List of Mayors of Venice

Mayor of Venice
Incumbent Giorgio Orsoni (Democratic Party) since March 30, 2010
Residence	Dandolo Farsetti Palace
Appointer	Popular election
Term length	5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Daniele Renier
Formation	1806
Succession	March–April 2015
Deputy	Sandro Simionato
Website	[5]

The Mayor of Venice is an elected politician who, along with Venice’s 45-member city council, is accountable for the strategic government of Venice. As of March 2010, Giorgio Orsoni holds the position. Previously, the position was held by Massimo Cacciari from April 2005 until his succession by Orsoni.

This is a list of Mayors of Venice during the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1806–1815) and during the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (1815–1866). From the 1866 to 1993 Mayors were elected by the City Council (in the Kingdom of Italy and in the Italian Republic). Since 1993 the mayor is elected by the inhabitants of Venice; initially the terms length was 4 years (1993–2000), since 2000 the terms length is 5 years.

Ca'Loredan - Venice's City Hall.

Rectors

Rectors of Venice were appointed since 1806 to 1866 by the kings who reigned over the city during the 19th century: Napoleon and the Habsburgs:

• 1806-1811, Daniele Renier
• 1811-1816, Bartolomeo Gerolamo Gradenigo
• 1817-1818, Marco Molin
• 1818-1827, Francesco Calbo Crotta
• 1827-1834, Domenico Morosini
• 1834-1837, Giuseppe Boldù
• 1838-1857, Giovanni Correr
• 1857-1859, Alessandro Marcello
• 1860-1866, Pierluigi Bembo

Mayors

Since 1866, newborn Kingdom of Italy created the office of the Mayor of Venice (Sindaco di Venezia), chosen by the City council:

• 1866-1868, Giobatta Giustinian
• 1868-1875, Giuseppe Giovanelli
• 1870-1875, Antonio Fornoni
• 1875-1878, Giobatta Giustinian
• 1878-1888, Dante Di Serego Alighieri
• 1888-1890, Lorenzo Tiepolo
• 1890-1895, Riccardo Selvatico (Radical Party)
• 1895-1919, Filippo Grimani
• 1919-1923, Davide Giordani

Fascist rectors

Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils in 1926, replacing them with a single authoritarian Rector (Podestà) chosen by the National Fascist Party:

• 1923-1929, Pietro Orsi
• 1929-1930, Ettore Zorzi
• 1930-1938, Mario Alverà
• 1938-1941, Giovanni Marcello
• 1941-1945, Giobatta dell'Armi

Democratic mayors

From 1945 to 1993, the Mayor of Venice was chosen by the City council:

#	Name	Start year	End year	Party	Coalition	Elections
1	Giovanni Ponti	1945	1946	Christian democratic	CLN	none
2	Giovanni Batista Gianquinto	1946	1951	Communist	PCI	1946
3	Angelo Spanio	1951	1955	Christian democratic	DC	1951
4	Roberto Tognazzi	1955	1960	Christian democratic	DC	1955
5	Giovanni Favaretto Fisca	1960	1970	Christian democratic	DC	1960, 1965
6	Giorgio Longo	1970	1975	Christian democratic	DC	1970
7	Mario Rigo	1975	1985	Socialist	DC - PSI - PRI	1975, 1980
8	Nereo Laroni	1985	1987	Socialist	DC - PSI - PRI	1985
9	Antonio Casellati	1987	1990	Republican	DC - PSI - PRI	-
10	Ugo Bergamo	1990	1993	Christian democratic	DC - PSI - PRI	1990

Elected mayors

Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Venice is chosen by popular election, originally every four, and since 2000 every five years:

	Mayor of Venice			Took office	Left office	Party	Coalition
11			Massimo Cacciari	December 5, 1993	January 25, 2000	Democratic Party of the Left then The Democrats		PDS - PRC - AD - FV December 5, 1993 – November 16, 1997
								The Olive Tree November 16, 1997 – January 25, 2000
12			Paolo Costa	April 30, 2000	April 25, 2005	Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy		The Olive Tree April 30, 2000 – April 25, 2005
13			Massimo Cacciari	April 25, 2005	March 30, 2010	Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy then Democratic Party		DL (then PD) - UDEUR April 25, 2005 - March 30, 2010
14			Giorgio Orsoni	March 30, 2010	incumbent	Democratic Party		PD - PRC - FV - IDV - UDC since March 30, 2010

Elections

Mayoral and Council election, 1993

The election took place in two rounds: the first on November 21 and the second on December 5.

