| Mayor of Warsaw | |
|---|---|
) | |
) Rafał Trzaskowski since 22 November 2018 | |
| Inaugural holder | Alexander Chalmers |
| Formation | 1702 |
| Website | warszawa.pl |
The Mayor of Warsaw, or more literally the President of Warsaw (the official title in Polish is "Prezydent Miasta Stołecznego Warszawy", literal translation "President of the Capital City of Warsaw") is the head of the capital of Poland.
Following the Warsaw Act (Ustawa warszawska) of 27 October 2002, the Mayor of Warsaw carries over most of the executive duties in the city. His or her prerogative is, among others, governing the city-owned property that still constitutes a major part of the city.
Current mayor
The current mayor is Civic Platform Rafał Trzaskowski, who took office on 22 November 2018.
Overview
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Seat of the Mayor, the Commission Palace.
Legislative and local executive powers are exercised by the city council (rada miasta), the directly elected mayor (prezydent), and the city offices (urząd miasta).
Since 1990 the President of Warsaw had been elected by the city council.[1]
In the years of 1994–1999 the mayor of the district Centrum automatically was designated as the President of Warsaw: the mayor of Centrum was elected by the district council of Centrum and the council was elected only by the Centrum residents.
Elections
Since 2002 the President of Warsaw is elected by all of the citizens of Warsaw. The seat of the Mayor is the city hall, known as Commission Palace or Palace of the Ministry of Revenues and Treasury.
1st election, 2002
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PiS | Lech Kaczyński | 265 994 | 49,58 |  | |
| SLD-UP | Marek Balicki | 117 227 | 21,85 | | |
| PO | Andrzej Olechowski | 72 282 | 13,47 | | |
| Independent | Julia Pitera | 32 009 | 5,97 | | |
| UW | Zbigniew Bujak | 14506 | 2,70 | | |
| LPR | Jan Maria Jackowski | 11 571 | 2,16 | | |
| SRP | Henryk Dzido | 9 386 | 1,75 | | |
| Independent | Antoni Macierewicz | 5 849 | 1,09 | | |
| PSL | Janusz Piechociński | 2 562 | 0,48 | | |
| Independent | Waldemar Fydrych | 2 088 | 0,39 | | |
| Independent | Józef Janik | 1 078 | 0,20 | | |
| Independent | Jerzy Krzekotowski | 787 | 0,15 | | |
| Independent | Mirosław Bojańczyk | 625 | 0,12 | | |
| Independent | Lech Jęczmyk | 575 | 0,11 | | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PiS | Lech Kaczyński | 335 262 | 70,54 | | |
| SLD-UP | Marek Balicki | 140 015 | 29,46 | | |
| PiS win (new seat) | |||||
2nd election, 2006
| PO | Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz | 374 104 | 53,18% | | |
| PiS | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz | 329 309 | 46,82% |  | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3rd election, 2010
| PO | Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz | 345 737 | 53,67% |  | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PiS | Czesław Bielecki | 149 200 | 23,16% | | |
| SLD | Wojciech Olejniczak | 85 889 | 13,33% | ||
| WiP | Janusz Korwin-Mikke | 25 153 | 3,90% | ||
| Independent | Romuald Szeremietiew | 13 921 | 2,16% | ||
| Wspólnota Samorządowa | Katarzyna Munio | 11 465 | 1,78% | ||
| Gamonie i Krasnoludki | Waldemar Fydrych | 4 952 | 0,77% | ||
| PSL | Danuta Bodzek | 3 329 | 0,52% | ||
| UPR | Piotr Strzembosz | 2 774 | 0,43% | ||
| Polska Patriotyczna | Piotr Skulski | 1 155 | 0,18% | ||
| Lepsza Polska | Cezary Stachoń | 624 | 0,10% | ||
4th election, 2014
| PO | Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz | 342 857 | 58,64% | | |
| PiS | Jacek Sasin | 241 790 | 41,36% | | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5th election, 2018
| PO | Rafał Trzaskowski | 505,187 | 56.67% | | |
| PiS | Patryk Jaki | 254,324 | 28.53% | | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
List of Mayors
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (First Polish Republic,[2] Before 1792)
- Alexander Chalmers (1702–1703)
- Józef Benedykt Loupia (1724–1727)
- Henryk Makin (1728)
- Józef Benedykt Loupia (1734)
- Mateusz Kostrzewski (1743)
- Paweł Andrychowicz (1750–1751)
- Paweł Andrychowicz (1753)
- Jan Feliks Dulfus (1754–1756)
- Michał Sakres (1761)
- Jan Feliks Dulfus (1764)
- Michał Sakres (1765–1766)
- Jan Feliks Dulfus (1767)
- Michał Sakres (1768)
- Franciszek Witthoff (1769–1771)
- Grzegorz Łyszkiewicz (1772)
- Wojciech Lobert (1773–1776)
- Jakub Maraszewski (1777)
- Franciszek Witthoff (1778–1779)
- Grzegorz Łyszkiewicz (1780–1780)
- Wojciech Lobert (1781–1788)
- Jan Dekert (23 February 1789 – 4 October 1790)
- Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (1791 – 13 April 1792)
- Ignacy Zakrzewski-Wyssogota (16 April 1792 – 25 August 1792)
- Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (30 August 1792 – 20 March 1793)
- Andrzej Rafałowicz (21 March 1793 – 17 April 1794)
Kościuszko Uprising
- Andrzej Rafałowicz (21 March 1793 – 17 April 1794)
- Ignacy Zakrzewski-Wyssogota (17 April 1794 – 3 November 1794).
- Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (20 November 1794 – 25 July 1796).
Prussian occupation (1795–1806)
- Franz Schimmelpfennig von der Ove (25 July 1796 – 23 April 1799)
- Friedrich Georg Tilly (23 April 1799 – 27 November 1806)
Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815)
- Joachim Moszyński (December 1806 – 21 February 1807)
- Paweł Bieliński (17 April 1807 – 4 July 1807)
- Stanisław Węgrzecki (4 July 1807 – December 1815)
Congress Poland (1816–1915)
- Karol Woyda (6 January 1816 – 30 November 1830)
- Stanisław Węgrzecki (30 November 1830 – 26 June 1831)
- Jakub Ignacy Łaszczyński (17 June 1831 – 1837)
- Aleksander Graybner (1837 – 9 November 1847)
- Teodor Andrault de Langeron (10 November 1847 – February 1862)
- Kazimierz Woyda (luty 1862 – 15 August 1862)
- Zygmunt Wielopolski (16 August 1862 – 18 September 1863)
- Kalikst Witkowski (16 September 1863 – 1 October 1875)
- Sokrates Starynkiewicz (18 November 1875 – 6 October 1892)
- Nikolai Bibikov (6 October 1892 – 29 June 1906)
- Wiktor Litwiński (July 1906 – 26 April 1909)
- Aleksander Miller (4 September 1909 – 4 August 1915)
World War I and German occupation (1916/1917)
- Zdzisław Lubomirski (5 August 1916 – 6 October 1917)
Republic of Poland (Second Polish Republic, 1918–1939)
- Piotr Drzewiecki (28 November 1921 – 7 December 1922)
- Stanisław Nowodworski (7 December 1922 – 22 June 1927)
- Władysław Jabłoński 22 June – 7 July 1927
- Zygmunt Słomiński (7 July 1927 – 2 March 1934)
- Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski (2 March – 28 June 1934)
- Stefan Starzyński (2 August 1934 – 27 October 1939)
General Government (1939–1944)
- Julian Kulski (28 October 1939 – 1 August 1944)
- Marceli Porowski (5 August 1944 – 2 October 1944)
- Helmut Otto Nazi Reich commissioned mayor (October 1939)
- Oskar Rudolf Dengel Nazi Reich commissioned mayor (5 November 1939 – 20 March 1940)
- Ludwig Leist Nazi plenipotentiary of Governor of the Warsaw District, since October 1941, Mayor of Warsaw. It should be clarified that the last three mentioned were appointed by the Nazis during their occupation of Poland.
People's Republic of Poland (1945–1989)
Between 1950 and 1973 the highest representative of the government in Warsaw was named the "Head of the Presidium of the National Council of the Capital City of Warsaw" (Przewodniczący Prezydium Rady Narodowej miasta stołecznego Warszawy).
- Marian Spychalski (18 September 1944 – March 1945)
- Stanisław Tołwiński (5 March 1945 – 23 May 1950)
- Jerzy Albrecht (23 May 1950 – 14 May 1956)
- Janusz Zarzycki (14 May 1956 – 17 December 1956)
- Zygmunt Dworakowski (17 December 1956 – 5 May 1960)
- Janusz Zarzycki (5 May 1960 – 29 December 1967)
- Jerzy Majewski (29 December 1967 – 9 December 1973)
- Jerzy Majewski (13 December 1973 – 18 February 1982)
- Mieczysław Dębicki (18 February 1982 – 5 December 1986)
- Jerzy Bolesławski (5 December 1986 – 30 January 1990)
Republic of Poland (since 1990)
- Stanisław Wyganowski (27 January 1990 – 5 October 1994)
- Mieczysław Bareja (5 October 1994 – 3 November 1994)
- Marcin Swiecicki (3 November 1994 – 30 March 1999)
- Paweł Piskorski (30 March 1999 – 14 January 2002)
- Wojciech Kozak (14 January 2002 – 18 November 2002)
- Lech Kaczyński (18 November 2002 – 22 December 2005)
- vacant (22 December 2005 – 9 February 2006)
- Mirosław Kochalski (Acting; 9 February 2006 – 18 July 2006)
- Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Acting; 18 July 2006 – 2 December 2006)
- Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (2 December 2006 – 22 November 2018)
- Rafał Trzaskowski (since 22 November 2018)
See also
- History of Warsaw
- Timeline of Warsaw
Notes and references
- ^ "Djordjevic Masa Paper | Governance | Strategic Planning". Scribd. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ Official country name in Polish is "Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów" which literally means "The Republic of Both Nations" (Polish Rzeczpospolita is literal translation of Greek "res publica") even if this country was a kingdom. In Poland we are referring to this historical country as "Pierwsza Rzeczpospolita" which means First Commonwealth, First Res Publica, First Republic). This translation issues often leads to misconception