Who are the most loved mayors and governors in Italy: the ranking of administrators for 2025

Confirmations and surprises, as is right and usual every time. Who is the mayor most loved by Italians? And the governor ? This timely and difficult question is answered every year by the survey conducted by Noto Polli for Il Sole 24 Ore . At the top are center-right leaders, with a very unbalanced picture in the Regions : results that announce possible future climbs at the National level? Why not. Only the administrators of the opposition follow.

The survey involved 97 provincial capitals and all the regions where the direct vote of the President is foreseen. It was carried out between April and June, and was based on interviews with at least 600 voters for each city and a thousand for each region with samples disaggregated by sex, age and geographical area. "Many elements of continuity - we read in the accompanying comment - obviously less pleasant, are also found in the last places, as usual occupied by mayors of cities in the South where the financial and administrative difficulty is inevitably reflected in the lack of enthusiasm shown by citizens towards local politics".

Who are the most beloved mayors in Italy?

First news: leading the mayoral rankings for the first time is a representative of Fratelli d'Italia , the party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: Marco Fioravanti , in his second term in Ascoli Piceno, who obtained 70% of the consensus of his fellow citizens. Next is Michele Guerra , mayor of Parma , center-left, 65%. In third place is a tie that puts the mayors of two large cities in the South on the same step of the podium: Gaetano Manfredi , Naples , and Vito Leccese , Bari , both at 61%, both representatives of the center-left.

In fifth place is the large group : tied at 60%, Mattia Palazzi in Mantua, Paolo Calcinaro in Fermo, Mario Conte in Treviso, Pierluigi Biondi in L'Aquila. Tied at 59% are the mayors of Benevento Clemente Mastella, of Rimini Jamil Sadegholvaad, of Rovigo Valeria Cittadini, of Viterbo Chiara Frontini, of Ferrara Alan Fabbri, of Milan Beppe Sala, of Modena Massimo Mezzetti. As for the large cities, in 34th place are Sara Funaro, Florence, in 58th place Matteo Lepore of Bologna, in 72nd place Stefano Lo Russo of Turin, in 89th place Roberto Gualtieri of Rome. The last position this year goes to Roberto Lagalla, mayor of Palermo. In the 2024 edition he was second to last, preceding only his colleague from Trapani Giacomo Tranchida: this year they swapped places.

Who are the most beloved governors of Italy?

The podium is entirely for the center-right as regards the Regions , which takes all the highest steps with two governors from the League and one from Forza Italia. Massimiliano Fedriga , Friuli Venezia Giulia , precedes Luca Zaia , Veneto , by a whisker, 66.5% to 66%. Alberto Cirio of Piedmont returns to the podium with 59%. The first representative of the center-left is Eugenio Giani, Tuscany, with 58%. Following us are three governors from the south , the first of the list: Roberto Occhiuto for Calabria, Renato Schifani for Sicily and Vincenzo De Luca for Campania.

The top ten is completed by two center-left mayors, Michele De Pascale of Emilia Romagna and Stefania Proietti of Umbria, and the Northern League's Attilio Fontana for Lombardy. This year, there will be elections in Veneto, Tuscany, Marche, Campania and Puglia. "Attention to the appointment with the polls is tense, after the lack of agreement in the majority on the third mandate that would have allowed the re-candidacy of Zaia in Veneto and that of De Luca in Campania, opening new fractures within the same coalitions that express them", we read in the commentary to the survey.

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