As elected in the annual October election:
| Year Elected | Mayor |
| 2023 | Jem Lee |
| 2022 | Jem Lee |
| 2021 | Andrew Leask |
| 2020 | Iain Pringle |
| 2019 | Claire Bellamy |
| 2018 | Leanne Knapman |
| 2017 | Evelyn Stenning |
| 2016 | Wilf Knighton |
| 2015 | Ken Gregory |
| 2014 | Rob Helliwell |
| 2013 | Mike Schlupp |
| 2012 | Lindy Elphick |
| 2011 | Vicky Parke |
| 2010 | Paul Ruse |
| 2009 | Ken Gregory |
| 2008 | Sheila Chasser |
| 2007 | Nick Rowe |
| 2006 | Henry O’Donohue |
| 2005 | Liz Woods |
| 2004 | Harriet Sheldon |
| 2003 | Lesley Seabrook |
| 2002 | Michele Ward |
| 2001 | Katie Stewart |
| 2000 | Tina Blackburn |
| 1999 | Richard Fry |
| 1998 | Richard Woods |
| 1997 | “Babs” Talman |
| 1996 | Miles Golding |
| 1995 | Ken Gregory |
| 1994 | “Babs” Talman |
| 1993 | Bob Sutton |
| 1992 | Ken Gregory |
| 1991 | Jim Ayling |
| 1990 | Andrew Heasman |
| 1989 | Christine Murphy |
| 1988 | Jackie Young |
| 1987 | Pam Edgerton |
| 1986 | Martin Ingebretson |
| 1985 | Ron Knight |
| 1984 | Kate Fleming |
| 1983 | Jim Swain |
| 1982 | Leslie Fleming |
| 1981 | Martin Lindley |
| 1980 | Bridget Baird-Murray |
| 1979 | Keith Randall |
| 1978 | Diane Goodchild |
| 1977 | “Cocky” Farr |
| 1976 | Frank Christophers |
| 1975 | Ted Murphy |
| 1974 | Ted Murphy |
| 1973 | Phyl Bowring |
| 1972 | Jack Swain |
| 1971 | George Stevenson |
| 1970 | George Stevenson |
| 1969 | Charlie Hawkes / George Hall ° |
| 1968 | Edgar Dudley |
| 1967 | Mike Bowring |
| 1966 | Joe Mitchell |
- In 1969 local “character” Charlie Hawkes was the elected mayor, but as he was unable to carry out Mayoral duties George Hall took over.