Mayor of Chișinău
The Mayor of Chișinău is head of the executive branch of Chișinău's government and a member of the city's Municipal Council.
History
The first mayor of Chișinău was Anghel Nour in 1817. In 1941, the office was abolished. After the end of the Soviet era and the re-establishment of the office in 1990, Nicolae Costin became the first democratically elected mayor.List of mayors
Throughout the passing of time, the mayors of the city of Chișinău have been the following ones:| Nº | Mayor | From | Until | Notes | Period/Election |
| 1 | Anghel Nour | 1817 | 1821 | First mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 2 | Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1821 | 1831 | Second mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 3 | Stavru Dimu | 1831 | 1833 | Third mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1834 | 1836 | Second time serving as mayor | Bessarabia Governorate | |
| 4 | Pantelimon I. Sinadino | 1837 | 1839 | Fourth mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| Pantelimon I. Sinadino | 1840 | 1842 | Second time serving as mayor | Bessarabia Governorate | |
| Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1843 | 1845 | Second time serving as mayor | Bessarabia Governorate | |
| 5 | Dimitrie Durdufi | 1846 | 1848 | Fifth mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 6 | Dimitrie Mincu | 1849 | 1854 | Sixth mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 7 | Anghel Nicolau | 1855 | 1858 | Seventh mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| Dimitrie Mincu | 1858 | 1860 | Second time serving as mayor | Bessarabia Governorate | |
| Dimitrie Mincu | 1861 | 1866 | Third time serving as mayor | Bessarabia Governorate | |
| 8 | Adam Krijanovski | 1867 | 1869 | Eighth mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 9 | Pavel Gumalic | 1870 | 1871 | Ninth mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 10 | Clemente Șumanski | 1871 | 1877 | Tenth mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 11 | Carol Schmidt | 1877 | 1903 | First ethnic German mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 12 | Leopold Siținski | 1904 | 1905 | Twelfth mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 13 | Pantelimon V. Sinadino | 1905 | 1910 | National Liberal Party | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 14 | Iulian Levinski | 1910 | 1917 | Fourteenth mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 15 | Alexander Schmidt | 1917 | 1918 | Second ethnic German mayor of the city | Bessarabia Governorate |
| 16 | Vladimir Hertza | 1918 | 1919 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania |
| 17 | Teodor Cojocaru | 1919 | 1920 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania |
| Iulian Levinski | 1920 | 1922 | Second time serving as mayor | Kingdom of Romania | |
| 18 | Vasile Bârcă | 1922 | 1923 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania |
| 19 | Gherman Pântea | 1923 | 1923 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania |
| 20 | Nicolae Bivol | 1923 | 1924 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania |
| Vasile Bârcă | 1924 | 1925 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania | |
| Nicolae Bivol | 1925 | 1926 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania | |
| 21 | Sebastian Teodorescu | 1926 | 1927 | Twenty-first mayor of the city | Kingdom of Romania |
| Gherman Pântea | 1927 | 1928 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania | |
| 22 | Ion Negrescu | 1928 | 1931 | Twenty-second mayor of the city | Kingdom of Romania |
| 23 | Constantin Ionescu | 1931 | 1932 | Twenty-third mayor of the city | Kingdom of Romania |
| Gherman Pântea | 1932 | 1932 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania | |
| 24 | Dimitrie Bogos | 1932 | 1933 | National Peasants' Party | Kingdom of Romania |
| 25 | Ion Costin | 1933 | 1937 | Twenty-fifth mayor of the city | Kingdom of Romania |
| – | Alexandru Sibirski | 1937 | 1938 | Acting mayor | Kingdom of Romania |
| 26 | Constantin Dardan | 1938 | 1938 | Twenty-sixth mayor of the city | Kingdom of Romania |
| 27 | :ro: Reindhold Scheibler|Reindhold Scheibler | 1938 | 1938 | Third ethnic German mayor of the city | Kingdom of Romania |
| 28 | Vladimir Cristi | 1938 | 1940 | National Liberal Party | Kingdom of Romania |
| 29 | Anibal Dobjanski | 1941 | 1941 | Bessarabian Polish | Kingdom of Romania |
| 30 | Nicolae Costin | 1990 | 9 August 1994 | Popular Front | Republic of Moldova |
| 31 | Serafim Urechean | 9 August 1994 | 18 April 2005 | Our Moldova Alliance/Liberal Democratic Party | 1995 1999 2003 |
| – | Mihai Furtună | 18 April 2005 | 28 April 2005 | Independent | Republic of Moldova |
| – | Vasile Ursu | 28 April 2005 | 25 January 2007 | Party of Communists | 2005 |
| – | Veaceslav Iordan | 25 January 2007 | 18 June 2007 | Party of Communists | Republic of Moldova |
| 32 | Dorin Chirtoacă | 18 June 2007 | 28 July 2017 | Liberal Party | 2007 |
| – | Nistor Grozavu | 4 August 2017 | 6 November 2017 | Liberal Party | Republic of Moldova |
| – | Silvia Radu | 6 November 2017 | 25 April 2018 | Independent | Republic of Moldova |
| – | Ruslan Codreanu | 25 April 2018 | 4 July 2019 | European People's Party | Republic of Moldova |
| – | Adrian Talmaci | 4 July | 8 October 2019 | Liberal Party | Republic of Moldova |
| 33 | Andrei Năstase | 8 October | 10 October 2019 | Dignity and Truth Platform Party | Republic of Moldova |
| – | Adrian Talmaci | 10 October 2019 | 4 November 2019 | Liberal Party | Republic of Moldova |
| Andrei Năstase | 4 November 2019 | 5 November 2019 | Dignity and Truth Platform Party | Republic of Moldova | |
| – | Adrian Talmaci | 5 November 2019 | 11 November 2019 | Liberal Party | Republic of Moldova |
| 34 | Ion Ceban | 11 November 2019 | Party of Socialists | Republic of Moldova |