List of mayors of Buffalo, New York

Number of Mayors of Buffalo by party affiliation

Party	Mayors
Democratic	29
Democratic-Republican	2
Republican	15
Whig	12
No Party	4

Elections in New York
Federal government Presidential elections 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 Presidential primaries Democratic 2004 2008 Republican 2004 2008 2012 United States Senate elections 1789 1791 1795 1797 1801 1803 1807 1809 1813 1815 1819-20 1821 1825-26 1827 1831 1833 1837 1839-40 1843 1845 1849 1851 1855 1857 1861 1863 1867 1869 1873 1875 1879 1881 1885 1887 1891 1893 1897 1899 1903 1905 1909 1911 1964 1980 1986 1988 1992 1994 1998 2000 2004 2006 2010 2012 House of Representatives elections 1789 1790 1793 1794 1796 1796 1798 1800 1802 1804 1806 1808 1810 1812 1814 1816 1818 1821 1822 1824 1826 1854 2002 2004 2006 13th 20th 29th 2008 2010 2012 2014 Special elections to the United States Congress 20th district, 2009 23rd district, 2009 Senate, 2010 26th district, 2011 9th district, 2011 List of House special elections
State government New York gubernatorial elections 1777 1780 1783 1786 1789 1792 1795 1798 1801 1804 1807 1810 1813 1816 1817 1820 1822 1824 1826 1828 1830 1832 1834 1836 1838 1840 1842 1844 1846 1848 1850 1852 1854 1856 1858 1860 1862 1864 1866 1868 1870 1872 1874 1876 1879 1882 1885 1888 1891 1894 1896 1898 1900 1902 1904 1906 1908 1910 1912 1914 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 1926 1928 1930 1932 1934 1936 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 Attorney General elections 1998 2002 2006 2010 State Comptroller elections 1998 2002 2006 2010 State Assembly elections 99th district, 2006 State elections by year 1811 1844 1846 1847-J 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1870–J 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1900 1902 1903 1904 1906 1907 1908 1910 1912 1913 1914 1916 1917 1918 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1926 1927 1928 1930 1932 1933 1934 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1942 1943 1944 1946 1949 1950 1952 1953 1954 1956 1958 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1972 1973 1974 2002 2006 2008 2009 2010 2012
New York City Characteristics of NYC mayoral elections Mayoral elections 1917 1977 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 Public Advocate elections 2009 Comptroller elections 2009 Borough and County Government The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island
Buffalo Mayoral elections 2009
Syracuse Mayoral elections 2009

List of mayors

#	Name	Picture	Party	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	Ebenezer Johnson		Democratic-Republican	May 1832	March 1833
2	Major Andre Andrews			1833	1834
3	Ebenezer Johnson		Democratic-Republican	1834	1835
4	Hiram Pratt		Whig	1835	1836
5	Samuel Wilkeson			1836	1837
6	Josiah Trowbridge		Whig	March 14, 1837	December 21, 1837
7	Pierre A. Barker			1837	1838
8	Ebenezer Walden		Whig	March 13, 1838	1839
9	Hiram Pratt		Whig	1839	1840
10	Sheldon Thompson		Whig	1840	March 2, 1841
11	Isaac R. Harrington		Whig	March 2, 1841	March 8, 1842
12	George William Clinton			1842	1843
13	Joseph G. Masten		Democratic	1843	1844
14	William Ketchum		Whig	1844	1845
15	Joseph G. Masten		Democratic	1845	1846
16	Solomon G. Haven		Whig	1846	1847
17	Elbridge G. Spaulding		Whig	1847	1848
18	Orlando Allen		Whig	1848	1849
19	Hiram Barton		Whig	1849	1850
20	Henry K. Smith		Democratic	1850	1851
21	James Wadsworth		Democratic	1851	1852
22	Hiram Barton		Whig	1852	1853
23	Eli Cook		Democratic	1853	1855
24	Frederick P. Stevens		Democratic	1856	1857
25	Timothy T. Lockwood		Democratic	1858	1859
26	Franklin A. Alberger		Republican	1860	1861
27	William G. Fargo		Democratic	1862	1865
28	Chandler J. Wells		Republican	1866	1867
29	William F. Rogers		Democratic	1868	1869
30	Alexander Brush		Republican	1870	1873
31	Lewis P. Dayton		Democratic	1874	1875
32	Philip Becker		Republican	1876	1877
33	Solomon Scheu		Democratic	1878	1879
34	Alexander Brush		Republican	1880	1881
35	Grover Cleveland		Democratic	January 2, 1882	November 20, 1882
36	Marcus M. Drake		Republican	November 20, 1882	December 29, 1882
37	Harmon S. Cutting		Democratic	December 29, 1882	January 16, 1883
38	John B. Manning		Democratic	January 16, 1883	1884
39	Jonathan Scoville		Democratic	1884	1885
40	Philip Becker		Republican	1886	1889
41	Charles F. Bishop		Democratic	1890	1894
42	Edgar B. Jewett		Republican	1895	1897
43	Conrad Diehl		Democratic	1898	1901
44	Erastus C. Knight		Republican	1902	1905
45	James N. Adam		Democratic	1906	1909
46	Louis P. Fuhrmann		Democratic	1910	1917
47	George S. Buck		Republican	1918	1921
48	Frank X. Schwab		Republican	1922	1929
49	Charles E. Roesch		Republican	1930	1933
50	George J. Zimmermann		Democratic	1934	1937
51	Thomas L. Holling		Democratic	1938	1941
52	Joseph J. Kelly		Democratic	1942	1945
53	Bernard J. Dowd		Republican	1946	1949
54	Joseph Mruk		Republican	1950	1953
55	Steven Pankow		Democratic	1954	1957
56	Frank A. Sedita		Democratic	1958	1961
57	Chester A. Kowal		Republican	1962	1965
58	Frank A. Sedita		Democratic	1966	1973
59	Stanley M. Makowski		Democratic	1973	1977
60	James D. Griffin		Democratic	January 1, 1978	January 1, 1994
61	Anthony Masiello		Democratic	January 1, 1994	January 1, 2006
62	Byron Brown		Democratic	January 1, 2006	Present

Mayoral Elections

(winners are in bold)

Date	Candidates
November 8, 1881	John B. Manning	Robert R. Hefford
	11,036	7,321
January 9, 1883	Grover Cleveland	Milton Beebe
	15,120	11,528
November 6, 1973	Stanley M. Makowski	Stewart M. Levy	John A. Westra	Patrick W. Giagnacova	Ira Liebowitz
	77,569	24,423	2,640	1,147	597
November 2, 1993	Anthony Masiello	Richard A. Grimm	Eugene Fahey
	36,092	9,277	7,566
November 8, 2005	Byron Brown	Kevin Helfer
	64%	27%