List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney (Redirected from Lord Mayor of Sydney)

Lord Mayor of Sydney
Incumbent
Clover Moore
since 27 March 2004
StyleThe Right Honourable the Lord Mayor
AppointerCouncil of the City of Sydney
Term length4 years, renewable indefinitely (Since 1995)
Inaugural holderCharles Windeyer (Mayor)
Sir Thomas Hughes
(Lord Mayor)
Formation1842 (as Mayor)
1902 (as Lord Mayor)
DeputyRobert Kok
WebsiteLord Mayor of Sydney

The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Sydney is the head of the Council of the City of Sydney, which is the local government area covering the central business district of Sydney in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The Lord Mayor has been directly elected since 1995, replacing the previous system of being internally elected annually by the Councillors, and serves a four-year term. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, at which the incumbent Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, was re-elected to a fifth term. The Lord Mayor is assisted in their work by a Deputy Lord Mayor, who is elected on an annual basis by the elected councillors.

Office history

The office of the Mayor of Sydney along with the City of Sydney was created on 20 July 1842 pursuant to the Sydney City Incorporation Act 1842 by Governor Sir George Gipps. Prior to the first municipal election, the governor nominated magistrate Charles Windeyer to serve as interim mayor. The first council, consisting of 24 aldermen elected across six wards, was declared elected on 3 November 1842 and first met in the George Street Market Building (now the site of the Queen Victoria Building) on 9 November and elected John Hosking as the first elected mayor of Sydney.

The title of Mayor (in full: The Right Worshipful the Mayor) was elevated to "Lord Mayor" on 23 November 1902 by King Edward VII, and as part of this process received the honorific The Right Honourable, a title which attaches to the title of Lord Mayor and not to the individual holding the office. In December 1915, the Parliament of New South Wales passed the Sydney Corporation (Election of Mayor) Act, 1915 which amended the 1902 act to allow for the governor to appoint the lord mayor should the council be unable to elect a candidate on or before 30 December of any year. This occurred three times, in 1916, 1920 and 1934.

The office of lord mayor, along with the City of Sydney, was governed by the Sydney Corporation Act, 1932 until the passing of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948, which placed Sydney under the terms of the Local Government Act 1919, which governed all other local governments in the state. This meant that the election of lord mayor (until 1971 in December of each year, and then in September) marked the beginning of the term, instead of the previous system, where the lord mayoral term began on 1 January and expired on 31 December. When the City of Sydney Act 1988 was passed, the City of Sydney was once again governed under a separate law, but the election of lord mayor did not change until the Local Government Legislation Amendment Act 1995, which allowed for popular direct elections from 1995.

Vestments of office

As head of the council, the lord mayor is entitled to wear the chains and robes of office, as befitting the ancient status of lord mayor of a large city. In 1902 the Sydney Chamber of Commerce commissioned the first link of a mayoral chain. In 1903, the governor of New South Wales, Sir Harry Rawson presented the first lord mayor, Thomas Hughes, with the chain of office. It features the coat of arms of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce and the Stock Exchange and a pendant depicting the coat of arms of Sydney. Successive mayors each added a medallion, on which was embossed their term of office. By 1945, this practice had ended because of the size and weight of the chain. Today, the chain is worn with the robes of office only for rare civic ceremonies, a smaller collar being worn for most civic duties.

The original civic robe for the mayor of Sydney in 1842 was purple, trimmed with ermine and worn with a court dress hat. The current robes worn by the lord mayor and deputy lord mayor are black, trimmed with ermine, and worn with bicorne hat, lace jabot and white gloves. They are worn rarely and only at major civic functions. Recently, it has become the custom not to wear the robes.

