| Post: | Mayor |
| Body: | Hastings |
| Insignia: | File:Hastings CoA (shield only).svg |
| Insigniasize: | 50px |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of arms of Hastings |
| Incumbent: | Sandra Hazlehurst |
| Incumbentsince: | 24 November 2017 |
| Style: | His/Her Worship |
| Termlength: | 3 years, renewable |
| Formation: | 1886 |
| Deputy: | Tania Kerr |
| Salary: | $160,955[1] |
| Website: | Official website |
| Seat: | Hastings |
| First: | Robert Wellwood |
| Native Name: | Te Koromatua o Heretaunga |
The mayor of Hastings is the head of local government in the Hastings District of New Zealand's North Island. The mayor presides over the Hastings District Council. The mayor is directly elected using the first-past-the-post method. The first mayor was Robert Wellwood, and the current mayor is Sandra Hazlehurst, first elected in the 2017 by-election. She is the first woman to be elected to the office.
| Mayor | Term | Deputy | Term | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Wellwood | 1886–1887[2] | |||
| 2 | George Ellis | 1887–1890[3] [4] | |||
| 3 | W. F. Burnett | 1890–1891 | |||
| (2) | George Ellis | 1891–1894 | |||
| 4 | Cecil Fitzroy | 1894–1899 | |||
| 5 | William Young Dennett | 1899–1904 | |||
| 6 | William Lane[5] | 1904–1905 | |||
| (5) | William Young Dennett | 1905–1906 | |||
| 7 | Thomas John Thompson[6] | 1906–1909 | |||
| 8 | John A. Miller | 1909–1911 | |||
| 9 | James Garnett | 1911–1913 | |||
| 10 | William Hart | 1913–1917 | |||
| 11 | Horace Simson | 1917–1919 | |||
| 12 | George Ebbett | 1919–1921 | |||
| (10) | William Hart | 1921–1922 | |||
| 13 | George Maddison | 1922–1929 | |||
| 14 | George Roach | 1929–1933 | |||
| (13) | George Maddison | 1933–1941 | |||
| 15 | Algernon "Algie" Rainbow | 1941–1947 | Alexander Kirkpatrick | 1946–1956[7] | |
| 16 | Robert Douglas Brown | 1947–1953 | |||
| 17 | Sir Ed Bate | 1953–1956 | |||
| 17 | Sir Ed Bate | 1956–1959[8] | Alexander Kirkpatrick | 1956–1962 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Giorgi | 1959–1974 | |||||
| 18 | ||||||
| J. K. Agnew | 1962–1971 | |||||
| Ernest John Velvin | 1971–1974 | |||||
| 19 | Jim O'Connor | 1974–1986 | John Charles Mackersey | 1974–? | ||
| 20 | Jeremy Dwyer | 1986–1989 | ? | ? |
| Deputy | Term | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Jeremy Dwyer | 1989–2001 | ||||
| 21 | Lawrence Yule | 2001–2017[9] | Cynthia Bowers | 2001–2016[10] | ||
| Sandra Hazlehurst | 2016–2017[11] | |||||
| 22 | Sandra Hazlehurst | 2017–present[12] | Simon Nixon | 2017 (Acting) | ||
| Tania Kerr | 2017–present[13] |