Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney

Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney
Incumbent Zann Maxwell since October 2024
Appointer	Council of the City of Sydney
Term length	4 years, renewable
Inaugural holder	John James Carroll (Official)
Formation	1949 (officially)
Website	Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney

The deputy lord mayor of Sydney is the deputy 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. Since 1949, the deputy lord mayor has been indirectly elected annually by the council, becoming a permanent council position following the passage of the Local Government (Areas) Act 1948. The holder may be appointed to a full mayoral term or for a shorter, specified duration. The deputy lord mayor assists the lord mayor in their work, exercising any function of the lord mayor at request and fulfilling the role during a casual vacancy of the lord mayor's office.[1] The most recent election was held on 14 September 2024, following which the new council voted first-term councillor, Zann Maxwell, as deputy lord mayor.

Office history

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.[2] 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	[3][4]	O'Dea
2	Jack Byrne			14 December 1950	15 December 1952	2 years, 1 day	[5]
3	Frank Green			15 December 1952	6 January 1954	1 year, 22 days	[6]	Hills
4	Kevin Dwyer			6 January 1954	13 December 1954	341 days	[7][8]
5	Anthony Doherty			13 December 1954	12 December 1955	364 days	[9]
6	Kevin Dwyer			12 December 1955	17 December 1956	1 year, 5 days	[10]
7	Jack Byrne			17 December 1956	17 December 1959	3 years, 0 days	[11][12][13]	Jensen
8	Francis Joseph Dixon			17 December 1959	11 December 1961	1 year, 359 days	[14]
9	Henry Burland			11 December 1961	16 December 1963	2 years, 5 days	[15][16]
10	Clifford Noble			16 December 1963	14 December 1964	364 days	[17]
11	Henry Burland			14 December 1964	16 December 1965	1 year, 2 days	[18]
12	Tony Bradford			16 December 1965	13 November 1967	1 year, 332 days	[19]	Armstrong
13	Nicholas Shehadie		Civic Reform	7 October 1969	24 September 1973	3 years, 352 days	[20]	McDermott Griffin
14	Barrett Lewis			24 September 1973	30 September 1974	1 year, 6 days	[21]	Shehadie
15	Leo Port			30 September 1974	25 September 1975	360 days	[22]
16	Andrew Briger			25 September 1975	27 September 1976	1 year, 2 days	[23][24][25]	Port
17	Barrett Lewis			27 September 1976	10 October 1977	1 year, 13 days	[26]
18	Nelson Meers			10 October 1977	November 1978	1 year, 28 days	[27]
19	Jeremy Bingham			November 1978	20 September 1980	1 year, 318 days	[28]	Meers
20	Tony Bradford		Labor	29 September 1980	28 September 1981	364 days	[29]	Sutherland
21	Jack Calpis			28 September 1981	31 December 1981	94 days	[30]
22	Bill Hartup			4 January 1982	13 September 1982	252 days	[31]
23	Tony Bradford			13 September 1982	29 September 1983	1 year, 16 days	[32]
24	Jack Calpis			29 September 1983	1 May 1984	215 days	[33]
25	Stanley Ashmore-Smith			1 May 1984	16 September 1985	1 year, 138 days	[34]
26	Bill Hartup			16 September 1985	26 March 1987	1 year, 191 days	[35][36][37]
27	Ross Bonthorne		Civic Reform	3 January 1989	18 September 1991	2 years, 258 days	[38]	Bingham
28	Henry Tsang		Labor	23 September 1991	11 September 1999	7 years, 353 days	[39]	Sartor
29	Lucy Turnbull		Living Sydney Independents	18 September 1999	7 April 2003	3 years, 201 days	[40][41]
30	Dixie Coulton			7 April 2003	14 September 2003	305 days	[42][43]	Turnbull
			Sydney Independents	14 September 2003	6 February 2004
31	John McInerney		Clover Moore Independent Team	19 April 2004	12 September 2005	1 year, 146 days	[44]	Moore
32	Verity Firth		Labor	12 September 2005	18 September 2006	1 year, 6 days	[45]
33	Chris Harris		Greens	18 September 2006	17 September 2007	364 days	[46]
34	Tony Pooley		Labor	17 September 2007	13 September 2008	362 days	[47]
35	Marcelle Hoff		Clover Moore Independent Team	29 September 2008	21 September 2009	357 days	[48]
36	Phillip Black			21 September 2009	13 September 2010	357 days	[49]
37	Marcelle Hoff			13 September 2010	19 September 2011	1 year, 6 days	[50]
38	Robert Kok			19 September 2011	21 September 2012	1 year, 2 days	[51]
39	Robyn Kemmis			21 September 2012	26 December 2015	3 years, 96 days	[51][52][53]
40	Irene Doutney		Greens	29 February 2016	10 September 2016	194 days	[54]
41	Kerryn Phelps		Clover Moore Independent Team	23 September 2016	27 June 2017	360 days	[55][56][57]
			Independent	27 June 2017	18 September 2017
42	Jess Miller		Clover Moore Independent Team	18 September 2017	17 September 2018	364 days	[58][59]
43	Linda Scott		Labor	17 September 2018	9 September 2019	357 days	[60]
44	Jess Scully		Clover Moore Independent Team	9 September 2019	19 September 2022	3 years, 10 days	[61][62][63][64]
45	Sylvie Ellsmore		Greens	19 September 2022	18 September 2023	364 days	[65]
46	Robert Kok		Clover Moore Independent Team	18 September 2023	10 October 2024	1 year, 150 days	[66]
47	Zann Maxwell		Labor	10 October 2024	Incumbent	15 days	[67]

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