Robert (Bob) Simcock (1947 - ) is the Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand. He was elected to the West Ward of the Hamilton City Council in 2004 and appointed Deputy Mayor that year. Following Mayor Michael Redman's resignation in 2007, he was appointed temporarily to the position. He was properly elected as Mayor in October 2007 with over 50% of the votes cast. [1]
Prior to this, he was an MP from 1996 to 2002, representing the National Party. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1996 elections as MP for Hamilton West, defeating the incumbent, Martin Gallagher of the Labour Party. In the 1999 elections, however, Gallagher regained the seat, and Simcock became a list MP. In the 2002 elections, however, the National Party performed poorly, and did not win enough votes for Simcock to remain in Parliament. Before entering politics, Simcock had worked both as a deer farmer and as a clinical psychologist.
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