Ion Ceban (born 30 June 1980) is a Moldovan politician and the current mayor of Chișinău, Moldova's capital.

Ceban became an MP within the lists of PCRM following the snap parliamentary elections held on 28 November 2010[4] and worked within the committee for culture, education, research, youth, sport and mass media.

[5] In September 2012, he announced during a press conference that he left PCRM to join a new political project launched a couple of months before by his former colleagues Igor Dodon and Zinaida Greceanîi, PSRM.

Andrei Năstase, the candidate of the "Dignity and Truth Platform," received 52.57% of the votes[11] and was elected as the general Mayor of the Chișinău municipality.

[12] On June 19, 2018, the Central Office of the Chișinău Court ruled that due to violations committed by both candidates, particularly electoral campaigning on the day of the election, which is against the provisions of the Electoral Code, the legality of the new local elections held on May 20, 2018 (first round) and June 3, 2018 (second round) for the position of Mayor of the Chișinău municipality was not confirmed.

[14][15] The electoral rival Valeriu Munteanu, the leader of the Save Bessarabia Union (Uniunea Salvati Basarabia) party, requested that the CEC exclude Ion Ceban from the elections due to the use of undeclared funds.

He stated, "Whether the PSRM has already been connected to the flow of money that would come from government activity, and if these things have not yet started, it means that the funding continues to come from Moscow and thus, the money comes from the Kremlin, by using the sideways.”[17][18] On October 7, 2019, he filed a lawsuit against the candidate Ion Ceban, alleging that the Socialists violated electoral legislation by using electoral materials featuring the image of the historical figure Ștefan cel Mare.

The court ordered the removal of all road-electoral boards featuring Ștefan cel Mare's image and the liquidation of the undistributed stock of the electoral newspaper, both in print and online.

[25] On October 21, 2019, Ion Ceban proposed to the ACUM Bloc (DT and PAS) to form a coalition within the Municipal Council, which would allow a stable majority to be achieved in the deliberative body of the capital.

[26][27] Ion Ceban has been reelected as mayor of Moldova's capital, Chisinau, in the first round, winning 50.62 percent of the vote.

His PAS opponent, Lilian Carp, garnered 28.23 percent, as announced by election authorities after all votes from the capital's 305 polling stations were counted.

In his statement made during a youth forum, Ceban condemned the war and the aggression of Russia, stating that Moldova stands with Ukraine and supports its territorial integrity and sovereignty.

[30] The National Alternative Movement (MAN) party, led by Ion Ceban, had a strong showing in the 2023 local elections, particularly in Chișinău.