{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2016}}{{Infobox official post | post = Mayor | body = Thames-Coromandel | image = | incumbent = Peter Revell | style = [[His Worship|His/Her Worship]] | incumbentsince = 2025 | seat = [[Thames, New Zealand|Thames]] | termlength = 3 years, renewable | formation = 1975 | first = Henry Kennedy | deputy = John Grant<ref name="J Grant"/> | salary = $141,188<ref>{{Cite web |last=Edmunds |first=Susan |date=13 June 2024 |title=How much your local council gets paid |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/519420/how-much-your-local-council-gets-paid |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=[[Radio New Zealand]] }}</ref> | website = [https://www.tcdc.govt.nz/Our-Council/About-our-Council/Mayor-and-District-Councillors Official website] }}
The '''mayor of Thames-Coromandel''' is the elected head of local government in the [[Thames-Coromandel District]] of New Zealand's [[North Island]]; one of 67 [[Mayors in New Zealand|mayors in the country]]. The mayor is based in the town of [[Thames, New Zealand|Thames]]. The mayor presides over the [[Thames-Coromandel District Council]] and is directly elected using the [[First-past-the-post voting|first-past-the-post]] method
The current mayor is Peter Revell, first elected in October 2025 during that year's [[2025 New Zealand local elections|local elections.]]
The office has existed since 1975, when the Thames Borough and the Coromandel County were amalgamated. Philippa Barriball was the first female mayor when she was elected in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archived.ccc.govt.nz/sites/yilg2008/documents/PhilippaBarriballbio_000.pdf |format=PDF |title=Transforming the Future |website=Archived.ccc.govt.nz |access-date=2017-01-02}}</ref>
==List of office holders== There have been ten mayors of Thames-Coromandel. The following is a complete list:
{| class="wikitable" ! ! Name ! Portrait ! Term<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thamesnz-genealogy.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/thames-nz-thames-coromandel-district.html|title=Thames (NZ): Thames Coromandel District Council Mayors|website=Thamesnz-genealogy.blogspot.co.nz|access-date=11 November 2016}}</ref> |- |1 | Henry Kennedy | | 1975–1977 |- |2 | Leonard Braddock | | 1977–1983 |- |3 | John Campbell | | 1983–1989 |- |4 |Alasdair Thompson<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zonta.org.nz/district-16-history/club-histories/club-history-thames-valley/|title=Club History: Thames Valley - Zonta International District 16|website=Zonta.org.nz|access-date=25 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.business-intelligence.co.nz/previous-workshops/2009/workshop-2/|title=Workshop 2|website=Business-intelligence.co.nz|access-date=25 September 2016}}</ref> | | 1989–1998 |- |5 |Chris Lux<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/mtfjobs/mtfjobs58.htm|title=Mayors Taskforce for Jobs|website=Jobsletter.org.nz|access-date=25 September 2016}}</ref> | | 1998–2004 |- |6 | Philippa Barriball<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/486924/Thames-mayor-has-stroke|title=Thames mayor has stroke|date=13 June 2008|website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |access-date=11 November 2016|via=Stuff.co.nz}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10680061|title=Thames Coromandel new mayor elected|first=Paul|last=Harper|date=12 October 2010|newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]}}</ref> | | 2004–2010 |- |7 |Glenn Leach<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcdc.govt.nz/Your-Council/Councillors-and-Community-Board-Members/Glenn-Leach/|title=Thames-Coromandel District Council - Glenn Leach|first=Daleen|last=Pienaar|website=Tcdc.govt.nz|access-date=2017-01-02}}</ref> | | 2010–2016 |- |8 |[[Sandra Goudie]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/85112584/a-close-finish-for-thamescoromandel-mayor-sandra-goudie|title=Goudie from MP to mayor|website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |access-date=11 October 2016}}</ref> |[[File:Sandra Goudie 2019 (cropped).jpg|60px]] | 2016–2022 |- |9 |[[Len Salt]]<ref>{{citation|title=2022 Elections Final Results|language=en|work=www.tcdc.govt.nz|access-date=2024-01-15|url=https://www.tcdc.govt.nz/Our-Council/About-our-Council/Elections/2022-Election-Information/2022-Elections-Final-Results|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210093047/https://www.tcdc.govt.nz/Our-Council/About-our-Council/Elections/2022-Election-Information/2022-Elections-Final-Results|archive-date=2023-02-10|publisher=Thames-Coromandel District Council}}</ref> |[[File:Len Salt 2016 (cropped).jpg|60px]] |2022–2025 |- |10 |[[Peter Revell]]<ref>{{citation|title=Declaration of Results of Election and Poll|language=en|work=www.tcdc.govt.nz|publisher=Thames-Coromandel District Council|date=17 October 2025|url=https://www.tcdc.govt.nz/files/assets/public/v/1/our-council/public-notices/governance-pn/thames-coromandel-district-council-declaration-notice-tcdc.pdf}}</ref> | |2025–present |}
===Deputy mayors=== {| class="wikitable" ! Name ! Term ! Mayor |- | Bruce Scott | 1992–1995 | Thompson |- | colspan=3 | |- | Philippa Barriball | 2001–2004 | Lux |- | Adrian Catran | 2004–2010 | Barriball |- | Peter French | 2010–2016 | Leach |- | Tony Brljevich | 2016–2022 | [[Sandra Goudie|Goudie]] |- |Terry Walker |2022–2025 |[[Len Salt|Salt]] |- | John Grant<ref name="J Grant">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcdc.govt.nz/Our-Council/About-our-Council/Mayor-and-District-Councillors|title=District Mayor and Councillors|publisher=Thames-Coromandel District Council|date=21 October 2025}}</ref> |2025–present |Revell |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Mayors in New Zealand}} {{Thames-Coromandel District}}
[[Category:Lists of mayors of places in New Zealand|Thames]] [[Category:Mayors of places in Waikato|Thames-Coromandel]] [[Category:Mayors of Thames| ]] [[Category:Thames-Coromandel District]] [[Category:Mayors of districts in New Zealand|Thames-Coromandel]]