Srinagar is the only hill-area in garhwal that has the status of municipal corporation.

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.

The current mayor of Srinagar, Uttarakhand is Independent politician Arti Bhandari, who was also a BJP-rebel candidate.

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