Mayor of Tauranga facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Mayor of Tauranga City Council |
|
|---|---|
| Style | His/Her Worship |
| Term length | Three years |
| Formation | 1882 |
| First holder | George Vesey Stewart |
| Deputy | Tina Salisbury |
| Website | Official website: https://www.tauranga.govt.nz/council/about-your-council/mayor-and-councillors |
The Mayor of Tauranga is the head of the municipal government of Tauranga, New Zealand, and presides over the Tauranga City Council. There is currently no Mayor of Tauranga. On 9 February 2021, a Crown Commission appointed by the Minister of Local Government took over all of the council's governance responsibilities, including the vacant position of Mayor. Tenby Powell resigned as Mayor in November 2020.
History
Tauranga was gazetted as a borough in 1882, and achieved sufficient population to become a city in 1963. The 1989 Local Body reforms saw the city become part of the Tauranga District, before the City of Tauranga was reproclaimed in 2004.
Elections for mayor were held annually from 1882 up to 1915, when terms become two years. In 1935 terms were made three years, the current system. The election used first-past-the-post voting up until the 2016 election, then changed to single transferable vote.
One of Tauranga's longest-serving mayors was Canon Charles Jordan, who was mayor for nine years in total over five separate periods. He is the subject of a commemorative statue, unveiled in Tauranga Domain in 1916, four years after his death.
The last mayor, Tenby Powell, was elected to the office in October 2019 but resigned in November 2020, eight months after he was unanimously censured by his council for an angry outburst. Following further mayoral "outbursts," Powell publicly called for the Minister of Local Government to appoint a commission to replace the "dysfunctional" council. The decision to cancel the election for a new mayor and councillors, and the appointment of a crown commission instead by Nanaia Mahuta was not without controversy. A legal opinion by law firm Russell McVeagh found her decision may have been "unlawful" and Tauranga MP Simon Bridges called the decision "dramatic and draconian", while saying that Powell quitting removed "a significant source of friction" and it was reasonable to assume the council would become more functional with the election of a new Mayor and Councillor.
List of mayors
| # | Name | Term of office | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | |||
| 1 | George Vesey Stewart | 17 March 1882 | 4 December 1882 | |
| 2 | Richard Coles Jordan | 4 December 1882 | 16 April 1883 | |
| 3 | Thomas Wrigley | 16 April 1883 | 16 December 1885 | |
| 4 | Charles Jordan | 16 December 1885 | 15 December 1886 | |
| 5 | David Lundon | 15 December 1886 | 28 November 1888 | |
| 6 | James Bodell | 28 November 1888 | 8 December 1889 | |
| 7 | Robert Sharpe Galbraith | 8 December 1889 | 21 February 1890 | |
| (5) | David Lundon | 7 April 1890 | 5 January 1893 | |
| 8 | Richard John Gill | 5 January 1893 | 20 December 1893 | |
| 9 | Charles Angus Clarke | 20 December 1893 | 21 December 1898 | |
| 10 | Gerard Arnold Ward | 21 December 1898 | 20 December 1899 | |
| 11 | James Weir Gray | 20 December 1899 | 28 October 1900 | |
| (4) | Charles Jordan | 21 November 1900 | 10 May 1905 | |
| 12 | William McKenzie Commons | 13 June 1906 | 1 May 1907 | |
| (4) | Charles Jordan | 1 May 1907 | 6 May 1908 | |
| 13 | John Bull | 6 May 1908 | 5 May 1909 | |
| (4) | Charles Jordan | 5 May 1909 | 4 May 1910 | |
| (13) | John Bull | 4 May 1910 | 3 May 1911 | |
| (4) | Charles Jordan | 3 May 1911 | 6 May 1912 | |
| 14 | Benjamin Conrad "Cockie" Robbins | 6 May 1912 | 5 May 1915 | |
| 15 | Charles Macmillan | 5 May 1915 | 2 May 1917 | |
| 16 | John Cuthbert Adams | 2 May 1917 | 12 May 1919 | |
| 17 | Bradshaw Dive | 12 May 1919 | 9 May 1929 | |
| (14) | Benjamin Robbins | 9 May 1929 | 11 May 1933 | |
| 18 | Alfred Francis Daly Tunks | 11 May 1933 | 16 May 1935 | |
| 19 | Lionel Wilkinson | 16 May 1935 | 22 November 1950 | |