List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators

# Officeholder Party/Affiliation Title Term start Term end Time in office Notes
1 Charles Windeyer n/a Mayor 12 August 1842 9 November 1842 89 days
2 John Hosking 9 November 1842 1843
3 James Robert Wilshire 25 September 1843 November 1844
4 George Allen November 1844 November 1845
5 Henry Macdermott 1846 1846
6 Thomas Broughton 1847 1847
7 Joshua Frey Josephson 1848 1848
8 Edward Flood 1849 1849
9 George Hill 1850 1850
10 William Edward Thurlow 1851 1852
11 Daniel Egan 1853 1853
n/a Gilbert Elliot Chief Commissioner 1854 1856
Frederick Orme Darval Commissioner
John Rae
12 George Thornton Mayor 1857 1857
13 John Williams 1858 1858
14 George Smith 1859 1859
15 James Murphy 1860 1860
16 John Sutherland 1861 1861
17 James Oatley 1862 1862
18 Thomas Spence 1863 1863
19 William Speer 1864 1864
20 John Woods 1865 1865
21 John Sutton 1866 1866
22 Charles Moore 1867 1869
23 Walter Renny 1869 1870
24 Michael Chapman 1871 1872
25 James Merriman 1873 1873
26 Stephen Styles Goold 1874 1874
27 Benjamin Palmer 1875 1876
James Merriman 1877 1878
28 Charles James Roberts 1879 1879
29 Robert Fowler 1880 1880
30 John Harris 1881 1883
31 John Hardie 1884 1884
32 Thomas Playfair 1 January 1885 (1885-01-01) 31 December 1885 (1885-12-31) 364 days
33 John Young 1 January 1886 31 December 1886 364 days
34 Alban Joseph Riley   Independent 1 January 1887 31 December 1887 364 days
35 John Harris   Independent 1 January 1888 31 December 1889 1 year, 364 days
36 Sydney Burdekin   Independent 1 January 1890 10 April 1891 1 year, 99 days
37 Sir William Patrick Manning   Independent 10 April 1891 31 December 1894 3 years, 265 days
38 Samuel Edward Lees   Independent 1 January 1895 31 December 1895 364 days
39 Isaac Ellis Ives   Independent 1 January 1896 31 December 1897 1 year, 364 days
40 Sir Matthew Harris   Independent 1 January 1898 31 December 1900 2 years, 364 days
41 Sir James Graham   Independent 1 January 1901 31 December 1901 364 days
42 Thomas Hughes   Independent 1 January 1902 23 November 1902 326 days
Lord Mayor 23 November 1902 31 December 1903 1 year, 38 days
Samuel Edward Lees   Independent 1 January 1904 31 December 1904 365 days
43 Allen Taylor   Independent 1 January 1905 31 December 1906 2 years, 364 days
Thomas Hughes   Independent 1 January 1907 31 December 1908 1 year, 365 days
Sir Allen Taylor   Independent 1 January 1909 1 May 1912 3 years, 121 days
44 George Thomas Clarke   Independent 1 May 1912 31 December 1912 244 days
45 Sir Arthur Cocks   Independent 1 January 1913 31 December 1913 364 days
46 Richard Watkins Richards   Independent 1 January 1914 31 December 1915 1 year, 364 days
47 Richard Meagher   Labor 15 January 1916 31 December 1917 1 year, 350 days
48 James Joynton Smith   Independent 1 January 1918 31 December 1918 364 days
49 John English   Labor 1 January 1919 8 March 1919 66 days
Sir Richard Watkins Richards   Independent 11 March 1919 12 March 1920 1 year, 1 day
50 William Patrick Fitzgerald   Labor 16 March 1920 31 December 1920 290 days
