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Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand

Field	Value
post	Mayor
body	Hamilton
insignia	Hamilton CoA.svg
insigniasize	175
insigniacaption	Coat of arms of Hamilton
image	Tim Macindoe swearing in (cropped).jpg
imagecaption	Macindoe in 2017
incumbent	Tim Macindoe
incumbentsince	19 October 2025
department	Hamilton City Council
inaugural	Isaac Richardson Vialou
style	His/Her Worship
type	Council Leader
termlength	Three years, renewable
member_of	Hamilton City Council
appointer	Electorate of Hamilton
seat	Council Building Garden Place, Hamilton
formation	1878
salary	$180,335
website	Official website
deputy	Geoff Taylor

The mayor of Hamilton is the head of the municipal government of Hamilton, New Zealand, and presides over the Hamilton City Council.

The incumbent is Tim Macindoe, who was first elected in 2025.

History

Hamilton had East and West Town Boards until it was constituted under the Municipal Corporations Act 1876 on 24 December 1877 as a Borough Council, with a mayor. Mayoral elections were originally held annually but have been triennial since 1935. Elections were initially held in December, in April or May from 1901–1947, and have most recently taken place in October.

In 1989, Evans was the first woman to be elected Mayor of Hamilton. Following her retirement in 1998, all subsequent incumbents were defeated at their next election until Julie Hardaker's 2013 re-election.

List

Name	Portrait	Term of office	Reason for leaving office
1	Isaac Richardson Vialou	[[File:Isaac Richardson Vialou.jpg	60px]]	February 1878
2	John Blair Whyte	[[File:John Blair Whyte, 1882.jpg	60px]]	December 1878
3	Thomas Dawson	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	December 1879
4	Bernard Charles Beale	[[File:Beale-bernard-charles-wm.jpg	60px]]	March 1880
5	John Knox	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	December 1880
6	Robert Peat	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	December 1883
7	William Australia Graham	[[File:William Australia Graham (cropped).jpg	60px]]	December 1884
8	Charles Barton	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	June 1887
9	Isaac Coates	[[File:Isaac Coates in 1901.jpg	60px]]	January 1888
10	William Jones	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	October 1889
(9)	Isaac Coates	[[File:Isaac Coates in 1901.jpg	60px]]	December 1889
11	John Parr	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	December 1892
12	William Dey	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	December 1893
13	George Edgecumbe	[[File:George Edgecumbe.jpg	60px]]	December 1899
14	Robert William Dyer	[[File:R W Dyer 1901.jpg	60px]]	May 1901
(8)	Charles Barton	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	May 1903
(12)	William Dey	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	October 1903
15	James Shiner Bond	[[File:James Shiner Bond.jpg	60px]]	May 1905
16	Alexander Young	[[File:James Alexander Young.jpg	60px]]	May 1909
17	Arthur Edwards Manning	[[File:Arthur Edwards Manning.jpg	60px]]	May 1912
18	John Edwin Hammond	[[File:John Edwin Hammond.jpg	60px]]	December 1915
19	John Robert Fow	[[File:John Robert Fow.jpg	60px]]	June 1916
20	John William Ellis	[[File:John William Ellis 1853–1918.jpg	60px]]	May 1917
(19)	John Robert Fow	[[File:John Robert Fow.jpg	60px]]	August 1918
21	Percy Harold Watts	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	May 1919
(19)	John Robert Fow	[[File:John Robert Fow.jpg	60px]]	May 1920
22	Francis Dewsbury Pinfold	[[File:Frances Dewsbury Pinfold.jpg	60px]]	May 1931
(19)	John Robert Fow	[[File:John Robert Fow.jpg	60px]]	May 1933
23	Harold David Caro	[[File:Harold David Caro.jpg	60px]]	May 1938
24	Roderick Braithwaite	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	November 1953
25	Denis Rogers	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	December 1959
26	Mike Minogue	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	October 1968
27	Bruce Beetham	[[File:Bruce Craig Beetham.jpg	60px]]	May 1976
28	Ross Jansen	[[File:Ross Jansen (crop).jpg	60px]]	October 1977
29	Margaret Evans	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	November 1989
30	Russ Rimmington	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	November 1998
31	David Braithwaite	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	November 2001
32	Michael Redman	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	November 2004
33	Bob Simcock	[[File:No image.png	60px]]	23 May 2007
34	Julie Hardaker	[[File:Julie Hardaker (cropped).jpg	60px]]	1 November 2010
35	Andrew King	[[File:Andrew King (crop).jpg	60px]]	October 2016
36	Paula Southgate	[[File:Paula Southgate 2019.jpg	60px]]	24 October 2019
37	Tim Macindoe	[[File:Tim Macindoe 2017 (cropped).jpg	60px]]	19 October 2025

References

Sources

Gibbons, P.J. (1977), Astride the River. Published for the Hamilton City Council by Whitcoulls Limited, pp317–318 and Hamilton City Council Annual Plans.
Hamilton City Council Annual Statement of Accounts and Waikato Times index at Hamilton City Libraries.

References

(13 June 2024). "How much your local council gets paid". RNZ.
(1878-09-10). "Meeting of Ratepayers of Late Hamilton East Town Board Highway District.". Waikato Times.
(1885). "Municipal Corporations".

Wikipedia Source

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