The Mayor is a constitutional position in each of the five City Corporations constituted under the Greater Bengaluru Authority within the city of Bengaluru (Greater Bengaluru Area). Under the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 (Karnataka Act No. 36 of 2025), which came into force on 15 May 2025, the former Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) was dissolved and replaced by a three-tier governance structure. As of 2 September 2025, when the new structure became fully operational, Bengaluru is administered by five City Corporations: +CorporationsNo. of WardsMayorBengaluru Central City Corporation63TBEBengaluru North City Corporation72TBEBengaluru South City Corporation72TBEBengaluru East City Corporation50TBEBengaluru West City Corporation112TBEGreater Bengaluru Authority369- Each Corporation is headed by its own elected Mayor and an appointed Commissioner. There is no longer a single Mayor for Bengaluru. Instead, each of the five Mayors serves their respective City Corporation and is an ex-officio member of the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA), the apex coordinating body chaired by the Chief Minister of Karnataka. The role of Mayor is largely ceremonial. The Mayor also plays a functional role in deliberating over discussions in their respective City Corporation. The term of each Mayor is set for 30 months as per the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024.
Previously, under the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Act, 2020, Bengaluru had a single Mayor for the entire city with a five-year term, which was never implemented as no council was elected after the enactment of this law, which was eventually replaced with Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024. Under the earlier Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976, the term of the Mayor was fixed at one year.
Mayors of Bengaluru (Unified) 1949–2025
No. Mayor Term start Term endParty Notes Corporation of the City of Bangalore (1949 – 1950)City of Bangalore Municipal Corporation Act, 1949 paved the way for the formation of the Corporation of the City of Bangalore (CCB) in 1949 with 70 elected member in 50 electoral divisions (wards) by the merger of Bangalore Municipal Board (City area) and the Bangalore Cantonment Board (Cantonment Area).The number of electoral divisions was further increased to 52 renamed in 1950 as Bangalore City Corporation (BCC). 1 R. Subbanna 1949 1950 First Nominated Mayor of Bengaluru; served under the Corporation of the City of BangaloreBangalore City Corporation - First Council (1950 – 1954) 1950 Bangalore City Corporation Elections. (First Elections as a City Corporation)Indian National Congress held a majority throughout this period. 2 N. Keshava Iyengar 1950 1951 First Elected Mayor under the renamed Bangalore City Municipal Corporation. Later Lok Sabha MP for Bangalore North(1952 – 1957) First Mayor with mother tongue as Tamil. First non-Kannadiga Mayor. 3 R. Anantharaman 1951 1952 4 B. V. Lankappa 1952 1953 5 V. Hanumanthaiah 1953 1954 Bangalore City Corporation - Second Council (1954 – 1959) 1954 Bangalore City Corporation Elections.Indian National Congress held a majority throughout this period. 6 H. S. Seetharam 1954 1955 First Mayor with mother tongue as Telugu. 7 V.P. Deenadayalu Naidu 1955 1956 8 M. Krishnappa 1956 1957 9 Jeena Bai Devidas 1957 1958 First woman Mayor 10 Y. Ramachandra 1958 1959 Bangalore City Corporation - Third Council (1959 – 1964) 1959 Bangalore City Corporation Elections.Indian National Congress held a majority throughout this period. 11 N. Narayana Chetty 1959 1960 12 B. Indiramma 1960 1961 Second woman Mayor 13 B. Nanjappa 1961 1962 14 V. S. Krishna Iyer 1962 1963 Later founder member of the Janata Party (1977) Later Lok Sabha MP for Bangalore South(1984 – 1989) 15 K. M. Nanjappa 1963 1964 Bangalore City Corporation - Fourth Council (1964 – 1967)1964 Bangalore City Corporation Elections.Indian National Congress held a majority throughout this period. 16 G. Narayana 1964 1965 17 K. M. Naganna 1965 1966 18 T. K. Thimmaraya Gowda 1966 1967 Administrator's Rule (1967 – 1971) Corporation suspended during by the Government of Karnataka.The corporation was further expanded to 63 wards in 1971. Bangalore City Corporation - Fifth Council (1971 – 1975)1971 Bangalore City Corporation Elections.Indian National Congress held a majority throughout this period. 19 J. Lingaiah 1971 1972 20 M. V. Tiwari 1972 1973 21 M. K. Ananthakrishna 1973 1974 22 T. D. Naganna 1974 1975 Administrator's Rule (1975 – 1983)Corporation suspended during the Emergency (1975 – 1977).. Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976 superseded the City of Bangalore Municipal Corporation Act, 1949 with the elections resuming in 1983.This legislation introduced an electoral college system, which comprised the Corporators, elected directly in the civic polls and Non-Corporators, Lok Sabha MPs, Rajya Sabha MPs, MLAs and MLCs that represent the city in their respective houses. Bangalore City Corporation - Sixth Council (1983 – 1989) 1983 Bangalore City Corporation Elections.Janata Party held both the house and the electoral college majority throughout the period till 1988, before losing the electoral college majority to Janata Dal.
