Mayor of Kolkata

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 39 mayors of Kolkata in total till now since first election in 1924.

Mayor of Kolkata
Incumbent Firhad Hakim since 3 December 2018
Style	Honorable Mayor
Nominator	Directly elected by vote
Inaugural holder	Chittaranjan Das
Formation	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.[1] Mayors were elected on an annual basis. No corporation elections were held, therefore there was no mayor, from 1948 to 1952.[1] In 1952 further mayors were appointed on an annual basis under the Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951.[1] There was another break in mayoral elections from 1972 to 1985, after which mayors were elected on a five year term under the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 West Bengal Act LIX of 1980.[1]

List of mayors

S. No.	Name	Portrait	Term[2]			Party
1	Chittaranjan Das		16 April 1924	17 July 1925	1 year, 92 days	Indian National Congress
2	Jatindra Mohan Sengupta		17 July 1925	4 February 1928	2 years, 202 days	Indian National Congress
3	Bijoy Kumar Basu		4 February 1928	10 April 1929	1 year, 65 days	Indian National Congress
4	Jatindra Mohan Sengupta		10 April 1929	22 August 1930	1 year, 134 days	Indian National Congress
5	Subhas Chandra Bose		22 August 1930	15 April 1931	236 days	Indian National Congress
6	Bidhan Chandra Roy		15 April 1931	9 April 1933	1 year, 359 days	Indian National Congress
7	Santosh Kumar Basu		9 April 1933	4 July 1934	1 year, 86 days	Indian National Congress
8	Nalini Ranjan Sarkar		4 July 1934	30 April 1935	300 days	Indian National Congress
9	Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque		30 April 1935	29 April 1936	365 days	Muslim League

List of Mayors of Kolkata[1][note 1]

Serial No.	Date of Oath at Office	Name	Party
10	29 April 1936	Harisankar Paul[note 2]
11	28 April 1937	Sanat K.Roy Chowdhury[note 2]
12	29 April 1938	A.K.M. Zakariah[note 2]
13	26 April 1939	Nisith Chandra Sen[note 2]
14	24 April 1940	Abdur Rahman Siddiqi[note 2]
15	28 April 1941	Phanindra Nath Brahma[note 2]
16	29 April 1942	Hem Chandra Naskar[note 2]
17	30 April 1943	Syed Badrudduja[note 2]
18	26 April 1944	Anandi Lal Poddar[note 2]
19	27 April 1945	Debendra Nath Mukherjee[note 2]
20	29 April 1946	Syed Mohammed Usman[note 2]	Muslim League
21	29 April 1947	Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri[note 2][note 3]
22	1 May 1952	Nirmal Chandra Chunder[note 4][3]
23	6 March 1953	Naresh Nath Mookherjee[note 4]
24	25 April 1955	Satish Chandra Ghosh[note 4]
25	29 April 1957	Triguna Sen[note 4]
26	8 April 1959	Bejoy Kumar Banerjee[note 4]
27	8 June 1960	Keshab Chandra Basu[note 4]
28	28 April 1961	Rajendranath Majumdar[note 4]
29	8 April 1963	Chittaranjan Chatterjee[note 4]
30	26 April 1965	Priti Kumar Roy Chowdhury[note 4]
31	24 April 1967	Gobinda Chandra Dey[note 4]
32	13 June 1969	Prasanta Kumar Sur[note 4]
33	23 April 1971	Shyam Sundar Gupta[note 4][note 3]
34	30 July 1985	Kamal Kumar Basu[note 5]
35	30 July 1990	Prasanta Chatterjee[note 5]	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
36	12 July 2000	Subrata Mukherjee[note 5]	All India Trinamool Congress
37	5 July 2005	Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya[note 5]	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
38	16 June 2010	Sovan Chatterjee[note 5]	All India Trinamool Congress
39	22 November 2018	Firhad Hakim[note 5]	All India Trinamool Congress

Notes

1. Only lists initial election date if serving consecutive terms
2. Pre-independence / British India
3. There was a break in election of mayors after this term
4. Post-independence under the Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951
5. Post-independence under the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 West Bengal Act LIX of 1980

References

1. "Mayors of Kolkata". Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
2. https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/MayorsKolkata.jsp
3. "Mayor of Calcutta Dead". The Indian Express. 2 March 1953. p. 3. Retrieved 9 February 2018.