Joseph Hayhurst (1864 – 13 June 1919) was a British politician and trade union leader.
[2] From 1893, Hayhurst was a delegate to the Bradford Trades Council, and later in the year, he was elected as general secretary of his union, by now renamed as the Amalgamated Society of Dyers.
He favoured the amalgamation of all the dyers' unions in the country, but little progress to this end was made under his leadership.
Hayhurst became an alderman, and the chair of the Labour Party group on the council.
In 1918, he was elected as the first Labour Lord Mayor of Bradford, but he died in office, in June 1919.