List of mayors of Vancouver
The mayor of the City of Vancouver is the head and chief executive officer of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, elected for a four-year term. The 40th and current officeholder is Kennedy Stewart since 2018.List
# | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Terms | | Party |
1 | Malcolm A. MacLean | 1886 | 1887 | 2 | | Independent |
2 | David Oppenheimer | 1888 | 1891 | 4 | | Independent |
3 | Frederick Cope | 1892 | 1893 | 2 | | Independent |
4 | Robert A. Anderson | 1894 | 1894 | 1 | | Independent |
5 | Henry Collins | 1895 | 1896 | 2 | | Independent |
6 | William Templeton | 1897 | 1897 | 1 | | Independent |
7 | James Garden | 1898 | 1900 | 3 | | Independent |
8 | Thomas Townley | 1901 | 1901 | 1 | | Independent |
9 | Thomas Neelands | 1902 | 1903 | 2 | | Independent |
10 | William McGuigan | 1904 | 1904 | 1 | | Independent |
11 | Frederick Buscombe | 1905 | 1906 | 2 | | Independent |
12 | Alexander Bethune | 1907 | 1908 | 2 | | Independent |
13 | Charles Douglas | 1909 | 1909 | 1 | | Conservative |
14 | Louis D. Taylor | 1910 | 1911 | 2 | | Liberal |
15 | James Findlay | 1912 | 1912 | 1 | | Conservative |
16 | Truman S. Baxter | 1913 | 1914 | 2 | | Liberal |
| Louis D. Taylor | 1915 | 1915 | | | Liberal |
17 | Malcolm P. McBeath | 1915 | 1917 | 3 | | Liberal |
18 | Robert Gale | 1918 | 1921 | 4 | | Conservative |
19 | Charles E. Tisdall | 1922 | 1923 | 2 | | Conservative |
20 | William R. Owen | 1924 | 1924 | 1 | | Conservative |
| Louis D. Taylor | 1925 | 1928 | 4 | | Liberal |
21 | William H. Malkin | 1929 | 1930 | 2 | | Conservative |
| Louis D. Taylor | 1931 | 1934 | 4 | | Liberal |
22 | Gerry McGeer | 1935 | 1936 | 2 | | Liberal |
23 | George C. Miller | 1937 | 1938 | 2 | | Conservative |
24 | James L. Telford | 1939 | 1940 | 2 | | Independent |
25 | Jonathan W. Cornett | 1941 | 1946 | 6 | | NPA |
| Gerry McGeer † | 1947 | 1947 | | | NPA |
26 | Charles E. Jones † | 1947 | 1948 | | | NPA |
27 | Charles E. Thompson | 1949 | 1950 | 2 | | NPA |
28 | Frederick Hume | 1951 | 1958 | 2 | | NPA |
29 | Albert T. Alsbury | 1959 | 1962 | 1 | | NPA |
30 | William Rathie | 1963 | 1966 | 1 | | NPA |
31 | Tom Campbell 1 | 1966 | 1972 | 3 | | Independent |
32 | Arthur Phillips | 1972 | 1976 | 1 | | TEAM |
33 | Jack Volrich | 1976 | 1980 | 1 | | TEAM |
34 | Mike Harcourt | 1980 | 1986 | 3 | | Independent |
35 | Gordon Campbell | 1986 | 1993 | 3 | | NPA |
36 | Philip Owen | 1993 | 2002 | 3 | | NPA |
37 | Larry Campbell | 2002 | 2005 | 1 | | COPE |
38 | Sam Sullivan | 2005 | 2008 | 1 | | NPA |
39 | Gregor Robertson | 2008 | 2018 | 3 | | Vision |
40 | Kennedy Stewart | 2018 | | | | Independent |
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 members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia after being mayor.
Larry Campbell became a Canadian senator after being mayor.
Gregor Robertson, Charles Douglas, James Lyle Telford, Jonathan Webster Cornett and Charles Edward Tisdall were British Columbia MLAs prior to becoming mayor.
Jonathan Webster Cornett was reeve of South Vancouver before becoming Vancouver mayor.
Gerry McGeer was a BC MLA and provincial cabinet minister before becoming mayor of Vancouver and became a Canadian member of Parliament and senator after having been mayor.
Kennedy Stewart was a Canadian MP of the New Democratic Party before being elected.