List of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico

This is a list of mayors of Ponce, Puerto Rico's southern economic center, the island's second largest[1] and second most important city.

In 1870, political parties were created for the first time and municipal officials were elected by the people at large, and the mayor, as well as the members of the municipal council, would belong to one of the two parties active, either the Partido Liberal Reformista or the Partido Incondicional Español.

Mayita had been the first woman elected to the office of mayor by the people of Ponce in its extensive political history.

Source: Eduardo Neumann Gandía,[7] Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico,[8] and Neysa Rodríguez Deynes.

[9] Sources: Eduardo Neumann Gandía,[22] Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico,[23] and Neysa Rodríguez Deynes.

[24] Following is a list of other Ponce mayors according to Enciclopedia Puerto Rico but which are not accounted for in the 1913 historical account by Eduardo Neumann Gandía, Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce: Desde sus Primitivos Tiempos hasta la Época Contemporánea.