# List of mayors of Hunter's Hill

This is a list of mayors of the Council of the Municipality of Hunter's Hill, a local government area in northern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Municipality was first incorporated on 12 March 1861. Since 2004, the Mayor has been directly elected for a four-year term by the voters in the Municipality. The official title of mayors while holding office is His/Her Worship the Mayor of the Municipality of Hunter's Hill. The current mayor is Councillor Zac Miles, a Liberal Party politician, elected on 4 December 2021.

## List of incumbents

The following individuals have served as Mayor of the Council of the Municipality of Hunter's Hill:
| # | Chairman | Party | Party | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes |
| 1 | Jules Joubert | No party | No party | 20 July 1861 | February 1863 | 1 year, 196 days | |
| 2 | Gabriel de Milhau | No party | No party | February 1863 | February 1864 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 3 | William B. Campbell | No party | No party | February 1864 | February 1865 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 4 | Francis Campbell | No party | No party | February 1865 | February 1866 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| – | William B. Campbell | No party | No party | February 1866 | February 1867 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| # | Mayor | Party | Party | Term start | Term end | Time in office | Notes |
| 5 | Didier Numa Joubert | No party | No party | February 1867 | 21 February 1870 | 3 years, 20 days | |
| 6 | Charles Edward Jeanneret | No party | No party | 21 February 1870 | 16 February 1872 | 1 year, 360 days | |
| 7 | Robert Vining Gale | No party | No party | 16 February 1872 | 10 February 1874 | 1 year, 359 days | |
| 8 | Henry Prior Palser | No party | No party | 10 February 1874 | 15 February 1875 | 1 year, 5 days | |
| 9 | Ambrose Fitzpatrick | No party | No party | 15 February 1875 | 14 February 1876 | 364 days | |
| – | Robert Vining Gale | No party | No party | 14 February 1876 | 5 May 1876 | 81 days | |
| – | Ambrose Fitzpatrick | No party | No party | 13 May 1876 | 14 February 1877 | 277 days | |
| – | Charles Edward Jeanneret | No party | No party | 14 February 1877 | 11 February 1879 | 1 year, 362 days | |
| 10 | Angelo Tornaghi | No party | No party | 11 February 1879 | 14 February 1880 | 1 year, 3 days | |
| 11 | Jabez King Heydon | No party | No party | 14 February 1880 | February 1882 | 1 year, 352 days | |
| – | Angelo Tornaghi | No party | No party | February 1882 | 12 February 1884 | 2 years, 11 days | |
| 12 | James Nutman | No party | No party | 12 February 1884 | 4 September 1884 | 205 days | |
| 13 | William Joseph Doyle | No party | No party | 4 September 1884 | 11 February 1885 | 160 days | |
| 14 | Joseph Booth | No party | No party | 11 February 1885 | 12 February 1886 | 1 year, 1 day | |
| 15 | James Brown | No party | No party | 12 February 1886 | 9 February 1887 | 362 days | |
| 16 | Robert Smith | | Independent | 9 February 1887 | February 1888 | 357 days | |
| 17 | Numa Augustus Joubert | | Independent | February 1888 | 16 February 1889 | 1 year, 15 days | |
| 18 | Alfred Weeks | | Independent | 16 February 1889 | 12 February 1890 | 361 days | |
| – | Charles Edward Jeanneret | | Independent | 12 February 1890 | 12 February 1891 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 19 | Frank McNeil | | Independent | 12 February 1891 | 10 February 1892 | 363 days | |
| 20 | Bernard McBride | | Independent | 10 February 1892 | 14 February 1894 | 2 years, 4 days | |
| 21 | Thomas Turner | | Independent | 14 February 1894 | 12 February 1896 | 1 year, 363 days | |
| 22 | Adelbert Theophilus Schleicher | | Independent | 12 February 1896 | 5 February 1898 | 1 year, 358 days | |
| 23 | James Richard Thomson | | Independent | 5 February 1898 | 12 February 1900 | 2 years, 7 days | |
| 24 | James Macartney Rooke | | Independent | 12 February 1900 | 16 February 1903 | 3 years, 4 days | |
| 25 | Herbert John Aspinall | | Independent | 16 February 1903 | July 1917 | 1 year, 363 days | |
| 26 | Edward Marsden Betts | | Independent | 13 February 1905 | February 1913 | 7 years, 354 days | |
| 27 | William Archibald Windeyer | | Independent | February 1913 | February 1914 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| – | Adelbert Theophilus Schleicher | | Independent | February 1914 | 7 February 1916 | 2 years, 6 days | |
| – | Herbert John Aspinall | | Independent | 7 February 1916 | July 1917 | 1 year, 144 days | |
| – | William Archibald Windeyer MBE | | Independent | July 1917 | 21 March 1924 | 6 years, 264 days | |
| 28 | Ralph Unwin | | Independent | 21 March 1924 | December 1925 | 1 year, 255 days | |
| 29 | Louis Alfred Meyers | | Independent | December 1925 | December 1927 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 30 | Ernest Clarke | | Independent | December 1927 | 11 January 1932 | 4 years, 41 days | |
| 31 | George William Woodbridge | | Independent | 11 January 1932 | December 1933 | 1 year, 324 days | |
| 32 | Clarence Farthing | | Independent | December 1933 | 15 December 1934 | 1 year, 14 days | |
| 33 | Robert Sterling Murray-Prior | | Independent | 15 December 1934 | 18 December 1935 | 1 year, 3 days | |
| – | Louis Alfred Meyers | | Independent | 18 December 1935 | December 1939 | 3 years, 348 days | |
| 34 | Bert Cowell | | Independent | December 1939 | December 1940 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 35 | Henry Ryves | | Independent | December 1940 | December 1941 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 36 | Clement Wesley Weil | | Independent | December 1941 | December 1951 | 10 years, 0 days | |
| 37 | Thomas William Belford Haynes | | Independent | December 1951 | December 1952 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 38 | John Reeves | | Independent | December 1952 | 15 December 1953 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| – | Clement Wesley Weil | | Independent | 15 December 1953 | 14 December 1954 | 364 days | |
| 39 | Alex Harding | | Independent | 14 December 1954 | December 1957 | 3 years, 0 days | |
| 40 | Ken Bell | | Independent | December 1957 | December 1961 | 4 years, 0 days | |
| 41 | Harry Jessup | | Independent | December 1961 | December 1963 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 42 | William Thom | | Independent | December 1963 | December 1965 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 43 | John Merrington | | Independent | December 1965 | December 1967 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| – | Ken Bell | | Independent | December 1967 | December 1968 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 44 | Donald Farrant | | Independent | December 1968 | September 1974 | 5 years, 274 days | |
| 45 | Leon J. Crawley | | Independent | September 1974 | September 1976 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 46 | David Landa OAM | | Independent | September 1976 | September 1979 | 3 years, 0 days | |
| 47 | John Lyndon Jones | | Independent | September 1979 | September 1980 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 48 | Sheila Burns Swain | | Independent | September 1980 | September 1982 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 49 | Kerry Wherry | | Independent | September 1982 | September 1983 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 50 | John C. McCarthy | | Independent | September 1983 | September 1985 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 51 | Bruce Edelman | | Independent | September 1985 | September 1987 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| – | Sheila Burns Swain AM | | Independent | September 1987 | September 1989 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 52 | Ross Ernest Williams | | Independent | September 1989 | September 1993 | 4 years, 0 days | |
| 53 | Ross Sheerin | | Independent | September 1993 | September 1995 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 54 | Jane Margaret Waddell | | Independent | September 1995 | September 1996 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 55 | William Gordon Phipson PSM | | Independent | September 1996 | September 1998 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 56 | Arthur Francis Boyd | | Independent | September 1998 | September 1999 | 1 year, 0 days | |
| 57 | Susan Ruth Hoopman | | Independent | September 1999 | 10 September 2001 | 2 years, 0 days | |
| 58 | Bruce Richard Lucas | | Independent | 10 September 2001 | 27 March 2004 | 2 years, 199 days | |
| – | Susan Ruth Hoopman OAM | | Independent | 27 March 2004 | 8 September 2012 | 8 years, 165 days | |
| 59 | Richard Quinn | | Independent | 8 September 2012 | 9 September 2017 | 5 years, 1 day | |
| 60 | Mark Bennett | | Independent | 9 September 2017 | 9 September 2020 | 3 years, 0 days | |
| – | Ross Ernest Williams | | Independent | 9 September 2020 | 4 December 2021 | 1 year, 86 days | |
| 61 | Zac Miles | | Liberal | 4 December 2021 | present | 3 years, 42 days | |

