Mayor of Fairfield | |
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Appointer | Fairfield City Council |
Term length | 4 years |
Inaugural holder | Francis Atkin Kenyon |
Formation | 22 February 1889 |
Deputy | Charbel Saliba |
This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Fairfield, a local government area of New South Wales, Australia. [1]
The current mayor is Frank Carbone, who was elected in 2012 and most recently re-elected in 2021.
No. | Portrait | Mayor | Party | Term start | Term end |
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1 | ![]() | Francis Atkin Kenyon | Independent | 22 February 1889 | 13 February 1891 [2] [3] |
2 | ![]() | John Lackey | Independent | 13 February 1891 [4] | 15 February 1893 [5] |
3 | ![]() | Thomas Downey | Independent | 15 February 1893 | 17 February 1894 [6] |
4 | ![]() | William Stimson | Independent | 17 February 1894 [7] | 14 February 1896 [8] |
5 | ![]() | Adam Vallance | Independent | 14 February 1896 [9] | 12 February 1898 [10] |
6 | ![]() | Bruce Sofala Ephraim Hall | Independent | 12 February 1898 | 14 February 1899 [11] |
7 | ![]() | George Paine | Independent | 14 February 1899 | 14 February 1900 [12] |
8 | ![]() | Adam Craig Bell | Independent | 14 February 1900 | 14 February 1901 [13] |
9 | ![]() | John Edwards Anthony | Independent | 14 February 1901 [14] | 8 February 1902 [15] |
10 | ![]() | James Robert Anderson | Independent | 8 February 1902 | February 1903 [16] |
11 | ![]() | Walter Stimson | Independent | February 1903 | 11 February 1904 [17] |
12 | ![]() | Samuel Critchley | Independent | 11 February 1904 | February 1905 [18] |
13 | ![]() | John Downey | Independent | February 1905 | 15 February 1907 [19] [20] |
14 | ![]() | John Edwards Anthony | Independent | 15 February 1907 [21] [22] [23] | 6 July 1917 [24] [25] [26] |
(11) | ![]() | Walter Stimson | Independent | 6 July 1917 [27] | 11 February 1919 [28] |
(14) | ![]() | John Edwards Anthony | Independent | 11 February 1919 | 4 February 1920 [29] |
15 | ![]() | Thomas Miles | Independent | 4 February 1920 [30] | 6 December 1921 [31] |
16 | ![]() | Amos Robert Coleman | Independent | 6 December 1921 | 12 December 1922 [32] |
(11) | ![]() | Walter Stimson | Independent | 12 December 1922 | 18 December 1923 [33] |
17 | ![]() | Harold William Stein | Independent | 18 December 1923 [34] | 8 December 1925 [35] |
18 | ![]() | Augustus Morris Jentsch | Independent | 4 December 1928 [36] [37] | 8 December 1925 |
19 | ![]() | Henry Alfred Clancy | Independent | 4 December 1928 [38] | 5 January 1932 [39] [40] |
20 | ![]() | Robert Towers Gillies | Independent | 5 January 1932 | December 1932 [41] |
(11) | ![]() | Walter Stimson | Independent | December 1932 [42] | 4 December 1934 [43] |
21 | ![]() | Thomas Fishpool | Independent | 4 December 1934 [44] | 14 December 1937 [45] [46] |
22 | ![]() | Samuel Foster Money | Labor | 14 December 1937 [47] | December 1938 [48] |
23 | ![]() | John Burleigh, Snr. | Labor | December 1938 [49] | 10 December 1941 [50] |
(19) | ![]() | Henry Alfred Clancy | Independent | 10 December 1941 [51] | 15 December 1943 [52] |
24 | ![]() | Clifford Green | Independent | 15 December 1943 [53] | December 1945 [54] |
(19) | ![]() | Henry Alfred Clancy | Independent | December 1945 | December 1947 [55] |
(24) | ![]() | Clifford Green | Independent | December 1947 | December 1948 [56] |
25 | ![]() | Jack Henshaw | Labor | December 1948 | 6 December 1949 [57] |
26 | ![]() | Jack McBurney | Citizens' Representative Party | 6 December 1949 | December 1950 [58] |
27 | ![]() | Samuel Austin Seaman | Labor | December 1950 | 3 December 1951 |
28 | ![]() | Philip Bartholomew Ryan | Labor | 3 December 1951 | 8 December 1952 [59] |
29 | ![]() | William Leonard Wolfenden | Labor | 8 December 1952 | 10 December 1953 [60] |
30 | ![]() | Leslie Charles Hale | Progress Association | 10 December 1953 | 12 December 1955 [61] |
31 | ![]() | Les Powell | Labor | 12 December 1955 [62] | 2 December 1957 [63] |
32 | ![]() | Keith Makepeace | Labor | 2 December 1957 | 11 December 1958 [64] |
