The Town of Cottesloe in Perth, Western Australia was originally established on 4 October 1895 as a road board with a chairman and councillors under the District Roads Act 1871. On 20 September 1907, it was proclaimed a municipality, with a mayor and councillors, under the Municipal Corporations Act 1906. With the passage of the Local Government Act 1960, all municipalities became Towns effective 1 July 1961.
Cottesloe Road District
Municipality of Cottesloe
| Mayor | 
Term
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| John Stuart | 
1907–1908
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| Evan Wisdom | 
1908–1911
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| Frederic Dudley North | 
1911–1916
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| Thomas Ockerby | 
1916–1918
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| Thomas Henry Davey | 
1918–1921
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| Charles Melville Gibbons | 
1921–1923
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| Charles Frederic North | 
1923–1924
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| Aidan Hugh Bryan | 
1924–1928
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| Robert Wilkes | 
1928–1931
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| William Henry Ackland | 
1931–1932
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| John Black | 
1932–1945
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| Sir Laurence Percival Gadsdon | 
1945–1961
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Town of Cottesloe
| Mayor | 
Term
 | 
| Cecil Leonard Harvey | 
1961–1974
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| Lt. Col. James Anderson | 
1974–1987
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| Dr. Charles Murphy | 
1987–1994
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| Julian Donaldson | 
1994–1997
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| John Hammond | 
1997–2003
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| Robert Rowell | 
2003–2005
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| Kevin Morgan | 
2005–2013
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| Jo Dawkins | 
2013–2017
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| Philip Angers | 
2017–2021
 Lorraine Young  2021 to present [inserted 2025]
 
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