Editing Kyoto (section)

===List of mayors===
Between the founding of the modern city and 1898, the [[List of governors of Kyoto Prefecture|governor of Kyoto Prefecture]] also acted as the mayor of the city of Kyoto. From 1898 through the Second World War, mayors were nominated by the Kyoto City Assembly and appointed by the [[Home Ministry|Minister of Home Affairs]].

Since 1947, mayors of Kyoto have been chosen by [[First-past-the-post voting|direct election]] to four-year terms. As of 2024, there have been ten mayors elected using this system. While some mayors have resigned or died in office, no mayor has lost a reelection bid in the postwar period. In the [[2024 Kyoto mayoral election]], independent candidate [[Koji Matsui (politician)|Koji Matsui]] was elected for the first time, supported by the [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Liberal Democratic Party]], [[Komeito]], the [[Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan|Constitutional Democratic Party]], and the [[Democratic Party for the People]].

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! # || Name<ref name="mayors">{{cite web|url=https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/sogo/page/0000033357.html|script-title=ja:歴代市長、副市長・助役一覧|publisher=Kyoto City|access-date=February 25, 2024|archive-date=May 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519180522/https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/sogo/page/0000033357.html|url-status=live}}</ref> || Entered office<ref name="mayors"/> || Left office<ref name="mayors"/>
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| 1 || Masao Kambe (神戸正雄) || April 7, 1947 || January 6, 1950
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| 2 || Gizō Takayama (高山義三) || February 10, 1950 || February 4, 1966
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| 3 || Seiichi Inoue (井上清一) || February 5, 1966 || January 8, 1967
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| 4 || Kiyoshi Tomii (富井清) || February 28, 1967 || February 25, 1971 
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| 5 || Motoki Funahashi (舩橋求己) || February 26, 1971 || July 26, 1981
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| 6 || Masahiko Imagawa (今川正彦) || September 1, 1981 || August 29, 1989
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| 7 || Tomoyuki Tanabe (田邊朋之) || August 30, 1989 || January 29, 1996
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| 8 || [[Yorikane Masumoto]] (桝本頼兼) || February 26, 1996 || February 24, 2008
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| 9 || [[Daisaku Kadokawa]] (門川大作) || February 25, 2008 || February 24, 2024
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| 10 || [[Koji Matsui (politician)|Koji Matsui]] (松井孝治) || February 25, 2024 || present
|}