In March 2001, Paris voted for a left-wing mayor for the first time since 1871.

Trade unions were dissolved while left-wing mayors resigned.

Between 1945 and 1999, the city had an uninterrupted series of left-wing mayors, the first of whom was Giuseppe Dozza.

He is one of a long line of left-wing mayors of Bologna.

It has never had a left-wing mayor and it was one of the few towns that voted in support of retaining the monarchy in 1974.

Fikri Sönmez ("Fikri the tailor") - revolutionary left-wing mayor of Fatsa in the 1970s.

In March 1995, a nonparty left-wing mayor was elected, Ahmed Abdelkader.

In November 1940, the Vichy government ordered all préfets to dismiss left-wing elected mayors of towns and villages.

After the military dictatorship of 1967-1974, Kamatero has almost exclusively elected left-wing mayors, with the exception of the 1974-1978 period, right after the junta.

In 1902 he was elected as the first left-wing mayor of Catania and became the protagonist of a kind of municipal socialism until 1914.