This corporation consists of 40 wards and is headed by a mayor who presides over a deputy mayor and 39 other corporators representing the wards.

The mayor is elected directly through a first-past-the-post voting system and the deputy mayor is elected by the corporators from among their numbers.

Pithoragarh Municipal Corporation has a total of 40 members or corporators, who are directly elected after a term of 5 years.

The current mayor of Pithoragarh is Kalpana Deolal of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

[2] The Pithoragarh Municipal Corporation holds direct elections every five years in the state and the latest elections were those held in the year 2025.