| Mayor of Naples |
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| Appointer | Popular election |
| Term length | 5 years, renewable once |
| Inaugural holder | Andrea Colonna |
| Formation | August 8, 1860 |
| Succession | May-June, 2016 |
| Deputy | Tommaso Sodano |
| Website | [4] |
The Mayor of Naples is an elected politician who, along with the Naples’s City Council of 50 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Naples. Since 1 June 2011, Luigi De Magistris holds the position. Previously, the position was held by Rosa Russo Iervolino from the May 2001 until his succession by De Magistris.
The following is a list of Mayors of Naples, Italy.
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Since 1860, newborn Kingdom of Italy created the office of the Mayor of Naples (Sindaco di Napoli), chosen by the City council since 1889:
Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils in 1926, replacing them with a single authoritarian Rector (Podestà) chosen by the National Fascist Party:
From 1946 to 1993, the Mayor of Naples was chosen by the City council:
| # | Name | Start date |
End date |
Party | Coalition | Elections |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giuseppe Buonocore | 1946 | 1948 | Democratic monarchist | BNL - DC | 1946 |
| 2 | Domenico Moscati | 1948 | 1952 | Christian democratic | BNL - DC - PLI | - |
| 3 | Achille Lauro | 1952 | 1957 | Monarchist | PNM - MSI | 1952, 1956 |
| 4 | Sansanelli Nicola | 1957 | 1958[2] | Monarchist | PNP | - |
| 5 | Achille Lauro | 1960 | 1961[3] | Monarchist | PDIUM | 1960 |
| 6 | Vincenzo Maria Palmieri | 1962 | 1963 | Christian democratic | PDIUM - DC | 1962 |
| 7 | Ferdinando Clemente di San Luca | 1963 | 1966 | Christian democratic | PDIUM - DC (1963–64) | 1964 |
| 8 | Giovanni Principe | 1966 | 1970 | Christian democratic | DC - PSI - PSDI | - |
| 9 | Gerardo De Michele | 1970 | 1974 | Christian democratic | DC - PSI - PSDI - PRI | 1970 |
| 10 | Bruno Milanesi | 1974 | 1975 | Christian democratic | DC - PSI - PSDI - PRI | - |
| 11 | Mauro Valenzi | 1975 | 1983 | Communist | PCI - PSI - PSDI | 1975, 1980 |
| 12 | Francesco Picardi | 1983 | 1984 | Socialdemocratic | DC - PSI - PSDI | 1983 |
| 13 | Vincenzo Scotti | 1984 | 1984 | Christian democratic | DC - PSI - PSDI | - |
| 14 | Mario Forte | 1984 | 1984 | Christian democratic | DC - PSI - PSDI - PRI - PLI | - |
| 15 | Carlo D'Amato | 1984 | 1987 | Socialist | DC - PSI - PSDI - PRI - PLI | - |
| 16 | Pietro Lezzi | 1987 | 1990 | Socialist | DC - PSI - PRI - PLI | 1987 |
| 17 | Nello Polese | 1990 | 1993 | Socialist | DC - PSI - PRI - PLI | 1992 |
| 18 | Francesco Tagliamonte | 1993 | 1993 | Christian democratic | DC - PSI - PRI - PLI | - |
Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Naples is chosen by popular election, originally every four, and later every five years.
| Mayor of Naples | Took office | Left office | Party | Coalition | |||||
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| 19 | Antonio Bassolino | December 5, 1993 | March 24, 2000[4] | Democratic Party of the Left then Democrats of the Left |
PDS - PRC - FV December 5, 1993 – December 1, 1997 |
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| The Olive Tree December 1, 1997 – June 1, 2001 |
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| 20 | Rosa Russo Iervolino | June 1, 2001 | June 1, 2011 | Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy then Democratic Party |
The Olive Tree June 1, 2001 – June 1, 2006 |
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| The Olive Tree June 1, 2006 – June 1, 2011 |
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| 21 | Luigi De Magistris | June 1, 2011 | incumbent | Italy of Values | IDV - PRC since June 1, 2011 |
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After the Second World War, the first democratic election in Naples took place on November 10, 1946;[5] for the first time since 1926 the inhabitans (men and women, without distinction) could vote their representantives in the City Council with the proportional system of vote.
In 1946 the conservatives parties of the monarchists and christian democratics received the 53% of the votes and a big representaion in the City Council; the Popolar Democratic Front, which was composed by communists and socialists, received the 31% of the votes and didn't hav the majority in the City Council.
The same thing happened in the others elections (May 25, 1952; May 27, 1956; November 6, 1960; June 10, 1962); instead of the rest of Italy, in Naples the monarchists were very populars and obteined the majority in the City Council for more than 15 years.
In 1964 for the first time the Christian Democracy obteined the 34% of the votes and a strong majority in the City Council.
