Mayor of Milan

The mayor of Milan is the first citizen and head of the municipal government of the city of Milan in Lombardy, Italy. The incumbent mayor is Giuseppe Sala, a centre-left independent who won the 2016 Milan municipal election, leading a progressive alliance composed of the Democratic Party, Green Europe, and some civic lists. He won a second term after the 2021 Milan municipal election.

Overview

According to the Italian Constitution, the mayor of Milan is a member of the City Council of Milan. The mayor and the other 48 city councillors are elected by the Italian and European Union citizens residing in Milan. Concurrently, albeit with a different ballot paper, nine presidents and 270 councillors are chosen for the nine assemblies of the nine municipalities of Milan, often referred to as zones, in which the city is divided, each one having one president and 30 councillors. All the offices are elected for five-year terms. The official seat of the mayor and of the City Council is Milan's City Hall, Palazzo Marino,'' in Piazza della Scala. Each municipality has its own official seat within its respective territory. After the election, the mayor can appoint one vice mayor and up to 16 assessors.
The mayor, vice mayor, and assessors form the municipal government and they implement the municipal policies, which are determined and controlled by the City Council. The City Council has also the power to dismiss the mayor or any of the assessors with a motion of no confidence. Similar procedures take place at the municipality level, where the mayor is called the president of the municipality and there are three assessors. Since 1993, Italian mayors of municipalities of more than 15,000 inhabitants have been directly elected by their respective electorates. Voters can express their choice for the mayor and for a list of municipal councillors not necessarily supporting the same mayor-candidate. If no mayor-candidate receives a majority of votes, a run-off election is held two weeks later among the top two candidates. In the list choice, each voter can express one or two preferences for councillor candidates; in the case of two preferences, their gender must be different. The party and civic lists supporting the elected mayor are granted a majority of the City Council seats, divided proportionally to each list result, by means of a majority bonus; the remaining seats are then assigned proportionally to the opposition lists.

List

Rectors

Mayors

Kingdom of Italy (1860–1946)

Italian Republic (1946–present)

City Council election (1946–1993)

From 1946 to 1993, the mayor was chosen by the City Council of Milan.
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Direct election (since 1993)

Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the mayor of Milan is chosen by direct election, originally every four, and since 2001 every five years.
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Timeline

By time in office

Elections

Deputy mayor

The office of the deputy mayor of Milan was officially created in 1993 with the adoption of the new local administration law. The deputy mayor is nominated and eventually dismissed by the mayor.

	Deputy	Term start	Term end	Party	Mayor
1	Marisa Bedoni	24 June 1993	22 April 1994	LN	Formentini
2	Giorgio Malagoli	22 April 1994	12 May 1997	Ind	Formentini
3	Riccardo De Corato	21 May 1997	14 May 2001	AN	Albertini
3	Riccardo De Corato	21 May 2001	1 June 2006	AN	Albertini
3	Riccardo De Corato	20 June 2006	1 June 2011	AN	Moratti
4	Maria Grazia Guida	10 June 2011	21 January 2013	PD	Pisapia
5	Ada Lucia De Cesaris	28 January 2013	15 July 2015	PD	Pisapia
6	Francesca Balzani	17 July 2015	21 June 2016	PD	Pisapia
7	Anna Scavuzzo	29 June 2016	6 October 2021	PD	Sala
7	Anna Scavuzzo	13 October 2021	Incumbent	PD	Sala

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