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The Mayor of Dunedin is the head of the municipal government of Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, and presides over the Dunedin City Council. The Mayor is directly elected, using the Single Transferable Vote

Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...

system in 2007.

The current Mayor is Dave Cull who was elected in 2010

Dunedin mayoral election, 2010

The Dunedin mayoral election, 2010 occurred on Saturday, 9 October 2010 and was conducted under the Single Transferable Voting system.The candidates for mayor included Peter Chin, the incumbent who contested for a third consecutive term. He faced six other candidates...

List of Mayors of Dunedin

#	Name	Term of Office
#	Name	Start	End
1	William Mason	1865	1867
2	John Hyde Harris John Hyde Harris John Hyde Harris was a 19th century New Zealand politician. Born in England, he came to Dunedin as a young man and practised as a lawyer, and was then a judge. He entered provincial politics and was elected as the fourth Superintendent of the Otago Province...	1867	1868
3	Thomas Birch Thomas Birch (New Zealand) Thomas Birch was a 19th century Member of Parliament in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.He represented the City of Dunedin electorate from 1869 to 1870 when he retired.He was the third Mayor of Dunedin.-References:...	1868	1870
4	Henry Smith Fish Henry Smith Fish Henry Smith Fish was a 19th century New Zealand politician.He represented the Dunedin South electorate from 1881 to 1884 when he was defeated, then from 1887 to 1890. He then held one of the three seats for the City of Dunedin multi-member electorate from 1890 to 1893 when he was defeated, and...	1870	1873
5	Andrew Mercer	1873	1874
6	Keith Ramsay	1874	1875
7	Henry John Walter	1875	1876
8	Charles Stephen Reeves Charles Stephen Reeves Charles Stephen Reeves was a prominent New Zealand businessman and former Mayor of Dunedin.Born Wexford, Ireland in 1836, Reeves was educated at the Barrow and Tarvin Schools in Cheshire. Having spent some time in the Liverpool office his father's shipping business, Reeves emigrated to Victoria,...	1876	1877
9	Richard Henry Leary	1877	1878
	Henry John Walter, 2nd time	1878	1879
10	Archibald Hilson Ross Archibald Hilson Ross Archibald Hilson Ross was a 19th century Member of Parliament from the Otago Region, New Zealand, and Mayor of Dunedin.He represented the Roslyn electorate from 1884 to 1890. He was defeated in the 1890 general election for the new electorate of Dunedin Suburbs.He was Mayor of Dunedin from 1880...	1880	1881
11	James Gore James Gore James Gore was a 19th century Member of Parliament from the Otago Region, New Zealand, and Mayor of Dunedin.He represented the Dunedin South electorate from 1884 to 1887, when he was defeated.He was Mayor of Dunedin from 1881 to 1882....	1881	1882
12	John Bryce Thomson	1882	1883
13	William Parker Street	1883	1884
14	Arthur Scoullar	1884	1885
15	John Barnes	1885	1886
	Richard Henry Leary, 2nd time	1886	1887
16	William Dawson William Dawson (New Zealand) William Dawson was a 19th century Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.-Early life:Dawson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in January 1852. He followed his father into the profession as a brewer.-Political career:...	1887	1888
17	Hugh Gourley	1888	1889
18	John Tonkin Roberts	1889	1890
19	John Carroll	1890	1891
20	Charles Robert Chapman	1891	1892
21	Charles Haynes	1892	1893
	Henry Smith Fish Henry Smith Fish Henry Smith Fish was a 19th century New Zealand politician.He represented the Dunedin South electorate from 1881 to 1884 when he was defeated, then from 1887 to 1890. He then held one of the three seats for the City of Dunedin multi-member electorate from 1890 to 1893 when he was defeated, and... , 2nd time	1893	1895
22	Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales Nathaniel Young Armstrong Wales was a 19th century Member of Parliament and Mayor in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.Wales was born in Northumberland, England. He trained as an architect in Jedburgh, Scotland...	1895	1896
	Hugh Gourley, 2nd time	1896	1897
23	Edward Bowes Cargill Edward Cargill Edward Bowes Cargill was a 19th century businessman and Member of Parliament in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. He was the Mayor of Dunedin from 1897 to 1898, when the 50th anniversary of the founding of the province of Otago was celebrated....	1897	1898
24	William Swan	1898	1899
25	Robert Chisholm	1899	1901
26	George Lyon Denniston	1901	1902
27	James Alexander Park	1902	1903
28	Thomas Scott	1903	1904
29	Thomas Reid Christie	1904	1905
30	Joseph Braithwaite	1905	1906
31	George Lawrence	1906	1907
32	John Loudon	1907	1908
33	John McDonald John McDonald (mayor) John McDonald was the Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand from 1908–1909, the first New Zealand born person to hold the office. While mayor he took part in a public demonstration of the country's first radio transmission, sending and receiving messages in Morse code from Andersons Bay to Hagberth Moller...	1908	1909
34	James Hamlin Walker	1909	1910
35	Thomas Cole	1910	1911
36	William Burnett	1911	1912
37	John Wilson	1912	1913
38	William Downie Stewart, Jr.	1913	1914
39	John Bradley Shacklock	1914	1915
40	James John Clark	1915	1919
41	William Begg	1919	1921
42	James Sandilands Douglas	1921	1923
43	Harold Livingstone Tapley Harold Livingstone Tapley Harold Livingstone Tapley CMG was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.He represented Dunedin North in Parliament from 1925 to 1928, when he was defeated.He was the Mayor of Dunedin from 1923 to 1927. He was awarded the CMG in 1926....	1923	1927
44	William Burgoyne Taverner William Burgoyne Taverner William Burgoyne Taverner OBE was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for the Reform Party,and Mayor of Dunedin.- Member of Parliament :...	1927	1929
45	Robert Sheriff Black	1929	1933
46	Edwin Thomas Cox	1933	1938
47	Andrew Henson Allen	1938	1944
48	Donald Charles Cameron	1944	1950
49	Leonard Morton Wright	1950	1959
50	Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey Sir Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey was the Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand from 1959 to 1965 for the Citizens party, and was on the Dunedin City Council from 1947 to 1983. He stood for Parliament three times....	1959	1965
51	Russell John Calvert	1965	1968
52	James George Barnes James George Barnes Sir James George "Jim" Barnes, MBE was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.Barnes attended Andersons Bay School and King Edward Technical College.-Military service:...	1968	1977
53	Clifford George (Cliff) Skeggs	1977	1989
54	Richard Francis Walls	1989	1995
55	Sukhinder Kaur (Sukhi) Turner Sukhi Turner Dame Sukhinder "Sukhi" Kaur Gill Turner, DNZM was the Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand, from 1995 until her retirement from the position in 2004. She was notable as the first Green Party mayor in New Zealand...	1995	2004
56	Wing Ho (Peter) Chin Peter Chin (mayor) Peter Wing Ho Chin CNZM is a lawyer and was the 56th Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand. He served two terms as Mayor from 2004 to 2010....	2004	2010
57	Dave Cull Dave Cull David Charles "Dave" Cull, QSO JP is the mayor of the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. He became the 57th Mayor of Dunedin in October 2010.-Early life and career before politics:...	2010	present

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