| 20 | Bill Barnard | 22 November 1950 | 21 October 1952 | |
| (19) | Lionel Wilkinson | 28 October 1952 | 28 November 1956 | |
| 21 | David Mitchell | 28 November 1956 | 29 October 1968 | |
| 22 | Bob Owens | 29 October 1968 | 25 October 1977 | |
| 23 | Eric Faulkner | 25 October 1977 | 22 October 1980 | |
| 24 | Raymond Francis Dillon | 22 October 1980 | 8 October 1983 | |
| 25 | Noel Pope | 8 October 1983 | 14 October 1989 | |
| 26 | Keith "Nobby" Clarke | 14 October 1989 | 14 October 1995 | |
| (25) | Noel Pope | 14 October 1995 | 13 October 2001 | |
| 27 | Jan Beange | 13 October 2001 | 9 October 2004 | |
| 28 | Stuart Crosby | 9 October 2004 | 8 October 2016 | |
| 29 | Greg Brownless | 8 October 2016 | 12 October 2019 | |
| 30 | Tenby Powell | 12 October 2019 | 20 November 2020 | |
Election results
2007 election
| 2007 local body elections: Mayor of Tauranga | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | % | |||
Stuart Crosby  |
15,089 | 44.63 | |||
| Murray Guy | 7,697 | 22.77 | |||
| Bill Faulkner | 5,596 | 16.55 | |||
| Mike Baker | 3,271 | 9.68 | |||
| John Robson | 625 | 1.85 | |||
| Hori Tunnels | 449 | 1.33 | |||
| Jim Smylie | 384 | 1.14 | |||
| Informal votes | 73 | 0.22 | |||
| Blank ballots | 624 | 1.85 | |||
| Majority | 7,392 | 21.86 | |||
| Turnout | 33,808 | 43.9 | |||
| Stuart Crosby hold | |||||
2016 election
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Brownless | Independent | 9,110 | 26.76 | |
| Kelvin Clout | Energy and Experience | 7,128 | 20.94 | |
| Max Mason | Experienced Positive Leadership | 4,040 | 11.87 | |
| Doug Owens | Effectiveness, Efficiency, Growth | 3,991 | 11.73 | |
| Steve Morris | Together we can build a better city | 3,019 | 8.87 | |
| Murray Guy | Community Focused Leadership | 1,764 | 5.18 | |
| Larry Baldock | More Democracy Less Bureaucracy | 1,654 | 4.86 | |
| John Robson | Real Change in TCC - Guaranteed | 1,478 | 4.34 | |
| Graeme Purches | Independent | 995 | 2.92 | |
| Noel James Peterson | Independent | 452 | 1.33 | |
| Hori Bop Leaming | Independent | 406 | 1.19 | |
| Total | 34,037 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 34,037 | 97.99 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 697 | 2.01 | ||
| Total votes | 34,734 | 100.00 | ||
2019 election
The 2019 mayoral election was run using the single transferable voting system. Previous mayoral elections had used first past the post.
| 2019 Tauranga mayoral election | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | % 1st Pref | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | Count 9 | |
| style="background-color: Template:Tauranga Deserves Better Leadership/meta/color" | | Tauranga Deserves Better Leadership | Tenby Powell | 32.58% | 12,486 | 12,505 | 12,554 | 12,696 | 12,857 | 13,098 | 13,690 | 15,085 | 17,299 |
| style="background-color: Template:Proven Leadership & Community Commitment/meta/color" | | Proven Leadership & Community Commitment | Greg Brownless |
20.82% | 7,978 | 7,993 | 8,029 | 8,105 | 8,180 | 8,463 | 8,989 | 9,647 | 12,400 |
| style="background-color: Template:Let's Build a Better City. Together./meta/color" | | Let's Build a Better City. Together. | Kelvin Clout | 16.42% | 6,295 | 6,315 | 6,375 | 6,484 | 6,610 | 6,959 | 7,533 | 8,635 | |
| style="background-color: Template:Fix the Council, vote for positive change/meta/color" | | Fix the Council, vote for positive change | Andrew Hollis | 10.34% | 3,964 | 4,001 | 4,074 | 4,219 | 4,381 | 4,800 | 5,715 | ||
| style="background-color: Template:For Tauranga/meta/color" | | For Tauranga | John Robson | 7.78% | 2,982 | 3,011 | 3,044 | 3,132 | 3,235 | 3,474 | |||
| style="background-color: Template:Your choice for your voice - Stop the waste/meta/color" | | Your choice for your voice - Stop the waste | Murray Guy | 4.94% | 1,893 | 1,909 | 1,962 | 2,031 | 2,128 | ||||
| Ocean City | Christopher Stokes | 2.34% | 897 | 916 | 1,003 | 1,142 | ||||||
| Independent | Jos Nagels | 2.39% | 916 | 932 | 974 | |||||||
| Independent | Rangimarie Kingi | 1.81% | 695 | 703 | ||||||||
| Independent | Les Wallen | 0.58% | 222 | |||||||||
Incumbent candidate
