Mayor of Dunedin

Dave Cull, the current mayor

The Mayor of Dunedin is the head of the municipal government of Dunedin, New Zealand, and presides over the Dunedin City Council. The Mayor is directly elected, using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system in 2007.

The current Mayor is Dave Cull who was first elected in 2010 and confirmed in 2013.

The mayor has always been elected at large. Up until 1915, the term of mayor was for one year only. From 1915 to 1935, the term was two years. Since the 1935 mayoral election, the term has been three years. The role of Deputy Mayor was established in 1917.

List of Mayors of Dunedin

#	Name	Term of Office		Affiliation (if any)
		Start	End
1	William Mason	1865	1867
2	John Hyde Harris	1867	1868
3	Thomas Birch	1868	1870
4	Henry Fish	1870	1873
5	Andrew Mercer	1873	1874
6	Keith Ramsay	1874	1875
7	Henry John Walter	1875	1876
8	Charles Stephen Reeves	1876	1877
9	Richard Henry Leary	1877	1878
	Henry John Walter, 2nd time	1878	1879
10	Archibald Hilson Ross	1880	1881
11	James Gore	1881	1882
12	John Bryce Thomson	1882	1883
13	William Parker Street	1883	1884
14	Arthur Scoullar	1884	1885
15	John Barnes	1885	1886
	Richard Henry Leary, 2nd time	1886	1887
16	William Dawson	1887	1888	Liberal
17	Hugh Gourley	1888	1889
18	John Roberts	1889	1890
19	John Carroll	1890	1891
20	Charles Robert Chapman	1891	1892
21	Charles Haynes	1892	1893
	Henry Fish, 2nd time	1893	1895	Liberal
22	Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales	1895	1896
	Hugh Gourley, 2nd time	1896	1897
23	Edward Bowes Cargill	1897	1898
24	William Swan	1898	1899
25	Robert Chisholm	1899	1901
26	George Lyon Denniston	1901	1902
27	James Alexander Park	1902	1903
28	Thomas Scott	1903	1904
29	Thomas Reid Christie	1904	1905
30	Joseph Braithwaite	1905	1906
31	George Lawrence	1906	1907
32	John Loudon	1907	1908
33	John McDonald	1908	1909
34	James Hamlin Walker	1909	1910
35	Thomas Cole	1910	1911
36	William Burnett	1911	1912
37	John Wilson	1912	1913
38	William Downie Stewart, Jr.	1913	1914	Reform
39	John Bradley Shacklock	1914	1915
40	James John Clark	1915	1919
41	William Begg	1919	1921
42	James Sandilands Douglas	1921	1923
43	Harold Livingstone Tapley	1923	1927	Reform
44	William Burgoyne Taverner	1927	1929	United
45	Robert Black	1929	1933	United
46	Edwin Thomas Cox	1933	1938	Labour
47	Andrew Henson Allen	1938	1944	National
48	Donald Charles Cameron	1944	1950
49	Leonard Morton Wright	1950	1959
50	Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey	1959	1965	National
51	Russell John Calvert	1965	1968	Labour
52	Jim Barnes	1968	1977	National
53	Cliff Skeggs	1977	1989
54	Richard Walls	1989	1995	National
55	Sukhi Turner	1995	2004	Green
56	Peter Chin	2004	2010
57	Dave Cull	2010	present	Greater Dunedin

External links

• DCC website - election results
• DCC website - councillors since 1865