Mock Mayor

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The election of a Mock Mayor is British folk tradition found in a number of communities throughout the British Isles. Essentially a Mock Mayor is an individual who is elected by a popular informal assembly of individuals as a parody of the official office of Mayor in any given community. Examples of this practice can be found in Penzance, Cornwall; Polperro, Cornwall; Mylor, Cornwall; St Germans, Cornwall; Woodstock, Oxfordshire;Barton; Gloucestershire ;Polperro ;Cornwall and Helston Cornwall (where the Mock or Sham Mayor was known as the Mayor of St Johns).

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The Mayor of Barton [1]

The Mock Mayor of Mylor [2]

The Mayor of the Quay Penzance and Golowan Traditions. [3]

The Mayor of St Germans [4]

The Mock Mayor of St John's Helston [5]