Mayor of Tauranga

Stuart Crosby, incumbent since 2004

The Mayor of Tauranga is the head of the municipal government of Tauranga, New Zealand, and presides over the Tauranga City Council. The Mayor is directly elected, using the First Past the Post system in 2007.^[1]

History

George Vesey Stewart, first Mayor of Tauranga

Canon Charles Jordan, Vicar of Holy Trinity for 39 years and Mayor of Tauranga for 9 years over five separate periods

Tauranga was gazetted as a Borough in 1882, and achieved sufficient population to become a city in 1963. The 1989 Local Body reforms saw the city become part of the Tauranga District, before the City of Tauranga was reproclaimed in 2004.

Elections for mayor were held annually from 1882 up to 1915, when terms become two years. In 1935 terms were made three years, the current system. Canon Charles Jordan was Mayor for nine years in total over five separate periods. He is commemorated by Tauranga's only statue, unveiled in Tauranga Domain in 1916 some years after Jordan's death.^[2]

The current Mayor is Stuart Crosby.

List of Mayors of Tauranga

#	Name	Term of Office		Notes
		Start	End
1	George Vesey Stewart	17 March 1882	4 December 1882	[3]
2	Richard Coles Jordan	4 December 1882	16 April 1883
3	Thomas Wrigley	16 April 1883	16 December 1885	[4]
4	Rev. Charles Jordan	16 December 1885	15 December 1886	[5]
5	David Lundon	15 December 1886	28 November 1888	[5][6]
6	James Bodell	28 November 1888	8 December 1889	[7][8]
7	Robert Sharpe Galbraith	8 December 1889	21 February 1890	[9][10]
	David Lundon, 2nd time	7 April 1890	5 January 1893	[11][12]
8	Richard John Gill	5 January 1893	20 December 1893	[13]
9	Charles Angus Clarke	20 December 1893	21 December 1898	[14][15][16][17]
10	Col. Gerard Arnold Ward	21 December 1898	20 December 1899	[18]
11	James Weir Gray	20 December 1899	28 October 1900	[19]
	Rev. Charles Jordan, 2nd time	21 November 1900	10 May 1905	[20]
12	William McKenzie Commons	13 June 1906	1 May 1907	[21]
	Rev. Charles Jordan, 3rd time	1 May 1907	6 May 1908	[22]
13	John Bull	6 May 1908	5 May 1909	[23][24]
	Rev. Charles Jordan, 4th time	5 May 1909	4 May 1910	[24]
	John Bull, 2nd time	4 May 1910	3 May 1911	[25]
	Rev. Charles Jordan, 5th time	3 May 1911	6 May 1912
14	Benjamin Conrad "Cockie" Robbins	6 May 1912	5 May 1915	[26][27]
15	Charles MacMillan	5 May 1915	2 May 1917	[28]
16	John Cuthbert Adams	2 May 1917	12 May 1919	[29]
17	Bradshaw Dive	12 May 1919	9 May 1929	[30]
	Benjamin Robbins, 2nd time	9 May 1929	11 May 1933	[27]
18	Alfred Francis Daly Tunks	11 May 1933	16 May 1935
19	Lionel Roberts Wilkinson	16 May 1935	22 November 1950
20	William Edward Barnard	22 November 1950	21 October 1952	[31]
	Lionel Roberts Wilkinson, 2nd time	28 October 1952	28 November 1956
21	David Sceptre Mitchell	28 November 1956	29 October 1968
22	Sir Robert Arthur "Bob" Owens	29 October 1968	25 October 1977	[32]
23	Eric Lees Faulkner	25 October 1977	22 October 1980
24	Raymond Francis Dillon	22 October 1980	8 October 1983
25	Noel Frank Pope	8 October 1983	14 October 1989
26	Keith "Nobby" Clarke	14 October 1989	14 October 1995
	Noel Frank Pope, 2nd time	14 October 1995	13 October 2001	[33]
27	Janette Frances "Jan" Beange	13 October 2001	9 October 2004	[33][34]
28	Stuart Crosby	9 October 2004	present	[34]

