Corine Mauch

Corine Mauch
Mayor of Zürich
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2009
Preceded by	Elmar Ledergerber
Personal details
Born	28 May 1960 (1960-05-28) (age 51) Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP)
Alma mater	ETH Zurich, IDHEAP

Corine Mauch (born 28 May 1960 in Iowa City) is a Swiss Social Democrat politician who serves as mayor of Zürich. She is the first female and first openly gay person to be elected mayor of the city.^[1]

Mauch was elected mayor in March 2009, after ten years on the city council. In the first round of balloting, she finished in second place, barely 1,300 votes behind Kathrin Martelli, the candidate of the Free Democratic Party. In the second round, she received 41,745 votes, beating Martelli by 58 percent to 42.^[2][3]

Mauch is the daughter of Ursula Mauch, who led the Social Democratic Party in the federal parliament. She grew up in the canton of Aargau before attending ETH Zurich, where she studied agricultural economics, and the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP).

References

1. ^ Wilkinson, Sophie (30 March 2009). "Zurich elects lesbian mayor". Pink News. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11801.html/. Retrieved 29 September 2011. 
2. ^ http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/news_digest/Zurich_receives_first_female_mayor.html?siteSect=104&sid=10510756&cKey=1238337980000&ty=nd
3. ^ Suter, Daniel (2009-03-30). "Corine Mauch ist die Siegerin in allen Wahlkreisen" (in German). Tages-Anzeiger: p. 11. 

External links

• (German) Corine Mauch's website

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Name	Mauch, Corine
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Date of birth	28 May 1960
Place of birth	Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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