The Mayor of New Plymouth is the head of municipal government of

New Plymouth District The New Plymouth District is one of the districts of New Zealand within Taranaki. It includes the city of New Plymouth and smaller towns such as Inglewood, Ōakura and Waitara. In 1989, as a part of New Zealand-wide reorganisation of local gove ...

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. Since the 2022 local elections, the mayor is elected directly using the

single transferable vote Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...

electoral system; prior to that,

first-past-the-post voting 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, voters cast their ...

was used. The current mayor is Neil Holdom.

List of office holders

James Clarke was the town's first mayor to die in office. He died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash; the three occupants of the plane he was in were killed on 11 November 1920. Clarke had foreshadowed that he intended to resign from the mayoralty that evening. New Plymouth has had more than 20 mayors:

List of deputy mayors

References

External links

Information about the mayor and councillors on the New Plymouth District Council website
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New Plymouth New Plymouth ( mi, Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, Devon from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. ...

1876 establishments in New Zealand