The Mayor of Auckland is the directly elected head of the Auckland City Council, the municipal government of Auckland City, New Zealand. Other cities in the Greater Auckland area - Manukau City, North Shore City and Waitakere City - have their own mayors. The current Mayor, elected in 2007, is John Banks.
Auckland obtained its first local government in 1851, when the Borough of Auckland was created. This short-lived entity had only one mayor, Archibald Clark. When the City of Auckland was formally incorporated in 1871, its City Council was led by a Chairman, Walter Lee. Soon afterwards the office of Mayor of Auckland was created. There have been 39 holders of the position. The longest-serving was Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, who held the post for 18 years, and was the first person to serve non-consecutive terms. There have been two female Mayors - Catherine Tizard in 1983 and Christine Fletcher in 1998.
List of officeholders
| Name | Term | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philip Philips | 1871 - 1874 |
| 2 | Henry Isaacs | 1874 |
| 3 | Frederick Prime | 1874 - 1875 |
| 4 | Benjamin Tonks | 1875 - 1876 |
| 5 | William Hurst | 1876 - 1877 |
| 6 | Henry Brett | 1877 - 1878 |
| 7 | Thomas Peacock | 1878 - 1880 |
| 8 | James Clark | 1880 - 1883 |
| 9 | William Waddel | 1883 - 1886 |
| 10 | Albert Devore | 1886 - 1889 |
| 11 | John Upton | 1889 - 1891 |
| 12 | William Crowther | 1891 - 1893 |
| 13 | James Holland | 1893 - 1896 |
| 14 | Abraham Boardman | 1896 - 1897 |
| 15 | Peter Dignan | 1897 - 1898 |
| 16 | David Goldie | 1898 - 1901 |
| 17 | John Logan Campbell | 1901 |
| 18 | Alfred Kidd | 1901 - 1903 |
| 19 | Edwin Mitchelson | 1903 - 1905 |
| 20 | Arthur Myers | 1905 - 1909 |
| 21 | Charles Grey | 1909 - 1910 |
| 22 | Lemuel Bagnall | 1910 - 1911 |
| 23 | Christopher James Parr | 1911 - 1915 |
| 24 | James Gunson | 1915 - 1925 |
| 25 | George Baildon | 1925 - 1931 |
| 26 | George Hutchison | 1931 - 1935 |
| 27 | 1935 - 1941 | |
| 28 | John Allum | 1941 - 1952 |
| 29 | John Luxford | 1953 - 1956 |
| 30 | Thomas Ashby | 1956 - 1957 |
| 31 | Keith Buttle | 1957 - 1959 |
| 32 | Dove-Myer Robinson | 1959 - 1965 |
| 33 | Roy McElroy | 1965 - 1968 |
| Dove-Myer Robinson, 2nd time | 1968 - 1980 | |
| 34 | Colin Kay | 1980 - 1983 |
| 35 | Catherine Tizard | 1983 - 1990 |
| 36 | Les Mills | 1990 - 1998 |
| 37 | Christine Fletcher | 1998 - 2001 |
| 38 | John Banks | 2001 - 2004 |
| 39 | Dick Hubbard | 2004 - 2007 |
| John Banks, 2nd time | 2007 - present |
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