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
StyleHonorable Mayor
NominatorDirectly elected by vote
Inaugural holderChittaranjan Das
Formation1924

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 OfficeNameParty
1029 April 1936Harisankar Paul[note 2]
1128 April 1937Sanat K.Roy Chowdhury[note 2]
1229 April 1938A.K.M. Zakariah[note 2]
1326 April 1939Nisith Chandra Sen[note 2]
1424 April 1940Abdur Rahman Siddiqi[note 2]
1528 April 1941Phanindra Nath Brahma[note 2]
1629 April 1942Hem Chandra Naskar[note 2]
1730 April 1943Syed Badrudduja[note 2]
1826 April 1944Anandi Lal Poddar[note 2]
1927 April 1945Debendra Nath Mukherjee[note 2]
2029 April 1946Syed Mohammed Usman[note 2]Muslim League
2129 April 1947Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri[note 2][note 3]
221 May 1952Nirmal Chandra Chunder[note 4][3]
236 March 1953Naresh Nath Mookherjee[note 4]
2425 April 1955Satish Chandra Ghosh[note 4]
2529 April 1957Triguna Sen[note 4]
268 April 1959Bejoy Kumar Banerjee[note 4]
278 June 1960Keshab Chandra Basu[note 4]
2828 April 1961Rajendranath Majumdar[note 4]
298 April 1963Chittaranjan Chatterjee[note 4]
3026 April 1965Priti Kumar Roy Chowdhury[note 4]
3124 April 1967Gobinda Chandra Dey[note 4]
3213 June 1969Prasanta Kumar Sur[note 4]
3323 April 1971Shyam Sundar Gupta[note 4][note 3]
3430 July 1985Kamal Kumar Basu[note 5]
3530 July 1990Prasanta Chatterjee[note 5]Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3612 July 2000Subrata Mukherjee[note 5]All India Trinamool Congress
375 July 2005Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya[note 5]Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3816 June 2010Sovan Chatterjee[note 5]All India Trinamool Congress
3922 November 2018Firhad 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.
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