Mayor of Masterton

The Mayor of Masterton is the head of the municipal government of Masterton, New Zealand, and presides over the Masterton District Council. The Mayor is directly elected using Preferential Voting, commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as STV. The Mayor is assisted by the Deputy Mayor of Masterton.

The current Mayor is Lyn Patterson, elected in October 2013.^[1]

List of mayors of Masterton[]

	Name	Portrait	Term
1	Robert Williams		1877–1878
2	Duncan McGregor		1878–1879
3	Edwin Feist		1879–1880
4	Alfred Renall		1880–1881
5	Alfred Bish		1881–1883
6	William Lowes		1883–1884
7	Myer Caselberg		1884–1887
(4)	Alfred Renall		1887–1889
8	George Heron		1889–1890
9	Charles Aylmer Pownall		1890–1893
(8)	George Heron		1893–1896
(9)	Charles Aylmer Pownall		1896–1898
(8)	George Heron		1898–1899
(9)	Charles Aylmer Pownall		1899–1902
10	Phillip Luscombe Hollings		1902–1903
11	James Moore Coradine		1903–1904
12	Joseph Renall		1904–1907
(11)	James Moore Coradine		1907–1908
(10)	Phillip Luscombe Hollings		1908–1910
(11)	James Moore Coradine		1910–1919
(12)	Joseph Renall		1919–1921
13	Orlando Pragnell		1921–1925
14	Thomas Jordan		1925–1944
15	William Kemp		1944–1953
16	Archibald Keir		1953
17	Ted Coddington		1953–1955
18	Bill Marchbank		1955–1962
19	Norm Tankersley		1962–1974
20	Frank Cody		1974–1986
21	Bob Francis		1986–2007[2]
22	Garry Daniell		2007–2013[3]
23	Lyn Patterson		2013–present[4]

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