This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Brisbane, a local government area of Queensland, Australia. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is Adrian Schrinner.
The Town of Brisbane, established in 1859, was led by a mayor.[1][2][3]
| Mayor | Term |
|---|---|
| John Petrie | 1859–1862 |
| Thomas Blacket Stephens[4] | 1862 |
| George Edmondstone | 1863 |
| Joshua Jeays | 1864 |
| Albert John Hockings (1st term) | 1865 |
| Richard Symes Warry | 1866 |
| Albert John Hockings (2nd term) | 1867 |
| John Hardgrave | 1868–1869 |
| William Pettigrew | 1870 |
| Francis Murray | 1871 |
| Edward Joseph Baines | 1872 |
| James Swan | 1873–1875 |
| Richard Ash Kingsford | 1876 |
| Alfred Hubbard | 1877–1878 |
| John Daniel Heal | 1879 |
| John Sinclair | 1880–1881 |
| Robert Porter | 1882 |
| Abram Robertson Byram | 1883 |
| John McMaster (1st term) | 1884 |
| Benjamin Harris Babbidge | 1885 |
| James Hipwood | 1886–1887 |
| Richard Southall | 1888 |
| William McNaughton Galloway | 1889 |
| John McMaster (2nd term) | 1890 |
| John Allworth Clark | 1891 |
| George Watson | 1892 |
| John McMaster (3rd term) | 1893 |
| Robert Fraser | 1894–1895 |
| Robert Woods Thurlow | 1896 |
| John McMaster (4th term) | 1897 |
| William Thorne | 1898 |
| William Andrew Seal | 1899 |
| James Nicol Robinson | 1900 |
| Thomas Proe (1st term) | 1901 |
| Leslie Corrie | 1902–1903 |
The City of Brisbane, established in 1903, replaced the Town of Brisbane and was led by a mayor.[5]
| Mayor | Term | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie Corrie | 1903 | ||
| Thomas Rees | 1904 | ||
| Thomas Proe (2nd term) | 1905 | ||
| John Crase | 1906 | ||
| William Murray Thompson | 1907 | ||
| Charles Packenham Buchanan (1st term) | 1908 | ||
| Thomas Wilson | 1909 | ||
| John Hetherington (1st term) | 1910 | ||
| Harry Diddams (1st term) | 1911 | ||
| Alfred John Raymond | 1912 | ||
| Harry Doggett | 1913 | ||
| Charles Moffatt Jenkinson | 1914 | ||
| George Down | 1915 | ||
| John Hetherington (2nd term) | 1916–1917 | ||
| John McMaster (5th term) | 1918–1919 | ||
| Charles Packenham Buchanan (2nd term) | 1919–1919 | ||
| James Francis Maxwell | 1920–1921 | National | |
| Harry Diddams (2nd term) | 1921–1924 | ||
| Maurice Barry | 1924–1925 | Labor | |
| Thomas Wilson (2nd term)[6] | 1925 | ||
The new City of Brisbane, established in 1925, replaced the former City of Brisbane and is led by the Lord Mayor.
| Party | Mayor | Term | |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | William Alfred Jolly | 1925–1931 | |
| Nationalist Civic | Archibald Watson | 1931 | |
| Progress | John William Greene | 1931–1934 | |
| Labor | Alfred James Jones | 1934–1940 | |
| Citizens' Municipal Organisation | Sir John Beals Chandler | 1940–1952 | |
| Labor | Frank Edward Roberts | 1952–1955 | |
| Citizens' Municipal Organisation | Sir Reg Groom | 1955–1961 | |
| Labor | Clem Jones | 1961–1975 | |
| Labor | Bryan Walsh | 1975–1976 | |
| Labor | Frank Sleeman | 1976–1982 | |
| Labor | Roy Harvey | 1982–1985 | |
| Liberal | Sallyanne Atkinson | 1985–1991 | |
| Labor | Jim Soorley | 1991–2003 | |
| Labor | Tim Quinn | 2003–2004 | |
| Liberal | Campbell Newman | 2004–2008 | |
| Liberal National | 2008–2011 | ||
| Liberal National | Graham Quirk | 2011–2019 | |
| Liberal National | Adrian Schrinner | 2019–present | |
Prior to 1976, conservative councillors stood on a variety of different platforms: the United Party, Nationalist Citizens Party, Civic Reform League, the Citizens' Municipal Organisation, the Liberal Civic Party and the Brisbane Civic Party.[7]
The United Party and its successor the Nationalist Citizens Party were created as the vehicle for conservative candidates to campaign against Labor candidates in the newly formed Brisbane City Council. The Nationalist Citizens Party was doomed when the very conservative Civic Reform League was created on 12 December 1930. This saw most of the conservative councillors from the Nationalist Citizens Party - led by Acting Mayor Watson - defect to the Civic Reform League, which failed to win the subsequent elections.[8] The Progress Party was created at the same time and for the 1931 election saw only three of its candidates win, including John Greene, who became Lord Mayor as a compromise candidate amongst the 20 alderman.[9]
The Citizens' Municipal Organisation (CMO) was ostensibly a nonpartisan grouping, but was informally aligned with firstly the United Australian Party, then the Liberal Party (after 1944). The CMO was formed on 23 June 1936 and was the platform for the election campaigns of Sir John Chandler and Sir Reg Groom. Finally in the 1976 election, the Liberal Party began to contest the elections directly.[10]