KOZHIKODE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION
No. of CDS
3
No. of ADS
75
No. of NHGs
3550
No. of NHG Members
63900
No. of NHGs Linked
2102
No. of MEs
250
History

The Kozhikode Corporation is the municipal corporation responsible for the administration of the city of kozhikode, Kerala. The Kozhikode Corporation is the oldest municipal corporation in Kerala. Established in 1962, the 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 the kozhikode parliamentary constituency

The Corporation is headed by a mayor. For administrative purposes, the city is divided into 75 wards, from which the members of the corporation council are elected for term of five years.

Population

Kozhikode city is governed by Municipal Corporation which comes under kozhikode metropolitan  region. The Kozhikode city is located in Kerala state of India. 

As per provisional reports of Census India, population of Kozhikode in 2011 is 431,560; of which male and female are 206,157 and 225,403 respectively. Although Kozhikode city has population of 431,560; its urban / metropolitan population is 2,028,399 of which 964,960 are males and 1,063,439 are females.