Mayor of Tauranga
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.[1]
Mayor of Tauranga City Council | |
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Style | His/Her Worship |
Status | Vacant, since November 2020 |
Term length | Three years |
Formation | 1882 |
First holder | George Vesey Stewart |
Deputy | Tina Salisbury |
Website | Official website |
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History
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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,[2] then changed to single transferable vote.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5][6] Following further mayoral "outbursts,"[7][8] Powell publicly called for the Minister of Local Government to appoint a commission to replace the "dysfunctional" council.[9][10] 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"[11] and Tauranga MP Simon Bridges called the decision "dramatic and draconian",[12] 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.[13]
List of mayors
# | Name | Term of office | Notes | |
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Start | End | |||
1 | George Vesey Stewart | 17 March 1882 | 4 December 1882 | [14] |
2 | Richard Coles Jordan | 4 December 1882 | 16 April 1883 | |
3 | Thomas Wrigley | 16 April 1883 | 16 December 1885 | [15] |
4 | Charles Jordan | 16 December 1885 | 15 December 1886 | [16] |
5 | David Lundon | 15 December 1886 | 28 November 1888 | [16][17] |
6 | James Bodell | 28 November 1888 | 8 December 1889 | [18][19] |
7 | Robert Sharpe Galbraith | 8 December 1889 | 21 February 1890 | [20][21] |
(5) | David Lundon | 7 April 1890 | 5 January 1893 | [22][23] |
8 | Richard John Gill | 5 January 1893 | 20 December 1893 | [24] |
9 | Charles Angus Clarke | 20 December 1893 | 21 December 1898 | [25][26][27][28] |
10 | Gerard Arnold Ward | 21 December 1898 | 20 December 1899 | [29] |
11 | James Weir Gray | 20 December 1899 | 28 October 1900 | [30] |
(4) | Charles Jordan | 21 November 1900 | 10 May 1905 | [31] |
12 | William McKenzie Commons | 13 June 1906 | 1 May 1907 | [32] |
(4) | Charles Jordan | 1 May 1907 | 6 May 1908 | [33] |
13 | John Bull | 6 May 1908 | 5 May 1909 | [34][35] |
(4) | Charles Jordan | 5 May 1909 | 4 May 1910 | [35] |
(13) | John Bull | 4 May 1910 | 3 May 1911 | [36] |
(4) | Charles Jordan | 3 May 1911 | 6 May 1912 | |
14 | Benjamin Conrad "Cockie" Robbins | 6 May 1912 | 5 May 1915 | [37][38] |
15 | Charles MacMillan | 5 May 1915 | 2 May 1917 | [39] |
16 | John Cuthbert Adams | 2 May 1917 | 12 May 1919 | [40] |
17 | Bradshaw Dive | 12 May 1919 | 9 May 1929 | [41] |
(14) | Benjamin Robbins | 9 May 1929 | 11 May 1933 | [38] |
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 | [42] |
(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 | [43] |
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 | [44] |
27 | Jan Beange | 13 October 2001 | 9 October 2004 | [44][45] |
28 | Stuart Crosby | 9 October 2004 | 8 October 2016 | [45] |
29 | Greg Brownless | 8 October 2016 | 12 October 2019 | [46] |
30 | Tenby Powell | 12 October 2019 | 20 November 2020 | [47][9] |
– | Anne Tolley (as chair of commissioners) |
9 February 2021 | [48] |
Election results
2007 election
2007 local body elections: Mayor of Tauranga | |||||
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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 | % | |
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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 | ||
Source: [49] |
2019 election
The 2019 mayoral election was run using the single transferable voting system. Previous mayoral elections had used first past the post.[50]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
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 | |
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 | |
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 | ||
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 | |||
For Tauranga | John Robson | 7.78% | 2,982 | 3,011 | 3,044 | 3,132 | 3,235 | 3,474 | ||||
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 | |||||||||
Valid: 38328 Spoilt: 73 + 466 blank Quota: 1st iteration: 19,164; final iteration: 14,850 |
†Incumbent candidate
Notes
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- "2007 Local Elections". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
- "Voting – Tauranga City Council". www.tauranga.govt.nz. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- "Tauranga Domain". Tauranga City Libraries. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- "'I made a mistake': Tauranga mayor told to apologise for 'outburst'". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- "SunLive – Mayor to apologise for "bullying comments" – The Bay's News First". Sunlive.co.nz. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- "Tauranga mayor Tenby Powell in informal meeting". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- "Tauranga mayor's profanity-laced flip-flop over quitting". Stuff.co.nz. 3 August 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- Shand, Matt (20 November 2020). "Tauranga mayor resigns, calls for commissioner to be appointed". Waikato Times. Stuff. Archived from the original on 20 November 2020.
- "Tauranga mayor's shock resignation: Tenby Powell calls for Government to step in". Bay of Plenty Times. The New Zealand Herald. 20 November 2020. Archived from the original on 20 November 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- "SunLive – Commissioners appointment labelled "unlawful" – The Bay's News First". Sunlive.co.nz. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- Motion, Samantha (25 November 2020). "'Draconian': Simon Bridges urges minister not to intervene in council". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- "'Draconian': Simon Bridges urges minister not to intervene in council".
- Rorke, Jinty (22 June 2007). "Stewart, George Vesey 1832? – 1920". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
- "MAYORAL ELECTIONS". Hawera & Normanby Star. 27 November 1884. pp. Volume V, Issue 964, Page 2. Retrieved 18 December 2008.
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- Sinclair, Keith (22 June 2007). "Bodell, James 1831? – 1892". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
- "Borough of Tauranga Mayoral Election". Bay Of Plenty Times. 21 November 1888. pp. Volume XV, Issue 2361, Page 3. Retrieved 19 December 2008.
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- "ELECTION: New Tauranga mayor announced". Bay of Plenty Times. 8 October 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- "Tenby Powell wins Tauranga Mayoralty – The Bay's News First". SunLive. 12 October 2019. Archived from the original on 29 January 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- "Commissioners". Tauranga.govt.nz. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- "2016 Triennial Elections | DECLARATION OF RESULT" (PDF). www.tauranga.govt.nz. Tauranga City Council. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- "Voting". www.tauranga.govt.nz. Tauranga City Council. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- "2019 Triennial Elections" (PDF). www.tauranga.govt.nz. Tauranga City Council. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
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References
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- Mayors of Tauranga, 1882– Tauranga City Council
- History of Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty