# List of mayors 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 38 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elections were held, therefore there was no mayor, from 1948 to 1952, since the Calcutta Municipal Corporation had been superseded by the State Government by The Corporation of Calcutta (Temporary Supersession) Act, 1948.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 There was another break in mayoral elections from 1972 during which time the Municipal Corporation had been superseded by the State Government on the Orders of the Governor. From 1985 mayors were elected on a five year term under the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 West Bengal Act LIX of 1980.

## List of mayors

List of Mayors of Kolkata :
| S. No. | Name | Term | Term | Term | Party |
| Under Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923 - Bengal Act III of 1923 ||||||||
| 1 | Chittaranjan Das | 16 April 1924 | 16 July 1925 | 1 year, 91 days | Indian National Congress |
| 2 | Jatindra Mohan Sengupta | 17 July 1925 | 3 February 1928 | 2 years, 201 days | Indian National Congress |
| 3 | Bijoy Kumar Basu | 4 February 1928 | 9 April 1929 | 1 year, 64 days | Indian National Congress |
| (2) | Jatindra Mohan Sengupta | 10 April 1929 | 21 August 1930 | 1 year, 133 days | Indian National Congress |
| 4 | Subhas Chandra Bose | 22 August 1930 | 14 April 1931 | 235 days | Indian National Congress |
| 5 | Bidhan Chandra Roy | 15 April 1931 | 8 April 1933 | 1 year, 358 days | Indian National Congress |
| 6 | Santosh Kumar Basu | 9 April 1933 | 3 July 1934 | 1 year, 85 days | Indian National Congress |
| 7 | Nalini Ranjan Sarkar | 4 July 1934 | 29 April 1935 | 299 days | Indian National Congress |
| 8 | Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque | 30 April 1935 | 28 April 1936 | 364 days | Krishak Praja Party |
| 9 | Harisankar Paul | 29 April 1936 | 27 April 1937 | 363 days | Indian National Congress |
| 10 | Sanat Kumar Roy Chowdhury | 28 April 1937 | 28 April 1938 | 1 year, 0 days | Indian National Congress |
| 11 | A.K.M. Zakaria | 29 April 1938 | 25 April 1939 | 361 days | Indian National Congress |
| 12 | Nishith Chandra Sen | 26 April 1939 | 23 April 1940 | 363 days | Indian National Congress |
| 13 | Abdur Rahman Siddiqui | 24 April 1940 | 27 April 1941 | 1 year, 3 days | All-India Muslim League |
| 14 | Phanindra Nath Brahma | 28 April 1941 | 28 April 1942 | 1 year, 0 days | Indian National Congress |
| 15 | Hem Chandra Naskar | 29 April 1942 | 29 April 1943 | 1 year, 0 days | Indian National Congress |
| 16 | Syed Badrudduja | 30 April 1943 | 25 April 1944 | 361 days | All-India Muslim League |
| 17 | Anandi Lal Poddar | 26 April 1944 | 26 April 1945 | 1 year, 0 days | Indian National Congress |
| 18 | Debendra Nath Mukherjee | 27 April 1945 | 28 April 1946 | 1 year, 1 day | Indian National Congress |
| 19 | Syed Mohammed Usman | 29 April 1946 | 28 April 1947 | 364 days | Krishak Praja Party |
| 20 | Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri | 29 April 1947 | 23 March 1948 | 329 days | Indian National Congress |
| Under Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951 ||||||||
| 21 | Nirmal Chandra Chunder | 1 May 1952 | 5 March 1953 | 308 days | Indian National Congress |
| 22 | Naresh Nath Mookherjee | 6 March 1953 | 24 April 1955 | 2 years, 49 days | Indian National Congress |
| 23 | Satish Chandra Ghosh | 25 April 1955 | 28 April 1957 | 2 years, 3 days | Indian National Congress |
| 24 | Triguna Sen | 29 April 1957 | 7 April 1959 | 1 year, 343 days | Indian National Congress |
| 25 | Bejoy Kumar Banerjee | 8 April 1959 | 5 April 1960 | 363 days | Indian National Congress |
| 26 | Keshab Chandra Basu | 6 April 1960 | 27 April 1961 | 1 year, 21 days | Indian National Congress |
| 27 | Rajendranath Majumdar | 28 April 1961 | 7 April 1963 | 1 year, 344 days | Indian National Congress |
| 28 | Chittaranjan Chatterjee | 8 April 1963 | 25 April 1965 | 2 years, 17 days | Indian National Congress |
| 29 | Priti Kumar Roy Chowdhury | 26 April 1965 | 23 April 1967 | 1 year, 362 days | Indian National Congress |
| 30 | Gobinda Chandra Dey | 24 April 1967 | 12 June 1969 | 2 years, 49 days | Indian National Congress |
| 31 | Prasanta Sur | 13 June 1969 | 22 April 1971 | 1 year, 313 days | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 32 | Shyam Sundar Gupta | 23 April 1971 | 22 March 1972 | 334 days | 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 | 4 years, 364 days | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 34 | Prasanta Chatterjee | 30 July 1990 | 11 July 2000 | 9 years, 347 days | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 35 | Subrata Mukherjee | 12 July 2000 | 4 July 2005 | 4 years, 357 days | Trinamool Congress |
| 36 | Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya | 5 July 2005 | 15 June 2010 | 4 years, 345 days | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| 37 | Sovan Chatterjee | 16 June 2010 | 21 November 2018 | 8 years, 159 days | Trinamool Congress |
| 38 | Firhad Hakim | 22 November 2018 | Incumbent | 6 years, 38 days | Trinamool Congress |