51 William Lambert   1 January 1921 31 December 1921 364 days
52 William McElhone   Independent 1 January 1922 31 December 1922 364 days
53 David Gilpin   Civic Reform 1 January 1923 31 December 1924 1 year, 365 days
54 Patrick Vincent Stokes   Labor 1 January 1925 31 December 1926 1 year, 364 days
55 John Harold Mostyn   1 January 1927 3 January 1928 1 year, 2 days
n/a Edmund Patrick Fleming n/a Chief Commissioner 3 January 1928 3 October 1928 274 days
John Garlick Commissioner 30 October 1928 301 days
Henry Edgar Morton
n/a John Garlick n/a Chief Commissioner 30 October 1928 30 June 1930 1 year, 243 days
Henry Edgar Morton Commissioner
Gordon Bennett
56 Ernest Marks   Civic Reform Lord Mayor 1 July 1930 31 December 1930 183 days
57 Joseph Jackson   1 January 1931 31 December 1931 364 days
58 Sir Samuel Walder   1 January 1932 31 December 1932 365 days
59 Richard Hagon   Independent 1 January 1933 31 December 1933 364 days
60 Sir Alfred Parker   Civic Reform 1 January 1934 18 October 1935 1 year, 290 days
61 Arthur McElhone   Independent 22 October 1935 31 December 1935 70 days
62 Archibald Howie   Civic Reform 1 January 1936 31 December 1937 1 year, 364 days
63 Sir Norman Nock   1 January 1938 31 December 1939 1 year, 364 days
64 Stanley Crick   1 January 1940 31 December 1942 2 years, 364 days
65 Reg Bartley   1 January 1943 31 December 1944 1 year, 365 days
66 William Harding   1 January 1945 31 December 1945 364 days
Reg Bartley   1 January 1946 31 December 1948 2 years, 348 days
67 Ernest Charles O'Dea   Labor 1 January 1949 9 December 1952 3 years, 361 days
68 Pat Hills   9 December 1952 30 November 1956 3 years, 357 days
69 Harry Jensen   1 December 1956 3 December 1965 9 years, 2 days
70 John Armstrong   4 December 1965 13 November 1967 1 year, 344 days
n/a Vernon Treatt n/a Chief Commissioner 14 November 1967 26 September 1969 1 year, 316 days
John Shaw Deputy Chief Commissioner
William Pettingell Commissioner
71 Sir Laurence Emmet McDermott   Civic Reform Lord Mayor 7 October 1969 25 September 1972 2 years, 364 days
72 David Griffin   25 September 1972 24 September 1973 364 days
73 Sir Nicholas Shehadie   24 September 1973 26 September 1975 2 years, 2 days
74 Leo Port   26 September 1975 26 August 1978 2 years, 334 days
75 Nelson Meers   26 August 1978 19 September 1980 2 years, 24 days
76 Doug Sutherland   Labor 20 September 1980 26 March 1987 6 years, 187 days
n/a Sir Eric Neal n/a Administrator 26 March 1987 6 April 1987 11 days
Chief Commissioner 7 April 1987 31 December 1988 1 year, 268 days
Sir Nicholas Shehadie Deputy Chief Commissioner
Norman Oakes Commissioner
77 Jeremy Bingham   Civic Reform Lord Mayor 3 January 1989 18 September 1991 2 years, 258 days
78 Frank Sartor   Living Sydney Independents 23 September 1991 7 April 2003 11 years, 201 days
79 Lucy Turnbull   7 April 2003 6 February 2004 305 days
n/a Tony Pooley n/a Commissioner 6 February 2004 27 March 2004 50 days
Garry Payne
Lucy Turnbull
80 Clover Moore   Clover Moore Independent Team Lord Mayor 27 March 2004 Incumbent 19 years, 364 days

