The Mayor is the highest elected official in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. Since its incorporation in 1901, the city has had twenty mayors.
| # | Mayor | Taking Office | Leaving |
| 1 | Vivian Burrill | 1901 | 1902 |
| 2 | Arthur Dufresne | 1902 | 1902 |
| 3 | Beaudry Leman | 1902 | 1908 [1] |
| 1 | Vivian Burrill | 1908 | 1913 |
| 4 | Joseph-Auguste Frigon[2] | 1913 | 1915 |
| 5 | Edmond Thibaudeau | 1915 | 1917 |
| 4 | Joseph-Auguste Frigon | 1917 | 1918 |
| 6 | Napoléon Désaulniers | 1918 | 1920 |
| 7 | Joseph-Alexis Dufresne[3] | 1920 | 1928 |
| 6 | Napoléon Désaulniers | 1928 | 1930 |
| 8 | Albert Gigaire | 1930 | 1936 |
| 9 | Lucien Bourassa | 1936 | 1937 [4] |
| 10 | Alexandre Gélinas | 1937 | 1938 |
| 11 | J.A. Bilodeau | 1938 | 1946 |
| 12 | François Roy | 1946 | 1954 |
| 13 | Gaston Hardy[5] | 1954 | 1957 [6] |
| 14 | Armand Foucher | 1957 | 1963 [7] |
| 15 | Gérard Dufresne[8] | 1963 | 1966 |
| 16 | Maurice Bruneau | 1966 | 1970 |
| 17 | Dominique Grenier | 1970 | 1986 |
| 18 | Roland Désaulniers | 1986 | 1994 |
| 19 | Lise Landry | 1994 | 2009 |
| 20 | Michel Angers | 2009 | Current |
Officially, elections to the Shawinigan Council are on a non-partisan basis. In recent history however, mayors of Shawinigan have been generally Liberal leaning. Gérard Dufresne, Dominique Grenier, Roland Désaulniers and Lise Landry were or have been card-carrying supporters of the Quebec Liberal Party and the Liberal Party of Canada.
Footnotes
edit- ^ Leman resigned before the end of his last term. The City Councillors chose Vivian Burill to fill the vacancy. Vivian Burill served as Acting Mayor from June 15, 1908, to January 2, 1909.
- ^ From 1927 to 1935, Frigon was the Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly for the district of Saint-Maurice.
- ^ In 1908, 1912, 1919 and 1923, J.-A. Dufresne was the Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Saint-Maurice. Each time he lost.
- ^ Bourassa died before the end of his term. Alexandre Gélinas was elected mayor on May 3, 1937, and served until July 2, 1938.
- ^ In 1956 and 1960, Hardy was the Union Nationale candidate in the district of Saint-Maurice, against incumbent MLA René Hamel. Each time he lost.
- ^ Hardy resigned before the end of his term. Armand Foucher was elected mayor on February 11, 1957.
- ^ Foucher resigned before the end of his term. The City Councillors chose Henri Désaulniers to fill the vacancy. Henri Désaulniers served as Acting Mayor from September 3 to November 1, 1963.
- ^ The name of the Mayor of Trois-Rivières during the same period was also Gérard Dufresne.