List of mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne

{{Short description|none}} {{use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox political post | post = Lord Mayor | body = Melbourne | insignia = Flag of Melbourne.svg | insigniasize = 100px | insigniacaption = | nativename = | image = Nicholas Reece.jpg | alt = | incumbent = Nicholas Reece | incumbentsince = 2 July 2024 | style = The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Councillor<ref>{{URL|https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conventions/titles-honours-forms-address/parliaments-and-councils}}</ref> | residence = | appointer = Melbourne City Council | termlength = 4 years, renewable indefinitely | formation = 1842 <small>(as mayor)</small><br />1902 <small>(as lord mayor)</small> | succession = | inaugural = Henry Condell <small>(mayor)</small><br />Sir Samuel Gillott<br /><small>(lord mayor)</small> | deputy = | salary = }} This is a list of mayors and lord mayors of the City of Melbourne, a local government area of Victoria, Australia. {{TOC right}}

==Mayors (1842–1902)== {| class="wikitable" |- ! No. || Mayor || Term |- |1 || Henry Condell<ref>{{Cite NSW Parliament |id=265 |name=Mr Henry Condell (1797-1871) |former=Yes |access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref> ||1842–1844 |- |2 || Henry Moor<ref name=Moor>{{cite NSW Parliament |id=341 |former=Yes |title=Mr Henry Moor (1809-1877) |access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref> || 1844–1845 |- |3 || Sir James Frederick Palmer<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Alan |last=Gross |id2=palmer-sir-james-frederick-4358 |title=Palmer, Sir James Frederick (1803–1871) |year=1974 |pages=392-393 |access-date=26 August 2022}}</ref>|| 1845–1846 |- |4 || Henry Moor<ref name=Moor/> || 1846–1847 |- |5 || Andrew Russell<ref>{{cite re-member |num2=818 |name=Russell, Andrew |access-date=26 August 2022}}</ref> || 1847–1848 |- |6 || William Montgomerie Bell || 1848–1849 |- |7 || Augustus Greeves || 1849–1850 |- |8 || William Nicholson || 1850–1851 |- |9 || John Thomas Smith || 1851–1853 |- |10 || John Hodgson || 1853–1854 |- |11 || John Thomas Smith || 1854–1856 |- |12 || Peter Davis || 1856–1857 |- |13 || John Thomas Smith || 1857–1858 |- |14 || Henry Sallows Walsh || 1858–1859 |- |15 || Richard Eades || 1859–1860 |- |16 || John Thomas Smith || 1860–1861 |- |17 || Robert Bennett || 1861–1862 |- |18 || Edward Cohen || 1862–1863 |- |19 || John Thomas Smith || 1863–1864 |- |20 || George Wragg || 1864–1865 |- |21 || William Bayles || 1865–1866 |- |22 || William Williams || 1866–1867 |- |23 || James Stewart Butters || 1867–1868 |- |24 || Thomas Moubray || 1868–1869 |- |25 || Samuel Amess || 1869–1870 |- |26 || Thomas McPherson || 1870–1871 |- |27 || Orlando Fenwick || 1871–1872 |- |28 || Thomas O'Grady || 1872–1873 |- |29 || John McIlwraith || 1873–1874 |- |30 || James Gatehouse || 1874–1875 |- |31 || Alexander Kennedy Smith || 1875–1876 |- |32 || James Paterson || 1876–1877 |- |33 || John Pigdon || 1877–1878 |- |34 || Joseph Story || 1878–1879 |- |35 || George Meares || 1879–1881 |- |36 || Cornelius Job Ham || 1881–1882 |- |37 || James Dodgshun || 1882–1883 |- |38 || Charles Smith || 1883–1884 |- |39 || Godfrey Downes Carter || 1884–1885 |- |40 || James Cooper Stewart || 1885–1886 |- |41 || William Cain || 1886–1887 |- |42 || Sir Benjamin Benjamin<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=benjamin-sir-benjamin-2972 |title=Benjamin, Sir Benjamin (1834–1905) |access-date=26 August 2022}}</ref> || 1887–1889 |- |43 || Matthew Lang || 1889–1892 |- |44 || Sir Arthur Snowden || 1892–1895 |- |45 || William Strong || 1895–1897 |- |46 || Sir Malcolm McEacharn || 1897–1900 |- |47 || Sir Samuel Gillott || 1900–1902 |}

