List of mayors of Brescia

The Mayor of Brescia is an elected politician who, along with the Brescia's City Council, is accountable for the strategic government of Brescia in Lombardy, Italy.

Mayor of Brescia
Sindaco di Brescia
Incumbent
Emilio Del Bono

since 12 June 2013
StyleNo title, courtesy or style
Reports toBrescia City Council
SeatPalazzo della Loggia
AppointerElectorate of Brescia
Term length5 years, renewable once
Formation2 March 1860
Salary€ 5.929,83 per month
WebsiteOfficial website

The current Mayor is Emilio Del Bono (PD), elected on 9–10 June 2013[1] and re-elected for a second term on 10 June 2018.[2]

Overview

According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Brescia is a member of the City Council.

The Mayor is elected by the population of Brescia, who also elects the members of the City Council, the legislative body which checks 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 executive.

Since 1994 the Mayor is elected directly by Brescia's electorate: in all mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 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 on the base of a majority bonus system.

Podestà

Palazzo della Loggia is the seat of the Mayor of Brescia
Main entrance to the building

Kingdom of Italy (1807-1814)

  Podestà Term start Term end Appointer
1 Gaetano Maggi di Gradella 1807 1808 Napoleon I of France
2 Tommaso Balucanti 1808 1813
3 Pietro Ducco 1813 1816

Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (1815-1859)

  Podestà Term start Term end Appointer
4 Count Francesco Maggi di Gradella 1816 1819 Francis I of Austria
5 Roberto Corniani 1819 1825
6 Count Giovanni Calini 1825 1829
7 Count Bartolomeo Fenaroli Avogadro 1829 1838
8 Faustino Feroldi 1838 1847 Ferdinand I of Austria
9 Angelo Averoldi 1847 1849
10 Count Luigi Maggi 1849 1855 Franz Joseph I of Austria
11 Alessandro Pirlo 1855 1856
(9) Angelo Averoldi 1856 1859
12 Diogene Valotti 1859 1860 Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Mayors

Kingdom of Italy (1860-1946)

Tartarino Caprioli was the first Mayor of Brescia in 1860
Giuseppe Bonardi was the first reformist Mayor of the city, heading three executives (1880; 1883–84; 1885–95)
Girolamo Orefici was the first Mayor whose executive had the external support of socialists and republicans (1906–12)
  Mayor Term start Term end Party
Mayors appointed by the King (1860-1889)
1 Tartarino Caprioli March 1860 April 1860 Right
2 Nicola Zoppola April 1860 March 1861 Right
3 Diogene Valotti March 1861 July 1862 Right
4 Paolo Baruchelli July 1862 January 1863 Right
5 Giovanni Battista Formentini January 1863 March 1863 Right
6 Gaetano Facchi March 1863 March 1867 Right
(5) Giovanni Battista Formentini March 1867 November 1872 Right
7 Giuseppe Salvadego November 1872 November 1874 Right
(5) Giovanni Battista Formentini November 1874 February 1880 Right
8 Giuseppe Bonardi February 1880 September 1880 Left
9 Antonio Barbieri September 1880 December 1882 Left
10 Arturo Finardi December 1882 September 1883 Left
(8) Giuseppe Bonardi September 1883 September 1884 Left
11 Francesco Caprioli September 1884 July 1885 Right
(8) Giuseppe Bonardi July 1885 November 1889 Left
Mayors elected by the City Council (1889-1926)
(8) Giuseppe Bonardi 18 November 1889 11 May 1895 Left
12 Vincenzo Bettoni-Cazzago 11 May 1895 9 August 1898 Right
13 Carlo Fisogni 9 August 1898 18 August 1902 Right
14 Federico Bettoni-Cazzago 18 August 1902 9 March 1905 Left
(12) Vincenzo Bettoni-Cazzago 9 March 1905 1 December 1906 Right
15 Girolamo Orefici 1 December 1906 26 October 1912 Left
16 Paolo Cuzzetti 26 October 1912 12 July 1914 Left
17 Dominatore Mainetti 12 July 1914 17 July 1919 Liberal
18 Arturo Reggio 17 July 1919 19 November 1920 Liberal
19 Luigi Gadola 19 November 1920 30 March 1923 Independent
- Special commissioners 30 March 1923 16 December 1926
Fascist Podestà (1926-1945)
1 Pietro Calzoni December 1926 January 1933 PNF
2 Osvaldo Bolis January 1933 March 1933 PNF
3 Fausto Lechi March 1933 March 1937 PNF
4 Renato Pascucci March 1937 September 1937 PNF
5 Pietro Bersi September 1937 February 1943 PNF
6 Innocente Dugnani February 1943 May 1944 PFR
7 Ruggero Friggeri May 1944 April 1945 PFR
Liberation (1945-1946)
20 Guglielmo Ghislandi 1 May 1945 30 April 1946 PSI

Republic of Italy (since 1946)

From 1946 to 1994 the Mayor of Brescia was elected by the City Council.

