The following[1][2] is a list of all 422 of the Chief Executives of Pula ordered by the dates of their mayoral terms which are put in parentheses.

The town was elevated to colonial rank between 46 and 45 BC as the tenth region of the Roman Republic, under Julius Caesar.

With the collapse of the Venetian Republic in 1797 following Napoleon's Treaty of Campo Formio, Pula became part of the Habsburg monarchy.

[7] For two years after World War 2, Pula was administered by the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories (AMG).

Istria was partitioned into occupation zones until the region became officially united with the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 15 September 1947, under terms of the Paris Peace Treaties.