List of deputy lord mayors

The position of Deputy Lord Mayor was made a permanent council position when the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948 placed the City of Sydney under the main body of local government legislation. Prior to 1 January 1949, "Deputy" Lord Mayors were occasionally elected to act for the council during times of absence or illness of a sitting Lord Mayor, but the position was not permanent under the Sydney Corporation Act 1932 or any previous acts. The following individuals have been elected as Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney:

# Officeholder Party/Affiliation Term start Term end Time in office Notes Lord Mayor
1 John James Carroll   Labor 1 January 1949 14 December 1950 1 year, 347 days O'Dea
2 Jack Byrne   14 December 1950 15 December 1952 2 years, 1 day
3 Frank Green   15 December 1952 6 January 1954 1 year, 22 days Hills
4 Kevin Dwyer   6 January 1954 13 December 1954 341 days
5 Anthony Doherty   13 December 1954 12 December 1955 364 days
Kevin Dwyer   12 December 1955 17 December 1956 1 year, 5 days
Jack Byrne   17 December 1956 17 December 1959 3 years, 0 days Jensen
6 Francis Joseph Dixon   17 December 1959 11 December 1961 1 year, 359 days
7 Henry Burland   11 December 1961 16 December 1963 2 years, 5 days
8 Clifford Noble   16 December 1963 14 December 1964 364 days
Henry Burland   14 December 1964 16 December 1965 1 year, 2 days
9 Tony Bradford   16 December 1965 13 November 1967 1 year, 332 days Armstrong
10 Nicholas Shehadie   Civic Reform 7 October 1969 24 September 1973 3 years, 352 days McDermott
Griffin
11 Barrett Lewis   24 September 1973 30 September 1974 1 year, 6 days Shehadie
12 Leo Port   30 September 1974 25 September 1975 360 days
13 Andrew Briger   25 September 1975 27 September 1976 1 year, 2 days Port
Barrett Lewis   27 September 1976 10 October 1977 1 year, 13 days
14 Nelson Meers   10 October 1977 November 1978 1 year, 28 days
15 Jeremy Bingham   November 1978 20 September 1980 1 year, 318 days Meers
Tony Bradford   Labor 29 September 1980 28 September 1981 364 days Sutherland
16 Jack Calpis   28 September 1981 31 December 1981 94 days
17 Bill Hartup   4 January 1982 13 September 1982 252 days
Tony Bradford   13 September 1982 29 September 1983 1 year, 16 days
Jack Calpis   29 September 1983 1 May 1984 215 days
18 Stanley Ashmore-Smith   1 May 1984 16 September 1985 1 year, 138 days
Bill Hartup   16 September 1985 26 March 1987 1 year, 191 days
19 Ross Bonthorne   Civic Reform 3 January 1989 18 September 1991 2 years, 258 days Bingham
20 Henry Tsang   Labor 23 September 1991 11 September 1999 7 years, 353 days Sartor
21 Lucy Turnbull   Living Sydney Independents 18 September 1999 7 April 2003 3 years, 201 days
22 Dixie Coulton   7 April 2003 14 September 2003 305 days Turnbull
  Sydney Independents 14 September 2003 6 February 2004
23 John McInerney   Clover Moore Independent Team 19 April 2004 12 September 2005 1 year, 146 days Moore
24 Verity Firth   Labor 12 September 2005 18 September 2006 1 year, 6 days
25 Chris Harris   Greens 18 September 2006 17 September 2007 364 days
26 Tony Pooley   Labor 17 September 2007 13 September 2008 362 days
27 Marcelle Hoff   Clover Moore Independent Team 29 September 2008 21 September 2009 357 days
28 Phillip Black   21 September 2009 13 September 2010 357 days
Marcelle Hoff   13 September 2010 19 September 2011 1 year, 6 days
29 Robert Kok   19 September 2011 21 September 2012 1 year, 2 days
30 Robyn Kemmis   21 September 2012 26 December 2015 3 years, 96 days
31 Irene Doutney   Greens 29 February 2016 10 September 2016 194 days
32 Kerryn Phelps   Clover Moore Independent Team 23 September 2016 27 June 2017 360 days
  Independent 27 June 2017 18 September 2017
33 Jess Miller   Clover Moore Independent Team 18 September 2017 17 September 2018 364 days
34 Linda Scott   Labor 17 September 2018 9 September 2019 357 days
35 Jess Scully   Clover Moore Independent Team 9 September 2019 19 September 2022 3 years, 10 days
36 Sylvie Ellsmore   Greens 19 September 2022 18 September 2023 364 days
Robert Kok   Clover Moore Independent Team 18 September 2023 Incumbent 189 days

