Mayor of Warsaw

Mayor of Warsaw
Prezydent m.st. Warszawy
Coat of arms of Warsaw
Incumbent
Rafał Trzaskowski
since 22 November 2018
Term length5 years
Inaugural holderJan Andrzej Menich (as mayor of Old Warsaw)
Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski (as mayor of Warsaw)
Formation1695 (office of the mayor of Old Warsaw)
1791 (office of the mayor of Warsaw)
WebsiteOfficial website (in English)
Official website (in Polish)

The Mayor of Warsaw[1] (officially in Polish: Prezydent miasta stołecznego Warszawy[a][2]) is the head of the executive of the capital of Poland elected directly during local elections for a term of five years.[3]

Overview

Seat of the Mayor, the Commission Palace.

The first city mayor of Warsaw was Jan Andrzej Menich (1695–1696).[4] The municipal self-government existed in Warsaw until World War II and was restored in 1990 (during the communist times, the National City Council – Miejska Rada Narodowa – governed in Warsaw). Since 1990, the structure of city government has been modified several times.[5] Between 1975 and 1990 the Warsaw city mayors simultaneously led the Warsaw Voivode. In the years 1990-1994, the city mayor of Warsaw was elected by the city council.[6] Subsequently, a controversial reform was introduced, transforming the city in the years of 1994–1999 into a loose municipal union of several gminas, dominated by one of them, the gmina Centrum encompassing the entire inner city. During this period, the mayor of gmina Centrum who was elected by its council was automatically designated as the city mayor of Warsaw, in spite of representing only a fraction of the population of the city. The city was becoming increasingly unmanageable, especially after the administrative reform of Poland in 1999 which further complicated the local government structure of Warsaw. In 2002, the new Warsaw Act of the Polish parliament restored Warsaw as a single urban gmina with the status of a city with powiat rights, led by a unified local government. At the same time, a significant reform was implemented in all Polish municipal governments, introducing direct elections of the wójt/town mayor/city mayor in all Polish gminas.[6] The first city mayor of Warsaw elected according to these rules was Lech Kaczyński, who however resigned ahead of term when he was elected President of Polish Republic in 2005.

Warsaw has thereafter remained an urban gmina with the status of a city with powiat rights.[5] Legislative power in Warsaw is vested in a unicameral Warsaw City Council (Rada Miasta), which comprises 60 members.[5] Council members are elected directly every five years (since 2018 election). Like most legislative bodies, the city council divides itself into committees which have the oversight of various functions of the city government.[5] The city mayor exercises the executive power in the city, being the superior of all unelected municipal officials and other employees and supervising all subsidiary entities of the city.

The incumbent city mayor of Warsaw is Rafał Trzaskowski.

1st election, 2002

2002 Election (first round)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PiS Lech Kaczyński 265,994 49.58 Steady
SLD-UP Marek Balicki 117,227 21.85 Steady
PO Andrzej Olechowski 72,282 13.47 Steady
Independent Julia Pitera 32,009 5.97 Steady
UW Zbigniew Bujak 14,506 2.70 Steady
LPR Jan Maria Jackowski 11,571 2.16 Steady
SRP Henryk Dzido 9,386 1.75 Steady
Independent Antoni Macierewicz 5,849 1.09 Steady
PSL Janusz Piechociński 2,562 0.48 Steady
Independent Waldemar Fydrych 2,088 0.39 Steady
Independent Józef Janik 1,078 0.20 Steady
Independent Jerzy Krzekotowski 787 0.15 Steady
Independent Mirosław Bojańczyk 625 0.12 Steady
Independent Lech Jęczmyk 575 0.11 Steady
2002 Election (second round)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PiS Lech Kaczyński 335,262 70.54 Steady
SLD-UP Marek Balicki 140,015 29.46 Steady
PiS win (new seat)

2nd election, 2006

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Kazimierz MarcinkiewiczLaw and Justice272,05038.67329,30946.82
Hanna Gronkiewicz-WaltzCivic Platform242,51934.47374,10453.18
Marek BorowskiSLD+SDPL+PD+UP Left and Democrats159,04322.61
Janusz Korwin-MikkeReal Politics Union15,9512.27
Włodzimierz CałkaWarsaw Self-Government Agreement Our City4,3300.62
Waldemar FydrychGawks and Gnomes2,9140.41
Wojciech WierzejskiLeague of Polish Families2,4390.35
Wanda NowickaPolish Labour Party1,9270.27
Jerzy KrzekotowskiOur Warsaw and Mazovia1,2860.18
Marek CzarneckiSelf-Defence of the Republic of Poland1,0960.16
Total703,555100.00703,413100.00
Source: National Electoral Commission

