Mayor of New Plymouth

The mayor of New Plymouth officiates over the New Plymouth District Council in 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. The current mayor is Max Brough.

List of office holders

New Plymouth has had 27 mayors:

	Name	Portrait	Term
1	Arthur Standish		1876–1878
2	Albert Cracroft Fookes		1878–1879
3	James Davidson		1879–1881
4	William Bayly		1881–1884
5	James Paul		1884–1886
	William Bayly		1886–1888
6	John Barton Roy		1888–1889
7	James Bellringer		1889–1893
	John Barton Roy		1893–1897
8	Edward Dockrill		1897–1903
9	Richard Cock		1903–1906
	Edward Dockrill		1906–1908
10	Gustave Tisch		1908–1911
11	George William Browne		1911–1914
12	J. E. Wilson		1914–1915
13	Charles Hayward Burgess		1915–1919
14	James Clarke		1919–1920
15	Frank Edwin Wilson		1920–1927
16	Victor Griffiths		1927–1933
17	Everard Gilmour		1933–1953
18	Edward Hill		1953–1956
19	Alfred Honnor		1956–1968
20	Denis Sutherland		1968–1980
21	David Lean		1980–1992
22	Claire Stewart		1992–2001
23	Peter Tennent		2001–2010
24	Harry Duynhoven		2010–2013
25	Andrew Judd		2013–2016
26	Neil Holdom		2016–2025
27	Max Brough		2025–present

Deaths in office

James Clarke died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash while in office; when 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.
Gustave Tisch also died while in office as the result of an illness.