Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand

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Julie Hardaker, current mayor of Hamilton

The Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand is the head of the municipal government of Hamilton, New Zealand, and presides over the Hamilton City Council.

The incumbent is Julie Hardaker, who was first elected in the 2010 local government elections. She was re-elected in 2013 and is the first incumbent Mayor of Hamilton to be re-elected since Margaret Evans in 1985.

History

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 Hardaker's 2013 re-election.

List of Mayors of Hamilton

	Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Reason for leaving office
1	Isaac Richardson Vialou	February 1878	December 1878	Did not contest the following election
2	John Blair Whyte	December 1878	December 1879	Did not contest the following election
3	Thomas Dawson	December 1879	March 1880	Resigned
4	Dr Bernard Charles Beale	March 1880	December 1880	Did not contest the following election
5	John Knox	December 1880	December 1883	Did not contest the following election
6	Robert Peat	December 1883	December 1884	Defeated
7	William Australia Graham	December 1884	May 1887	Resigned
8	Charles John Wright Barton	June 1887	January 1888	Resigned
9	Isaac Coates	January 1888	October 1889	Resigned
10	William Jones	October 1889	December 1889	Did not contest the following election
	Isaac Coates, 2nd period	December 1889	December 1892	Did not contest the following election
11	John Parr	December 1892	December 1893	Did not contest the following election
12	William Dey	December 1893	December 1899	Did not contest the following election
13	George Edgecumbe	December 1899	May 1901	Did not contest the following election
14	Robert William Dyer	May 1901	May 1903	Did not contest the following election
	Charles John Wright Barton, 2nd period	May 1903	October 1903	Resigned
	William Dey, 2nd period	October 1903	May 1905	Did not contest the following election
15	James Shiner Bond	May 1905	May 1909	Did not contest the following election
16	Alexander Young	May 1909	May 1912	Did not contest the following election (was elected as MP for Waikato, 1911)
17	Arthur Edward Manning	May 1912	November 1915	Resigned
18	John Edwin Hammond	December 1915	June 1916	Died in office
19	John Robert Fow	June 1916	May 1917	Did not contest the following election
20	John William Ellis	May 1917	August 1918	Died in office
	John Robert Fow, 2nd period	August 1918	May 1919	Did not contest the following election
21	Percy Harold Watts	May 1919	April 1920	Resigned
	John Robert Fow, 3rd period	May 1920	May 1931	Defeated
22	Dr Frances Dewsbury Pinford	May 1931	May 1933	Defeated
	John Robert Fow, 4th period	May 1933	May 1938	Did not contest the following election
23	Harold David Caro	May 1938	November 1953	Defeated
24	Roderick Alastair MacDonald Braithwaite	November 1953	December 1959	Did not contest the following election
25	Denis Rogers	December 1959	October 1968	Defeated
26	Mike Minogue	October 1968	May 1976	Resigned
27	Bruce Craig Beetham	May 1976	October 1977	Did not contest the following election
28	Sir Ross Malcolm Jansen	October 1977	November 1989	Defeated
29	Margaret Evans	November 1989	November 1998	Retired
30	Russell Matthew Rimmington	November 1998	November 2001	Defeated
31	David Braithwaite	November 2001	November 2004	Defeated
32	Michael Redman	November 2004	May 2007	Resigned to take up position as CEO of Hamilton City Council
33	Bob Simcock	23 May 2007	31 October 2010	Named interim Mayor until local government elections in October, then elected. Defeated in 2010 Elections.
34	Julie Hardaker	1 November 2010

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.