Mayor of New Plymouth

Since the 2022 local elections, the mayor is elected directly using the single transferable vote electoral system; prior to that, first-past-the-post voting was used.

[3] The current mayor is Neil Holdom.

[1] New Plymouth has had 26 mayors: James Clarke died in New Zealand's second fatal air crash while in office;[17] when the three occupants of the plane he was in were killed on 11 November 1920.

[18] Clarke had foreshadowed that he intended to resign from the mayoralty that evening.

[19] Gustave Tisch also died while in office as the result of an illness.