The Mayor of San Juan () is the head of the local government of the city of San Juan that is elected to three-year terms. The mayor is also the executive head and leads the city's departments in executing the city ordinances and improving public services. The city mayor is restricted to three consecutive terms, totaling nine years, although a mayor can be elected again after an interruption of one term.
The current mayor of San Juan is Francisco Javier Zamora.
History During the Spanish colonial rule, San Juan del Monte was headed by a Gobernadorcillo.
The position of municipal president was established in 1901, the same year when San Juan del Monte became part of the newly created province of Rizal. From 1903 to 1907, it was placed under the administration of San Felipe Neri (present-day Mandaluyong).
During World War II, President Manuel L. Quezon established the City of Greater Manila in 1942, which absorbed San Juan and its municipal mayor became a district chief reporting to the city's Chief of the Division of Districts and of the District and Neighborhood Association. Aquilino de Guzman (1942–1943) and Regino Eustanqio (1943–1944) served in this capacity. The City of Greater Manila was abolished on August 1, 1945, restoring San Juan's municipal status and the position redesignated as mayor.
In 1969, actor Joseph Estrada became mayor of San Juan after winning an electoral protest against Braulio Sto. Domingo from his 1967 election loss, initiating a family dynasty that would heavily shape the city's politics for decades. Following the 1986 People Power Revolution, his initial tenure ended and San Juan was led by two acting mayors from 1986 to 1988, followed by the elected term of Adolfo Sto. Domingo from 1988 to 1992. The Ejercito–Estrada dynasty reestablished control in 1992 and held the mayoralty for the next 27 years through Estrada's sons, Jinggoy Estrada (1992–2001) and JV Ejercito (2001–2010), who became the first city mayor when San Juan achieved cityhood in 2007, and his former partner, Guia Gomez (2010–2019), who is Ejercito's mother. This family hold was briefly interrupted in 2001 when Vice Mayor Philip Cezar served as acting mayor for two months following Jinggoy's arrest on plunder charges. This dynasty's hold on the position was broken in 2019 when then-Vice Mayor Janella Estrada was defeated by former Vice Mayor Francis Zamora.
List | * Names in italic are acting in capacity. No.GobernadorcilloLieutenant, by orderTerm of officeGobernadorcillo of San Juan del Monte, Province of Manila 1 Olegario Parada 1. Jose Ceferino 2. Inocencio Francisco 3. Mateo Ibañez 1847–1849 2 Francisco Ramós 1. Vicente Ramós 1849 3 Domingo Pascual 1. Estanis Parada 1877-1879 4 José Angeles Reyes 1895 5 José Angeles Reyes 1896 6 Romualdo Pascual 1897
No.ImageMayorPartyDeputy (later Vice Mayor)Term Municipal President of San Juan del Monte, Province of Rizal 1 Andres Soriano 1901–1903 Municipal President of San Felipe Neri, Province of Rizal * Pantaleon Blas 1903–1904 * Apolinar Coronado 1904–1905 * Claro Castañeda 1905-1907 Municipal President of San Juan del Monte, Province of Rizal 2 Marcelo Luna 1907-1910 3 Juan Domingo de Mesa 1910-1912 4 Juan Gutierrez 1912-1916 5 Juan Domingo de Mesa Amando Asiñas 1916-1920 6 Valentín Ibáñez Luis Artiaga 1928-1931 Elected Municipal President of San Juan del Monte, Province of Rizal 6 Graciano Santos 1931-1933 7 Maximo Reyes 1933-1934 8 Engracio Santos Florencio Atanacio 1935-1938 9 Daniel Santiago 1938-1941 * Jorge B. Vargas Daniel Santiago 1941-1942 * León Guinto Aquilino de Guzman (1942–1943)Regino Eustanqio (1943–1944) 1942-1944 * Regino Eustanqio 1944-1945 * Daniel Santiago 1945-1946 Elected Municipal Mayor of San Juan del Monte, Province of Rizal 10 Engracio Santos 1946-1954 * Mariano Domingo 1954 11 Nicanor Salaysay 1954-1955 12 Nicanor C. Ibuna S. Veloso (1955–1959)Filemon C. Suarez (1959–1963)Ricardo Cruz (1963–1967) 1955-1967 13 Braulio Sto. Domingo Pablo T. Angeles 1967-1969 14 Joseph Estrada Pablo T. Angeles 1969-1975 Elected Municipal Mayor of San Juan, Metropolitan Manila 14 Joseph Estrada 1975-1986 * Reynaldo San Pascual Jesus Liborio 1986-1987 * Antonio Quirino Ernesto Guingona 1987-1988 15 Adolfo Sto. Domingo Jinggoy Estrada 1988-1992 16 Jinggoy Estrada Philip Cezar 1992-2001 * Philip Cezar Vincent Pacheco 2001 Elected City Mayor of San Juan, Metropolitan Manila 17 JV Ejercito Leonardo "Boy" Celles 2001-2010 18 Guia Gomez Francisco Javier Zamora (2010-2016)Janella Estrada (2016-2019) 2010-2019 19 Francisco Javier Zamora Jose Warren Villa (2019-2023)Angelo Agcaoili (2023-) 2019-
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