1. Nick Leggett (1979)

New Zealand Mayor

Nick Leggett is the current Mayor of Porirua. He was the youngest mayor in New Zealand at the time of his election in October 2010.

2. Aaron Ayers (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

Aaron Ayers arrived in Christchurch New Zealand from England as a newly married man in his mid 20s. He was a hairdresser and tobacconist for two decades before entering the...

3. Robert Macalister (1890)

New Zealand Mayor

Robert Lachlan Macalister was the Mayor of Wellington from 1950 to 1956 and had been the Acting Mayor for five months in 1948 during the absence overseas of Will Appleton....

4. Keith Buttle (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

Keith Nicolson Buttle was a New Zealand businessman and Mayor of Auckland City from 1957 to 1959. He replaced Thomas Ashby in a by-election in November 1957; Ashby died part-way...

5. Chas Poynter (1939)

New Zealand Mayor

Charles Ernest Chas Poynter QSO JP was the Mayor of Wanganui from 1986 to 2004. He was prominent in opposing the Māori occupation of Moutoa Gardens in 1995.

6. David Ogden (politician) (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

David Kevin Ogden was the mayor of Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand. David Ogden was elected first elected Mayor in 2004 beating incumbent Mayor John Terris....

7. Joseph Dodson (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

Joseph Reid Dodson JP was the first Mayor of Nelson in New Zealand from 1874. He was a prominent brewer and Resident Magistrate in Nelson and his sixth generation descendants...

8. William Guyton (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

Guyton the younger JP was the second Mayor of Wellington New Zealand in 1843. A position he obtained on the death of George Hunter and held until the Borough was...

9. Joseph Dransfield (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

Joseph Dransfield was the first Mayor of Wellington City New Zealand from 1870 to 1872. He was the also first Mayor since William Guyton was Mayor of Wellington Borough in...

10. Jenny Brash (1946)

New Zealand Mayor

Jennifer Sylvia Brash QSO known as Jenny Brash is a former Mayor of Porirua New Zealand. Prior to being Mayor in 1998–2010 she served nine years as a City Councillor....

11. Alfred Brandon (mayor) (1854)

New Zealand Mayor

Alfred de Bathe Brandon was the Mayor of Wellington New Zealand from 1893 to 1894. Brandon was the son of Member of Parliament Alfred Brandon. He married Louisa Kebbell the...

12. John Robert Fow (1869)

New Zealand Mayor

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...

13. Charles Stephen Longuet (1861)

New Zealand Mayor

Charles Stephen Longuet was the 27th Mayor of Invercargill from 1901 to 1902 and from 1909 to 1910. He had been on the Borough Council since 1897. He was born...

14. Whitford Brown (1910)

New Zealand Mayor

James Brown OBE CBE was the foundation mayor of Porirua City a city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand for 21 years from 1962 to 1983. Porirua when Brownie...

15. Francis St Omer (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

s St Omer was a baker restaurateur and councillor in Queenstown New Zealand. He was born in Marseilles France and in his youth pursued the gold rushes of California Victoria...

16. Will Appleton (1889)

New Zealand Mayor

Sir William Appleton was Mayor of Wellington New Zealand from 1944 to 1950 having been a city councillor from 1931 to 1944. He was knighted in 1950. He was a...

17. Hamish Hay (1927)

New Zealand Mayor

Sir Hamish Grenfell Hay was a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Christchurch for fifteen years from 1974 to 1989. He was Christchurch's longest-serving mayor.

18. Arthur Winton Brown (1856)

New Zealand Mayor

Arthur Winton Brown JP was the Mayor of Wellington New Zealand in 1886 and 1891. He died on 27 July 1917 at New Orleans Louisiana.

19. John Luxford (1890)

New Zealand Mayor

John Hector Luxford CMG was a New Zealand lawyer and Mayor of Auckland City from 1953 to 1956. Born in Palmerston North he qualified as a solicitor in 1913 and...

20. Barry Dallas (1926)

New Zealand Mayor

Barry Mitchell Dallas OBE JP was a New Zealand politician and doctor. He was twice mayor of Greymouth on the West Coast of New Zealand.

21. Ralph Love (1907)

New Zealand Mayor

Sir Makere Rangiatea Ralph Love QSO JP was a Māori public servant and leader of Te Āti Awa. He was born at Homebush on Arapawa Island Queen Charlotte Sound.

22. Heather Tanguay (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

Heather Tanguay is a New Zealander politician. Heather Tanguay was Mayor of Palmerston North from 2004 to 2007.

23. James Arthur Flesher (1865)

New Zealand Mayor

James Arthur Flesher OBE was a politician in Christchurch New Zealand. He held many public offices and was Mayor of Christchurch from 1923 to 1925.

24. Dove-Myer Robinson (1901)

New Zealand Mayor

Sir Dove-Myer Robinson was Mayor of Auckland City from 1959 to 1965 and from 1968 to 1980 the longest tenure of any holder of the office. He was a colourful...

25. John Beanland (1866)

New Zealand Mayor

John Walton Beanland was a building contractor and Mayor of Christchurch from 1936 to 1938. In 1935 he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. Beanland Avenue in...

26. John Hyde Harris (1826)

New Zealand Mayor

John Hyde Harris was a 19th-century New Zealand politician. Born in England he came to Dunedin as a young man and practised as a lawyer and was then a judge....

27. Joseph Levien (Unknow)

New Zealand Mayor

John Henry Levien Esquire JP was a Freemason and Mayor of Nelson in New Zealand from 1875 to 1876.