List of mayors of Turin

Mayor of Turin
Incumbent Piero Fassino (Democratic Party) since May 16, 2011
Residence	Palazzo Civico
Appointer	Popular election
Term length	5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Francesco Luigi Demargherita
Formation	November 30, 1848
Succession	May 2016
Deputy	Tom Dealessandri
Website	[3]

Turin's City Hall.

The Mayor of Turin is an elected politician who, along with the Turin’s City Council of 50 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Turin, northern Italy. Since 16 May 2011, Piero Fassino holds the position. Previously, the position was held by Sergio Chiamparino since 2001 until his succession by Fassino.

Mayors

Since 1848, newborn Kingdom of Italy created the office of the Mayor of Turin (Sindaco di Torino), chosen by the City council:

• 1848–1849, Francesco Luigi Demargherita
• 1849–1850, Carlo Pinchia
• 1850–1852, Giorgio Bellono
• 1852–1860, Giovanni Notta
• 1860–1861, Augusto Nomis di Cossilla
• 1862–1865, Emanuele Luserna di Rorà
• 1865–1869, Giovanni Filippo Galvagno
• 1869–1870, Cesare Valperga di Masino
• 1870–1877, Felice Rignon
• 1877–1882, Luigi Ferraris
• 1882–1886, Ernesto Balbo Bertone di Sambuy
• 1887–1894, Melchiorre Voli
• 1894–1902, Severino Casana
• 1902–1903, Alfonso Badini Confalonieri
• 1903–1909, Secondo Frola
• 1909–1917, Teofilo Rossi
• 1917, Leopoldo Usseglio
• 1917–1920, Filiberto Olgiati
• 1920–1923, Riccardo Cattaneo
• 1923–1925, Lorenzo La Via nobile dei Baroni di Sant'Agrippina
• 1925–1926, Donato Etna

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:

• 1926–1928, Luigi Balbo Bertone di Sambuy
• 1928–1929, Umberto Ricci
• 1929–1935, Paolo Thaon di Revel
• 1935–1938, Ugo Sartirana
• 1938–1939, Cesare Giovara
• 1939–1943, Matteo Bonino
• 1943–1944, Bruno Villabruna
• 1944–1945, Michele Fassio

Democratic Mayors

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

#	Name	Start year	End year	Political Party	Coalition	Elections
1	Giovanni Roveda	1945	1946	Communist	CLN	none
2	Celeste Negarville	1946	1948	Communist	PCI - PSIUP	1946
2	Domenico Coggiola	1948	1951	Communist	PCI - PSIUP	-
3	Amedeo Peyron	1951	1962	Christian democratic	DC - PLI	1951, 1956, 1960
4	Giovanni Carlo Anselmetti	1962	1964	Christian democratic	DC - PLI	-
5	Luciano Jona	1964	1965	Christian democratic	DC - PLI	-
6	Giuseppe Grosso	1965	1968	Christian democratic	DC - PLI	1965
7	Andrea Guglielminetti	1968	1970	Christian democratic	DC - PLI	-
8	Giovanni Porcellana	1970	1973	Christian democratic	DC - PSI - PLI	1970
9	Guido Secreto	1973	1973	Socialist	DC - PSI - PLI	-
10	Giovanni Picco	1973	1975	Christian democratic	DC - PSI - PLI	-
11	Diego Novelli	1975	1985	Communist	PCI	1975, 1980
12	Giorgio Cardetti	1985	1987	Socialist	PSI	1985
13	Maria Magnani Noya	1987	1990	Socialist	PSI	-
14	Valerio Zanone	1990	1991	Liberal	DC - PLI - PRI	1990
15	Giovanna Cattaneo Incisa	1992	1993	Republican	DC - PLI - PRI	-

Elected Mayors

Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Turin is chosen by popular election, originally every four, and since 2001 every five year:

