| Post: | Mayor |
| Body: | Timaru |
| Incumbent: | Nigel Bowen |
| Incumbentsince: | 2019 |
| Style: | His/Her Worship |
| Seat: | 2 King George Place, Timaru |
| Termlength: | Three years |
| Formation: | 1868 |
| Inaugural: | Samuel Hewlings |
The mayor of Timaru is the directly elected head of the Timaru District Council, the local government authority for the Timaru District in New Zealand, which it controls as a territorial authority.
There have been 40 mayors since the formation of the Timaru Borough Council in 1868.[1] The current mayor is Nigel Bowen, who was first elected in the 2019 local elections.
| Name | Term | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samuel Hewlings | 1868–1870 | ||
| 2 | 1870–1873 | |||
| 3 | George Cliff | 1873–1875 | ||
| 4 | 1875–1876 | |||
| (3) | George Cliff | 1876–1879 | second term | |
| (4) | James Sutter | 1879–1882 | second term | |
| 5 | John Jackson | 1882–1886 | ||
| 6 | Moss Jonas | 1886–1888 | ||
| 7 | David Mitchell Ross | 1888–1891 | [2] | |
| 8 | Andrew Sherratt | 1891–1893 | ||
| 9 | Jacob Hill | 1893–1896 | ||
| 10 | John James Grandi | 1896–1898 | ||
| 11 | James Stephen Keith | 1898–1899 | ||
| 12 | John Hole | 1899–1901 | ||
| 13 | 1901–1902 | |||
| 14 | James Craigie | 1902–1912 | ||
| 15 | Tom Hawkey | 1912–1913 | ||
| 16 | William Angland | 1913–1914 | ||
| 17 | Edwin Rowland Guinness | 1914–1917 | ||
| 18 | James Maling | 1917–1919 | [3] [4] | |
| 19 | William Chute Raymond | 1919–1921 | ||
| 20 | 1921–1923 | |||
| 21 | George John Wallace | 1923–1929 | ||
| (16) | William Angland | 1929–1931 | second term | |
| 22 | Thomas W. Satterthwaite | 1931–1936 | ||
| 23 | 1936–1938 | died 1938 | ||
| 24 | Percy Barnes Foote | 1938 | ||
| 25 | William Glenholme Tweedy | 1938–1942 | ||
| 26 | 1942–1950 | died in office | ||
| 27 | William Leslie Richards | 1950–1953 | ||
| 28 | Ronald Erle White | 1953–1959 | OBE 1959 | |
| 29 | Muriel Hilton | 1959–1962 | née Venn; MBE 1976 | |
| 30 | Charles Edward Thomson | 1962–1965 | ||
| 31 | Durham Robert Dowell | 1965–1971 | resigned | |
| 32 | Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett | 1971 | MNZM 1996[5] | |
| 33 | Charles Russell Hervey | 1971–1977 | QSO 1982 | |
| (32) | Sydney Raymond "Ray" Bennett | 1977–1982 | second term | |
| 34 | Mrs Helene D.L. McIver | 1982–1986 | ||
| 35 | Dave Walker | 1986–1989 | ||
| 36 | Archie Houstoun | 1989–1992 | MBE 1992 | |
| 37 | Wynne Raymond | 1992–2004 | ||
| 38 | Janie Annear | 2004–2013 | ONZM 2014[6] | |
| 39 | Damon Odey | 2013–2019 | [7] | |
| 40 | Nigel Bowen | 2019–present |