Editing Ajaccio (section)

==Administration==
[[File:Hôtel de préfecture de Corse-du-Sud.jpg|thumb|The Préfecture]]

Ajaccio was successively:
*Capital of the district of the department of [[Corsica]] in 1790 to 1793
*Capital of the ''department of [[Liamone]]'' from 1793 to 1811
*Capital of the ''department of Corsica'' from 1811 to 1975
*Capital of the region and the ''collectivité territoriale de Corse'' since 1970 and the department of [[Corse-du-Sud]] since 1976

Ajaccio remained (with some interruptions) an electoral stronghold of the Bonapartist (CCB) party until the municipal elections of 2001. The outgoing municipality was then beaten by a left-wing coalition led by [[Simon Renucci]] which gathered [[Social Democratic Party (France)|Social Democrats]], [[French Communist Party|Communists]], and [[Charles Napoleon]] - the pretender to the imperial throne.

'''List of Successive Mayors of Ajaccio'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.francegenweb.org/mairesgenweb/resultcommune.php?id=43|title=francegenweb.org - votre service benevole d'assistance genealogique|first=Robert|last=Weinland|website=www.francegenweb.org|access-date=31 May 2017}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
! colspan=5 | [[Mayor (France)|Mayors]] from the French Revolution to 1935
|-
! From !! To !! Name !! Party !! Position
|-
| 1790 || 1790 || Jean Jèrome Levie  ||  || 
|-
| 1791 || 1796 || Vincenté Guitera ||  || 
|-
| 1796 || 1796 || Lodovico Ornano ||  || 
|-
| 1798 || 1798 || François Marie Levie  ||  || 
|-
| 1798 || 1798 || Thomas Tavera ||  || 
|-
| 1798 || 1798 || Antoine Tagliafico ||  || 
|-
| 1799 || 1800 || J. B. Pozzo di Borgo ||  || 
|-
| 1800 || 1801 || Jean Jèrome Levie ||  || 
|-
| 1801 || 1805 || Pierre Stephanopoli ||  || 
|-
| 1805 || 1815 || François Levie  ||  || 
|-
| 1815 || 1815 || Jean Noël Martinenghi ||  || 
|-
| 1815 || 1816 || François Levie ||  || 
|-
| 1816 || 1817 || Georges Stephanopoli ||  || 
|-
| 1817 || 1819 || Adorno de Baciocchi ||  || 
|-
| 1819 || 1822 || J. B. Colonna de Bozzi ||  || 
|-
| 1822 || 1826 || J. B. Spotorno ||  || 
|-
| 1826 || 1832 || Constantin Stephanopoli ||  || 
|-
| 1832 || 1837 || Cunéo d'Ornano ||  || 
|-
| 1837 || 1848 || Paul François Peraldi ||  || 
|-
| 1848 || 1848 || Bernardin Poli ||  || 
|-
| 1848 || 1855 || Laurent Zevaco ||  || 
|-
| 1855 || 1860 || Antoine Decosmi ||  || 
|-
| 1860 || 1867 || François Xavier Braccini  ||  || 
|-
| 1867 || 1870 || Louis Nyer ||  || 
|-
| 1870 || 1870 || Joseph Fil ||  || 
|-
| 1870 || 1871 || Nicolas Peraldi ||  || 
|-
| 1871 || 1871 || Joseph Fil ||  || 
|-
| 1871 || 1873 || Nicolas Peraldi ||  || 
|-
| 1873 || 1876 || F. X. Forcioli Conti ||  || 
|-
| 1876 || 1877 || Nicolas Peraldi ||  || 
|-
| 1877 || 1877 || Joseph Fil ||  || 
|-
| 1877 || 1884 || Nicolas Peraldi || [[Republic]]ain || 
|-
| 1884 || 1893 || Joseph Pugliesi || CCB<ref>Comité central bonapartiste</ref> || 
|-
| 1893 || 1896 || Pierre Petreto || CCB || 
|-
| 1896 || 1900 || Joseph Pugliesi || CCB || 
|-
| 1900 || 1904 || Pierre Bodoy || CCB || 
|-
| 1904 || 1919 || Dominique Pugliesi Conti || CCB || 
|-
| 1919 || 1925 || Jérôme Peri || Radical || 
|-
| 1925 || 1931 || Dominique Paoli || CCB || 
|-
| 1931 || 1931 || Joseph Marie François Spoturno ||  ||
|-
| 1931 || 1934 || [[François Coty]] || CCB || 
|-
| 1934 || 1935 || Hyacinthe Campiglia || CCB || 
|}