List of town clerks, general managers, and chief executive officers

The first Town Clerk of Sydney was appointed on 3 September 1842 on a provisional basis by the Governor, pending the election of aldermen. When the council was dismissed in December 1853 and replaced by a board of three commissioners, the post of town clerk was left vacant. The Local Government Act, 1993 removed the requirement that the administrative head of a council be a "Town or Shire Clerk" and specified that the head was to be known as the General Manager. The Sydney City Council had previously recognised the changing nature of role in appointing their first General Manager in December 1992. In May 2005, the title of General Manager was changed to Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

# Officeholder Title Term start Term end Time in office Notes
1 Richard O'Connor Provisional Town Clerk 3 September 1842 16 November 1842 74 days
2 Charles Henry Chambers Town Clerk 16 November 1842 27 July 1843 253 days
3 John Rae 27 July 1843 December 1853
4 Charles Henry Woolcott Town Clerk 1857 1887
5 Henry J. Daniels 1887 31 January 1898
6 John R. Palmer 19 July 1898 4 October 1899 1 year, 77 days
7 Robert Anderson 24 October 1899 25 January 1901 1 year, 93 days
John R. Palmer Acting Town Clerk 19 February 1901 31 December 1901 315 days
8 Thomas Huggins Nesbitt Town Clerk 1 January 1902 30 June 1924 22 years, 181 days
9 William Glazebrook Layton 1 July 1924 31 May 1931
10 Roy Hendy 1 June 1931 28 February 1956 24 years, 272 days
11 Edward William Adams 1 March 1956 July 1962
12 Jack Hercules Luscombe July 1962 30 March 1974
13 Leon Parmeter Carter 1 April 1974 August 1992
14 Graham Joss Acting Town Clerk 17 August 1992 4 December 1992 109 days
15 Katie Lahey General Manager 14 December 1992 25 August 1995 2 years, 254 days
16 Greg Maddock 1 February 1996 January 2001
17 Murray Douglas February 2001 June 2001
18 John Kass Acting General Manager July 2001 October 2001
19 Robert Domm General Manager November 2001 September 2004
20 Petar Vladeta Acting General Manager October 2004 March 2005
21 Peter Seamer General Manager March 2005 May 2005
Chief Executive Officer May 2005 April 2006 11 months
22 Monica Barone 7 August 2006 incumbent 17 years, 231 days

Election results

In 1995, the Local Government Legislation Amendment Act 1995 amended the City of Sydney Act 1988, to allow for popular direct elections of the Lord Mayor from September 1995.

2021

2021 New South Wales mayoral elections: Sydney
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Team Clover Clover Moore 50,896 42.9 −14.9
Liberal Shauna Jarrett 17,891 15.1 −3.9
Labor Linda Scott 17,367 14.7 +4.2
Independent Yvonne Weldon 14,368 12.1 +12.1
Greens Sylvie Ellsmore 9,812 8.3 +3.2
Small Business Angela Vithoulkas 8,177 8.9 −0.8
Total formal votes 118,511 98.6
Informal votes 1,675 1.4 −0.2
Turnout 120,186 68.7 +8.9
Two-candidate-preferred result
Team Clover Clover Moore 60,926 67.9
Labor Linda Scott 28,786 32.1
Team Clover hold Swing

2012

2012 New South Wales local elections: Sydney
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Team Clover Clover Moore 34,903 51.1 −5.4
Liberal Edward Mandla 11,031 16.1 +2.1
Labor Linda Scott 7,124 10.4 −4.6
Living Sydney Team Angela Vithoulkas 6,722 9.8 +9.8
Greens Irene Doutney 4,462 6.5 −6.9
Sex Party Zahra Stardust 2,241 3.3 +3.3
Independent Dixie Coulton 1,303 1.9 +1.9
Housing Action Team Denis Doherty 557 0.8 +0.8
Total formal votes 68,343 97.4
Informal votes 2.6
Turnout 69.2
Team Clover hold Swing −5.4

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