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The present study was conducted with the purpose of analyzing the leadership behaviors of mayors who are local political leaders that display monarchic (despotic) approaches. The aim was also to contribute to the relevant literature by providing a council leadership scale for political leaders since such a scale has not previously existed. Firstly, the literature was reviewed and a pool of items was formed based on the information obtained. The item pool was presented to experts for their opinions. The fitness of the item pool for the subject and the field was tested. In the next phase, the comprehensibility of the item pool was tested by discussion with a group chosen from the population of the study. A “correlation of item-subscale addition”, a lower-upper test of differences between segments of 27%”, “exploratory factor analysis” and “confirmatory factor analysis” were made in order to determine the structural validity and factor structure of the scale. Final analysis results showed that the scale consisted of 3 factors: arrogance, insensitivity, domineering behaviors. These 3 factors explain 68.55% of the total variance. The reliability coefficient of the scale was calculated to be 0.964