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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2018}}
{{More citations needed|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox political post
|insignia =
|insigniasize = 80px
| border = parliamentary
| minister = not_prime
| nominator = Directly elected by vote
| post = Mayor of Kolkata
| image = Firhad Hakim.jpg
| imagesize =
| style = Honorable Mayor
| incumbent = [[Firhad Hakim]]
| incumbentsince = 23 December 2021
| appointer =
| inaugural = [[Chittaranjan Das]]
| formation = 1924
| residence =
| precursor =
}}
The '''Mayor of Kolkata''' is the chief executive of the [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]], one of the [[Civic administration of Kolkata|civic authorities]] in the [[India]]n 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.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}

==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''.<ref name="kmc-list" /> Mayors were elected on an annual basis. No corporation elections were held, therefore there was no mayor, from 1948 to 1952.<ref name="kmc-list" /> In 1952 further mayors were appointed on an annual basis under the ''Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951''.<ref name="kmc-list" /> 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''.<ref name="kmc-list" />

==List of mayors==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
|-
! scope="col" | S. No.
! colspan=1| Name
! colspan=1| Portrait
! colspan=3| Term<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/MayorsKolkata.jsp|title = Official Website of Kolkata Municipal Corporation}}</ref>
! colspan=2| Party
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! 1
| [[Chittaranjan Das]]
| [[File:Chittaranjan Das 2.jpg|75px]]
| 16 April 1924
| 17 July 1925
| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|1924|4|16|1925|7|17}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! 2
| [[Jatindra Mohan Sengupta]]
| [[File:Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta.jpg|100px]]
| 17 July 1925
| 4 February 1928
| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|1925|7|17|1928|2|4}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! 3
| Bijoy Kumar Basu
|
| 4 February 1928
| 10 April 1929
| {{age in years and days|sortable=table|1928|2|4|1929|4|10}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! (2)
| [[Jatindra Mohan Sengupta]]
| [[File:Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta.jpg|100px]]
| 10 April 1929
| 22 August 1930
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1929|4|10|1930|8|22}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! 4
| [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]
| [[File:Subhas Chandra Bose NRB.jpg|75px]]
| 22 August 1930
| 15 April 1931
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1930|8|22|1931|4|15}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! 5
| [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]]
| [[File:Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy in 1943 (cropped).jpg|75px]]
| 15 April 1931
| 9 April 1933
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1931|4|15|1933|4|9}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! 6
| Santosh Kumar Basu
|
| 9 April 1933
| 4 July 1934
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1933|4|9|1934|7|4}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! 7
| [[Nalini Ranjan Sarkar]]
|
| 4 July 1934
| 30 April 1935
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1934|7|4|1935|4|30}}
|[[Indian National Congress]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|Indian National Congress}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
! 8
| [[AK Fazlul Huq|Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque]]
| [[File:A k fazlul hoque.jpg|75px]]
| 30 April 1935
| 29 April 1936
|{{age in years and days|sortable=table|1935|4|30|1936|4|29}}
|[[Krishak Praja Party]]
| width="4px" style="background-color: {{party color|All-India Muslim League}}" |
|- style="text-align:center; height:60px;"
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ style="text-align: centre;" | List of Mayors of Kolkata<ref name="kmc-list" /><ref name="note-table" group="note" />
|-
!Serial No. !! Date of Oath at Office !! Name !! Party
|-
| 9 || {{dts|1936|04|29|format=dmy}} || Harisankar Paul<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 10 || {{dts|1937|04|28|format=dmy}} || Sanat K.Roy Chowdhury<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 11 || {{dts|1938|04|29|format=dmy}} || A.K.M. Zakariah<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 12 || {{dts|1939|04|26|format=dmy}} || Nisith Chandra Sen<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 13 || {{dts|1940|04|24|format=dmy}} || Abdur Rahman Siddiqi<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 14 || {{dts|1941|04|28|format=dmy}} || Phanindra Nath Brahma<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 15 || {{dts|1942|04|29|format=dmy}} || Hem Chandra Naskar<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 16 || {{dts|1943|04|30|format=dmy}} || [[Syed Badrudduja]]<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> || [[All-India Muslim League]]
|-
| 17 || {{dts|1944|04|26|format=dmy}} || Anandi Lal Poddar<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 18 || {{dts|1945|04|27|format=dmy}} || Debendra Nath Mukherjee<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 19 || {{dts|1946|04|29|format=dmy}} || Syed Mohammed Usman<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /> || Muslim League
|-
| 20 || {{dts|1947|04|29|format=dmy}} || Sudhir Chandra Ray Chaudhuri<ref name="note-brit" group="note" /><ref name="note-break" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 21 || {{dts|1952|05|01|format=dmy}} || Nirmal Chandra Chunder<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /><ref name="1953-03-03-express" /> ||
|-
| 22 || {{dts|1953|03|06|format=dmy}} || Naresh Nath Mookherjee<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 23 || {{dts|1955|04|25|format=dmy}} || Satish Chandra Ghosh<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 24 || {{dts|1957|04|29|format=dmy}} || [[Triguna Sen]]<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> || [[Indian National Congress]]
|-
| 25 || {{dts|1959|04|08|format=dmy}} || Bejoy Kumar Banerjee<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 26 || {{dts|1960|06|08|format=dmy}} || Keshab Chandra Basu<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 27 || {{dts|1961|04|28|format=dmy}} || Rajendranath Majumdar<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 28 || {{dts|1963|04|08|format=dmy}} || Chittaranjan Chatterjee<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 29 || {{dts|1965|04|26|format=dmy}} || Priti Kumar Roy Chowdhury<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 30 || {{dts|1967|04|24|format=dmy}} || Gobinda Chandra Dey<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 31 || {{dts|1969|06|13|format=dmy}} || Prasanta Kumar Sur<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /> ||
|-
| 32 || {{dts|1971|04|23|format=dmy}} || [[Shyam Sundar Gupta]]<ref name="note-1951" group="note" /><ref name="note-break" group="note" /> || [[Janata Party]]
|-
| 33 || {{dts|1985|07|30|format=dmy}} || Kamal Kumar Basu<ref name="note-1980" group="note" /> ||

