Mayor of Rotorua

Mayor of Rotorua
Incumbent Steve Chadwick since 2013
Appointer	Elected
Inaugural holder	Cecil Clinkard
Formation	1923
Deputy	Dave Donaldson

The Mayor of Rotorua officiates over the Rotorua Lakes district of New Zealand, which is administered by the Rotorua Lakes Council (RLC), whose seat is in Rotorua. An elected borough council first came together in February 1923; prior to that, the area had effectively been under government control.^[1] Rotorua has had 14 mayors so far, and the current mayor is Steve Chadwick.^[2][3]

List of mayors of Rotorua[]

	Name	Portrait	Term
1	Cecil Clinkard		1923–1927
2	Thomas McDowell		1927–1928
3	John N. McLean		1928–1929
4	Thomas Jackson		1929–1941
5	Harry D. Dansey		1941–1942
6	Prentice A. Kusabs		1942–1947
7	Alexander Moncur		1947–1953
8	Murray Linton[4]		1953–1971
9	Ray Boord		1971–1977
10	Ray Woolliams[5]		1977–1979
11	John Keaney[6]		1979–1993
12	Grahame Hall[7]		1993–2004
13	Kevin Winters[8]		2004–2013
14	Steve Chadwick[3]		2013–present

Members of Parliament[]

Four mayors have also been Members of Parliament, and all of them represented the Rotorua electorate (the years in brackets give their term in Parliament):

• Cecil Clinkard (1928–1935)
• Alexander Moncur (1935–1943)
• Ray Boord (1954–1960)
• Steve Chadwick (1999–2011)

References[]