The mayor of Naga, Camarines Sur (; Central Bikol: Alkalde kan Naga, Camarines Sur) is the head of the executive branch of the city government of Naga, Camarines Sur.

The current mayor is Leni Robredo, who has served since June 30, 2025.

History In May 1945, the Naga Municipal Council was reestablished by the Philippine Civil Affairs Unit of the 8th United States Army, which installed Rosalio Imperial as municipal mayor, serving as the presiding officer of the council. Naga later received cityhood in 1948, but Philippine presidents continued appointing its mayors until 1959, when the first local elections were held. Within the span of one year from 1953 to 1954, Naga had four mayors. Leon S. A. Aureus, who had been appointed in December 1948, served until August 1953, when he resigned to run for Camarines Sur's 1st congressional district in the House of Representatives. He was succeeded by Anastacio Prila, who was appointed in September 1953. Following Ramon Magsaysay's election as president, Antonio Sibulo was appointed mayor in January 1954. Sibulo was later succeeded by Monico Imperial after his appointment was not confirmed by the Commission on Appointments in June 1954.

In 1959, Nacionalista candidate Victorino Ojeda was elected the first city mayor, defeating Liberal candidate Ramon Felipe Jr. Felipe later won in 1963, defeating Ojeda's vice mayor, Mariano Villafuerte Jr., but resigned two years into his term to run for Camarines Sur's 1st district in the House of Representatives. Incumbent vice mayor Vicente Sibulo succeeded to the mayoralty and was re-elected in 1967 and 1971, before martial law was declared in September 1972.

Sibulo continued serving as mayor while expressing support for President Ferdinand Marcos's administration, despite belonging to the opposition, and endorsed candidates of the newly formed ruling coalition Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) for the 1978 elections to the Interim Batasang Pambansa. However, he was removed from office in December 1979, with Luis Villafuerte, an emerging power broker who would later become provincial governor and representative, alleged to have requested Marcos to remove Sibulo. Carlos del Castillo, the then vice mayor, acted as mayor until the 1980 local elections, the first since the imposition of martial law, where he won a full term as a KBL candidate. Del Castillo, along with Villafuerte, was among the local officials who bolted to the opposition party UNIDO, and he was reappointed mayor after Marcos's ouster in 1986 by President Corazon Aquino following the People Power Revolution.

Republic Act No. 6636 reset the date of the first local elections under the 1987 Constitution from November 9, 1987, to January 18, 1988. Jesse Robredo, a nephew of Villafuerte, successfully ran for mayor, the youngest in the country, alongside Lourdes Asence under the Lakas ng Bansa ticket, despite the city council being dominated by the local alliance Cory Coalition. Robredo had switched from Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino to Lakas–NUCD by the 1992 elections, where he won a second term, and won a third term in 1995. He backed Aksyon Demokratiko candidate Sulpicio Roco Jr., the brother of Senator Raul Roco, in 1998, where the latter won. Jesse Robredo later sought a fourth term in 2001 under the Liberal Party banner and won two more terms, serving until 2010, after which he was appointed secretary of the interior and local government by President Benigno Aquino III. He later died in 2012 in a plane crash.

In 2010, the Liberal Party slate was led by lawyer John Bongat and Gabriel Bordado for mayor and vice mayor, respectively, and swept all seats in the city council. Bongat was re-elected in 2013, with city councilor Nelson Legacion winning as vice mayor. They both served another term from 2016 to 2019.

Legacion ran for mayor and won in 2019, and was re-elected in 2022, serving until 2025, when he ran for Camarines Sur's 3rd congressional district in Congress. He gave way by declining to seek re-election as mayor in favor of former vice president Leni Robredo, the wife of the late Jesse Robredo, whose candidacy for mayor had been publicly discussed as early as mid-2024. She went on to win alongside Bordado as vice mayor, making her the city's first female chief executive.

