List of mayors of Warsaw

Mayor of Warsaw
Mayor of Warsaw
	Coat of arms of Warsaw
	Incumbent; 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[]

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[]

2002 Election (first round)
	Candidate	Votes	%
PiS	Lech Kaczyński	265 994	49,58
SLD-UP		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		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		1 078	0,20
Independent		787	0,15
Independent		625	0,12
Independent	Lech Jęczmyk	575	0,11

2002 Election (second round)
	Candidate	Votes	%
PiS	Lech Kaczyński	335 262	70,54
SLD-UP		140 015	29,46
PiS win (new seat)

2nd election, 2006[]

2006 Election (second round)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PO	Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz	374 104	53,18%
	PiS	Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz	329 309	46,82%

3rd election, 2010[]

2010 Election
	Candidate	Votes	%
PO	Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz	345 737	53,67%
PiS		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%
	Katarzyna Munio	11 465	1,78%
	Waldemar Fydrych	4 952	0,77%
PSL	Danuta Bodzek	3 329	0,52%
UPR	Piotr Strzembosz	2 774	0,43%
	Piotr Skulski	1 155	0,18%
	Cezary Stachoń	624	0,10%

4th election, 2014[]

2014 Election (second round)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PO	Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz	342 857	58,64%
	PiS	Jacek Sasin	241 790	41,36%

5th election, 2018[]


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Rafał Trzaskowski	Civic Coalition	505,187	56.67
	Patryk Jaki	Law and Justice	254,324	28.53
	Marek Jakubiak	Kukiz'15	26,660	2.99
	Jan Śpiewak	Independent	26,689	2.99
	Justyna Glusman	The City Is Ours – City Movements	20,643	2.32
	Andrzej Rozenek	Democratic Left Alliance	13,370	1.50
	Janusz Korwin-Mikke	Liberty in Local Governments	11,516	1.29
	Jacek Wojciechowicz	Independent	9,002	1.01
	Piotr Ikonowicz	Social Justice Movement	7,271	0.82
	Sławomir Antonik	Nonpartisan Local Government Activists	6,457	0.72
	Paweł Tanajno	Independent	3,745	0.42
	Jakub Stefaniak	Polish People's Party	2,793	0.31
	Jan Zbigniew Potocki	Second Republic	2,117	0.24
	Krystyna Krzekotowska	World Congress of Poles	1,604	0.18
Total			891,378	100.00

Source: National Electoral Commission

List of Mayors[]

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (First Polish Republic,^[2] Before 1792)

Alexander Chalmers (1702–1703)
(1724–1727)
(1728)
(1734)
Mateusz Kostrzewski (1743)
(1750–1751)
(1753)
(1754–1756)
(1761)
(1764)
(1765–1766)
(1767)
(1768)
(1769–1771)
(1772)
(1773–1776)
(1777)
(1778–1779)
(1780–1780)
(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)
(7 December 1922 – 22 June 1927)
22 June – 7 July 1927
(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)
(5 August 1944 – 2 October 1944)
Nazi Reich commissioned mayor (October 1939)
Nazi Reich commissioned mayor (5 November 1939 – 20 March 1940)
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)
(5 March 1945 – 23 May 1950)
(23 May 1950 – 14 May 1956)
(14 May 1956 – 17 December 1956)
(17 December 1956 – 5 May 1960)
Janusz Zarzycki (5 May 1960 – 29 December 1967)
(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)[]

(27 January 1990 – 5 October 1994)
(5 October 1994 – 3 November 1994)
Marcin Swiecicki (3 November 1994 – 30 March 1999)
Paweł Piskorski (30 March 1999 – 14 January 2002)
(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)

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

External links[]

Mayor of Warsaw

[1] "Djordjevic Masa Paper | Governance | Strategic Planning". Scribd. Retrieved 23 January 2018.

[2] 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

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v t Mayors of Warsaw
First Polish Republic	Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (1791) Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski (1792) Andrzej Rafałowicz (1793) Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski (1794) Józef Michał Łukasiewicz (1794) and Andrzej Rafałowicz (1794)
Prussian Occupation	Franz Schimmelpfennig von der Ove Friedrich Georg Tilly
Duchy of Warsaw	Joachim Moszyński Paweł Bieliński Stanisław Węgrzecki
Congress Poland	Karol Woyda Stanisław Węgrzecki Jakub Ignacy Łaszczyński Aleksander Graybner Teodor Andrault de Langeron Kazimierz Woyda Zygmunt Wielopolski Kalikst Witkowski Sokrates Starynkiewicz Mikołaj Bibikow Wiktor Litwiński Aleksander Miller
World War I	Zdzisław Lubomirski Piotr Drzewiecki
Second Polish Republic	Marian Zyndram-Kościałkowski Stefan Starzyński
General Government	Julian Kulski
People's Republic of Poland	Marian Spychalski Jerzy Bolesławski
Third Polish Republic	Marcin Święcicki Paweł Piskorski Lech Kaczyński Mirosław Kochalski (Acting) Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Acting) Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz Rafał Trzaskowski