Although Vancouver has yet to elect a female mayor, a number of major cities around the world have bucked the trend.
According to research carried out between May and June 2017 by the City Mayors Foundation, an international research think tank dedicated to urban affairs, of the world’s largest 300 cities only 25 are governed by women. That number has dropped by a least two since first reported.
Here is a list of the top 15 largest cities around the world with female mayors.
Yuriko Koike
Tokyo, Japan
City population: 13,617,000
Clover Moore
Sydney, Australia
Population: 5,005,000
Fumiko Hayashi
Yokohama, Japan
Population: 3,733,000
Manuela Carmena
Madrid, Spain
Population: 3,141,000
Virginia Raggi
Rome, Italy
Population: 2,877,000
Tri Rismaharini
Surabaya, Indonesia
Population: 2,865,000
Nanda Jichkar
Nagpur, India
Population: 2,405,000
Anne Hidalgo
Paris, France
Population: 2,230,000
Daisy Torres
Managua, Nicaragua
Population: 2,206,000
Gabriela Firea
Bucharest, Romania
Population: 2,106,000
Marta Hernández Romero
Havana, Cuba
Population: 2,106,000
Evelyn Trejo de Rosales
Maracaibo, Venezuela
Population: 2,002,000
Lisa Scaffidi
Perth Australia
Population: 1,980,000
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Warsaw, Poland
Population: 1,749,000
Valérie Plante
Montreal, Quebec
1,704,000
Statistics from citymayors.com.
