Dhaka North City Corporation was established on 29 November 2011. Prior to the establishment of the corporation, northern Dhaka was governed by the former
Dhaka City Corporation. The Dhaka City Corporation was dissolved by the Local Government (City Corporation) Amendment Bill 2011 on 29 November 2011, passed in the
Parliament of Bangladesh, and formally ceased to exist on 1 December 2011, following the
President's approval, making way for Dhaka North and
Dhaka South city corporations. The mayoral elections are non-partisan in nature. The first Dhaka North City Corporation elections were held on 28 April 2015, which saw the victory of
Annisul Huq in the first political campaign of his career. On 9 May 2016, the government approved the expansion of Dhaka North City Corporation's jurisdiction to encompass eight
unions: Beraid, Badda, Vatara (or Bhatara), Satarkul, Harirampur, Uttarkhan, Dakshinkhan, and Dumni. This extension increased the area of the city corporation to . In November 2017, Mayor Huq died on a trip to London, while visiting his daughter. In September previously, the
local government ministry announced the creation of a panel of three senior elected councilors who will act as joint mayor while he was hospitalised. In February 2019,
Awami League candidate
Atiqul Islam was elected as the new mayor of DNCC in a
by-election. ==Demographics==