# List of mayors of Lucca

The Mayor of Lucca is an elected politician who, along with the city council, is accountable for the strategic government of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy. The current mayor is Mario Pardini, a right-wing independent, who took office on 29 June 2022.

## Overview

According to the Italian Constitution, the mayor of Lucca is member of the city council.
The mayor is elected by the population of Lucca, 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 dismiss the members of his government.
Since 1994, the mayor has been elected directly by Lucca'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 two weeks later. 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.

## Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)

In 1865, the Kingdom of Italy created the office of Mayor of Lucca (Sindaco di Lucca), appointed by the King himself. From 1892 to 1926, the mayor was elected by the city council. In 1926, the Fascist dictatorship abolished mayors and city councils, replacing them with an authoritarian Podestà chosen by the National Fascist Party. The office of mayor was restored in 1944 during the Allied occupation.
| | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party |
| – | Paolo Sinibaldi | 1859 | 1863 | |
| – | Basilio Gianni | 1864 | 1865 | |
| 1 | Demetrio Del Prete | 1865 | 1870 | |
| 2 | Cesare Giorgetti | 1871 | 1878 | |
| 3 | Achille Pucci | 1883 | 1888 | |
| 4 | Enrico Del Carlo | 1889 | 1896 | |
| 5 | Carlo Pierantoni | 1896 | 1899 | |
| 6 | Giovanni Battista Carrara | 1899 | 1900 | |
| 7 | Giulio Lippi | 1900 | 1903 | |
| 8 | Massimo Del Carlo | 1903 | 1906 | |
| 9 | Lelio Chicca | 1906 | 1910 | |
| 10 | Giulio Cesare Ballerini | 1910 | 1911 | |
| (8) | Massimo Del Carlo | 1912 | 1919 | |
| 11 | Umberto Teghini | 1919 | 1920 | |
| 12 | Pietro Pfanner | 1920 | 1922 | |
| 13 | Lorenzo Del Prete | 1922 | 1923 | |
| 14 | Mario Guidi | 1923 | 1926 | National Fascist Party |
| Fascist Podestà (1926–1944) |||||
| 1 | Mario Guidi | 1926 | 1927 | National Fascist Party |
| 2 | Lorenzo Grossi | 1927 | 1929 | National Fascist Party |
| 3 | Guido Politi | 1930 | 1933 | National Fascist Party |
| 4 | Pietro Minutoli Tegrimi | 1935 | 1939 | National Fascist Party |
| 5 | Domenico Giannini | 1944 | 1944 | National Fascist Party |
| Allied occupation (1944–1946) |||||
| 15 | Gino Baldassarri | 1944 | 1946 | Italian Communist Party |

### Timeline
## Italian Republic (since 1946)
### City Council election (1946–1994)

From 1946 to 1994, the mayor of Lucca was elected by the city's council.
| | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party |
| 1 | Ferdinando Martini | 24 April 1946 | 23 March 1948 | Christian Democracy |
| 2 | Umberto Giannini | 23 March 1948 | 30 June 1951 | Christian Democracy |
| 3 | Tito Giovanni Marchetti | 30 June 1951 | 26 November 1960 | Christian Democracy |
| 4 | Italico Baccelli | 27 November 1960 | 16 January 1965 | Christian Democracy |
| 5 | Giovanni Martinelli | 17 January 1965 | 18 December 1972 | Christian Democracy |
| 6 | Mauro Favilla | 19 December 1972 | 27 November 1984 | Christian Democracy |
| 7 | Franco Antonio Fanucchi | 28 November 1984 | 31 July 1985 | Christian Democracy |
| 8 | Piero Baccelli | 31 July 1985 | 30 March 1988 | Christian Democracy |
| (6) | Mauro Favilla | 30 March 1988 | 1 December 1988 | Christian Democracy |
| (7) | Franco Antonio Fanucchi | 1 December 1988 | 18 July 1990 | Christian Democracy |
| 9 | Arturo Pacini | 9 August 1990 | 19 October 1993 | Christian Democracy |

### Direct election (since 1994)

Since 1994, under provisions of new local administration law, the mayor of Lucca is chosen by direct election.
| | Mayor | Term start | Term end | Party |
| 10 | Giulio Lazzarini | 12 July 1994 | 8 June 1998 | Social Christians |
| 11 | Pietro Fazzi | 8 June 1998 | 28 May 2002 | Forza Italia |
| 11 | Pietro Fazzi | 28 May 2002 | 6 June 2006 | Forza Italia |
| (6) | Mauro Favilla | 13 June 2007 | 22 May 2012 | Forza Italia The People of Freedom |
| 12 | Alessandro Tambellini | 22 May 2012 | 26 June 2017 | Democratic Party |
| 12 | Alessandro Tambellini | 26 June 2017 | 29 June 2022 | Democratic Party |
| 13 | Mario Pardini | 29 June 2022 | Incumbent | Right-wing independent |