List of mayors of Cairns


This is a list of mayors of the Far North Queensland city of Cairns.
Cairns was originally established as a Borough with a Chairman from 1885 until 1903, when the Local Authorities Act 1902 transformed it into a Town with a Mayor. The Town achieved City status in 1923. In 1995, when the Shire of Mulgrave amalgamated into the City, the Mayor was elected by a much larger base of voters. In 2008, when the City was amalgamated with the Shire of Douglas into the Cairns Region, the Mayor's voter base expanded yet again.

Borough of Cairns (1885–1903)

The mayors of the Borough of Cairns were:
ChairmanTermNotes
Richard Ash Kingsford1885–1886
Louis Severin1886–1888
Richard Ash Kingsford1889
Callaghan Walsh1890
Louis Severin1891
Alexander Frederick Draper1891–1893
Daniel Patience1893–1894
James Lyons1895–1896
Alec Draper1897
Karl Aumuller1898
Lyne Brown1899
Richard Alfred Tills1900–1901
Alec Draper1902

Town of Cairns (1903–1923)

The mayors of the Town of Cairns were:
MayorTerm
Louis Severin1903
Donald McLachlan1904
Charles McKenzie1905
Edward Earl1906
Richard Alfred Tills1907
Sinclair Miller1908
John Coxall1909
Andrew Hartill-Law1910
John George Hoare1911
Charles McKenzie1912–1913
Thomas Dillon1914
John Griffiths1915
Thomas Dillon1915–1916
Thomas Henry Donaldson1917
Alec Draper1918–1919
Richard Cowle Foxdale Gelling1919
John George Hoare1920–1923

City of Cairns Council (1923–1995)

The mayors of the City of Cairns were:
MayorTermNotes
John George Hoare1923–1924
Alec F. J. Draper1924–1927
William Aloysius Collins1927–1949
William Henry Murchison1949–1952
Bill Fulton1952–1960
S. Darcy Chataway1960–1967
Colin Penridge1967–1969
David Thomas De Jarlais1969–1973
Kevin Francis Crathern1973–1978
Ronald Davis1979–1988
Keith Goodwin1988–1990
John Peter Cleland1990–1991
Kevin Byrne1992–1995

City of Cairns Council (Amalgamated) (1995–2008)

The mayors of the City of Cairns :
MayorTerm
Tom Pyne1995–2000
Kevin Byrne2000–2008

Cairns Regional Council (2008–present)