{| class="wikitable collapsible"
! colspan=5 | [[Mayor (France)|Mayors]] from 1935
|-
! From !! To !! Name !! Party !! Position
|-
| 1935 || 1943 || Dominique Paoli || CCB || 
|-
| 1943 || 1945 || Eugène Macchini || CCB || 
|-
| 1945 || 1947 || Arthur Giovoni || [[French Communist Party|PCF]] ||
|-
| 1947 || 1949 || Nicéphore Stephanopoli de Commene || CCB || 
|-
| 1949 || 1953 || Antoine Serafini || CCB || 
|-
| 1953 || 1959 || François Maglioli || CCB || 
|-
| 1959 || 1964 || Antoine Serafini || CCB || 
|-
| 1964 || 1975 || Pascal Rossini || CCB || 
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| 1975 || 1994 || Charles Napoléon Ornano  || CCB || 
|-
| 1994 || 2001 || Marc Marcangeli || CCB || Doctor
|-
| 2001 || 2014 || [[Simon Renucci]] || CSD<ref>Corse social-democrate</ref> || Doctor
|-
| 2014 || 2014 || [[Laurent Marcangeli]] ||  || 
|-
| 2014 || 2015 || ''vacant'' || ||
|-
| 2015 || 2022 || [[Laurent Marcangeli]] ||  || 
|-
| 2022 || 2026 || Stéphane Sbraggia ||  || 
|}

===Quarters===
10 Quarters are recognized by the municipality.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ajaccio.fr/|title=Site officiel de la Ville d'Ajaccio - Bienvenue à Ajaccio|website=Site officiel de la Ville d'Ajaccio - Bienvenue à Ajaccio}}</ref>
*''Cannes-Binda'': an area north of the city, consisting of [[Housing estate]]s, classed as a [[Sensitive urban zone]] (ZUS) with Les Salines, subject to a policy of urban renewal
*''Centre Ville'': The tourist heart of the city consisting of shopping streets and major thoroughfares
*''Casone'': a bourgeois neighbourhood with an affluent population located in the former winter resort on the heights of the southern city.
*''[[Les Jardins de l'Empereur]]'': a neighbourhood classified as a Sensitive urban zone (ZUS) on the heights of the city, consisting of housing estates overlooking the city
*''Mezzavia'': northern quarter of the town with several subdivisions and areas of business and economic activities
*''Octroi-Sainte Lucie'': constitutes the northern part of the city centre near the port and the railway station
*''Pietralba'': quarter northeast of the city, classified ZUS
*''Résidence des Îles'': quarter to the south of the city near the tourist route of ''Sanguinaires'' in a quality environment
*''Saint-Jean'': collection of buildings for a population with low incomes, close to the historic urban core of the city, classified as a Sensitive urban zone (ZUS)
*''Saline'': quarter north of the city, consisting of large apartment blocks, classed as a Sensitive urban zone (ZUS) with ''Les Cannes'', subject to a policy of urban renewal
*''Vazzio'': quarter northeast of the city, near the [[Ajaccio airport|airport]], the EDF Central, and the [[Stade François Coty|Francois Coty stadium]].

===Intercommunality===
Since December 2001, Ajaccio has been part of the ''Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Ajaccien'' with nine other communes: [[Afa, Corse-du-Sud|Afa]], [[Alata, Corse-du-Sud|Alata]], [[Appietto]], [[Cuttoli-Corticchiato]], [[Peri, Corse-du-Sud|Peri]], [[Sarrola-Carcopino]], [[Tavaco]], [[Valle-di-Mezzana]], and [[Villanova, Corse-du-Sud|Villanova]].

===Origins===
The geopolitical arrangements of the commune are slightly different from those typical of Corsica and [[France]]. Usually an arrondissement includes cantons and a canton includes one to several communes including the chef-lieu, "chief place", from which the canton takes its name. The city of Ajaccio is one commune, but it contains four cantons, Cantons 1–4, and a fraction of Canton 5. The latter contains three other communes: [[Bastelicaccia]], [[Alata, Corse-du-Sud|Alata]] and [[Villanova, Corse-du-Sud|Villanova]], making a total of four communes for the five cantons of Ajaccio.<ref name=decret>{{cite web|url=http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000028658302|title=Décret n° 2014-229 du 24 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Corse-du-Sud|access-date=31 May 2017}}</ref>

Each canton contains a certain number of quartiers, "quarters". Cantons 1, 2, 3, 4 are located along the Gulf of Ajaccio from west to east, while 5 is a little further up the valleys of the Gravona and the Prunelli Rivers. These political divisions subdivide the population of Ajaccio into units that can be more democratically served but they do not give a true picture of the size of Ajaccio. In general language, "greater Ajaccio" includes about 100,000 people with all the medical, educational, utility and transportational facilities of a big city. Up until World War II it was still possible to regard the city as being a settlement of narrow streets localized to a part of the harbour or the Gulf of Ajaccio: such bucolic descriptions do not fit the city of today, and travelogues intended for mountain or coastal recreational areas do not generally apply to Corsica's few big cities.

The arrondissement contains other cantons that extend generally up the two rivers into central Corsica.