Mayor of Hastings | |
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Appointer | Elected |
Inaugural holder | Robert Wellwood |
Formation | 1886 |
Deputy | Tania Kerr |
Website | Official website |
The mayor of Hastings is the head of the Local Government of Hastings, New Zealand, and presides over the Hastings District Council. The first mayor was Robert Wellwood (1886–1887), [1] and the current mayor is Sandra Hazlehurst, who is the first woman to be elected to the office.
The mayor is directly elected using a first-past-the-post electoral system. [2]
There have been 22 mayors of Hastings.
Mayor | Term of office | ||
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1 | Robert Wellwood | 1886–1887 [1] [3] | |
2 | George Ellis | 1887–1890 [3] [4] [5] | |
3 | W. F. Burnett | 1890–1891 [3] [5] | |
(2) | George Ellis | 1891–1894 [3] | |
4 | Cecil Fitzroy | 1894–1899 [3] [5] | |
5 | William Young Dennett | 1899–1904 [3] [4] [5] | |
6 | W. Lane | 1904–1905 [3] [5] | |
(5) | William Young Dennett | 1905–1906 [3] | |
7 | T. J. Thompson | 1906–1909 [3] [5] | |
8 | John A. Miller | 1909–1911 [3] | |
9 | James Garnett | 1911–1913 [3] [4] | |
10 | William Hart | 1913–1917 [3] [4] | |
11 | Horace Simson [4] | 1917–1919 [3] | |
12 | George Ebbett | 1919–1921 [3] [4] | |
(10) | William Hart | 1921–1922 [3] | |
13 | George Maddison | 1922–1929 [3] [4] | |
14 | George Roach | 1929–1933 [4] | |
(13) | George Maddison | 1933–1941 [4] | |
15 | Algie Rainbow | 1941–1947 [4] [6] | |
16 | R.D. Brown | 1947–1953 [4] | |
17 | Sir Ed Bate | 1953–1959 [4] [7] | |
18 | Ron Giorgi | 1959–1974 [4] | |
19 | Jim O'Connor | 1974–1986 [4] | |
20 | Jeremy Dwyer | 1986–2001 [4] | |
21 | Lawrence Yule | 2001–2017 [8] | |
22 | Sandra Hazlehurst | 2017–present [9] |