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Mayor of Venice
Sindaco di Venezia
since 15 June 2015
SeatCa' Farsetti
AppointerElectorate of Venice
Term length5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holderDaniele Renier
Formation1806
DeputyAndrea Tomaello
Salary€85,000 annually
WebsiteComune di Venezia

The mayor of Venice (Italian: sindaco di Venezia) is an elected politician who, along with the Venice City Council of 36 members, is accountable for the strategic government of the municipality of Venice, Veneto, Italy.

The current office holder is Luigi Brugnaro, a centre-right wing independent businessman who has been in charge since 2015. The last election took place in 2020.

Overview

Ca' Loredan, Venice City Hall

According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Venice is member of the Venice's City Council. Although the title Mayor is not held by the heads of the six boroughs of Venice, because they do not actually preside over self-governmental municipalities.

The Mayor is elected by the population of Venice. Citizens elect also the members of the City Council, which also controls Mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence. The Mayor is entitled to appoint and release the members of his government.

Since 1993 the Mayor is elected directly by Venice's electorate: in all mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 the voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

The seat of the City Council is the city hall Ca' Loredan on the Canal Grande.

List of mayors of Venice

Podestà (1806–1866)

Podestà of Venice were appointed since 1806 to 1866 by the rulers of the city during the early- to mid-19th century: Napoleon and the Habsburgs.

Kingdom of Italy (1866–1946)

In 1860, the nascent Kingdom of Italy created the office of the Mayor of Venice (Sindaco di Venezia), chosen by the City council:

  Mayor Term start Term end Party
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"| 1 Giambattista Giustinian 1866 1868 Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"| 2 Giuseppe Giovanelli 1868 1870 Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"| 3 Antonio Fornoni 1870 1875 Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"| (1) Giambattista Giustinian 1875 1878 Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"| 4 Dante Di Serego Alighieri 1878 1888 Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"| 5 Lorenzo Tiepolo 1888 1890 Right
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color; color:black"| 6 Riccardo Selvatico 1890 1895 Left
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"| 7 Filippo Grimani 1895 1919 Right
8 Davide Giordano 1919 1924 ANI
Fascist Podestà (1926–1945)
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"|1 Pietro Orsi 1924 1929 PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"|2 Ettore Zorzi 1929 1930 PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"|3 Mario Alverà 1930 1938 PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"|4 Giovanni Marcello 1938 1943 PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"|5 Giovanni Battista Dall'Armi 1943 1945 PFR
Liberation (1945–1946)
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"| 9 Giovanni Ponti 1945 1946 DC

Republic of Italy (since 1946)

City Council election (1946–1993)

From 1946 to 1993, the Mayor of Venice was chosen by the City Council:

  Mayor Term start Term end Party Coalition Election
style="background:Template:Italian Communist Party/meta/color; color:white"| 1 Giovanni Battista Gianquinto 25 June 1946 21 January 1951 PCI
PCI  • PSI
1946
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"| 2 Angelo Spanio 21 January 1951 13 January 1955 DC
DC
1951
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"| 3 Roberto Tognazzi 13 January 1955 28 May 1960 DC
DC  • PSDI
1956
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"| 4 Giovanni Favaretto Fisca 28 May 1960 12 May 1970 DC 1960
DC  • PSI  • PSDI
1964
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"| 5 Giorgio Longo 12 May 1970 21 December 1975 DC 1970
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"| 6 Mario Rigo 21 December 1975 18 January 1985 PSI
PCI  • PSI
1975
1980
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"| 7 Nereo Laroni 18 January 1985 11 March 1987 PSI
PCI  • PSI  • PRI
1985
style="background:Template:Italian Republican Party/meta/color; color:white"| 8 Antonio Casellati 11 March 1987 25 January 1988 PRI
PCI  • PSI  • PRI  • FdV
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"| 9 Costante Degan 25 January 1988 12 February 1988 DC ?
style="background:Template:Italian Republican Party/meta/color; color:white"| (8) Antonio Casellati 12 February 1988 11 May 1990 PRI
PCI  • PSI  • PSDI  • PRI  • FdV
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"| 10 Ugo Bergamo 11 May 1990 1 June 1993 DC
DC  • PSI  • PSDI
1990
- Giovanni Troiani 1 June 1993 9 December 1993 - Special prefectural commissioner[a]
Notes
  1. ^ Nominated by the Prefect after the Mayor and the members of the City Council resigned in order to hold a new election under the provision of the new local electoral law.

