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Mayor of Ōpōtiki

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6797775 ↗
Source-derived summary

The mayor of Ōpōtiki officiates over the Ōpōtiki District of New Zealand which is administered by the Ōpōtiki District Council (ODC). The ODC was formed by the amalgamation of the Opotiki County Council and the Opotiki Borough Council, as part of the local government reforms in 1989. The current mayor of Ōpōtiki is David Moore.

Don Riesterer (died February 2019), who was mayor from 1989 to 2001, was the father of Lyn Riesterer, who became mayor in October 2019 and served for one term.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mayor of Ōpōtiki” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.