| Status: | First Citizen of Kolkata |
| Insigniasize: | 100px |
| Border: | parliamentary |
| Minister: | not_prime |
| Nominator: | Directly elected by vote |
| Department: | Kolkata Municipal Corporation |
| Post: | Mayor |
| Body: | Kolkata |
| Style: | Honorable Mayor |
| Member Of: | Kolkata Municipal Corporation |
| Incumbent: | Firhad Hakim |
| Incumbentsince: | 22 November 2018 |
| Seat: | KMC, Headquarter |
| Termlength: | Five years, renewable |
| Deputy: | Atin Ghosh |
| Inaugural: | Chittaranjan Das |
| Residence: | Chetla, Kolkata - 700027 |
| Insigniacaption: | Seal of Kolkata Municipal Corporation |
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 first election in 1924.
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elections were held, therefore there was no mayor, from 1948 to 1952, since the Calcutta Municipal Corporation had been superseded by the State Government by The Corporation of Calcutta (Temporary Supersession) Act, 1948.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 There was another break in mayoral elections from 1972 during which time the Municipal Corporation had been superseded by the State Government on the Orders of the Governor.[1] From 1985 mayors were elected on a five year term under the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 West Bengal Act LIX of 1980.
| S. No. | Name | Portrait | Term[2] | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 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 1936 | Krishak Praja Party | |||
| 9 | Harisankar Paul | 29 April 1936 | 27 April 1937 | Indian 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 1941 | All-India Muslim League | |||
| 14 | Phanindra Nath Brahma | 28 April 1941 | 28 April 1942 | Indian National Congress | |||
| 15 | Hem Chandra Naskar | 29 April 1942 | 29 April 1943 | ||||
| 16 | Syed Badrudduja | 30 April 1943 | 25 April 1944 | All-India Muslim League | |||
| 17 | Anandi Lal Poddar | 26 April 1944 | 26 April 1945 | Indian National Congress | |||
| 18 | Debendra Nath Mukherjee | 27 April 1945 | 28 April 1946 | ||||
| 19 | Syed Mohammed Usman | 29 April 1946 | 28 April 1947 | Krishak Praja Party | |||
| 20 | Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri | 29 April 1947 | 23 March 1948 | Indian National Congress | |||
| Under Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951 | |||||||
| 21 | Nirmal Chandra Chunder | 1 May 1952 | 5 March 1953 | Indian 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 1971 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||
| 32 | Shyam Sundar Gupta | 23 April 1971 | 22 March 1972 | All India Forward Bloc | |||
| Under Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 West Bengal Act LIX of 1980 | |||||||
| 33 | Kamal Kumar Basu | 30 July 1985 | 29 July 1990 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||
| 34 | Prasanta Chatterjee | 30 July 1990 | 11 July 2000 | ||||
| 35 | Subrata Mukherjee | 12 July 2000 | 4 July 2005 | Trinamool Congress | |||
| 36 | Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya | 5 July 2005 | 15 June 2010 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||
| 37 | Sovan Chatterjee | 16 June 2010 | 21 November 2018 | Trinamool Congress | |||
| 38 | Firhad Hakim | 22 November 2018 | Incumbent | ||||