For the first time under the new electoral law citizens could vote directly the mayor; before this choice was made by the City Council. For the first time in the municipal political history there weren't parties like Christian Democracy, Italian Socialist Party or Italian Communist Party: the main parties were the newborn separatist Lega Nord and the Alliance of Progressives, composed by center-left parties.

The main candidates were Massimo Cacciari and Aldo Mariconda. However there were a lot of others candidates from different parties.

On December 5, 1993, Cacciari won the election and became the first elected mayor of Venice.

Venice Mayoral Election Results 1993
	Name	Party	1st Round (November 21)	%	2nd Round (%) (December 5)
	Massimo Cacciari	Democratic Party of the Left	89.048	42,3	56,4
	Aldo Mariconda	Lega Nord	55.816	26,5	44,6

Mayoral and Council election, 1997

The election took place on November 16.

The main candidates were the outgoing mayor Massimo Cacciari, supported by Romano Prodi's coalition The Olive Tree, and Mauro Pizzigati, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's party Forza Italia.

Venice Mayoral Election Results 1997
	Name	Party	1st Round (November 16)	%
	Massimo Cacciari	Democrats	116.751	64,6
	Mauro Pizzigati	Forza Italia	37.436	20,7

Mayoral and Council election, 2000

The election took place in two rounds: the first on April 16 and the second on April 30.

The snap election was held in April 2000 because in January of the same year the incumbent mayor Massimo Cacciari lost his majority in the City Council and couldn't approve the municipal economic balance, so he resigned.

The main candidates were two: Paolo Costa and Renato Brunetta.

Venice Mayoral Election Results 2000
	Name	Party	1st Round (April 16)	%	2nd Round (April 30)	%
	Paolo Costa	Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy	62.755	37,7	68.229	56,0
	Renato Brunetta	Forza Italia	64.956	39,0	53.686	44,0

Mayoral and Council election, 2005

These elections were held on two separate dates: the first round on 3 and 4 April 2005, the second round on 17 and 18 April 2005.

The candidates were in total eleven, but only four were supported by political parties (all the others were supported by civic lists): Massimo Cacciari, which were supported by the center-left party The Daisy, Felice Casson, who was supported by a broad center-left coalition, Cesare Campa, who was supported by Forza Italia and Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, and Alberto Mazzonetto, who was supported by Lega Nord.

In the second round went Massimo Cacciari, who represented the moderate left, and Felice Casson, who represented some of the extreme left parties. Despite the first round had a lot of votes, Casson lost because many of the center-right voters voted for Cacciari.

After two years, however, when Democrats of the Left and The Daisy merged into the Democratic Party, Cacciari had a majority even greater in the city council.

Venice Mayoral Election Results 2005
	Name	Party	1st Round (April 3–4)	%	2nd Round (April 17–18)	%
	Massimo Cacciari	Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy	37.488	23,2	64.315	50,5
	Felice Casson	Democrats of the Left	60.837	37,7	62.974	49,5
	Cesare Campa	Forza Italia	32.726	20,7	-	-

Mayoral and Council election, 2010

These elections were held on 28 and 29 March 2010.

There were nine candidates (two supported by important coalition and seven supported by differents civic lists); the most important candidates were Giorgio Orsoni and the minister Renato Brunetta, who tried for a second time to become the mayor (in fact he was candidate for this position in 2000). Giorgio Orsoni was supported by a center-left coalition formed by Democratic Party, Italy of Values, Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, Communist Refoundation Party and the Italian Socialist Party, Renato Brunetta was supported by a center-right coalition formed by The People of Freedom and Lega Nord.

Orsoni won the election in the first round making did not go to vote for a possible second round, as it has happened in the elections of 2000 and of 2005.

Venice Mayoral Election Results 2010
	Name	Party	1st Round (March 28–29)	%
	Giorgio Orsoni	Democratic Party	75.403	51,1
	Renato Brunetta	People of Freedom	62.833	42,6

Venice Council Election 2010 - Parties
	Coalition	votes	%	seats	Party	votes	%	seats
	Center-left (Orsoni)	65,692	51.3	28	Democratic Party Italy of Values Union of the Centre Greens Italian Socialist Party Communist Refoundation Party Civic List (1)	37,027 8,628 5,824 4,816 4,800 4,244 353	28.9 6.7 4.5 3.8 3.7 3.3 0.3	17 4 2 2 2 1 -
	Center-right (Brunetta)	54,356	42.4	16	People of Freedom Lega Nord Pensioner's Party Civic Lists (3)	29,179 14,297 688 10,192	22.8 11.2 0.5 7.9	10 4 - 2