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.

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. 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 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.

List of mayors

Serial No.Date of Oath at OfficeNameParty
1029.04.1936Harisankar Paul
1128.04.1937Sanat K.Roy Chowdhury
1229.04.1938A.K.M. Zakariah
1326.04.1939Nisith Chandra Sen
1424.04.1940Abdur Rahman Siddiqi
1528.04.1941Phanindra Nath Brahma
1629.04.1942Hem Chandra Naskar
1730.04.1943Syed Badrudduja
1826.04.1944Anandi Lal Poddar
1927.04.1945Debendra Nath Mukherjee
2029.04.1946Syed Mohammed UsmanMuslim League
2129.04.1947Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri
2201.05.1952Nirmal Chandra Chunder
2306.03.1953Naresh Nath Mookherjee
2425.04.1955Satish Chandra Ghosh
2529.04.1957Triguna Sen
2608.04.1959Bejoy Kumar Banerjee
2708.06.1960Keshab Chandra Basu
2828.04.1961Rajendranath Majumdar
2908.04.1963Chittaranjan Chatterjee
3026.04.1965Priti Kumar Roy Chowdhury
3124.04.1967Gobinda Chandra Dey
3213.06.1969Prasanta Kumar Sur
3323.04.1971Shyam Sundar Gupta
3430.07.1985Kamal Kumar Basu
3530.07.1990Prasanta ChatterjeeCommunist Party of India
3612.07.2000Subrata MukherjeeAll India Trinamool Congress
3705.07.2005Bikash Ranjan BhattacharyaCommunist Party of India
3816.06.2010Sovan ChatterjeeAll India Trinamool Congress
3922.11.2018Firhad HakimAll India Trinamool Congress