Mayor of Gisborne

The mayor of Gisborne is the elected head of local government in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island; one of 67 mayors in the country. The mayor is based in the principal city (and namesake) of the district, Gisborne. The mayor presides over the Gisborne District Council and is directly elected using the single transferable vote method.

Rehette Stoltz is the current mayor of Gisborne.

List of mayors of Gisborne

†Died in office

	Name	Term
1	William Fitzgerald Crawford	1877–1878
2	Thomas William Porter	1878–1881
3	Charles Debenham Bennett	1881–1882
4	Edward Knight Brown	1882–1883
(2)	Thomas William Porter	1883–1884
5	Cecil de Lautour	1884–1885
6	Allan McDonald	1885–1886
7	Henry Lewis	1886
(2)	Thomas William Porter	1886–1887
8	William Tucker	1887–1889
(5)	Cecil de Lautour	1889–1890
9	John Townley	1890–1908
10	Douglas Lysnar	1908–1911
11	William Pettie	1911–1913
12	James Robert Kirk	1913–1914
13	William Grice Sherratt	1914–1919
14	George Wildish	1919–1927
15	Charles Edward Armstrong	1927–1928[†]
16	David Coleman	1928–1933
17	John Jackson	1933–1935
(16)	David Coleman	1935–1941
18	Noel Henry Bull	1941–1950
19	Harry Barker	1950–1977
20	Richard White	1977–1983
21	Hink Healey	1983–1988[†]
–	Brian Crawshaw (acting)	1988–1989
22	John Clarke	1989–2001
23	Meng Foon	2001–2019
24	Rehette Stoltz	2019–present

†Died in office