	Mayor of Turin			Took office	Left office	Party	Coalition
17			Valentino Castellani	June 20, 1993	June 1, 2001	Democratic Party of the Left then Democrats of the Left		PDS - FV - AD June 20, 1993 – May 11, 1997
								The Olive Tree May 11, 1997 – June 1, 2001
18			Sergio Chiamparino	June 1, 2001	May 16, 2011	Democrats of the Left then Democratic Party		The Olive Tree June 1, 2001 – June 1, 2006
								The Olive Tree June 1, 2006 - May 16, 2011
19			Piero Fassino	May 16, 2011	incumbent	Democratic Party		PD - SEL - IDV since May 16, 2011

Elections

Mayoral and Council election, 1997

The election took place in two rounds: the first on April 27 and the second on May 11.

The main candidates were Raffaele Costa, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's coalition Pole of Freedoms and by some christian-democratic parties, and the outgoing mayor Valentino Castellani, supported by Romano Prodi's coalition The Olive Tree.

Turin Mayoral Election Results 1997
	Name	Party	1st Round (June 6)	%	2nd Round (June 20)	%
	Valentino Castellani	Democrats of the Left	196.306	35,4	272.711	50,4
	Raffaele Costa	Forza Italia	240.250	43,2	268.002	49,6

Mayoral and Council election, 2001

The election took place in two rounds: the first on May 13 and the second on May 27, 2001.

The main candidates were Roberto Rosso, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition, and Sergio Chiamparino, supported by Francesco Rutelli's center-left coalition The Olive Tree.

Turin Mayoral Election Results 2001
	Name	Party	1st Round (May 13)	%	2nd Round (May 27)	%
	Sergio Chiamparino	Democrats of the Left	269.152	44,9	285.997	52,8
	Roberto Rosso	Forza Italia	266.218	44,4	255.444	47,2

Mayoral and Council election, 2006

The election took place on May 29-30, 2006.

The main candidates were the incumbent mayor Sergio Chiamparino, supported by Romano Prodi's coalition The Olive Tree, and the minister Rocco Buttiglione, from the centrist party UDC and supported by Silvio Berlusconi's coalition House of Freedom.

Chiamparino won the election with the 66% of the votes.

Turin Mayoral Election Results 2006
	Name	Party	1st Round (May 29-30)	%
	Sergio Chiamparino	Democrats of the Left	307.913	66,6
	Rocco Buttiglione	Union of the Centre	136.134	29,5

Mayoral and Council election, 2011

The election took place on May 15-16.

The main candidates were the Michele Coppola, from Silvio Berlusconi's party People of Freedom, and the Piero Fassino, from Democratic Party. Fassino was chosen as the candidate for the center-left coalition on February 26, 2011 with the coalition primary elections^[1].

Michele Coppola was supported by a big center-right coalition, composed by People of Freedom, Lega Nord, The Right - Tricolour Flame and some civic lists. Piero Fassino was supported by Democratic Party, Left Ecology Freedom, Italy of Values and some civic lists.

Turin Mayoral Election Results 2011
	Name	Party	1st Round (May 15-16)	%
	Piero Fassino	Democratic Party	255.242	56,66
	Michele Coppola	People of Freedom	122.981	27,30

Turin Council Election 2011 - Parties [2]
	Coalition	votes	%	seats	Party	votes	%	seats
	Center-left (Fassino)	226,147	56.5	24	Democratic Party Left Ecology Freedom Italy of Values Civic Lists (5)	138,103 22,647 19,055 46,342	34.5 5.6 4.8 11.6	16 2 2 4
	Center-right (Coppola)	107,439	26.8	10	People of Freedom Lega Nord The Right Pensioner's Party Alliance of the Centre Civic Lists (3)	73,197 27,451 2,396 1,868 740 1,787	18.3 6.8 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.4	7 3 - - - -

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ [2] Italian Ministry of the Interior - 2011.

Notes

• it:Sindaci di Torino (since 1564)
• Davide Giovanni Cravero, Trecento anni di vita del Palazzo Civico di Torino: 1663 – 1963, Published by the City of Turin, 1964, available online here
• Photo Gallery of the mayors of Turin 1945–2005