The Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand is the head of the municipal government of Hamilton

Hamilton, New Zealand

Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's fourth largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato Region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, and presides over the Hamilton City Council.

In the 2010 Local Government elections

New Zealand local elections, 2010

The 2010 New Zealand local elections were triennial elections to select local government officials and district health board members. All elections are conducted by postal ballot, with election day being Saturday 9 October 2010.Elected were:...

, Julie Hardaker

Julie Hardaker

Julie Hardaker is the Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand. Born in New Zealand, she was self-employed in Australia in the 1980s. After graduating from the University of Waikato, she joined the Hamilton law firm McCaw Lewis Chapman and eventually became a partner and held senior management roles. She...

 was elected as mayor, defeating incumbent Bob Simcock

Bob Simcock

Robert Simcock is a New Zealand politician. He was a Member of Parliament and then Mayor of Hamilton.-Early career:Simcock attended St John's College before graduating from the University of Waikato with a M Soc Sci ....

.

History

In May 2007, the Hamilton City Council elected Bob Simcock to replace Michael Redman who resigned to become the city's chief executive. Simcock was confirmed to stand for the position in the October 2007 local body elections. He was defeated in 2010 by Julie Hardaker.

List of Mayors of Hamilton

	Name	Entered Office	Left Office	Reason for leaving office
1	Isaac Richardson Vialou	February 1878	December 1878	Did not contest the following election
2	John Blair Whyte John Blair Whyte John Blair Whyte was a 19th century Member of Parliament and Mayor in the Waikato Region of New Zealand.He was the Mayor of Hamilton from December 1878 to December 1879, when he resigned....	December 1878	December 1879	Did not contest the following election
3	Thomas Dawson	December 1879	March 1880	Resigned
4	Dr Charles Beale	March 1880	December 1880	Did not contest the following election
5	John Knox	December 1880	December 1883	Did not contest the following election
6	Robert Peat	December 1883	December 1884	Defeated
7	William Australia Graham	December 1884	May 1887	Resigned
8	Charles John Wright Barton	June 1887	January 1888	Resigned
9	Isaac Coates	January 1888	October 1889	Resigned
10	William Jones	October 1889	December 1889	Did not contest the following election
	Isaac Coates, 2nd period	December 1889	December 1892	Did not contest the following election
11	John Parr	December 1892	December 1893	Did not contest the following election
12	William Dey	December 1893	December 1899	Did not contest the following election
13	George Edgecumbe	December 1899	May 1901	Did not contest the following election
14	Robert William Dyer	May 1901	May 1903	Did not contest the following election
	Charles John Wright Barton, 2nd period	May 1903	October 1903	Resigned
	William Dey, 2nd period	October 1903	May 1905	Did not contest the following election
15	James Shiner Bond	May 1905	May 1909	Did not contest the following election
16	James Alexander Young James Alexander Young James Alexander Young was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.He was Mayor of Hamilton from 1909 to 1912.He then represented the Waikato electorate from 1911 to 1922, and then the Hamilton electorate from 1922 to 1935, when he was defeated.He was Minister of Health from 1926 to 1928 in...	May 1909	May 1912	Did not contest the following election (was elected as MP for Waikato, 1911)
17	Arthur Edward Manning	May 1912	November 1915	Resigned
18	John Edwin Hammond	December 1915	June 1916	Died in office
19	John Robert Fow John Robert Fow John Robert Fow was Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand for four terms: June 1916 to May 1917, August 1918 to May 1919, May 1920 to May 1931, and May 1933 to May 1938....	June 1916	May 1917	Did not contest the following election
20	John William Ellis	May 1917	August 1918	Died in office
	John Robert Fow, 2nd period	August 1918	May 1919	Did not contest the following election
21	Percy Harold Watts	May 1919	April 1920	Resigned
	John Robert Fow, 3rd period	May 1920	May 1931	Defeated
22	Dr Frances Dewsbury Pinford	May 1931	May 1933	Defeated
	John Robert Fow, 4th period	May 1933	May 1938	Did not contest the following election
23	Harold David Caro	May 1938	November 1953	Defeated
24	Roderick Alastair MacDonald Braithwaite	November 1953	December 1959	Did not contest the following election
25	Dennis Rogers Dennis Rogers Denis Rogers was a doctor , and latterly the Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand from 1959 to 1968, elected for three terms. During his mayorship, he campaigned for the poor and for an international airport to be built in Hamilton...	December 1959	October 1968	Defeated
26	Michael John Minogue	October 1968	May 1976	Resigned
27	Bruce Craig Beetham Bruce Beetham Bruce Craig Beetham was an academic and politician from New Zealand, whose career spanned the 1970s and early 1980s.A lecturer at Hamilton's University of Waikato and at the Hamilton Teacher's Training College, he was elected leader of the Social Credit Party in 1972, at a time when the party was...	May 1976	October 1977	Did not contest the following election
28	Sir Ross Malcolm Jansen Ross Malcolm Jansen Sir Ross Malcolm Jansen was mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand from 1977 to 1989.-Biography:Jansen was born on 6 September 1932 in Carterton, and was educated in the Wairarapa and at Victoria University...	October 1977	November 1989	Defeated
29	Margaret Anne Evans Margaret Evans Margaret Evans was the Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand from 1989 to 1998, succeeding Ross Malcolm Jansen. She is the chairman of Skycity Hamilton.-References:...	November 1989	November 1998	Retired
30	Russell Matthew Rimmington	November 1998	November 2001	Defeated
31	David Joseph Braithwaite	November 2001	November 2004	Defeated
32	Michael Redman	November 2004	May 2007	Resigned to take up position as CEO of Hamilton City Council
33	Bob Simcock Bob Simcock Robert Simcock is a New Zealand politician. He was a Member of Parliament and then Mayor of Hamilton.-Early career:Simcock attended St John's College before graduating from the University of Waikato with a M Soc Sci ....	23 May 2007	31 October 2010	Named interim Mayor until local government elections in October, then elected. Defeated in 2010 Elections.
34	Julie Hardaker Julie Hardaker Julie Hardaker is the Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand. Born in New Zealand, she was self-employed in Australia in the 1980s. After graduating from the University of Waikato, she joined the Hamilton law firm McCaw Lewis Chapman and eventually became a partner and held senior management roles. She...	1 November 2010

Note: Mayoral elections were held annually 1878–1915, and have been triennial since 1935. Elections were held in December, after 1901 in April or May, and since 1947 have taken place in either October or November.

Sources

• Gibbons, P.J. (1977), Astride the River. Published for the Hamilton City Council by Whitcoulls Limited, pp317–318 and Hamilton City Council Annual Plans.
• Hamilton City Council Annual Statement of Accounts and Waikato Times index at Hamilton City Libraries.
• Darryl Pike, Archivist, Hamilton City Libraries (Personal communication).