==Lord mayors (1902–1980)== The title of "Lord Mayor" was conferred on the position of mayor by King Edward VII on 18 December 1902. {| class="wikitable" |- !No. || Lord mayor || Term |- |48 || Sir Samuel Gillott || 1902–1903 |- |49 || Sir Malcolm McEacharn || 1903–1904 |- |50 || Charles Pleasance || 1904–1905 |- |51 || Sir Henry Weedon || 1905–1908 |- |52 || James Burston || 1908–1910 |- |53 || Thomas James Davey || 1910–1912 |- |54 || Sir David Valentine Hennessy || 1912–1917 |- |55 || Frank Stapley || 1917–1918 |- |56 || William Whyte Cabena || 1918–1919 |- |57 || John Aikman || 1919–1920 |- |58 || Sir John Warren Swanson || 1920–1923 |- |59 || Sir William Brunton || 1923–1926 |- |60 || Sir Stephen Joseph Morell || 1926–1928 |- |61 || Harold Daniel Luxton || 1928–1931 |- |62 || Sir Harold Gengoult Smith || 1931–1934 |- |63 || Sir Alexander George Wales || 1934–1937 |- |64 || Edward Campbell || 1937–1938 |- |65 || Sir Arthur Coles || 1938–1940 |- |66 || Sir Frank Beaurepaire || 1940–1942 |- |67 || Sir Thomas Sydney Nettlefold || 1942–1945 |- |68 || Sir Francis Raymond Connelly ||1945–1948 |- |69 || Sir James Stanley Disney ||1948–1951 |- |70 || Oliver John Nilsen || 1951–1952 |- |71 || William John Brens || 1952–1953 |- |72 || Robert Henry Solly || 1953–1954 |- |73 || Sir Francis Palmer Selleck || 1954–1957 |- |74 || Sir Frederick William Thomas || 1957–1959 |- |75 || Brigadier Sir Bernard Evans || 1959–1961 |- |76 || Maurice Arnold Nathan || 1961–1963 |- |77 || Edward Leo Curtis || 1963–1965 |- |78 || Ian Beaurepaire || 1965–1967 |- |79 || Reginald Thomas Anthony Talbot || 1967–1969 |- |80 || Ted Best || 1969–1971 |- |81 || Alwynne Rowlands || 1971–1972 |- |82 || Alan Douglas Whalley || 1972–1974 |- |83 || Ron Walker || 1974–1976 |- |84 || Donald Osborne || 1976–1977 |- |85 || Irvin Rockman || 1977–1979 |- |86 || Ralph Angelo Bernardi || 1979–1980 |- |87 || John William Woodruff || 1980–1981 |}

==Commissioners (1981–1982)== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Commissioners || Term |- | Peter Francis Thorley (Chairman) ||rowspan=3| 1981–1982 |- | Neil Smith |- | Richard Allston |}

==Lord mayors (1982–1993)== {| class="wikitable" |- !No. || Lord mayor || Term |- |88 || John William Gardner || |1982–1983 |- |89 || Kevin Chamberlin || |1983–1984 |- |90 || Edwin John Beacham || |1984–1985 |- |91 || Thomas Simon Lynch || 1985–1986 |- |92 || Trevor Huggard || 1986–1987 |- |93 || Alexis Ord || 1987–1988 |- |94 || Winsome McCaughey {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO}} || 1988–1989 |- |95 || William Deveney || 1989–1990 |- |96 || Richard Wynne || 1990–1991 |- |97 || Richard Meldrum || 1991–1992 |- |98 || Desmond Clark || 1992–1993 |- |99 || Alan Watson || 1993–1993 |}

==Commissioners (1993–1996)== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Commissioners || Term |- |Kevan Gosper {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO}} (Chief Commissioner) ||rowspan=4| 1993–1996 |- |John Rose (Deputy Chief Commissioner) |- |Catherine Walter |- |Kevin Rose |}

==Lord mayors (1996−present)== {| class="wikitable" |- !No.!!Image!!Lord Mayor!!Party!!Term start!!Term end!!Notes |- ! style="background:{{Australian politics/party colours|melbourne first}}; color:white" | 100 | align="center" | 100px | align="center" | Ivan Deveson <br/> {{small|(1934–2024)}} | align="center" | Melbourne First | align="center" | 26 March 1996 | align="center" | May 1999 | align="center" | Resigned |- ! style="background:#888888; color:white" | 101 | align="center" | 70px | align="center" | Peter Costigan <br/> {{small|(1935–2002)}} | align="center" | Independent | align="center" | May 1999 | align="center" | 22 July 2001 | align="center" | Council dismissed. Did not seek re-election |- ! style="background:#293F8A; color:white" | 102 | align="center" | 100px | align="center" | John So <br/> {{small|(b. 1946)}} | align="center" | Melbourne Living | align="center" | 22 July 2001 | align="center" | 1 December 2008 | align="center" | Retired |- ! style="background:#5A83D8; color:white" | 103 | align="center" | 100px | align="center" | Robert Doyle <br/> {{small|(b. 1953)}} | align="center" | Team Doyle | align="center" | 1 December 2008 | align="center" | 4 February 2018 | align="center" | Resigned amid sexual harassment allegations |- ! rowspan="2"; style="background:#118080; color:white" | 104 | rowspan="2"; align="center" | 100px | rowspan="2"; align="center" | Sally Capp | align="center" | Independent | align="center" | 26 May 2018 | align="center" | 21 September 2020 | rowspan="2"; align="center" | Resigned after choosing not to seek re-election |- | align="center" | Team Sally Capp | align="center" | 21 September 2020 | align="center" | 2 July 2024 |- ! style="background:{{Australian politics/party colours|team nick reece}}; color:white" | 105 | align="center" | 100px | align="center" | Nicholas Reece <br/> {{small|(b. 1974)}} | align="center" | {{Australian politics/name|team nick reece}} | align="center" | 2 July 2024 | align="center" | ''current'' | align="center" | Incumbent |}

==Electoral results== ===2024=== {{excerpt|Results of the 2024 Victorian local elections in Inner Melbourne |section=Leadership Team}}

===2020=== {{excerpt|Results of the 2020 Victorian local elections in Inner Melbourne |section=Leadership Team}}

===2018 by-election=== {{excerpt|2018 Lord Mayor of Melbourne by-election|section=Results}}

===2016=== {{excerpt|Results of the 2016 Victorian local elections|section=Leadership Team}}

==See also== * Melbourne Town Hall * List of Town Halls in Melbourne * Local government areas of Victoria

==References== {{Reflist}} {{notelist}} *[http://touchedbytheson.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/lords-mayor-of-melbourne.html Lords Mayor of Melbourne]

==External links== *[http://rulers.org/ausgovt.html List of Mayors] at RULERS *[https://web.archive.org/web/20041010173319/http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=23&pg=966 Melbourne City Council] {{Melbourne elections}}

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