Direct election (since 1993)

Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Venice is chosen by direct election, originally every four, and later every five years:


Mayor of Venice Took office Left office Party Coalition Election
11 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | Massimo Cacciari
(b. 1944)
9 December 1993 25 January 2000[1] Ind. style="background: Template:Alliance of Progressives/meta/color;" | PDS  • PRC  • FdV
and other left-wing independents
9 December 1993 – 17 November 1997
1993
style="background: Template:The Olive Tree (Italy)/meta/color;" | The Olive Tree
17 November 1997 – 25 January 2000
1997
Corrado Scivoletto, Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (25 January 2000 – 30 April 2000)
12 rowspan="1" style="background: Template:The Democrats (Italy)/meta/color;" | Paolo Costa
(b. 1943)
30 April 2000 18 April 2005 Dem
DL
style="background: Template:The Olive Tree (Italy)/meta/color;" | The Olive Tree
30 April 2000 – 18 April 2005
2000
(11) rowspan="1" style="background: Template:The Daisy/meta/color;" | Massimo Cacciari
(b. 1944)
18 April 2005 8 April 2010 DL
PD
DL  • UDEUR
18 April 2005 – 8 April 2010
2005
13 rowspan="1" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" | Giorgio Orsoni
(b. 1946)
8 April 2010 13 June 2014[2] PD style="background: Template:Centre-left coalition/meta/color;" | PD  • FdS  • FdV
8 April 2010 – 13 June 2014
2010
Vittorio Zappalorto, Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (13 June 2014 – 15 June 2015)
14 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Coraggio Italia/meta/color;" | Luigi Brugnaro
(b. 1961)
15 June 2015 incumbent CI style="background: Template:Centre-right coalition/meta/color;" | FI  • UDC
and other right-wing independents
15 June 2015 – 23 September 2020
2015
style="background: Template:Centre-right coalition/meta/color;" | LN  • FdI  • FI
and other right-wing independents
since 23 September 2020
2020

Timeline

Luigi BrugnaroGiorgio OrsoniMassimo CacciariPaolo CostaMassimo Cacciari

Elections

City Council elections, 1946–1990

Number of votes for each party:

Election DC PCI PSI PLI PRI PSDI MSI Others Total
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Communist Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Liberal Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Republican Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Democratic Socialist Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Social Movement/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Other/meta/color;"|
24 March 1946 55,260
(36.8%)
40,947
(27.3%)
37,069
(24.7%)
2,251
(1.5%)
7,555
(5.0%)
- - 6,967
(4.6%)
150,049
27 May 1951 68,070
(37.8%)
54,752
(30.4%)
16,884
(9.4%)
8,331
(4.6%)
1,637
(0.9%)
10,546
(5.8%)
10,693
(9.4%)
9,194
(5.0%)
180,107
27 May 1956 73,394
(37.8%)
41,022
(21.1%)
41,088
(21.1%)
6,629
(3.4%)
1,574
(0.8%)
13,877
(7.1%)
10,062
(5.2%)
6,724
(3.4%)
194,370
6 November 1960 75,936
(35.7%)
49,920
(23.5%)
45,640
(21.5%)
7,020
(3.3%)
2,531
(1.2%)
13,277
(6.2%)
10,294
(4.8%)
7,544
(3.4%)
212,463
22 November 1964 74,411
(33.9%)
55,364
(25.2%)
31,474
(14.3%)
18,286
(8.3%)
- 13,277
(6.8%)
8,733
(4.0%)
16,529
(7.5%)
219,798
7 June 1970 74,057
(31.7%)
62,263
(26.6%)
27,339
(11.6%)
13,113
(5.6%)
8,101
(3.5%)
18,759
(8.0%)
9,705
(4.1%)
18,765
(7.9%)
232,102
15 June 1975 73,351
(29.5%)
85,203
(34.3%)
40,243
(16.2%)
7,409
(3.0%)
9,036
(3.6%)
15,466
(6.2%)
10,956
(4.4%)
6,619
(2.7%)
248,283
8 June 1980 73,492
(31.0%)
77,223
(32.6%)
40,685
(17.2%)
7,409
(3.0%)
7,000
(2.9%)
10,607
(4.5%)
8,454
(3.6%)
12,820
(5.3%)
237,072
12 May 1985 66,071
(27.3%)
73,652
(30.5%)
41,819
(17.3%)
4,964
(2.1%)
11,889
(4.9%)
10,404
(4.3%)
11,704
(4.8%)
21,159
(8.7%)
241,662
6 May 1990 57,800
(25.9%)
52,575
(23.6%)
39,333
(17.6%)
3,295
(1.5%)
7,452
(3.3%)
7,039
(3.2%)
6,579
(2.9%)
48,855
(21.7%)
222,928

