The Mayor of Bilbao (, ) is the head of the municipal government of

Bilbao Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Provinces of Spain, province of Biscay and in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the List o ...

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. He presides over the

Bilbao City Council The Bilbao City Council () is the Ayuntamiento (Spain), ayuntamiento of Bilbao (Spain). Its headquarter, the Bilbao City Hall, is located in the Ernesto Erkoreka Plaza. The city council is made up of an executive body and a Normativity, normative ...

. The current mayor of Bilbao is Juan Mari Aburto since 2015.

Mayors of Bilbao since 1979

This is a list of the mayors of Bilbao since the restoration of democracy in Spain. Since the

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, seven individuals have served as mayors of Bilbao. The longest term was that of Iñaki Azkuna, who served for almost 15 years as mayor until his death. All modern mayors of Bilbao have been members of the

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