Mayor of Auckland City explained

Post:	Mayor
Body:	Auckland City Council
Insignia:	File:Coat of arms of Auckland.svg
Insigniasize:	100
Insigniacaption:	Coat of arms of Auckland City
Inaugural:	Philip Philips
Style:	His/Her Worship
Termlength:	Three years, renewable
Formation:	1871
Last:	John Banks
Abolished:	2010
Superseded By:	Mayor of Auckland

The Mayor of Auckland City was the directly elected head of the Auckland City Council, the municipal government of Auckland City, New Zealand. The office existed from 1871 to 2010, when the Auckland City Council and mayoralty was abolished and replaced with the Auckland Council and the Mayor of Auckland.

History

Auckland obtained its first local government in 1851, when the Borough of Auckland was created, covering an area of 58000acres. This short-lived entity, which existed for about one year, had only one mayor, Archibald Clark.^[1]

When the City of Auckland was formally incorporated in 1871, it covered a much smaller area of 623acres. Its municipal council was led by a chairman, Walter Lee. Soon afterwards the office of Mayor of Auckland was created. At first, the mayor was elected by the councillors. In 1875, Benjamin Tonks was the first mayor elected at large, i.e. by the ratepayers. There were 39 holders of the position. The longest-serving was Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, who held the post for 18 years, and was the first person to serve non-consecutive terms. There were two female Mayors; Catherine Tizard in 1983 and Christine Fletcher in 1998.

The city council was abolished on 31 October 2010. The area has since been governed by the Auckland Council, which also governs the rest of the Auckland Region.

List of mayors of Auckland City

Key

†: Died in office

	Name	Term of Office
1	Philip Philips	22 May 1871	9 July 1874
2	Henry Isaacs	20 July 1874	16 December 1874
3	Frederick Prime	16 December 1874	16 December 1875
4	Benjamin Tonks	16 December 1875	20 December 1876
5	William Hurst	20 December 1876	19 December 1877
6	Henry Brett	19 December 1877	27 November 1878
7	Thomas Peacock	27 November 1878	15 December 1880
8	James Clark	15 December 1880	20 December 1883
9	William Waddel	20 December 1883	23 December 1886
10	Albert Devore	23 December 1886	18 December 1889
11	John Upton	18 December 1889	18 December 1891
12	William Crowther	18 December 1891	20 December 1893
13	James Job Holland	20 December 1893	16 December 1896
14	Abraham Boardman	16 December 1896	11 May 1897
15	Peter Dignan	11 May 1897	21 December 1898
16	David Goldie	21 December 1898	8 May 1901
17	John Logan Campbell	8 May 1901	25 July 1901
18	Alfred Kidd	30 July 1901	13 May 1903
19	Edwin Mitchelson	13 May 1903	3 May 1905
20	Arthur Myers	3 May 1905	25 February 1909
21	Charles Grey	2 March 1909	4 May 1910
22	Lemuel Bagnall	4 May 1910	3 May 1911
23	James Parr	3 May 1911	5 May 1915
24	James Gunson	5 May 1915	6 May 1925
25	George Baildon	6 May 1925	13 May 1931
26	George Hutchison	13 May 1931	15 May 1935
27	Ernest Davis	15 May 1935	28 May 1941
28	John Allum	28 May 1941	26 November 1953
28	John Allum	28 May 1941	26 November 1953
29	John Luxford	26 November 1953	3 December 1956
29	John Luxford	26 November 1953	3 December 1956
30	Tom Ashby	3 December 1956	26 September 1957†
31	Keith Buttle	11 November 1957	8 December 1959
32	Dove-Myer Robinson	8 December 1959	28 October 1965
33	Roy McElroy	28 October 1965	23 October 1968
(32)	Dove-Myer Robinson	23 October 1968	30 October 1980
34	Colin Kay	30 October 1980	26 October 1983
35	Catherine Tizard	26 October 1983	28 September 1990
36	Les Mills	21 December 1990	4 November 1998
37	Christine Fletcher	4 November 1998	1 November 2001
38	John Banks	1 November 2001	31 October 2004
39	Dick Hubbard	31 October 2004	1 November 2007
(38)	John Banks	1 November 2007	31 October 2010

List of deputy-mayors