Number of seats in the City Council for each party:

Election DC PCI PSI PLI PRI PSDI MSI Others Total
style="background:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Communist Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Liberal Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Republican Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Democratic Socialist Party/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Italian Social Movement/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Other/meta/color;"|
24 March 1946 23 16 15 - 3 - - 3 60
27 May 1951 31 12 4 4 - 5 2 2 60
27 May 1956 24 13 13 2 - 4 3 1 60
6 November 1960 23 14 13 2 - 4 3 - 60
22 November 1964 21 15 9 5 - 4 2 - 60
7 June 1970 21 17 7 3 2 5 2 3 60
15 June 1975 18 22 10 1 2 4 2 1 60
8 June 1980 20 21 11 1 1 3 2 1 60
12 May 1985 17 19 11 1 3 2 3 4 60
6 May 1990 17 15 11 - 2 2 1 12 60

Mayoral and City Council election, 1993

The election took place in two rounds: the first on 21 November and the second on 5 December 1993.

For the first time under the new electoral law citizens could vote directly the mayor; before this choice was made by the City Council.

For the first time a center-left coalition, composed by the former communist Democratic Party of the Left and some other progressives party (such as the new-born Federation of the Greens and the Communist Refoundation Party), presented its candidate: Massimo Cacciari. He was an independent venetian philosopher, who had been a member of the Italian Communist Party. The main opposition to Cacciari's coalition was represented by Aldo Mariconda. Mariconda was a businessman and member of the regionalist Lega Nord-Liga Veneta, which combined Venetian nationalism and a strong support for fiscal federalism. Liga Veneta, as regional faction of the national Lega Nord party, had a liberal, centrist and economically libertarian outfit due to the political upbringing of its early leaders and a more conservative electoral base.

Despite the strong performance of Mariconda on the first round, Cacciari managed to win the election on the second round gaining the support of the moderate and centrist voters of the agonizing Christian Democracy party. On 5 December 1993 Cacciari won the election and became the first directly-elected mayor of Venice.

Candidate Party Coalition First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Massimo Cacciari Ind Alliance of Progressives 89,034 42.29 107,497 55.37
Aldo Mariconda LV LVLN 55,971 26.50 86,643 44.63
Giovanni Castellani DC DC-LAV-PS 49,224 23.38
Bruno Canella MSI-DN 6,048 2.87
Others 10,455 4.96
Eligible voters 270,305 100.00 270,305 100.00
Voted 224,180 82.94 205,517 76.03
Blank or invalid ballots 13,628 11,377
Total valid votes 210,552 194,140
Summary of the 1993 Venice City Council election results
Parties and coalitions Votes % Seats
style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party of the Left/meta/color" | Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra) PDS 33,997 20.59% 16
style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista) PRC 10,738 6.50% 5
style="background-color:Template:Federation of the Greens/meta/color" | Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi) FdV 9,901 6.00% 4
style="background-color:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color" | Socialist Progress (Progresso Socialista) PS 5,824 3.53% 2
Alliance Venice-Mestre (Alleanza Venezia-Mestre) AVM 2,244 1.36% 1
style="background-color:Template:The Network (political party)/meta/color" | The Network (La Rete) LR 1,996 1.21% 0
Cacciari coalition (Left-wing) 64,700 39.18% 28
style="background-color:Template:Lega Nord/meta/color" | Liga VenetaLega Nord LV–LN 49,350 29.88% 10
style="background-color:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color" | Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana) DC 20,384 12.34% 5
Lega Autonomia Veneta LAV 8,387 5.08% 1
Venice-Mestre Pact (Patto Venezia-Mestre) PVM 4,891 2.96% 1
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Others 2,949 1.79% 0
Castellani coalition (Centre) 36,611 22.17% 7
style="background-color:Template:Italian Social Movement/meta/color" | Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano) MSI-DN 5,580 3.38% 1
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Others 8,909 5.39% 0
Total 165,150 100% 46
Votes cast / turnout 224,180 82.94%
Registered voters 270,305
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Mayoral and City Council election, 1997

