List of mayors of Pisa

Mayor of Pisa
Sindaco di Pisa
Incumbent Michele Conti since 27 June 2018
Appointer	Popular election
Term length	5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Angelo Del Punta
Formation	1865
Website	Official website

Palazzo Gambacorti is Pisa' City Hall

The mayor of Pisa is an elected politician who, along with the Pisa's city council, is accountable for the strategic government of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy.

The current mayor is Michele Conti, a member of the right-wing populist party Lega Nord, who took office on 27 June 2018.[1]

Overview

According to the Italian Constitution, the mayor of Pisa is member of the city council.

The mayor is elected by the population of Pisa, who also elect the members of the city council, controlling the mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence. The mayor is entitled to appoint and release the members of his government.

Since 1994 the mayor is elected directly by Pisa's electorate: in all mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 the voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

In 1865, the Kingdom of Italy created the office of the mayor of Pisa (Sindaco di Pisa), appointed by the King himself. From 1889 to 1926 the mayor was elected by the city council. In 1926, the Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils, replacing them with an authoritarian Podestà chosen by the National Fascist Party. The office of mayor was restored in 1944 during the Allied occupation.

	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party
1	Angiolo Del Punta	1865	1867
2	Giuseppe Bianchi	1869	1873
3	Mario Rizzari	1873	1876
4	Tommaso Simonelli	1877	1884
5	Leopoldo Peverada	1884	1889
6	Angiolo Nardi Dei	1889	1895
7	Giuseppe Gambini	1895	1899
8	Giuseppe Raffaello Cerrai	1899	1900
9	Vittorio Frascani	1900	1901
(7)	Giuseppe Gambini	1901	1903
(9)	Vittorio Frascani	1903	1904
10	Dario Baldi	1904	1905
–	Vittorio Menzinger	1905	1906	Royal commissioner
11	Alessandro D'Ancona	1906	1907
(7)	Giuseppe Gambini	1907	1910
12	Francesco Buonamici	1910	1914
(9)	Vittorio Frascani	1914	1920
13	Francesco Pardi	1920	1922
14	Guido Buffarini Guidi	1922	1925	National Fascist Party
Fascist Podestà (1926–1943)
1	Guido Buffarini Guidi	1927	1933	National Fascist Party
2	Giovanni D'Achiardi	1936	1939	National Fascist Party
3	Carlo Zanetto Lami	1939	1943	National Fascist Party
Allied occupation (1944–1946)
15	Italo Bargagna[2]	1944	1946	Italian Communist Party

Republic of Italy (since 1946)

City Council election (1946-1994)

From 1946 to 1994, the Mayor of Pisa was elected by the City's Council.

	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party	Election
1	Italo Bargagna	31 March 1946	11 June 1951	PCI	1946
2	Renato Pagni	11 June 1951	1 July 1956	DC	1951
3	Italo Pellegrini	1 July 1956	14 August 1956	DC	1956
4	Vittorio Galluzzi	14 August 1956	17 December 1958	PSI
(2)	Renato Pagni	17 December 1958	7 July 1960	DC	1958
5	Enrico Pistolesi	7 July 1960	2 January 1961	DC
(4)	Vittorio Galluzzi	2 January 1961	14 October 1961	PSI	1960
Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (14 October 1961–1 July 1962)
6	Umberto Viale	1 July 1962	14 August 1964	DC	1962
(2)	Renato Pagni	14 August 1964	14 March 1965	DC
7	Roberto Supino	14 March 1965	14 May 1965	PSDI
(2)	Renato Pagni	14 May 1965	6 July 1966	DC
		6 July 1966	14 February 1967		1966
Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (14 February 1967–1 July 1967)
8	Giulio Battistini	1 July 1967	14 December 1968	DC	1967
9	Fausta Giani Cecchini	14 December 1968	8 July 1970	PSI
10	Franco Gemignani	8 July 1970	14 October 1970	DC	1970
11	Giuseppe Prosperi	14 October 1970	14 April 1971	DC
12	Vinicio Bernardini	14 April 1971	14 June 1971	PCI
(8)	Giulio Battistini	14 June 1971	14 July 1971	DC
13	Elia Lazzari	14 July 1971	15 July 1975	PCI
		15 July 1975	14 May 1976		1975
14	Luigi Bulleri	14 May 1976	30 July 1980	PCI
		30 July 1980	14 May 1983		1980
(12)	Vinicio Bernardini	14 May 1983	14 September 1985	PCI
15	Oriano Ripoli	14 September 1985	15 July 1986	PSI	1985
16	Giacomino Granchi	15 July 1986	20 January 1990	PSI
Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (20 January 1990–16 July 1990)
17	Sergio Cortopassi	16 July 1990	1 September 1994	PSI	1990
Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (1 September 1994–24 November 1994)

Direct election (since 1994)

Since 1994, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Pisa is chosen by direct election, originally every four, and since 2003 every five years.

	Mayor		Took office	Left office	Party	Coalition		Election
18		Piero Floriani (1942–2018)	24 November 1994	14 December 1998	PDS		PDS • PRC • FdV	1994
19		Paolo Fontanelli (b. 1953)	14 December 1998	27 May 2003	DS PD		The Olive Tree (DS-PPI-FdV-PdCI-SDI)	1998
			27 May 2003	13 February 2008[a]			The Olive Tree (DS-DL-PdCI-SDI)	2003
Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (13 February 2008 – 29 April 2008)
20		Marco Filippeschi (b. 1960)	29 April 2008	28 May 2013	PD		PD • PSI • IdV and leftist lists	2008
			28 May 2013	27 June 2018			PD • SEL and leftist lists	2013
21		Michele Conti (b. 1970)	27 June 2018	30 May 2023	LN		LN • FI • FdI	2018
			30 May 2023	Incumbent			FdI • LN • FI	2023

Notes

1. Resigned in order to participate in the national general election.

Timeline

References

1. "Pisa: Michele Conti è il nuovo sindaco, centrodestra in trionfo tra cori e caroselli". Il Tirreno. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
2. Appointed by the National Liberation Committee.