List of current city mayors in Andhra Pradesh

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In Andhra Pradesh, Mayor is the head of city corporations in 17 cities. [1] All the duties in the city at Corporation level are carried in his name. He is also first citizen of the city. However in Andhra Pradesh, the Mayor is the ceremonial head as he was elected among the corporators and executive authority rests with the municipal commissioner. Following elections to any municipal corporation, there will be an election to the mayor and after that election to the post of deputy mayor is also being conducted. the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the state government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given they have the municipal corporation's confidence, the mayor's term is usually for a maximum of five years; there are no limits to the number of terms they can serve. [2]

Current office-holders

City
(Corporation)		DistrictNamePartyRef. [3]
Greater Municipal Corporation
Visakhapatnam
(Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation)		 Visakhapatnam
Anakapalli 		Golagani Venkata Hari Kumari YSRCP [4]
Municipal Corporations
Vijayawada
(Vijayawada Municipal Corporation)		 NTR Rayana Bhagya Lakshmi YSRCP [5]
Guntur
(Guntur Municipal Corporation)		 Guntur Kavati Manohar Naidu YSRCP
Mangalagiri  – Tadepalli
(Mangalagiri Tadepalli Municipal Corporation)		 Guntur Vacant
Kurnool
(Kurnool Municipal Corporation)		 Kurnool B. Y. Ramaiah YSRCP
Nellore
(Nellore Municipal Corporation)		 Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore Potluri Sravanthi YSRCP
Rajamahendravaram
(Rajamahendravaram Municipal Corporation)		 East Godavari Vacant
Kadapa
(Kadapa Municipal Corporation)		 YSR Kothamaddi Suresh Babu YSRCP
Kakinada
(Kakinada Municipal Corporation)		 Kakinada Vacant
Tirupati
(Tirupati Municipal Corporation)		 Tirupati Dr. Sireesha Yadav YSRCP [6]
Eluru
(Eluru Municipal Corporation)		 Eluru Shaik Noorjahan YSRCP
Anantapuramu
(Anantapuramu Municipal Corporation)		 Anantapuramu Mohamad Waseem Saleem YSRCP
Vizianagaram
(Vizianagaram Municipal Corporation)		 Vizianagaram Vempada Vijayalakshmi YSRCP
Ongole
(Ongole Municipal Corporation)		 Prakasham Gangada Sujatha YSRCP
Machilipatnam
(Machilipatnam Municipal Corporation)		 Krishna Moka Venkateswaramma YSRCP
Chittoor
(Chittoor Municipal Corporation)		 Chittoor S. Amudha YSRCP
Srikakulam
(Srikakulam Municipal Corporation)		 Srikakulam Vacant

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