First time any party other than Congress had led the Bengaluru civic body since Independence. 23 S. Sundar Raj 1983 1984 24 L. Subbaraj 1984 1985 25 B. K. M. Gowda 1985 1986 26 B. V. Puttegowda 1986 1987 27 Dr. M. J. Sheshadri 1987 1988 28 Lawrence V. Fernandes 1988 1989 Administrator's Rule (1989 – 1990)The corporation was expanded to 87 wards and renamed as the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) in 1989 by merging surrounding areas. Bangalore Mahanagara Palike - Seventh Council (1990 – 1995) 1989 Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Elections.Indian National Congress held both the house and the electoral college majority throughout this period. 29 K. C. Vijaya Kumar 28 May 1990 29 June 1991 First Mayor under the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike 30 K. Narayana Swamy 19 June 1991 29 June 1992 31 Lakkanna 29 June 1992 28 June 1993 32 B. S. Sudanva 28 June 1993 27 June 1994 33 G. Kuppaswamy 27 June 1994 27 June 1995 Administrator's Rule (June 1995 – November 1996)The corporation was further expanded to 100 wards in 1995. Bangalore Mahanagara Palike - Eighth Council (1996 – 2001) 1996 Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Elections.Indian National Congress held both the house and the electoral college majority throughout this period. 34 Padmavathi Gangadhar Gowda 25 November 1996 29 November 1997 Third woman Mayor 35 J. Huchappa 29 November 1997 30 November 1998 36 K. H. N. Simha 30 November 1998 29 November 1999 37 M. Ramachandrappa 29 November 1999 29 November 2000 38 Prema Cariappa 29 November 2000 23 November 2001 Fourth woman Mayor Later Rajya Sabha MP for Karnataka (2002 – 2007) Bangalore Mahanagara Palike - Ninth Council (2001 – 2006)2001 Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Elections.Indian National Congress held both the house and the electoral college majority throughout this period. 39 K. Chandrashekhar 24 November 2001 30 November 2002 40 C. M. Nagaraj 30 November 2002 28 November 2003 41 P. R. Ramesh 28 November 2003 29 November 2004 42 R. Narayana Swamy 29 November 2004 29 November 2005 43 Mumtaz Begum 29 November 2005 23 November 2006 First Muslim Mayor Fifth woman Mayor First Mayor with mother tongue as Urdu. Administrator's Rule (November 2006 – April 2010) The corporation was expanded to 198 wards and renamed as the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in 2007 by merging surrounding seven Urban Local Bodies and several urbanized villages. Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike - Tenth Council (2010 – 2015)2010 Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Elections.Bharatiya Janata Party held both the house and the electoral college majority throughout this period.First time any party other than Congress had led the Bengaluru civic body for the entire term single handedly since Independence. 44 S. K. Nataraja 23 April 2010 28 April 2011 First Mayor under the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike 45 Sharadamma Ramanjaneya 29 April 2011 26 April 2012 Sixth woman Mayor 46 D. Venkatesh Murthy 26 April 2012 3 September 2013 Longest-serving Mayor the only Mayor to have presented two consecutive BBMP budgets 47 B. S. Satyanarayana (Katte Satya) 4 September 2013 5 September 2014 48 N. Shanthakumari 5 September 2014 18 April 2015 Seventh woman Mayor Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike - Eleventh Council (2015 – 2020) 2015 Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Elections.
Bharatiya Janata Party held the house majority but lost the electoral college majority to the Congress - JD(S) coalition, before gaining it back in 2019.First time and the last time any party that had the house majority lost the electoral college majority since the introduction of the system in 1983. 49 B. N. Manjunath Reddy 11 September 2015 28 September 2016 50 G. Padmavathi 28 September 2016 28 September 2017 Eighth woman Mayor 51 R. Sampath Raj 28 September 2017 28 September 2018 52 Gangambike Mallikarjun 28 September 2018 28 September 2019 Ninth woman Mayor 53 M Goutham Kumar 1 October 2019 10 September 2020 Last Mayor of Unified Bengaluru. First Mayor with mother tongue as Hindi. Administrator's Rule (September 2020 – September 2025)BBMP council elections were repeatedly delayed, first due to the COVID-19 pandemic and later pending delimitation and ward reservation exercises. The BBMP was formally dissolved on 2 September 2025 upon the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 coming into full effect.
Mayors of Bengaluru (Five Mayors of Greater Bengaluru Authority) 2025–present
+The Current Municipal Administration Setup in BengaluruApex BodyMunicipal CorporationsNo. of WardsGreater Bengaluru AuthorityBengaluru Central City Corporation63Bengaluru North City Corporation72Bengaluru South City Corporation72Bengaluru East City Corporation50Bengaluru West City Corporation112
Bengaluru Central City Corporation No. Mayor Term start Term endParty Notes Administrator's Rule (September 2025 – present)Commissioners appointed for all five corporations pending elections.Under the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024, Bengaluru is now administered by five City Corporations - Bengaluru Central, Bengaluru North, Bengaluru South, Bengaluru East and Bengaluru West, under the apex body Greater Bengaluru Authority. Bengaluru Central City Corporation - First Council (TBE)2026 Bengaluru Central City Corporation Elections.Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 paved the way for the formation of the Bengaluru Central City Corporation (BCCC) in 2025 with 63 wards by bifurcating Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.The First Elections are to be held by August 2026. 1 First Mayor of the Bengaluru Central City Corporation
Bengaluru North City Corporation
No. Mayor Term start Term endParty Notes Administrator's Rule (September 2025 – present)Commissioners appointed for all five corporations pending elections.Under the Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024, Bengaluru is now administered by five City Corporations - Bengaluru Central, Bengaluru North, Bengaluru South, Bengaluru East and Bengaluru West, under the apex body Greater Bengaluru Authority. Bengaluru North City Corporation - First Council (TBE)2026 Bengaluru North City Corporation Elections.Greater Bengaluru Governance Act, 2024 paved the way for the formation of the Bengaluru North City Corporation (BNCC) in 2025 with 72 wards by bifurcating Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.The First Elections are to be held by August 2026. 1 First Mayor of the Bengaluru North City Corporation
Bengaluru South City Corporation