|-
| 34 || {{dts|1990|07|30|format=dmy}} || [[Prasanta Chatterjee]]<ref name="note-1980" group="note" /> || [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|-
| 35 || {{dts|2000|07|12|format=dmy}} || [[Subrata Mukherjee]]<ref name="note-1980" group="note" /> || [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
| 36 || {{dts|2005|07|05|format=dmy}} || [[Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya]]<ref name="note-1980" group="note" /> || [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
|-
| 37 || {{dts|2010|06|16|format=dmy}} || [[Sovan Chatterjee]]<ref name="note-1980" group="note" /> || [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
| 38 || {{dts|2018|11|22|format=dmy}} || [[Firhad Hakim]]<ref name="note-1980" group="note" /> || [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|-
| rowspan ="3" {{Vert header|{{centre|''Vacant'' <br /> '''Chairman of Board of Administrators'''}}}}
| 8 May 2020
| [[Firhad Hakim]],<ref name=BOA2020>{{Cite web|title=Firhad Hakim appointed as chairperson of board of administrators of KMC|url=https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/firhad-hakim-appointed-as-chairperson-of-board-of-administrators-of-kmc20200506204211/|access-date=2021-03-20|website=ANI News|language=en}}</ref>
|
|-
| 22 March 2021
| Khalil Ahmed, [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=IAS Khalil Ahmed appointed administrator of Kolkata Municipal Corporation|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kolkata/2021/mar/22/ias-khalil-ahmed-appointed-administrator-of-kolkata-municipal-corporation-2280028.html|access-date=2021-03-24|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref> (''Interim Administrator'' for election days only)
|
|-
|7 May 2021
| [[Firhad Hakim]]
|
|-
|(38)
|23 Dec 2021
| [[Firhad Hakim]]
| [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
|}

==Notes==
{{reflist|group=note
|refs=
<ref name="note-table" group="note">Only lists initial election date if serving consecutive terms</ref>
<ref name="note-brit" group="note">Pre-independence / British India</ref>
<ref name="note-break" group="note">There was a break in election of mayors after this term</ref>
<ref name="note-1951" group="note">Post-independence under the Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951</ref>
<ref name="note-1980" group="note">Post-independence under the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 West Bengal Act LIX of 1980</ref>
}}

==References==
{{reflist
|refs=
<ref name="kmc-list">{{cite web |title=Mayors of Kolkata |url=https://www.kmcgov.in/KMCPortal/jsp/MayorsKolkata.jsp |website=[[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]] |accessdate=18 February 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="1953-03-03-express">{{cite news|title=Mayor of Calcutta Dead|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19530302&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|accessdate=9 February 2018|work=The Indian Express|date=2 March 1953|page=3}}</ref>
}}

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