mayorship

Noun

mayorship (countable and uncountable, plural mayorships)

1. The office or role of a mayor.
   • All of the parties could and did claim victories. The ruling KMT won the governorship and the mayorship of Kaohsiung. Naturally KMT leaders boasted of these wins. In particular, they noted that Kaohsiung had been a stronghold of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party. The DPP won the mayorship...1998, John F. Copper, Taiwan's Mid-1990s elections: Taking the Final Steps to Democracy, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 3
   • As a consequence, we do not have the rich democratic culture and organizing that should be happening year-round, from the way that we select town councils and mayorships across the state of New York.2022 October 11, Nicholas Fandos, “Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Calcified’ Machine Politics Cost Democrats in New York”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms:

   mayoralty