The mayor of Hastings is the head of the Local Government of Hastings, New Zealand, and presides over the Hastings District Council. The first mayor was Robert Wellwood (1886–1887),^[1] and the current mayor is Sandra Hazlehurst, who is the first woman to be elected to the office.

The mayor is directly elected using a first-past-the-post electoral system.^[2]

There have been 22 mayors of Hastings.

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	Mayor		Term of office
1		Robert Wellwood	1886–1887[1][3]
2		George Ellis	1887–1890[3][4][5]
3		W. F. Burnett	1890–1891[3][5]
(2)		George Ellis	1891–1894[3]
4		Cecil Fitzroy	1894–1899[3][5]
5		William Young Dennett	1899–1904[3][4][5]
6		W. Lane	1904–1905[3][5]
(5)		William Young Dennett	1905–1906[3]
7		T. J. Thompson	1906–1909[3][5]
8		John A. Miller	1909–1911[3]
9		James Garnett	1911–1913[3][4]
10		William Hart	1913–1917[3][4]
11		Horace Simson[4]	1917–1919[3]
12		George Ebbett	1919–1921[3][4]
(10)		William Hart	1921–1922[3]
13		George Maddison	1922–1929[3][4]
14		George Roach	1929–1933[4]
(13)		George Maddison	1933–1941[4]
15		Algie Rainbow	1941–1947[4][6]
16		R.D. Brown	1947–1953[4]
17		Sir Ed Bate	1953–1959[4][7]
18		Ron Giorgi	1959–1974[4]
19		Jim O'Connor	1974–1986[4]
20		Jeremy Dwyer	1986–2001[4]
21		Lawrence Yule	2001–2017[8]
22		Sandra Hazlehurst	2017–present[9]

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