He's not on the podium, but he's close: Cagliari's mayor Massimo Zedda is fourth in the Governance Poll 2026 rankings, compiled by Noto Sondaggi and published in Il Sole 24 Ore. The mayor of Cagliari is growing in approval, going from 60.3% in the election to 63% according to the recent poll. Sara Funaro , the mayor of Florence, tops the list with 66% approval, followed by Marco Fioravanti of Ascoli Piceno (65%), while Neapolitan Gaetano Manfredi is in third place with 64%.
While Zedda is well-connected with the upper echelons of the political spectrum—and it seems the people of Cagliari are appreciating his work—to find a second Sardinian candidate, we have to drop to eighteenth place, where Emiliano Fenu from Nuoro appears to be losing support: he's fallen from 63.1% in the 2025 election to 57.5% (-5.6%). In twenty-seventh place is Giuseppe Mascia from Sassari, who has gained support, however: in 2024, he had 51.1%, now 55.5% of voters support him.
Pietro Morittu in Carbonia is the one who loses significantly in percentage terms: his approval rating drops 11.3%, from 65.8% to 54.5%. However, this means he drops from 59th to 36th place in the rankings.
Oristano mayor Massimiliano Sanna is losing popularity and ending up in the slums: his seat is 88th (out of 92), with a consensus that has dropped from 54.2% in 2022 (elections) to 47%.
Governors Ranking
Among governors, Alessandra Todd ranks fourteenth (out of 17; the presidents of Val d'Aosta and Trentino, which are not directly elected, are not included). Todde's approval ratings have increased both compared to last year's survey (46.5%) and compared to the approval rating she received at the time of her election (45.4%): she now holds 49%, an increase of 3.6 percentage points compared to the election result. "This figure highlights how, after more than two years in office, citizens' trust in the President has increased, rewarding the work done by the regional administration," a statement reads.