Election results

2007 election

2007 local body elections: Mayor of Tauranga
Candidate	Votes	%
Stuart Crosby	15,089	44.63
Murray Guy	7,697	22.77
Bill Faulkner	5,596	16.55
Mike Baker	3,271	9.68
John Robson	625	1.85
Hori Tunnels	449	1.33
Jim Smylie	384	1.14
Informal votes	73	0.22
Blank ballots	624	1.85
Majority	7,392	21.86
Turnout	33,808	43.9
Stuart Crosby hold

Notes

1. "2007 Local Elections". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
2. "Tauranga Domain". Tauranga City Libraries. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
3. Rorke, Jinty (22 June 2007). "Stewart, George Vesey 1832? - 1920". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
4. "MAYORAL ELECTIONS". Hawera & Normanby Star. 27 November 1884. pp. Volume V, Issue 964, Page 2. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
5. "Borough Council Installation Of Mayor". Bay Of Plenty Times. 23 December 1887. pp. Volume XV, Issue 2225, Page 2. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
6. "Page 3 Advertisements Column 2". Bay Of Plenty Times. 2 December 1887. pp. Volume XV, Issue 2219, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
7. Sinclair, Keith (22 June 2007). "Bodell, James 1831? - 1892". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
8. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 21 November 1888. pp. Volume XV, Issue 2361, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
9. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 28 November 1889. pp. Volume XVI, Issue 2472, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
10. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 20 March 1890. pp. Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
11. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 17 November 1890. pp. Volume XVII, Issue 2583, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
12. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 16 November 1891. pp. Volume XX, Issue 2755, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
13. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 21 November 1892. pp. Volume XXI, Issue 2907, Page 5. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
14. "Page 5 Advertisements Column 1". Bay Of Plenty Times. 20 November 1893. pp. Volume XXII, Issue 3050, Page 5. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
15. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 30 November 1894. pp. Volume XXII, Issue 3201, Page 5. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
16. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 18 November 1895. pp. Page 5. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
17. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 15 November 1897. pp. Volume XXIV, Issue 3624, Page 5. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
18. "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 2 December 1898. pp. Volume XXIV, Issue 3782, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
19. "Borough of Tauranga Election of Mayor". Bay Of Plenty Times. 1 December 1899. pp. Volume XXIV, Issue 3932, Page 2. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
20. "Borough of Tauranga Election of Mayor". Bay Of Plenty Times. 29 April 1904. pp. Volume XXXI, Issue 4592, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
21. "Page 3 Advertisements Column 2". Bay Of Plenty Times. 27 June 1906. pp. Volume XXXIV, Issue 4917, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
22. "Page 3 Advertisements Column 2". Bay Of Plenty Times. 19 April 1907. pp. Volume XXXV, Issue 5041, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
23. "The Palmerston North Contest". Wanganui Herald. 30 April 1908. pp. Volume XXXXII, Issue 12452, Page 5. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
24. "BOROUGH COUNCIL". Bay Of Plenty Times,. 7 May 1909. pp. Volume XXXVII, Issue 5333, Page 2. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
25. "Election of Mayor". Bay Of Plenty Times. 22 April 1910. pp. Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5499, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
26. "RESULTS ELSEWHERE". Evening Post. pp. Volume LXXXVII, Issue 101, 30 April 1914, Page 3. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
27. "Robbins Park". Tauranga City Council. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
28. "Further Results In Other Places". lxxxix (100). The Evening Post. 29 April 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
29. "The Tauranga Elections". Thames Star. LVIII (18325). 26 April 1917. p. 4. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
30. "Forgotten area of Tauranga is remembered". Tourism Bay Of Plenty. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
31. Atkinson, Neill (22 June 2007). "Barnard, William Edward 1886 - 1958". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
32. "Sir Robert Owens". Owens Group. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
33. Macbrayne, Rosaleen (14 October 2001). "Surprised BOP winner delighted". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
34. "Winners and losers around the country". TVNZ. 9 October 2004. Retrieved 2008-12-17.

References

• Mayors of Tauranga, 1882- Tauranga City Council
• History of Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty