| Election Name: | 1937 Pittsburgh mayoral election |
| Flag Image: | Flag of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.svg |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1933 Pittsburgh mayoral election |
| Previous Year: | 1933 |
| Next Election: | 1941 Pittsburgh mayoral election |
| Next Year: | 1941 |
| Election Date: | November 2, 1937 |
| Image1: | Cornelius D. Scully (standing).tif |
| Nominee1: | Conn Scully |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote1: | 122,329 |
| Percentage1: | 57.1% |
| Nominee2: | Bob Waddell |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote2: | 92,019 |
| Percentage2: | 42.9% |
| Mayor | |
| Before Election: | Conn Scully |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Conn Scully |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The Mayoral election of 1937 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1937. Incumbent Democrat Conn Scully, the former City Council President who had assumed the executive rank in October 1936, after the resignation of William McNair, was elected to a first full term.
The McNair administration had been shrouded in controversy, including hostile relations between the mayor and both city council and the county bureaucracy, as well as a slow response to the devastating St. Patrick's Day Flood. Scully had been a vocal McNair adversary and was closely connected to David L. Lawrence, the state party chairman and city political leader (who later became mayor); this position saved the mayor's office for Democrats, who had been only recently empowered in the city. The race featured a strong GOP opponent in Bob Waddell, the popular football coach at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University).
Councilman Abe Wolk made the formation of a Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera a major campaign issue for both candidates.[1]