| Post: | Mayor |
| Body: | Ravenna |
| Insignia: | Ravenna-Stemma.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 100px |
| Native Name: | Sindaco di Ravenna |
| Incumbent: | Michele De Pascale (PD) |
| Incumbentsince: | 21 June 2016 |
| Appointer: | Popular election |
| Termlength: | 5 years, renewable once |
| Formation: | 1860 |
| Website: | Official website |
The Mayor of Ravenna is an elected politician who, along with the Ravenna's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Ravenna in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
The current Mayor is Michele De Pascale, a member of the Democratic Party, who took office on 21 June 2016.[1]
According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Ravenna is member of the City Council.
The Mayor is elected by the population of Ravenna, who also elect the members of the City Council, controlling the 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 Ravenna'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.
| class=unsortable | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayors appointed by the King (1860-1889) | |||||||
| 1 | Vincenzo Cavalli | 1860 | 1863 | Right | |||
| 2 | Gioacchino Rasponi | 1863 | 1865 | Left | |||
| 3 | Ignazio Guiccioli | 1865 | 1869 | Right | |||
| 4 | Cosimo Fabbri | 1869 | 1871 | Left | |||
| (2) | Gioacchino Rasponi | 1871 | 1873 | Left | |||
| 5 | Silvio Guerrini | 1873 | 1876 | Left | |||
| 6 | Ugo Lovatelli Dal Corno | 1876 | 1883 | Right | |||
| 7 | Pietro Gamba | 1883 | 1886 | Right | |||
| 8 | Ugo Burnazzi | 1886 | 1889 | Left | |||
| Mayors elected by the City Council (1889-1926) | |||||||
| 9 | Tullio Corradini Ginanni | 1889 | 1892 | Right | |||
| 10 | Pio Poletti | 1892 | 1902 | Left | |||
| 11 | Luigi Cilla | 1902 | 1906 | PSI | |||
| 12 | Ferdinando Gallina | 1906 | 1910 | PRI | |||
| 13 | Chiarissimo Calderoni | 1910 | 1914 | PRI | |||
| 13 | Fortunato Buzzi | 1914 | 1923 | PRI | |||
| 14 | Celso Calvetti | 1923 | 1926 | PNF | |||
| Fascist Podestà (1926-1944) | |||||||
| 1 | Celso Calvetti | 1926 | 1931 | PNF | |||
| 2 | Andrea Cagnoni | 1931 | 1937 | PNF | |||
| 3 | Giovanni Cottignola | 1937 | 1944 | PNF | |||
| Liberation (1944-1946) | |||||||
| 15 | Riccardo Campagnoni | 1944 | 1946 | PRI | |||
From 1946 to 1993, the Mayor of Ravenna was elected by the City Council.[2]
| class=unsortable | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party | Coalition | Election | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gino Gatta | 1946 | 1951 | PCI | PCIPSIUP | 1946 | ||
| 2 | Celso Cicognani | 1951 | 1956 | PRI | PRIDC | 1951 | |
| 1956 | 1961 | 1956 | |||||
| Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (1961–1963) | 1960 | ||||||
| 1961 | |||||||
| 3 | Bruno Benelli | 1963 | 1967 | PRI | PRIDCPSDI | 1962 | |
| Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (1967–1969) | 1966 | ||||||
| 4 | Secondo Bini | 1969 | 1969 | PRI | PRIDC | 1968 | |
| Aristide Canosani | 1969 | 1973 | PSI | PCIPSI | |||
| 1973 | 1976 | 1973 | |||||
| Vincenzo Randi | 1976 | 1977 | PSI | ||||
| Aristide Canosani | 1977 | 1980 | PSI | ||||
| Giordano Angelini | 1980 | 1983 | PCI | 1979 | |||
| 1983 | 1987 | PCIPSIPRI | 1983 | ||||
| Mauro Dragoni | 1987 | 1988 | PCI | ||||
| 1988 | 1992 | 1988 | |||||
| Giovanni Miserocchi | 1992 | 1993 | PDS |
Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Ravenna is chosen by direct election, originally every four, and since 2001 every five years.
| Mayor | Took office | Left office | Party | Coalition | Election | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pier Paolo D'Attorre (1951–1997) | 21 June 1993 | 27 April 1997 | PDS | PDS | 1993 | |||
| Vidmer Mercatali (b. 1949) | 28 April 1997 | 14 May 2001 | PDS DS | The Olive Tree (PDS-PPI-PRI-PRC) | 1997 | |||
| 14 May 2001 | 30 May 2006 | The Olive Tree (DS-DL-PRI-PRC) | 2001 | |||||
| Fabrizio Matteucci (1957–2020) | 30 May 2006 | 16 May 2011 | DS PD | The Olive Tree (DS-DL-PRI-PRC) | 2006 | |||
| 16 May 2011 | 21 June 2016 | PDPRIIdV SELFdS | 2011 | |||||
| Michele De Pascale (b. 1985) | 21 June 2016 | 9 October 2021 | PD | PDPRI and leftist lists | 2016 | |||
| 9 October 2021 | Incumbent | PDPRIM5S and leftist lists | 2021 | |||||