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The Lord Mayor of Belfast is a ceremonial position held by a member of Belfast City Council and annually elected by that council.

The post originated in 1613 as the Sovereign of Belfast. In 1842, this position was restyled the Mayor of Belfast, and in 1892, it was given Lord Mayor status. In 1929, it became one of only six cities in the United Kingdom to have a Lord Mayor styled "the Right Honorable". On the island of Ireland, it is one of three cities having a Lord Mayor, the other two being Cork and Dublin. The position was held for three years until 1973. From 1921 until 1972, the Lord Mayor was automatically entitled to a seat in the Senate of Northern Ireland.

Given the nature of politics in Northern Ireland, the candidate for this position and their political orientation are often a cause of controversy. The first non-Unionist Lord Mayor was David Cook in 1978; while no nationalist was elected to the post until Alban McGuinness in 1997.

List of Lord Mayors of Belfast

From	To	Name	Party
1892	1893	Daniel Dixon	Irish Unionist Party
1894	1896	William McCammond
1896	1898	William James Pirrie	Liberal Party
1898	1899	James Henderson
1899	1900	Otto Jaffe	Irish Unionist Party
1900	1901	Robert John McConnell
1901	1904	Sir Daniel Dixon	Irish Unionist Party
1904	1905	Otto Jaffe	Irish Unionist Party
1905	1907	Sir Daniel Dixon	Irish Unionist Party
1907	1908	Anthony Ashley-Cooper
1908	1910	Robert Anderson
1910	1914	Robert James McMordie	Irish Unionist Party
1914	1917	Crawford McCullagh	Irish Unionist Party
1917	1919	James Johnston
1919	1920	John C. White
1920	1923	William Frederick Coates	Ulster Unionist Party
1923	1929	William George Turner	Ulster Unionist Party
1929	1931	William Frederick Coates	Ulster Unionist Party
1931	1942	Crawford McCullagh	Ulster Unionist Party
1942	1942	George Ruddell Black	Ulster Unionist Party
1943	1946	Crawford McCullagh	Ulster Unionist Party
1946	1949	William Frederick Neill	Ulster Unionist Party
1949	1951	William Ernest George Johnston	Ulster Unionist Party
1951	1953	James Henry Norritt	Ulster Unionist Party
1953	1955	Percival Brown	Ulster Unionist Party
1955	1957	Robert Harcourt	Ulster Unionist Party
1957	1959	Cecil McKee	Ulster Unionist Party
1959	1961	Robin Kinahan	Ulster Unionist Party
1961	1963	Martin Kelso Wallace	Ulster Unionist Party
1963	1966	William Jenkins	Ulster Unionist Party
1966	1969	William Duncan Geddis	Ulster Unionist Party
1969	1972	Joseph Foster Cairns	Ulster Unionist Party
1972	1975	William Christie	Ulster Unionist Party
1975	1977	Myles Humphreys	Ulster Unionist Party
1977	1978	James Stewart	Ulster Unionist Party
1978	1979	David Cook	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
1979	1980	Billy Bell	Ulster Unionist Party
1980	1981	John Carson	Ulster Unionist Party
1981	1982	Grace Bannister	Ulster Unionist Party
1982	1983	Thomas Patton	Ulster Unionist Party
1983	1985	Alfie Ferguson	Ulster Unionist Party
1985	1986	John Carson	Ulster Unionist Party
1986	1987	Sammy Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party
1987	1988	J. J. Dixon Gilmore	Ulster Unionist Party
1988	1989	Nigel Dodds	Democratic Unionist Party
1989	1990	Reg Empey	Ulster Unionist Party
1990	1991	Fred Cobain	Ulster Unionist Party
1991	1992	Nigel Dodds	Democratic Unionist Party
1992	1993	Herbert Ditty	Ulster Unionist Party
1993	1994	Reg Empey	Ulster Unionist Party
1994	1995	Hugh Smyth	Progressive Unionist Party
1995	1996	Eric Smyth	Democratic Unionist Party
1996	1997	Ian Adamson	Ulster Unionist Party
1997	1998	Alban Maginness	Social Democratic and Labour Party
1998	1999	David Alderdice	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
1999	2000	Bob Stoker	Ulster Unionist Party
2000	2001	Sammy Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party
2001	2002	Jim Rodgers	Ulster Unionist Party
2002	2003	Alex Maskey	Sinn Féin
2003	2004	Martin Morgan	Social Democratic and Labour Party
2004	2005	Tom Ekin	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
2005	2006	Wallace Browne	Democratic Unionist Party
2006	2007	Patrick McCarthy	Social Democratic and Labour Party
2007	2008	Jim Rodgers	Ulster Unionist Party

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