On 15 June 1975 the communists won the election and could form a coalition with the socialists for have the majority in the Council: the first communist mayor of Naples was Mauro Valenzi (who was re-elected after 1980's election).[6]
The following is the number of seats of each party in the City Council after each election:
| Year | DC | PCI | PSI | PNM | MSI | PRI | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 11 | - | - | 57 | - | - | 12 |
| 1952 | 11 | - | 1 | 37 | 15 | - | 15 |
| 1956 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 45 | 2 | - | 1 |
| 1960 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 29 | 3 | - | 2 |
| 1962 | 23 | 17 | 7 | 25 | 4 | - | 4 |
| 1964 | 29 | 20 | 5 | 7 | 8 | - | 11 |
| 1970 | 28 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 9 |
| 1975 | 24 | 27 | 5 | - | 15 | 2 | 7 |
| 1980 | 21 | 27 | 6 | - | 18 | 2 | 7 |
| 1983 | 20 | 23 | 9 | - | 17 | 4 | 7 |
| 1987 | 26 | 19 | 13 | - | 8 | 4 | 10 |
| 1992 | 25 | - | 16 | - | 7 | 5 | 25 |
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 choise 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 Italian Social Movement and the Democratic Party of the Left.
The main candidates were Antonio Bassolino and Benito Mussolini's grand-daughter Alessandra. However there were a lot of others candidates from different parties.
On December 5 1993, Bassolino won the election and became the first elected mayor of Naples.
| Naples Mayoral Election Results 1993 | ||||||||
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| Name | Party | 1st Round (November 21) |
% | 2nd Round (December 5) |
% | |||
| Antonio Bassolino | Democratic Party of the Left | 229.649 | 41,6 | 300.964 | 55,6 | |||
| Alessandra Mussolini | Italian Social Movement | 171.315 | 31,1 | 239.867 | 44,4 | |||
The election took place on November 16.
The main candidates were Emiddio Novi, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's coalition Pole of Freedoms and by some christian-democratic parties, and Antonio Bassolino, supported by Romano Prodi's coalition The Olive Tree.
Bassolino won the election with the 73% of the votes.
| Naples Mayoral Election Results 1997 | ||||||||
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| Name | Party | 1st Round (November 16) |
% | |||||
| Antonio Bassolino | Democratic Party of the Left | 405.173 | 72,9 | |||||
| Emiddio Novi | Forza Italia | 140.548 | 25,9 | |||||
The election took place in two rounds: the first on May 13 and the second on May 27.
The main candidates were Antonio Martusciello, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition, and Rosa Russo Iervolino, supported by Francesco Rutelli's center-left coalition The Olive Tree.
| Naples Mayoral Election Results 2001 | ||||||||
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| Name | Party | 1st Round (May 13) |
% | 2nd Round (May 27) |
% | |||
| Rosa Russo Iervolino | Italian People's Party | 262.818 | 48,2 | 278.183 | 52,9 | |||
| Antonio Martusciello | Forza Italia | 246.089 | 45,7 | 247.564 | 47,1 | |||
The election took place on May 28-29.
The incumbent mayor Rosa Russo Iervolino won with the 57% of the votes.
| Naples Mayoral Election Results 2006 | ||||||||
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| Name | Party | 1st Round (May 28-29) |
% | |||||
| Rosa Russo Iervolino | Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy | 304.755 | 57,04 | |||||
| Franco Malvano | Forza Italia | 201.987 | 37,8 | |||||
The election took place in two rounds: the first on May 15-16 and the second on May 29-30.
The main candidates were the entrepreneur Gianni Lettieri, from Silvio Berlusconi's party People of Freedom, the prefect Mario Morcone, from Democratic Party, and the magisrate Luigi De Magistris, from Antonio Di Pietro's party Italy of Values.
In March 2011, Morcone was chosen as the candidate center-left coalition with the coalition primary elections. However, De Magistris decided to run without the support of the center-left coalition; he was supported by his party, Communist Refoundation Party and some civic lists.
On the first round Lettieri was ahead with the 37% of the votes, but on the second round De Magistris won the election with the 65% of the votes.
In these election Democratic Party obtained the worst result since 1993, People of Freedom failed once again to conquer the city and De Magistris became the first elected mayor of Naples from a left-wing party.
| Naples Mayoral Election Results 2011[7] | ||||||||
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| Name | Party | 1st Round (May 15-16) |
% | 2nd Round (May 29-30) |
% | |||
| Luigi De Magistris | Italy of Values | 128.303 | 27,52 | 264.730 | 65,37 | |||
| Gianni Lettieri | People of Freedom | 179.575 | 38,52 | 140.203 | 34,62 | |||
| Mario Morcone | Democratic Party | 89.280 | 19,15 | - | - | |||
| Naples Council Election 2011 - Parties | ||||||||
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| Coalition | votes | % | seats | Party | votes | % | seats | |
| Left (De Magistris) | 68,522 | 16.7 | 29 | Italy of Values Communist Refoundation Party Civic Lists (2) |
33,320 15,008 20,194 |
8.1 3.7 4.9 |
15 6 8 |
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| Center-right (Lettieri) | 176,901 | 43.1 | 10 | People of Freedom Italian Republican Party The Right Civic Lists (8) |
97,752 5,976 4,567 68,606 |
23.9 1.4 1.1 16.7 |
7 - - 3 |
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| Center-left (Morcone) | 92,983 | 22.7 | 4 | Democratic Party Left Ecology Freedom Greens-Socialists Civic List (1) |
68,018 16,283 3,431 5,251 |
16.6 4.0 0.8 1.3 |
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