The Mayor of Kaikōura (formerly Kaikoura) officiates over the

Kaikōura District The Kaikōura District is a territorial authority district in Canterbury Region on the South Island of New Zealand. The district encompasses the eponymous town of Kaikōura, a number of small towns and settlements and the surrounding rural area ...

of New Zealand's

South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...

. The district is administered by a district council. The current mayor is Craig Mackle, who was elected in 2019. The former mayor was Winston Gray, who had been the mayor of Kaikōura since 2010 and was in office during the

2016 Kaikōura earthquake The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 (Mw) earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand that occurred two minutes after midnight on 14 November 2016 NZDT (11:02 on 13 November UTC). Ruptures occurred on multiple faults and the e ...

and the subsequent recovery process.

List of mayors

References

{{Mayors in New Zealand Kaikoura Politics of Canterbury, New Zealand Kaikōura District Kaikoura Kaikoura