3rd election, 2010

CandidatePartyVotes%
Hanna Gronkiewicz-WaltzCivic Platform345,73753.67
Czesław BieleckiLaw and Justice149,20023.16
Wojciech OlejniczakDemocratic Left Alliance85,88913.33
Janusz Korwin-MikkeMovement of Voters of Janusz Korwin-Mikke25,1533.90
Romuald SzeremietiewIndependent13,9212.16
Katarzyna MunioWarsaw Self-Government Community11,4651.78
Waldemar FydrychGawks and Gnomes4,9520.77
Danuta BodzekPolish People's Party3,3290.52
Piotr StrzemboszReal Politics Union2,7740.43
Piotr SkulskiPatriotic Poland1,1550.18
Cezary StachońBetter Poland6240.10
Total644,199100.00
Source: National Electoral Commission

4th election, 2014

CandidatePartyFirst roundSecond round
Votes%Votes%
Hanna Gronkiewicz-WaltzCivic Platform294,43447.19342,85758.64
Jacek SasinLaw and Justice172,88727.71241,79041.36
Piotr GuziałWarsaw Self-Government Community53,2618.54
Przemysław WiplerNew Right of Janusz Korwin-Mikke26,2494.21
Sebastian WierzbickiSLD Left Together25,8174.14
Joanna ErbelThe Greens15,0302.41
Andrzej RozenekIndependent14,2232.28
Mariusz DzierżawskiWarsaw for Family9,7681.57
Agata Nosal-IkonowiczSocial Justice Movement – Piotr Ikonowicz6,9511.11
Zbigniew WrzesińskiCommunity Patrotism Solidarity2,8080.45
Andrzej GorayskiDirect Democracy2,4540.39
Total623,882100.00584,647100.00
Source: National Electoral Commission

5th election, 2018

CandidatePartyVotes%
Rafał TrzaskowskiPlatform.Modern Civic Coalition505,18756.67
Patryk JakiLaw and Justice254,32428.53
Jan ŚpiewakCommittee of Jan Śpiewak - Warsaw Will Win26,6892.99
Marek JakubiakKukiz'1526,6602.99
Justyna GlusmanThe City Is Ours – City Movements20,6432.32
Andrzej RozenekSLD Left Together13,3701.50
Janusz Korwin-MikkeLiberty in Local Governments11,5161.29
Jacek WojciechowiczCommittee of Jacek Wojciechowicz Action Warsaw9,0021.01
Piotr IkonowiczSocial Justice Movement of Piotr Ikonowicz7,2710.82
Sławomir AntonikNonpartisan Local Government Activists6,4570.72
Paweł TanajnoUnjam Warsaw. RiGCz. Tanajno. Hawaiian+3,7450.42
Jakub StefaniakPolish People's Party2,7930.31
Jan Zbigniew PotockiSecond Republic of Poland2,1170.24
Krystyna KrzekotowskaWorld Congress of Poles1,6040.18
Total891,378100.00
Source: National Electoral Commission

List of city mayors

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 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)

Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1815)

Congress Poland (1816–1915)

World War I and German occupation (1916/1917)

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)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ abbrev. Prezydent m.st. Warszawy, lit. 'President of Capital City of Warsaw'

References

  1. ^ "Mayor of Warsaw - Rafał Trzaskowski - City of Warsaw". en.um.warszawa.pl. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Prezydent m.st. Warszawy". bip.warszawa.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  3. ^ Ustawa z dnia 5 stycznia 2011 r. - Kodeks wyborczy, Dz. U. z 2011 r. Nr 21, poz. 112
  4. ^ Barbara Petrozolin-Skowrońska (1994). "Encyklopedia Warszawy". Warsaw Encyclopedia (in Polish). Polish Scientific Publishers PWN. p. 94. ISBN 83-01-08836-2. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d "Administration". e-warsaw.pl. Archived from the original on 18 December 2008. Retrieved 31 January 2009.
  6. ^ a b Masa Djordjevic (2006). Politics of Urban Development Planning: Building Urban Governance in Post-Socialist Warsaw?. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 8. Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2010.

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