The mayor of Tasman is the head of the municipal government of

Tasman District Tasman District () is a local government district in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It borders the Canterbury Region, West Coast Region, Marlborough Region and Nelson City. It is administered by the Tasman District Council, ...

, New Zealand. The mayor is directly elected using the

first-past-the-post electoral system In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting Score voting or ...

. The current mayor has, since the 2019 local elections, been Tim King.

History

Tasman District was established as part of the

1989 local government reforms The 1989 New Zealand local government reform was the most significant reform of local government in New Zealand in over a century. Some 850 local bodies were amalgamated into 86 local authorities, made up of regional and territorial levels. Backg ...

Kerry Marshall Kerry Leigh Francis Marshall (21 May 1940 – 3 March 2020) was a New Zealand politician who was active in local government in the northern part of New Zealand's South Island. He was mayor of three Territorial authorities of New Zealand, territ ...

, who had been mayor of

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borough since 1986, became the first mayor of Tasman in 1989. After three terms by Marshall, John Hurley was voted in as the second mayor in 1998. In the 2001 election, Colleen Marshall, the wife of Kerry Marshall, contested the mayoralty, but Hurley was re-elected. Hurley remained mayor until he was defeated by Kempthorne in the 2007 elections, when four candidates contested the position and Kempthorne received 49% of the votes. The 2010 local elections were contested by three candidates, and Kempthorne was returned with an absolute majority. The 2013 local elections were contested by five candidates, and Kempthorne had a slim majority over sitting councillor Kit Maling. After four terms by Kempthorne, Tim King was voted in as the fourth mayor in 2019. The election was contested by four candidates with King securing a comfortable lead over the other candidates. King had served as a Tasman district councillor for 21 years, including 18 years as deputy mayor.

List of mayors

Tasman has had four mayors:

References

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