| Post: | Mayor |
| Body: | Verbania |
| Insignia: | Verbania-Stemma.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 100px |
| Native Name: | Sindaco di Verbania |
| Incumbentsince: | 26 June 2024 |
| Appointer: | Popular election |
| Termlength: | 5 years, renewable once |
| Website: | Official website |
The Mayor of Verbania is an elected politician who, along with Verbania's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Verbania in Piedmont, Italy.
The current mayor is Giandomenico Albertella, an independent, who took office on 26 June 2024.[1]
According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Verbania is a member of the City Council.
The Mayor is elected by the people of Verbania, 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 1995 the Mayor has been elected directly by Verbania'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 seats for each party is determined proportionally.
The city of Verbania was founded in 1939 and was ruled by an authoritarian Podestà chosen by the National Fascist Party. The office of Mayor of Verbania was created in 1945 during the Allied occupation.
| class=unsortable | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fascist Podestà (1939–1944) | |||||||
| – | Domenico Campanelli | 1939 | 1941 | PNF | |||
| 1 | Ernesto Pirola | 1941 | 1944 | PNF | |||
| 2 | Enrico Alberini | 1944 | 1945 | PFR | |||
| Allied occupation (1944–1945) | |||||||
| Vincenzo Andreani | 1945 | 1946 | PSI | ||||
From 1946 to 1995, the Mayor of Verbania was elected by the City Council.
| class=unsortable | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luigi Zappelli | 1946 | 1948 | PSI | ||
| Giuseppe Perin | 1948 | 1949 | PSI | ||
| Edoardo Cometti | 1949 | 1951 | PSI | ||
| Ugo Sironi | 1951 | 1964 | PSI | ||
| Stefano Ammenti | 1964 | 1970 | PSI | ||
| Ugo Sironi | 1970 | 1971 | PSI | ||
| Pietro Mazzola | 1971 | 1974 | PCI | ||
| Francesco Imperiale | 1974 | 1978 | PSI | ||
| Giovanni Motetta | 1978 | 1979 | PCI | ||
| Pietro Mazzola | 1979 | 1980 | PCI | ||
| Giacomo Ramoni | 1980 | 1985 | PSI | ||
| Francesco Imperiale | 1985 | 1990 | PSI | ||
| Bartolomeo Zani | 1990 | 1993 | PSI | ||
| Aldo Reschigna | 1993 | 1995 | PDS | ||
Since 1995, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Verbania is chosen by direct election, originally every four, than every five years.
| class=unsortable | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party | Coalition | Election | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aldo Reschigna | 8 May 1995 | 28 June 1999 | align=center rowspan=2 | PDS DS | PDSPPI | 1995 | ||
| 28 June 1999 | 14 June 2004 | DSPPIPdCISDI | 1999 | |||||
| Claudio Zanotti | 14 June 2004 | 8 June 2009 | PD | DSDLPRCSDI | 2004 | |||
| Marco Zacchera | 8 June 2009 | 30 April 2013 | PdL | PdLLNUDC | 2009 | |||
| Special Prefectural Commissioner tenure (30 April 2013 – 9 June 2014) | ||||||||
| Silvia Marchionini | 9 June 2014 | 12 June 2019 | align=center rowspan=2 | PD | PDSEL | 2014 | ||
| 12 June 2019 | 26 June 2024 | PD | 2019 | |||||
| 15 | Giandomenico Albertella | 26 June 2024 | Incumbent | Ind | Ind | 2024 | ||