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==Civic administration==
The city is administered by the Kozhikode Corporation, headed by a mayor. For administrative purposes, the city is divided into 75 [[Ward (country subdivision)|wards]],<ref name="Corporation councillors">{{cite web|website=Kozhikodecorporation.org|url=http://www.kozhikodecorporation.org/images/Councillors/council.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240927224119/http://www.kozhikodecorporation.org/images/Councillors/council.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 September 2024|title=Kozhikode Corporation, Councillors|access-date=27 November 2011}}</ref> from which the members of the corporation council are elected for five years. Recently neighbouring suburbs [[Beypore]], [[Elathur, Kozhikode|Elathur]], [[Cheruvannur Nallalam|Cheruvannur and Nallalam]] were merged within the municipal corporation.

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!colspan="2"|Kozhikode Municipal Corporation
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|[[Mayor]]
|Beena Philip
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|[[Deputy Mayor]]
|Musafar Ahmed
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|[[Member of Parliament]]
|[[M. K. Raghavan|M.K.Raghvan]]
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|[[District Collector]]
|Shri. [[Snehil Kumar Singh]] [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]]
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|[[Police Commissioner]]
|Shri Rajpal Meena IPS
|}
Kozhikode Corporation is the first City Corporation in Kerala after the creation of the state. Established in 1962, Kozhikode Corporation's first mayor was H Manjunatha Rao. Kozhikode corporation has four assembly constituencies – Kozhikode North, Kozhikode South, Beypore and Elathur – all of which are part of [[Kozhikode (Lok Sabha constituency)|Kozhikode]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080209134539/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/05/stories/2008020561140500.htm Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency redrawn Delimitation impact], ''The Hindu'' 5 February 2008</ref>

===[[Kozhikode Municipal Corporation]] Election 2020===

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!S.No. !! Party Name !! Party symbol !! Number of Corporators
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| 01 || [[Left Democratic Front|LDF]] || [[File:CPI(M) election symbol - Hammer Sickle and Star.svg|50px]] || 49
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| 02 || [[United Democratic Front (Kerala)|UDF]] ||   || 14
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| 03 || [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] ||[[File:BJP election symbol.svg -783x768.png|50px]] || 07
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| 04 || Independents || [[File:No flag.svg|50px]] || 05
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===Law and order===
The [[Kozhikode City Police]] is headed by a commissioner, an [[Indian Police Service]] (IPS) officer. The city is divided into six zones each under a circle officer. Apart from regular law and order, the city police comprise the traffic police, bomb squad, dog squad, fingerprint bureau, women's cell, juvenile wing, narcotics cell, riot force, armed reserve camps, district crime records bureau and a women's station.<ref name="KCP">
{{cite web|publisher=Kozhikode City Police|url=http://www.kozhikodecitypolice.org/Pages/organizationDetails.aspx|title=Kozhikode City Police|access-date=27 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208003412/http://www.kozhikodecitypolice.org/Pages/organizationDetails.aspx|archive-date=8 February 2012}}</ref> It operates 16 police stations functioning under the Home Ministry of [[Government of Kerala]].