List of mayors of Vancouver
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Thirty-nine persons have held the office of mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, since 1886.
List
| # | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malcolm A. MacLean (1842–1895) |
1 January 1886 | 31 December 1887 | Independent | |
| 2 | David Oppenheimer (1834–1897) |
1 January 1888 | 31 December 1891 | Independent | |
| 3 | Frederick Cope (1860–1897) |
1 January 1892 | 31 December 1893 | Independent | |
| 4 | Robert Anderson (1858–1916) |
1 January 1894 | 31 December 1894 | Independent | |
| 5 | Henry Collins (1844–1904) |
1 January 1895 | 31 December 1896 | Independent | |
| 6 | William Templeton (1853–1898) |
1 January 1897 | 31 December 1897 | Independent | |
| 7 | James Garden (1847–1914) |
1 January 1898 | 31 December 1900 | Conservative Party | |
| 8 | Thomas Townley (1862–1935) |
1 January 1901 | 31 December 1901 | Independent | |
| 9 | Thomas Neelands (1862–1944) |
1 January 1902 | 31 December 1903 | Independent | |
| 10 | William McGuigan (1853–1908) |
1 January 1904 | 31 December 1904 | Independent | |
| 11 | Frederick Buscombe (1862–1938) |
1 January 1905 | 31 December 1906 | Independent | |
| 12 | Alexander Bethune (1852–1947) |
1 January 1907 | 31 December 1908 | Independent | |
| 13 | Charles Douglas (1852–1917) |
1 January 1909 | 31 December 1909 | Progressive Conservative Party | |
| 14 | Louis D. Taylor (1857–1946) |
1 January 1910 | 31 December 1911 | Independent | |
| 15 | James Findlay (1854–1924) |
1 January 1912 | 31 December 1912 | Independent | |
| 16 | Truman S. Baxter (1867–1931) |
1 January 1913 | 31 December 1914 | Liberal Party | |
| 17 | Louis D. Taylor (1857–1946) |
1 January 1915 | 1915 | Independent | |
| 18 | Malcolm P. McBeath (1880–1957) |
1915 | 31 December 1917 | Independent | |
| 19 | Robert Gale (1880–1957) |
1 January 1918 | 31 December 1921 | Independent | |
| 20 | Charles E. Tisdall (1866–1936) |
1 January 1922 | 31 December 1923 | Progressive Conservative Party | |
| 21 | William R. Owen (1864–1949) |
1 January 1924 | 31 December 1924 | Independent | |
| 22 | Louis D. Taylor (1857–1946) |
1 January 1925 | 31 December 1928 | Independent | |
| 23 | William H. Malkin (1868–1959) |
1 January 1929 | 31 December 1930 | Independent | |
| 24 | Louis D. Taylor (1857–1946) |
1 January 1931 | 31 December 1934 | Independent | |
| 25 | Gerald McGeer (1888–1947) |
1 January 1935 | 31 December 1936 | Liberal Party | |
| 26 | George C. Miller (1882–1968) |
1 January 1937 | 31 December 1938 | Progressive Conservative Party | |
| 27 | James L. Telford (1889–1960) |
1 January 1939 | 31 December 1940 | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | |
| 28 | Jonathan Cornett (1883–1973) |
1 January 1941 | 31 December 1946 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 29 | Gerald McGeer† (1888–1947) |
1 January 1947 | 11 August 1947 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 30 | Charles E. Jones (1881–1948) |
12 August 1947 | 31 December 1947 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 31 | George C. Miller (1882–1968) |
12 August 1948 | 31 December 1948 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 32 | Charles E. Thompson (1890–1966) |
12 August 1949 | 31 December 1950 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 33 | Frederick Hume (1892–1967) |
12 August 1951 | 31 December 1958 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 34 | Albert T. Alsbury (1904–1990) |
1 January 1959 | 31 December 1962 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 35 | William Rathie (1914–1994) |
12 August 1963 | 31 December 1966 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 36 | Thomas Campbell (1927–2012) |
1 January 1967 | November 1972 | Independent | |
| 37 | Arthur Phillips (1930–2013) |
November 1972 | 31 December 1976 | TEAM | |
| 38 | Jack Volrich (1928–2010) |
1 January 1977 | 31 December 1980 | TEAM | |
| 39 | Michael Harcourt (Born in 1943) |
1 January 1981 | 8 December 1986 | Independent | |
| 40 | Gordon Campbell (born in 1948) |
8 December 1986 | 8 December 1993 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 41 | Philip Owen (born in 1933) |
8 December 1993 | 8 December 2002 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 42 | Larry Campbell (born in 1948) |
8 December 2002 | 8 December 2005 | COPE | |
| 43 | Sam Sullivan (born in 1959) |
8 December 2005 | 8 December 2008 | Non-Partisan Association | |
| 44 | Gregor Robertson (born in 1964) |
8 December 2008 | Incumbent | Vision Vancouver | |
- Notes
† died in office
List of mayors who held higher office
Two former mayors, Mike Harcourt and Gordon Campbell, went on to become Premier of British Columbia.
George Clark Miller, Sam Sullivan, Art Phillips and James Garden became a provincial MLA after being mayor.
Larry Campbell became a Senator after being mayor.
Gregor Robertson, Charles Douglas, James Lyle Telford, Jonathan Webster Cornett and Charles Edward Tisdall were a provincial MLA prior to becoming mayor.
Jonathan Webster Cornett was reeve of South Vancouver before being Vancouver mayor.
Gerry McGeer was a MLA and cabinet minister before being mayor and became a federal MP and Senator after.
Fictional Mayors
Dominic Da Vinci, was a fictional mayor of Vancouver played by Nicholas Campbell and was based on real life mayor Larry Campbell.
