The Mayor of Salem is the first citizen of Salem, a metropolitan city in the State of Tamil Nadu, southern India.
[1] The mayor is an elected officeholder who, along with 60 councillors of the Salem City Municipal Corporation is the chief administrator of the city.
This was temporarily scrapped in 2006 in favour of an indirect election among the councillors.
[4] The office of Mayor of Salem, like all other mayors in Tamil Nadu, was vacant from 25 October 2016 to 4 March 2022 due to repeated delays in holding civic polls in the State.
Following the 2022 urban polls, A. Ramachandran of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was sworn in as the sixth Mayor of Salem on 4 March 2022.