33 | ![]() | Keith Howick | Labor | 11 December 1958 | 10 December 1959 [65] |
34 | ![]() | Vic Wenban | Labor | 10 December 1959 [66] | December 1962 [67] [68] |
35 | ![]() | A. E. Harvey | Labor | December 1962 | December 1963 [69] |
36 | ![]() | Lawrence Fraser | Labor | December 1963 | December 1964 |
(34) | ![]() | Vic Wenban | Independent | December 1964 | December 1965 [70] |
37 | ![]() | Frank Calabro | Independent | December 1965 | 20 December 1966 [71] |
(32) | ![]() | Keith Makepeace | Independent | 20 December 1966 | December 1967 [72] |
38 | ![]() | Harold Schofield | Independent | December 1967 | September 1968 [73] |
(37) | ![]() | Frank Calabro | Independent | September 1968 | September 1969 |
(35) | ![]() | A. E. Harvey | Labor | September 1969 | September 1970 |
(38) | ![]() | Harold Schofield | Independent | September 1970 – September 1971 | |
39 | ![]() | Ian Thorley | Labor | September 1971 | September 1973 [74] |
40 | ![]() | Don Turtle | Labor | September 1972 | September 1973 |
(31) | ![]() | Les Powell | Labor | September 1973 | September 1974 |
41 | ![]() | Janice Crosio | Labor | September 1974 | September 1975 [75] |
42 | ![]() | Ernest Loveday | Independent | September 1975 | September 1976 |
43 | ![]() | Warren Colless | Independent | September 1976 | September 1977 |
(41) | ![]() | Janice Crosio | Labor | September 1977 | September 1980 |
![]() | Maria Heggie | Independent | September 1987 | September 1988 [76] | |
![]() | unknown | September 1988 | September 1989 | ||
![]() | Lawrence White | Labor | September 1989 | September 1990 | |
unknown | September 1990 | September 1991 | |||
![]() | Dennis Donovan | Labor | September 1991 | September 1992 [77] | |
![]() | Toni Lord | Independent | September 1992 | September 1993 | |
![]() | Nick Lalich | Labor | September 1993 | September 1994 | |
![]() | unknown | September 1994 | September 1995 | ||
![]() | Maria Heggie | Independent | September 1995 | September 1996 | |
![]() | Ken Chapman | Labor | September 1996 | September 1997 | |
![]() | Anwar Khoshaba | Labor | September 1997 | September 1998 | |
![]() | Chris Bowen | Labor | September 1998 | September 1999 | |
![]() | Anwar Khoshaba | Labor | September 1999 | September 2000 | |
![]() | Robert Watkins | Labor | September 2000 | September 2001 | |
![]() | Anwar Khoshaba OAM | Labor | September 2001 [78] | September 2002 [79] | |
![]() | Nick Lalich | Labor | September 2002 | 21 March 2012 [80] | |
![]() | Frank Carbone | Labor | 21 March 2012 | 29 August 2016 [81] | |
Independent | 29 August 2016 | 2021 | |||
Frank Carbone | 2021 | 9 May 2023 | |||
Dai Le & Frank Carbone | 9 May 2023 | incumbent |
No. | Portrait | Deputy Mayor (Ward) | Party | Term start | Term end | Mayor | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Dai Le (Fairfield/Cabravale) | Women's Party | 30 December 2021 | 27 September 2022 | Carbone ( Frank Carbone /DLFCN) | |||
![]() | Reni Barkho (Fairfield/Cabravale) | Dai Le & Frank Carbone | 27 September 2022 | 28 September 2023 | ||||
![]() | Charbel Saliba (Parks) | Dai Le & Frank Carbone | 28 September 2023 | incumbent |
The most recent election for mayor was held in December 2021, with the next one scheduled for September 2024.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frank Carbone | Frank Carbone | 66,455 | 73.5 | +23.3 | |
Labor | George Barcha | 23,974 | 26.5 | −23.3 | |
Total formal votes | 90,429 | 95.1 | |||
Informal votes | 4,688 | 4.9 | |||
Turnout | 95,117 | 73.3 | |||
Frank Carbone hold | Swing | +23.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Del Bennett | 32,004 | 31.31 | ||
Independent | Frank Carbone | 29,683 | 29.04 | ||
Independent | Dai Le | 17,319 | 16.95 | ||
Liberal | Joe Molluso | 13,018 | 12.74 | ||
Christian Democrats | Milan Maksimovic | 6,944 | 6.79 | ||
Greens | Bill Cashman | 3,234 | 3.16 | ||
Total formal votes | 102,202 | 94.17 | |||
Informal votes | 6,331 | 5.83 | |||
Turnout | 108,533 | ||||
Independent | Frank Carbone | ||||
Labor | Del Bennett | ||||
Mayor changed to Independent from Labor | Swing | N/A | |||
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