	October 1889	Resigned
10	William Jones	File:No image.png	October 1889	December 1889	Did not contest the following election
(9)	Isaac Coates	File:Isaac Coates in 1901.jpg	December 1889	December 1892	Did not contest the following election
11	John Parr	File:No image.png	December 1892	December 1893	Did not contest the following election
12	William Dey	File:No image.png	December 1893	December 1899	Did not contest the following election
13	George Edgecumbe	File:George Edgecumbe.jpg	December 1899	May 1901	Did not contest the following election
14	Robert William Dyer	File:R W Dyer 1901.jpg	May 1901	May 1903	Did not contest the following election
(8)	Charles Barton	File:No image.png	May 1903	October 1903	Resigned
(12)	William Dey	File:No image.png	October 1903	May 1905	Did not contest the following election
15	James Shiner Bond	File:James Shiner Bond.jpg	May 1905	May 1909	Did not contest the following election
16	Alexander Young	File:James Alexander Young.jpg	May 1909	May 1912	Did not contest the following election (was elected as MP for Waikato, 1911)
17	Arthur Edwards Manning	File:Arthur Edwards Manning.jpg	May 1912	November 1915	Resigned
18	John Edwin Hammond	File:John Edwin Hammond.jpg	December 1915	June 1916	Died in office
19	John Robert Fow	File:John Robert Fow.jpg	June 1916	May 1917	Did not contest the following election
20	John William Ellis	File:John William Ellis 1853–1918.jpg	May 1917	August 1918	Died in office
(19)	John Robert Fow	File:John Robert Fow.jpg	August 1918	May 1919	Did not contest the following election
21	Percy Harold Watts	File:No image.png	May 1919	April 1920	Resigned
(19)	John Robert Fow	File:John Robert Fow.jpg	May 1920	May 1931	Defeated
22	Francis Dewsbury Pinfold	File:Frances Dewsbury Pinfold.jpg	May 1931	May 1933	Defeated
(19)	John Robert Fow	File:John Robert Fow.jpg	May 1933	May 1938	Did not contest the following election
23	Harold David Caro	File:Harold David Caro.jpg	May 1938	November 1953	Defeated
24	Roderick Braithwaite	File:No image.png	November 1953	December 1959	Did not contest the following election
25	Denis Rogers	File:No image.png	December 1959	October 1968	Defeated
26	Mike Minogue	File:No image.png	October 1968	May 1976	Resigned
27	Bruce Beetham	File:Bruce Craig Beetham.jpg	May 1976	October 1977	Did not contest the following election
28	Ross Jansen	File:Ross Jansen (crop).jpg	October 1977	November 1989	Defeated
29	Margaret Evans	File:No image.png	November 1989	November 1998	Retired
30	Russ Rimmington	File:No image.png	November 1998	November 2001	Defeated
31	David Braithwaite	File:No image.png	November 2001	November 2004	Defeated
32	Michael Redman	File:No image.png	November 2004	May 2007	Resigned to take up position as CEO of Hamilton City Council
33	Bob Simcock	File:No image.png	23 May 2007	31 October 2010	Named interim Mayor until local government elections in October, then elected. Defeated in 2010 Elections.
34	Julie Hardaker	File:Julie Hardaker (cropped).jpg	1 November 2010	October 2016	Did not contest the following election for re-election
35	Andrew King	File:Andrew King (crop).jpg	October 2016	October 2019	Defeated
36	Paula Southgate	File:Paula Southgate 2019.jpg	24 October 2019	Incumbent

Sources

• Gibbons, P.J. (1977), Astride the River. Published for the Hamilton City Council by Whitcoulls Limited, pp317–318 and Hamilton City Council Annual Plans.
• Hamilton City Council Annual Statement of Accounts and Waikato Times index at Hamilton City Libraries.