The Mayor of Genoa is an elected politician who, along with the Genoa’s City Council of 42 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Genoa. Since 28 May 2007, Marta Vincenzi

Marta Vincenzi

Marta Vincenzi is an Italian politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the North-West of Italy with the Democrats of the Left , part of the Socialist Group from 2004 until she resigned on 29 June 2007....

 holds the position. Previously, the position was held by Giuseppe Pericu

Giuseppe Pericu

Giuseppe Pericu is an Italian politician.A long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party, he joined the Democratic Party of the Left in 1996.He was the mayor of Genova from 1997 to 2007.-References:...

 from the May 1997 until his succession by Vincenzi.

Rectors

Rectors of Genoa were appointed since 1815 to 1863 by the kings of the Kingdom of Sardinia

Kingdom of Sardinia

The Kingdom of Sardinia consisted of the island of Sardinia first as a part of the Crown of Aragon and subsequently the Spanish Empire , and second as a part of the composite state of the House of Savoy . Its capital was originally Cagliari, in the south of the island, and later Turin, on the...

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• 1849–1851, Antonio Profumo
• 1851–1853, Stefano Centurione
• 1853–1856, Domenico Elena
• 1856–1860, Giuseppe Morro
• 1860, Lodovico Pallavicino
• 1860–1863, Gerolamo Gavotti

Mayors

Since 1863, newborn Kingdom of Italy

Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was its legal predecessor state...

 created the office of the Mayor of Genoa (Sindaco di Genova), chosen by the City council:*

• 1863, Antonio Caveri
• 1864–1865, Luigi Gropallo
• 1866–1873, Andrea Podestà
• 1874–1876, Filippo Lamponi
• 1876–1877, Lazzaro Negrotto Cambiaso
• 1877–1878, Felice Segre
• 1878–1879, Salvatore Calvino
• 1879, Enrico Parodi
• 1879–1883, Carlo Astengo
• 1883–1887, Andrea Podestà
• 1887–1888, Riccardo Pavesi
• 1888–1891, Stefano Castagnola
• 1891, Giacomo Doria
• 1891–1892, Camillo Garroni Carbonara
• 1892–1895, Andrea Podestà
• 1895–1896, Raffaele Pratolongo
• 1896–1903, Francesco Pozzo
• 1903–1904, Gio Batta Boraggini
• 1905–1906, Alberto Cerruti
• 1906–1910, Gerolamo Da Passano
• 1910–1914, Giacomo Grasso
• 1914–1920, Emilio Massone
• 1920–1924, Federico Ricci

Fascist Rectors

Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and City councils in 1924, replacing them with a single authoritarian Rector (Podestà) chosen by the National Fascist Party

National Fascist Party

The National Fascist Party was an Italian political party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of fascism...

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• 1924–1933, Eugenio Broccardi
• 1933–1940, Carlo Bombrini
• 1940–1944, Aldo Gardini
• 1944, Antonio Canevaro
• 1944–1945, Giulio Segoni

Democratic Mayors

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

#	Name	Start year	End year	Party	Coalition	Elections
1	Vannuccio Faralli	1945	1946	Communist Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...	CLN National Liberation Committee The National Liberation Committee was the underground political entity of Italian Partisans during the German occupation of Italy in the last years of the Second World War. It was a multi-party entity, whose members were united by their anti-fascism...	none
2	Giovanni Tarello	1946	1948	Communist Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...	PCI Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...  - PSI Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...	1946
3	Gelasio Adamoli	1948	1951	Communist Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...	PCI Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party was a communist political party in Italy.The PCI was founded as Communist Party of Italy on 21 January 1921 in Livorno, by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party . Amadeo Bordiga and Antonio Gramsci led the split. Outlawed during the Fascist regime, the party played...  - PSI Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...	-
4	Vittorio Pertusio	1951	1965	Christian democratic Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....	DC Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....	1951, 1956, 1960
5	Augusto Pedullà	1965	1971	Christian democratic Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....	DC Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....  - PSI Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...	1965, 1970
6	Giancarlo Piombino	1971	1975	Christian democratic Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....	DC Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....  - PSI Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...	-
7	Fulvio Cerofolini	1975	1985	Socialist Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...	DC Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....  - PSI Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...	1975, 1980
8	Cesare Campart	1985	1990	Republican Italian Republican Party The Italian Republican Party is a liberal political party in Italy.The PRI is party with old roots that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini...	DC Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....  - PRI Italian Republican Party The Italian Republican Party is a liberal political party in Italy.The PRI is party with old roots that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini...  - PSI Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...	1985
9	Romano Merlo	1990	1992	Socialdemocratic Italian Democratic Socialist Party The Italian Democratic Socialist Party is a minor social-democratic political party in Italy. Mimmo Magistro is the party leader. The PSDI, before the 1990s decline in votes and members, had been an important force in Italian politics, being the longest serving partner in government for Christian...	DC Christian Democracy (Italy) Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....  - PRI Italian Republican Party The Italian Republican Party is a liberal political party in Italy.The PRI is party with old roots that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini...  - PSI Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...  - PSDI Italian Democratic Socialist Party The Italian Democratic Socialist Party is a minor social-democratic political party in Italy. Mimmo Magistro is the party leader. The PSDI, before the 1990s decline in votes and members, had been an important force in Italian politics, being the longest serving partner in government for Christian...	1990
10	Claudio Burlando Claudio Burlando Claudio Burlando is an Italian politician, and the current Governor of Liguria, Italy.-External links:* *...	1992	1993	PDS Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left was a post-communist, democratic socialist political party in Italy.-History:...	all Council's parties	-

Elected Mayors

Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Genoa is chosen by popular election, originally every four, and since 1997 every five years:

	Mayor of Genoa Genoa Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....			Took office	Left office	Party	Coalition
11			Adriano Sansa	December 5, 1993	November 30, 1997	Democratic Party of the Left Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left was a post-communist, democratic socialist political party in Italy.-History:...		PDS Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left was a post-communist, democratic socialist political party in Italy.-History:...  - FV Federation of the Greens The Federation of the Greens is a green political party in Italy, which includes also a large eco-socialist faction. Since 2009 the party leader is Angelo Bonelli.-Early years:...  - AD Democratic Alliance (Italy) The Democratic Alliance was an Italian political party founded in 1993, with the intent of becoming the container of an alliance of centre-left forces. However, the project did not succeed, and it presented itself as a minor party, mainly composed of former Republicans and former Communists...   December 5, 1993 – November 30, 1997
12			Giuseppe Pericu Giuseppe Pericu Giuseppe Pericu is an Italian politician.A long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party, he joined the Democratic Party of the Left in 1996.He was the mayor of Genova from 1997 to 2007.-References:...	November 30, 1997	May 30, 2007	Democrats of the Left Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic Italian political party and part of the Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007...		The Olive Tree  November 30, 1997 – May 30, 2002
								The Olive Tree  May 30, 2002 - May 30, 2007
13			Marta Vincenzi Marta Vincenzi Marta Vincenzi is an Italian politician. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the North-West of Italy with the Democrats of the Left , part of the Socialist Group from 2004 until she resigned on 29 June 2007....	May 30, 2007	incumbent	Democratic Party Democratic Party (Italy) The Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy, that is the second-largest in the country. The party is led by Pier Luigi Bersani, who was elected in the 2009 leadership election....		The Olive Tree since May 30, 2007