List of mayors of Turin

The mayor of Turin (Italian: sindaco di Torino) is an elected politician who, along with the Turin City Council of 40 members, is accountable for the government of Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. The incumbent mayor is Stefano Lo Russo of the Democratic Party who took office on 27 October 2021. The first recognised mayor of Turin was Luigi de Margherita in 1848; the office was preceded by a series of city councils led by two to four annual administrators since 1564. During the Kingdom of Sardinia in the 1840s, the city was ruled by the Moderate Party. Since the unification of Italy in the 1860s, Turin was a stronghold of the Historical Right and later of the Liberals, with a few mayors from the Historical Left. Into the 21st century, Turin is a centre-left coalition stronghold. As of 2025, no centre-right or right-wing mayor was popularly elected in Turin, making Turin one of the most left-leaning cities (among major cities since 1993, only Florence has been always governed by the centre-left coalition), with all mayors being either members of the centre-left or from the Five Star Movement.

During the Fascist Italy period, the mayor of Turin was superseded by a podestà appointed by the Italian fascist regime. With the fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, the mayor of Turin returned to be elected by the Turin City Council, which was in turn elected by the people. Giovanni Roveda of the Italian Communist Party was appointed by the National Liberation Committee in April 1945, with the first post-war municipal election being held in 1946. As with the central government, after Turin was governed by a left-wing coalition between the Communists and the Italian Socialist Party from 1946 to 1951, the office of mayor was mostly held by a member of the post-war ruling party Christian Democracy, which led a centrist coalition until 1970.

In the 1970s, Turin moved to the left and was led by the organic centre-left coalition that had also ruled Italy in the 1960s, with a Socialist elected by the city council to be mayor, becoming the first non-Christian Democrat mayor of Turin, alongside one Italian Liberal Party mayor from 1964 to 1965. From 1975 to 1985, Turin was governed by a left-wing coalition between the Communists and the Socialists, underlining the left-wing shift, with the Communist Diego Novelli serving as mayor. From 1985 to 1990, the city was still led by a Socialist but under the Pentapartito coalition, with one each Liberal, Italian Republican Party, and Italian Democratic Socialist Party member serving as mayor from 1990 to 1992. Starting in 1993, the mayor of Turin began to be directly elected. As in other Italian cities, the mayor either resigned due to the Tangentopoli scandal or to make way for the direct election of the mayor.

The first direct election resulted in a runoff between a left-wing coalition of Novelli led by the Communist Refoundation Party and the centre-left of Valentino Castellani, who came in second in the first round but ultimately won in the runoff. After two close elections in 1997 and 2001 with the centre-right coalition, the centre-left won in a landslide in 2006 (after the mayor's term had been extended from four to five years) under incumbent Sergio Chiamparino and 2011 under new mayor Piero Fassino. In 2016, the centre-left was defeated in an upset by the Five Star Movement candidate Chiara Appendino, who overcame the first-round deficit to become the first female mayor since 1992 and the first to be popularly elected as well as the youngest. In 2021, Appendino did not run for a second term, and the centre-left was returned to the office of mayor, defeating the centre-right in a landslide in the runoff.