Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Birnin Bangkok yana ƙarƙashin ikon Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). Kodayake iyakokinta suna a matakin lardin ("changwat"), ba kamar sauran larduna 76 ba Bangkok yanki ne na musamman wanda aka zaba gwamnansa kai tsaye don yin aiki na shekaru hudu. Gwamnan, tare da mataimakansa huɗu da aka nada, sun zama hukumar zartarwa, waɗanda ke aiwatar da manufofi ta hanyar ma'aikatan gwamnati na BMA wanda Babban Sakataren BMA ke jagoranta. A cikin zaɓe daban-daban, kowace gundumar tana zaɓar ɗaya ko fiye da membobin majalisar gari, waɗanda ke samar da Majalisar Babban Birnin Bangkok. Majalisar ita ce hukumar dokoki ta BMA, kuma tana da iko a kan dokokin birni da kasafin kudin birni. Duk da haka, bayan juyin mulki na 2014
an soke duk wani zaben kananan hukumomi kuma gwamnati ta nada majalisar a ranar 15 ga Satumba, 2014. Gwamnan Bangkok na yanzu shi ne Janar na 'yan sanda Aswin Kwanmuang, wanda gwamnatin soja ta nada a ranar 26 ga Oktoba 2016 bayan dakatar da zababben gwamnan da ya gabata M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra. Mataimakan gwamnonin guda hudu sune Kriangyos Sudlabha, Sakol Pattayakul, Sukdeechai Boonma, da kuma Laftanar Janar Sopan Putiwong. Silipasuay Raveesangsoon shine Sakatare na dindindin na Bangkok tun daga 1 ga Oktoba 2016.