The election took place on 16 November 1997.

Mayoral and City Council election, 2000

The election took place in two rounds: the first on 16 April and the second on 30 April 2000.

The snap election was held in April 2000 after the incumbent mayor Massimo Cacciari resigned in January to run as the main center-left candidate for the regional elections. While on the first round about 72% of the venetian voters went to the polls, thanks to the fact that the election took place the same day of the regional elections, on the second round the turnout was extremely low, probably because the election occurred on the first Sunday after Easter, immediately before the International Workers' Day, and most of voters were outside Venice.

The main candidates were Paolo Costa, a member of the center-left Italian People's Party and former Minister of Public Works (1996–1998), and Renato Brunetta, a center-right venetian MEP. Gianfranco Bettin, a notorious environmental activist, run as the main candidate of a leftist coalition. For the first time the regionalist Lega Nord party decided to not present its own mayoral candidate and to be a part of the center-right alliance.

In the first round of the election, Brunetta got 39% of the votes and Costa 38%. Then on the second round Bettin, who got 16% of the votes on the first round, decided to officially sustain Costa and signed a pre-electoral alliance with him just a week before the run-off. On 30 April Costa easily defeated Brunetta and, since on the first round no coalition obtained more than the 50% of the votes, the majority bonus granted by the electoral law was given to the center-left coalition and its fresh leftist allies despite the center-right had received more votes.

Candidate Party Coalition First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Paolo Costa PPI The Olive Tree 62,755 37.67 68,229 55.96
Renato Brunetta FI House of Freedoms 64,956 38.99 53,686 44.04
Gianfranco Bettin FdV PRC-FdV 27,086 16.26
Others 11,785 7.06
Eligible voters 246,962 100.00 246,962 100.00
Voted 177,510 71.88 124,370 50.36
Blank or invalid ballots 10,928 2,455
Total valid votes 166,582 121,915
Summary of the 2000 Venice City Council election results
Parties and coalitions Votes % Seats
style="background-color:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color" | Forza Italia FI 34,261 25.30% 13
style="background-color:Template:National Alliance (Italy)/meta/color" | National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale) AN 9,489 7.01% 3
style="background-color:Template:Lega Nord/meta/color" | Lega Nord LN 5,212 3.85% 1
style="background-color:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color" | United Christian Democrats (Cristiani Democratici Uniti) CDU 2,807 2.07% 1
style="background-color:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color" | Christian Democratic Centre (Centro Cristiano Democratico) CCD 2,428 1.79% 0
Sgarbi Liberal List (Liberal Sgarbi) LS 1,139 0.84% 0
Brunetta coalition (Centre-right) 55,336 40.86% 18
style="background-color:Template:Democrats of the Left/meta/color" | Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra) DS 28,984 21.40% 13
Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano) PPI 10,630 7.85% 4
Italian Democratic Socialists (Socialisti Democratici Italiani) SDI 7,058 5.21% 3
style="background-color:Template:Party of Italian Communists/meta/color" | Party of Italian Communists (Partito dei Comunisti Italiani) PdCI 2,604 1.92% 1
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Others 976 0.72% 0
Costa coalition (Center-left) 50,252 37.09% [3] 21
style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista) PRC 10,440 7.71% 5
style="background-color:Template:Federation of the Greens/meta/color" | Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi) FdV 4,724 3.49% 1
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Others 4,192 3.10% 1
Bettin coalition (Left-wing) 19,356 14.30% [4] 7
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Others 10,499 7.75% 0
Total 135,433 100% 46
Votes cast / turnout 177,510 71.88%
Registered voters 246,962
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Mayoral and City Council election, 2005

The election took place on two rounds: the first on 3–4 April, the second on 17–18 April 2005.