Bruno Boni (1918–1998) has been the longest serving Mayor of the city, in office for nearly 27 years from 1948 to 1975.
  Mayor Term start Term end Party Coalition Election
1 Guglielmo Ghislandi 30 April 1946 16 June 1948 PSI CLN 1946
2 Bruno Boni 16 June 1948 15 May 1975 DC DC   PSI   PCI (1948–49)
DC   PLI   PSDI (1949–65)
DC   PSI   PSDI (1965–75)
1951
1956
1960
1964
1970
3 Cesare Trebeschi 15 May 1975 14 October 1985 DC DC   PSI   PSDI   PRI 1975
1980
4 Pietro Padula 14 October 1985 12 August 1990 DC DC   PSI   PSDI   PRI   PLI 1985
5 Gianni Boninsegna 12 August 1990 15 September 1991 DC DC   PSI   PRI   PLI 1990
- Goffredo Sottile 15 September 1991 27 January 1992 - Special commissioner[lower-alpha 1]
6 Gianni Panella 27 January 1992 27 September 1992 PSI DC   PSI   PLI 1991
7 Paolo Corsini 27 September 1992 13 June 1994 PDS DC   PDS   PSI   FdV
- Roberto Frassinet 13 June 1994 25 July 1994 - Special commissioner[lower-alpha 2]
- Romano Fusco 25 July 1994 5 December 1994 - Special commissioner
Notes
  1. Nominated by the Prefect after the City Council failed to elect a new Mayor.
  2. 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.

Since 1994, under provisions of the new local electoral law (Law 25 March 1993, n. 81), the Mayor of Brescia is chosen by direct election, originally every four and since 1998 every five years.

  Mayor Term start Term end Party Coalition Election
8 Mino Martinazzoli
(1931–2011)
5 December 1994 14 December 1998 PPI PDS  PPI 1994
(7) Paolo Corsini
(b. 1947)
14 December 1998 10 June 2003 DS
PD
The Olive Tree
(DS-PPI-SDI-FdV)
1998
10 June 2003 8 March 2008[lower-alpha 1] The Olive Tree
(DS-DL-SDI-FdV)
2003
9 Adriano Paroli
(b. 1962)
17 April 2008 12 June 2013 PdL PdL  LN  UDC 2008
10 Emilio Del Bono
(b. 1965)
12 June 2013 14 June 2018 PD PD  SEL
and leftist lists
2013
14 June 2018 Incumbent[lower-alpha 2] PD  SI
and leftist lists
2018
Notes
  1. Resigned in order to participate to the national general elections. The deputy mayor held the office till a new municipal election was called.
  2. Current term will expire in June 2023.

Timeline

By time in office

Rank Mayor Political Party Total time in office Terms
1 Bruno Boni DC 26 years, 333 days 6
2 Paolo Corsini PDS / DS 10 years, 346 days 3
3 Cesare Trebeschi DC 10 years, 152 days 2
4 Emilio Del Bono PD 7 years, 235 days 2
5 Adriano Paroli PdL 5 years, 56 days 1
6 Pietro Padula DC 4 years, 304 days 1
7 Mino Martinazzoli PPI 4 years, 9 days 1
8 Guglielmo Ghislandi PSI 2 years, 47 days 1
9 Gianni Boninsegna DC 1 year, 34 days 1
10 Gianni Panella PSI 244 days 1

Elections

City Council elections, 1946–1991

Number of votes for each party:

Election DC PCI PSI PLI PRI PSDI MSI LN Others Total
31 March 1946 32,678
(43.6%)
17,534
(23.4%)
19,511
(26.1%)
2,902
(3.9%)
2,248
(3.0%)
- - - 74,873
27 May 1951 36,693
(43.7%)
13,437
(16.0%)
12,769
(15.2%)
2,168
(2.6%)
1,376
(1.6%)
6,756
(8.1%)
6,732
(8.0%)
3,700
(4.4%)
83,901
27 May 1956 43,004
(46.2%)
13,948
(15.0%)
15,970
(17.2%)
3,126
(3.4%)
- 5,801
(6.2%)
6,249
(6.7%)
4,887
(5.2%)
92,985
6 November 1960 46,360
(44.5%)
17,235
(16.6%)
18,391
(17.8%)
5,338
(5.1%)
1,088
(0.4%)
6,648
(6.5%)
6,745
(6.6%)
2,294
(2.2%)
104,099
22 November 1964 47,372
(41.1%)
21,181
(18.4%)
13,516
(11.7%)
13,372
(11.6%)
1,856
(0.7%)
8,657
(7.5%)
6,752
(5.7%)
3,668
(3.2%)
115,260
7 June 1970 52,460
(39.6%)
26,131
(19.7%)
14,124
(10.6%)
9,992
(7.5%)
4,393
(3.3%)
12,469
(9.4%)
7,712
(5.8%)
5,305
(4.0%)
132,588
15 June 1975 56,204
(38.5%)
39,793
(27.3%)
19,797
(13.6%)
6,553
(4.5%)
5,329
(3.6%)
7,361
(5.0%)
9,109
(6.2%)
887
(0.6%)
145,932
8 June 1980 55,194
(39.1%)
37,070
(26.2%)
16,198
(11.5%)
6,536
(4.6%)
5,386
(3.8%)
7,751
(5.5%)
8,490
(6.0%)
4,648
(3.2%)
141,273
12 May 1985 55,541
(38.0%)
36,262
(24.8%)
18,825
(12.9%)
5,517
(3.8%)
7,951
(5.4%)
4,560
(3.1%)
9,690
(6.6%)
7,833
(5.4%)
146,179
6 May 1990 46,588
(32.5%)
23,939
(16.7%)
18,776
(13.1%)
2,784
(1.9%)
5,305
(3.7%)
2,450
(1.7%)
3,823
(2.7%)
29,892
(20.4%)
11,601
(8.1%)
143,309
24 November 1991[lower-alpha 1] 34,410
(24.3%)
13,377[lower-alpha 2]
(9.5%)
14,609
(10.3%)
4,733
(3.3%)
7,842
(5.5%)
2,274
(1.6%)
5,287
(3.7%)
34,482
(24.4%)
24,302
(17.2%)
141,316
Notes
  1. First snap election ever.
  2. As Democratic Party of the Left (PDS).

Number of seats in the City Coucl for each party:

Election DC PCI PSI PLI PRI PSDI MSI LN Others Total
31 March 1946 22 12 13 2 1 - - - 50
27 May 1951 28 6 5 2 1 3 3 2 50
27 May 1956 25 8 9 1 - 3 3 1 50
6 November 1960 24 8 9 2 - 3 3 1 50
22 November 1964 21 9 6 6 - 4 3 1 50
7 June 1970 21 10 5 4 1 4 3 2 50
15 June 1975 21 14 6 2 2 2 3 - 50
8 June 1980 21 14 6 2 2 2 3 - 50
12 May 1985 20 13 7 2 2 1 3 2 50
6 May 1990 16 9 7 1 2 - 1 11 3 50
24 November 1991[lower-alpha 1] 13 5[lower-alpha 2] 5 1 3 - 2 14 7 50
Notes
  1. First snap election ever.
  2. As Democratic Party of the Left (PDS).

Mayoral and City Council election, 1994

The election took place on two rounds: the first on 20 November, the second on 4 December 1994.

Mayoral and City Council election, 1998

The election took place on two rounds: the first on 29 November, the second on 13 December 1998.

Mayoral and City Council election, 2003

The election took place on two rounds: the first on 25–26 May, the second on 8–9 June 2003.[lower-alpha 1]

Notes
  1. Under the provisions of the new local administration law (Legislative Decree 18 August 2000, n. 267), which reintroduced the five years term for City Councils and directly-elected Mayors, the election would have been scheduled for December 2003. Nonetheless since 1999 local elections in Italy have always taken place between April and June. For this reason the 2003 election was anticipated on 25–26 May that year.

Mayoral and City Council election, 2008

The election took place on 13–14 April 2008, the same date of the national general election.

Mayoral and City Council election, 2013

The election took place on two rounds: the first on 26–27 May, the second on 9–10 June 2013.

Notes
  1. Officially endorsed the centre-left candidate only on the second round.

Mayoral and City Council election, 2018

The election took place on 10 June 2018.

References

  1. "Loggia 2013: il nuovo sindaco è Emilio Del Bono". Giornale di Brescia. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  2. "Del Bono sindaco al primo turno con il 54%: ecco tutti i risultati di Brescia". BSnews.it. 11 June 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
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