1796–1797 – Vieri De' Cerchi 1797–1798 – Ottavio Pitti 1798–1799 – Leonardo Buonarroti 1799–1800 – Orazio Smeraldo Morelli 1800–1801 – Francesco Catellini da Castiglione 1801–1802 – Niccolò Arrighi 1802–1803 – Michele Roti 1803–1804 – Pietro Mancini 1804–1805 – Giovanni Carlo Mori Ubaldini 1805–1806 – Giulio Orlandini 1806–1807 – Vespasiano Marzichi 1807–1808 – Tommaso Guadagni 1808–1809 – Filippo Guadagni In 1809, during the period of the newborn Kingdom of Etruria, it was temporarily created the office of Maire of Florence. 1809–1813 – Emilio Pucci 1813–1815 – Girolamo Bartolommei In 1815 the office of Gonfaloniere of Florence was restored. 1815–1816 – Giovanni Battista Gondi 1816–1817 – Giovanni Rosselli de Turco 1817–1821 – Tommaso Corsi 1821–1825 – Jacopo Guidi 1826–1828 – Giovanni Battista Covoni 1829–1831 – Giovanni Battista Andrea Boubon del Monte 1832–1834 – Cosimo Antinori 1835–1840 – Gaetano de' Pazzi 1841–1842 – Luigi de Cambray Digny 1843–1846 – Pier Francesco Rinuccini 1847 – Vincenzo Peruzzi 1847–1848 — Bettino Ricasoli 1848–1850 — Ubaldino Peruzzi 1850 – Carlo Torrigiani 1850–1853 – Vincenzo Capponi 1854–1859 – Eduardo Dufour Berté Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) In 1865, the Kingdom of Italy created the office of the Mayor of Florence (Sindaco di Firenze), chosen 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. Timeline Republic of Italy (1946–present) City Council election (1946–1995) From 1946 to 1995, the Mayor of Florence was chosen by the City Council. Notes Direct election (since 1995) Since 1995, enacting a new law on local administrations (1993), the Mayor of Florence is chosen by direct election, originally every four, and since 1999 every five years. Notes Timeline By time in office Elections City Council elections, 1946–1990 Number of votes for each party: Notes Number of seats in the City Council for each party: Mayoral and City Council election, 1995 The election took place on 23 April 1995. |- | colspan="7"| |- |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! colspan="4" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left;" | Parties and coalitions ! colspan="1" | Votes ! colspan="1" | % ! colspan="1" | Seats |- | style="background-color:pink" rowspan="7" | | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra) | PDS | 88,105 || 36.05% || 19 |- | style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista) | PRC | 25,347 || 10.37% || 5 |- | style="background-color:orange" | | style="text-align:left;"