The candidates were in total eleven, some supported by independent lists. The main candidates were: the philosopher and former mayor Massimo Cacciari, who were supported by the center-left moderate party The Daisy; the magistrate Felice Casson, who was supported by a broad center-left coalition; and the businessman Cesare Campa, who was supported by a center-right alliance between Forza Italia and Union of Christian and Centre Democrats. Differently from the precedent election, both the main coalitions were completely divided: the former center-right coalition was now fragmented between three different candidates, while the center-left was broken in two part, one moderate and one radical.

After a hard battle, Massimo Cacciari was able to obtain 23% of the votes, overtaking Campa in order to participate in the run-off election with Casson. Despite the first round result, after a shocking vote counting, Casson was narrowly defeated by Cacciari who probably gained the support of the center-right voters. Two years later, however, when Democrats of the Left and The Daisy merged into the Democratic Party, Cacciari had a majority even greater in the City Council.

Candidate Party Coalition First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Massimo Cacciari DL DL-UDEUR 37,488 23.22 64,315 50.53
Felice Casson DS The Olive Tree 60,837 37.68 62,974 49.47
Cesare Campa FI House of Freedoms 32,726 20.27
Raffaele Speranzon AN 10,021 6.21
Augusto Salvadori PNE 6,905 4.28
Alberto Mazzonetto LN 5,419 3.36
Others 8,069 4.99
Eligible voters 233,316 100.00 233,316 100.00
Voted 168,087 72.04 129,885 55.67
Blank or invalid ballots 6,622 2,596
Total valid votes 161,465 127,289
Summary of the 2005 Venice City Council election results
Parties and coalitions Votes % Seats
style="background-color:Template:Democrats of the Left/meta/color" | Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra) DS 26,531 21.15% 6
style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista) PRC 8,509 6.78% 1
style="background-color:Template:Federation of the Greens/meta/color" | Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi) FdV 4,882 3.89% 1
style="background-color:Template:Party of Italian Communists/meta/color" | Party of Italian Communists (Partito dei Comunisti Italiani) PdCI 2,661 2.12% 0
style="background-color:Template:Italy of Values/meta/color" | Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori) IdV 2,544 2.03% 0
Italian Democratic Socialists (Socialisti Democratici Italiani) SDI 1,630 1.30% 0
style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Others 4,463 3.56% 1
Casson coalition (Left-wing) 51,220 40.84% 10
style="background-color:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color" | Forza Italia FI 25,726 20.51% 5
style="background-color:Template:Union of the Centre (2002)/meta/color" | Union of the Centre (Unione di Centro) UdC 3,966 3.16% 0
Campa coalition (Centre-right) 29,692 23.67% 5
The Daisy (La Margherita) DL 16,855 13.44% 26
Union of Democrats for Europe (Unione Democratica per l'Europa) UDEUR 1,784 1.42% 2
Cacciari coalition (Centre) 18,639 14.86% [5] 28
style="background-color:Template:National Alliance (Italy)/meta/color" | National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale) AN 8,490 6.77% 1
Salvadori List–North-East Project (Progetto NordEst) PNE 5,141 4.10% 1
Lega Nord LN 4,955 3.95% 1
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Others 7,280 5.80% 0
Total 125,417 100% 46
Votes cast / turnout 168,087 72.04%
Registered voters 233,316
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Mayoral and City Council election, 2010

The election took place on 28–29 March 2010.

Mayoral and City Council election, 2015

These elections were held on two rounds: the first on 31 May the second on 14 June 2015.

These elections occurred after a year during which the city were governed by a special commissioner after the incumbent mayor Giorgio Orsoni resigned in June 2014 amid a wider investigation into alleged corruption over new flood barriers MOSE Project.

