The 2012 Top 10 Mayors

During November and December 2012, the Fellows of The City Mayors Foundation drew up a list of ten mayors who stood out in terms of numbers of votes, achievements and quality of testimonials from their citizens. The total number of votes cast for the mayors in the top ten exceeded 257,000, with some Asian mayors receiving tens of thousands of votes each. But the number of votes received by individual top-ten mayors was only considered secondary by the judging Fellows. The panel was primarily influenced by the arguments and persuasiveness of testimonials bestowed on mayors. As some city leaders in the top ten represent cities of several million people, while others are mayors of much smaller towns, the City Mayors panel of Fellows was of the opinion that basing judgment on numbers alone would unfairly disadvantage mayors from smaller towns. The panel was also very much aware that an outstanding mayor from a city in the developing world requires vastly different qualities than one from Western Europe or North America. The winner of the annual World Mayor Prize is therefore never described in terms such as ‘the world’s best mayor’. The top 10 mayors of World Mayor 2012 Rank Mayor City Country 1 Iñaki Azkuna -Bilbao -Spain 2 Lisa Scaffidi -Perth -Australia 3 Joko Widodo -Surakarta -Indonesia 4 Régis Labeaume -Québec City -Canada 5 John F Cook -El Paso -USA 6 Park Wan-su -Changwon City -South Korea 7 Len Brown -Auckland -New Zealand 8 Edgardo Pamintuan -Angeles City -Philippines 9 Mouhib Khatir -Zeralda -Algeria 10 Alfonso Sánchez -Garza Matamoros -Mexico 

source : http://www.worldmayor.com/contest_2012/world-mayor-12-results.html#Anchor-The-3800