List of mayors of Vancouver

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.