The Mayor of Kolkata is the chief executive of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, one of the civic authorities in the Indian city of Kolkata. He is the First Citizen of the city of Kolkata. There have been 38 mayors of Kolkata in total till now since the first mayoral election in 1924.
History The first Kolkata Municipal Election was held on 16 April 1924, during the time of British India, under the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923 - Bengal Act III of 1923. Mayors were elected on an annual basis. No corporation elections were held, therefore there was no mayor, from 1948 to 1952, since the Calcutta Municipal Corporation had been superseded by the State Government by The Corporation of Calcutta (Temporary Supersession) Act, 1948. In 1952 further mayors were appointed on an annual basis under the Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951. There was another break in mayoral elections from 1972 during which time the Municipal Corporation had been superseded by the State Government on the Orders of the Governor. From 1985 mayors were elected on a five year term under the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 West Bengal Act LIX of 1980.
List of mayors
+List of Mayors of Kolkata S. No. Name Portrait Term PartyUnder Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923 – Bengal Act III of 1923 1 Chittaranjan Das 16 April 1924 16 July 1925 Indian National Congress 2 Jatindra Mohan Sengupta 17 July 1925 3 February 1928 3 Bijoy Kumar Basu 4 February 1928 9 April 1929 (2) Jatindra Mohan Sengupta 10 April 1929 21 August 1930 4 Subhas Chandra Bose 22 August 1930 14 April 1931 5 Bidhan Chandra Roy 15 April 1931 8 April 1933 6 Santosh Kumar Basu 9 April 1933 3 July 1934 7 Nalini Ranjan Sarkar 4 July 1934 29 April 1935 8 Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque 30 April 1935 28 April 1936Krishak Praja Party 9 Harisankar Paul 29 April 1936 27 April 1937Indian National Congress 10 Sanat Kumar Roy Chowdhury 28 April 1937 28 April 1938 11 A.K.M. Zakaria 29 April 1938 25 April 1939 12 Nishith Chandra Sen 26 April 1939 23 April 1940 13 Abdur Rahman Siddiqui 24 April 1940 27 April 1941All-India Muslim League 14 Phanindra Nath Brahma 28 April 1941 28 April 1942Indian National Congress 15 Hem Chandra Naskar 29 April 1942 29 April 1943 16 Syed Badrudduja 30 April 1943 25 April 1944All-India Muslim League 17 Anandi Lal Poddar 26 April 1944 26 April 1945Indian National Congress 18 Debendra Nath Mukherjee 27 April 1945 28 April 1946 19 Syed Mohammed Usman 29 April 1946 28 April 1947All India Muslim League 20 Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri 29 April 1947 23 March 1948Indian National CongressUnder Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951 21 1 May 1952 5 March 1953Indian National Congress 22 Naresh Nath Mookherjee 6 March 1953 24 April 1955 23 Satish Chandra Ghosh 25 April 1955 28 April 1957 24 Triguna Sen 29 April 1957 7 April 1959 25 Bejoy Kumar Banerjee 8 April 1959 5 April 1960 26 Keshab Chandra Basu 6 April 1960 27 April 1961 27 Rajendranath Majumdar 28 April 1961 7 April 1963 28 Chittaranjan Chatterjee 8 April 1963 25 April 1965 29 Priti Kumar Roy Chowdhury 26 April 1965 23 April 1967 30 Gobinda Chandra Dey 24 April 1967 12 June 1969 31 Prasanta Sur 13 June 1969 22 April 1971Communist Party of India (Marxist) 32 Shyam Sundar Gupta 23 April 1971 22 March 1972All India Forward BlocUnder Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 West Bengal Act LIX of 1980 33 Kamal Kumar Basu 30 July 1985 29 July 1990Communist Party of India (Marxist) 34 Prasanta Chatterjee 30 July 1990 11 July 2000 35 Subrata Mukherjee 12 July 2000 4 July 2005All India Trinamool Congress 36 Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya 5 July 2005 15 June 2010Communist Party of India (Marxist) 37 Sovan Chatterjee 16 June 2010 21 November 2018All India Trinamool Congress 38 Firhad Hakim 22 November 2018 5 June 2026
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