## Electoral results
### 2024

2024 New South Wales mayoral elections: Hunter's Hill :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Zac Miles | 5,250 | 62.19 | +22.33 |
| | Team Ross | Ross Williams | 3,192 | 37.81 | +10.13 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 8,442 | 97.54 | +0.06 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 213 | 2.46 | –0.06 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,655 | 85.42 | –1.04 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | | |

### 2021

2021 New South Wales mayoral elections: Hunter's Hill :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal | Zac Miles | 3,331 | 39.9 | −0.3 |
| | Team Ross | Ross Williams | 2,313 | 27.7 | −0.7 |
| | Independent | Richard Quinn | 2,015 | 24.1 | +24.1 |
| | Independent | David Guazzarotto | 697 | 8.3 | +8.3 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 8,356 | 97.5 | +1.0 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | 216 | 2.5 | −1.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 8,572 | 86.3 | +2.9 |
| Two-candidate-preferred result ||||||
| | Liberal | Zac Miles | 3,821 | 52.7 | +7.1 |
| | Team Ross | Ross Williams | 3,437 | 47.3 | −7.1 |
| | Liberal gain from Team Ross | Liberal gain from Team Ross | Swing | +7.1 | |

### 2017

2017 New South Wales mayoral elections: Hunter's Hill :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Zac Miles | 3,228 | 40.2 |
| | Independent | Mark Bennett | 2,527 | 31.5 |
| | Independent | Ross Williams | 2,276 | 28.3 |
| Total formal votes | Total formal votes | Total formal votes | 8,031 | 96.5 |
| Informal votes | Informal votes | Informal votes | | 3.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 83.4 |
| Two-candidate-preferred result ||||||
| | Independent | Mark Bennett | 3,995 | 54.4 |
| | Liberal | Zac Miles | 3,350 | 45.6 |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |