Elections were held to the municipal councils in Mandatory Palestine between March and May 1927.
During the late Ottoman period in Palestine the Ottoman Government recognised 22 municipalities, which the British kept in place following the Sinai and Palestine campaign. In two cities there was a Jewish majority, Jerusalem and Tiberias. Other cities had a Muslim or Christian majority.[1]
District | Sub-District | Municipality | Election day | Elected mayor |
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Southern | Gaza | 8–9 April | ||
6 April | Haj Salim Effendi Hussain | |||
7 April | Taj-Addin Sha't | |||
Beersheba | Beersheba | 12 April | Taju effendi Sha’t | |
Jaffa | Jaffa | 27–29 May | Assem Bey al-Said | |
Ramla | Ramla | 2 May | Sheikh Mustafa al-Khairi | |
Lydda | 26 April | Ahmed Effendi Husseini | ||
Jerusalem | Jerusalem | Jerusalem | 5–7 April | Raghib al-Nashashibi |
Hebron | Hebron | 13–14 April | Sheikh Mukhlis Hammuri | |
Ramallah | Ramallah | 24 March | Musa Effendi Khalil Musa | |
Bethlehem | Bethlehem | 27 March | Nicolas Attalah Effendi Shahin | |
Beit Jala | 27 March | Jiries Effendi Juma Abu Awad | ||
Northern | Nablus | Nablus | 7 April | |
Jenin | Jenin | 31 March | Aref Effendi Abdulrahman | |
Tulkarm | Tulkarm | 13 April | ||
Bisan | Bisan | 30 March | Haj Mahmud Effendi Abdullah el-Safadi | |
Haifa | Haifa | 16–18 April | Hassan Bey Shukri | |
Shafa Amr | ? | Da'ud Sulaiman Talhami | ||
Acre | Acre | 11 April | Abdul Fatah el-Sa'adi | |
Nazareth | Nazareth | 9 April | Selim Effendi Bishara | |
Tiberias | Tiberias | 26 April | Zaki Alhadif | |
Safad | Safad | 12 April | Mohamed Effendi Hasan Abd al-Rahman |