The official candidate of the center-left coalition was the left-wing magistrate and senator Felice Casson, who failed to win the election in 2005. Cause of his opposition to Matteo Renzi's political line, Casson was generally considered as a representative of the extreme left parties, and based his campaign on the break with the old and corrupted politicians who were investigated the past year. The main opposition to Casson's coalition was the center-right independent Luigi Brugnaro, a businessman and president of the Reyer Venezia Mestre basketball club. Brugnaro was sustained by a coalition between Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the conservative Popular Area alliance.

Although Casson was ahead after the first round, on 14 June Brugnaro won the election and became the first directly-elected conservative mayor of the city. However, the victory of Brugnaro occurred thanks to his great popularity across the city: his own independent list resulted the first party and gained 17 of 36 seats in the City Council, while Forza Italia and Popular Area obtained together no more than 5% of the votes.

After the election, Brugnaro said he considered himself as an independent, totally free from parties' influence, and a supporter of Matteo Renzi's policy.[6]

Candidate Party Coalition First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Luigi Brugnaro Ind FI-AP 34,790 28.57 54,405 53.21
Felice Casson PD PD-SEL-FdV-PSI-CD 46,298 38.02 47,838 46.79
Davide Scano M5S 15,348 12.60
Gian Angelo Bellati LN 14,482 11.89
Francesca Zaccariotto FdI-AN 8,292 6.81
Others 2,567 2.11
Eligible voters 211,720 100.00 211,720 100.00
Voted 126,631 59.81 103,827 49.04
Blank or invalid ballots 4,854 1,584
Total valid votes 121,777 102,243
Summary of the 2015 Venice City Council election results
Parties and coalitions Votes % Seats
Casson List (Lista Casson) LC 19,991 17.10% 4
style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color" | Democratic Party (Partito Democratico) PD 19,667 16.83% 4
style="background-color:Template:Left Ecology Freedom/meta/color" | Left Ecology Freedom-Greens (Sinistra Ecologia e Libertà - Verdi) SEL-FdV 1,845 1.58% 0
style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | Venice Common Good (Venezia Bene Comune) VBC 1,562 1.34% 0
style="background-color:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color" | Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano) PSI 618 0.53% 0
Democratic Centre (Centro Democratico) CD 365 0.31% 0
Casson coalition (Centre-left) 44,058 37.69% 8
Brugnaro List (Lista Brugnaro) LB 24,352 20.83% 17
style="background-color:Template:Forza Italia (2013)/meta/color" | Forza Italia FI 4,405 3.77% 3
style="background-color:Template:Popular Area/meta/color" | Popular Area (Area Popolare) AP 1,870 1.60% 1
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Others 2,818 2.41% 1
Brugnaro coalition (Centre-right) 33,445 28.61% [7] 22
Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle) M5S 15,009 12.84% 3
Lega Nord LN 13,997 11.97% 2
style="background-color:Template:Brothers of Italy/meta/color" | Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) FdI 7,847 6.71% 1
style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Others 2,530 2.16% 0
Total 116,886 100% 36
Votes cast / turnout 126,631 59.81%
Registered voters 211,720
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Mayoral and City Council election, 2020

These elections were scheduled to take place on 31 May 2020 but then were postponed to 20–21 September 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

References

  1. ^ Resigned in order to participate to the regional elections.
  2. ^ Resigned after a corruption scandal. Partly acquitted and partly prescribed in 2017. Mayor of Venice resigns after corruption inquiry, BBC 13 June 2014.
  3. ^ As a result of the majority bonus granted by the electoral law to the candidate who wins the run-off competition if no coalition reaches more than 50% of the votes on the first round.
  4. ^ As a result of the pre-electoral agreement with the center-left coalition.
  5. ^ As a result of the majority bonus granted by the electoral law to the candidate who wins the run-off competition if no coalition reaches more than 50% of the votes on the first round.
  6. ^ Brugnaro, l'imprenditore un po' leghista e un po' grillino: "Mi piace Renzi", La Stampa 16 June 2015.
  7. ^ As a result of the majority bonus granted by the electoral law to the candidate who wins the run-off competition if no coalition reaches more than 50% of the votes on the first round.
  • "Elenco Podestà/Sindaci del Comune di Venezia". City of Venice. Retrieved 22 June 2021.