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Mayor of New Plymouth

The Mayor of New Plymouth is the head of municipal government of New Plymouth District, 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.[1] The current mayor is Neil Holdom.[2]

List of office holders

James Clarke was the town's first mayor to die in office. He died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash;[3] the three occupants of the plane he was in were killed on 11 November 1920. Clarke had foreshadowed that he intended to resign from the mayoralty that evening.[4]

New Plymouth has had more than 20 mayors:

List of deputy mayors

References

  1. ^ "Voting". New Plymouth District Council. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Mayor and Councillors". New Plymouth District Council. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  3. ^ "ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 65437". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  4. ^ "The passengers". Hawera and Normanby Star. Vol. XLI. 12 November 1920. p. 5. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Mr. Arthur Standish". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Mr. Albert Cracroft Fookes". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Mr. James Davidson". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  8. ^ a b "Mr. William Bayly". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  9. ^ "Mr. James Paul". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  10. ^ a b "Mr. John Barton Roy". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  11. ^ "Mr. James Bellringer". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  12. ^ a b Cyclopedia Company Limited (1908). "Mr. Edward Dockrill". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Taranaki, Hawke’s Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts. Christchurch: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  13. ^ "Mr. Richard Cock". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  14. ^ "Gustave Gardener Tisch". Puke Ariki. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  15. ^ "Robertshawe, Nancy Grace". Puke Ariki. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Past Councillors and Mayors". New Plymouth District Council. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  17. ^ Matt Rilkoff (12 October 2013). "Andrew Judd mayor of New Plymouth". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 24 December 2015.

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