List of mayors

Portrait Name Term Party Election Vice mayor Era 1 Rosalio Imperial May 1945–June 1946 rowspan="2" Independent rowspan="2" Blas David Commonwealth Domingo Escalante 2 Blas David June 1946–September 1947 rowspan="2" Independent rowspan="4" Raymundo Martinez Third Republic 3 Felix Espiritu September 1947–December 15, 1947 Independent 4 Feliciano Reyes January 1, 1948–December 1948 Independent Carlos Ruivivar 5 Leon Aureus December 15, 1948–August 1953 rowspan="2" Liberal rowspan="3" Carlos Ruivivar rowspan="5" 6 Anastacio Prila September 1953–January 1954 Independent 7 Antonio Sibulo January 1954–May 1954 Independent rowspan="2" 8 Monico Imperial June 1954–August 31, 1959 Independent 9 Rosalio Imperial September 1, 1959–December 1959 Independent 10 Victorino Ojeda January 1960–December 1963 rowspan="2" Nacionalista 1959 Mariano Villafuerte Jr. Reynaldo Borja 11 Ramon Felipe Jr. January 1964–September 1965 Liberal 1963 Vicente Sibulo 12 Vicente Sibulo September 1965–December 1979 rowspan="6" Liberal rowspan="2" Manuel Barte Siegfredo Obias 1967 Virginia Perez 1971 rowspan="2" Martial law Carlos G. del Castillo Acting Carlos G. del Castillo December 1979–February 1980 rowspan="3" KBL 13 March 1980–February 1, 1988 1980 Siegfredo Obias Fourth Republic rowspan="4" UNIDO rowspan="3" ProvisionalGovernment Efren G. Santos Fifth Republic Romeo Tablizo 14 Jesse Robredo February 2, 1988–June 30, 1998 LDP 1988 Lourdes Asence rowspan="3" Lakas 1992 1995 15 Sulpicio Roco Jr. June 30, 1998–June 30, 2001 Aksyon 1998 Esteban Abonal Jr. 16 Jesse Robredo June 30, 2001–June 30, 2010 rowspan="3" Liberal 2001 2004 Gabriel Bordado 2007 17 John Bongat June 30, 2010–June 30, 2019 rowspan="3" Liberal 2010 2013 Nelson Legacion 2016 18 Nelson Legacion June 30, 2019–June 30, 2025 rowspan="2" Liberal 2019 Cecilia Veluz-de Asis 2022 Lakas 19 Leni Robredo June 30, 2025–present Liberal 2025 Gabriel Bordado

Vice Mayor of Naga, Camarines Sur

The vice mayor of Naga, Camarines Sur is the second-highest official in the city government of Naga, Camarines Sur. Elected separately from the mayor by popular vote, the vice mayor serves as the presiding officer of the Naga City Council.

Upon the death, resignation, or removal from office of the incumbent mayor, the vice mayor serves the remainder of the unexpired term until the next general election. If the office of the vice mayor becomes vacant through succession or for any of the foregoing reasons, the highest-ranking member of the city council assumes the office of vice mayor.

The incumbent vice mayor of Naga, Camarines Sur is Gabriel Bordado, who has served since June 30, 2025.

List of vice mayors

Portrait Name Term Party Election Mayor Era 1 Blas David May 1945–March 1946 Independent rowspan="2" Rosalio Imperial Commonwealth 2 Domingo Escalante March 1946–June 1946 Independent 3 Raymundo Martinez June 1946–September 1947 rowspan="3" Independent rowspan="5" Blas David Third Republic Felix Espiritu 4 Carlos Ruivivar January 1, 1948–December 1951 rowspan="2" Independent Feliciano Reyes Leon Aureus colspan="7" rowspan="5" Anastacio Prila Antonio Sibulo Monico Imperial Rosalio Imperial 5 Mariano Villafuerte Jr. January 1960–September 1963 Nacionalista 1959 Victorino Ojeda Acting Reynaldo BorjaSeptember 1963–November 4, 1963 Nacionalista 6 Vicente Sibulo January 1964–September 1965 Liberal 1963 Ramon Felipe Jr. Acting Manuel Barte October 11, 1965–September 1967 Liberal Vicente Sibulo 7 Siegfredo Obias September 1967–January 1968 Nacionalista 9 Virginia Perez January 1968–January 1976 rowspan="3" Liberal 1967 1971 Martial law 10 Carlos G. del Castillo February 1976–February 1980 KBL 11 Siegfredo Obias March 1980–December 26, 1986 rowspan="3" KBL 1980 Carlos G. del Castillo Fourth Republic rowspan="3" ProvisionalGovernment 12 Efren G. Santos March 15, 1987–December 1, 1987 Independent Fifth Republic OIC Romeo Tablizo December 4, 1987–February 1, 1988 Independent 13 Lourdes Asence February 2, 1988–June 30, 1998 LDP 1988 Jesse Robredo rowspan="3" Lakas 1992 1995 14 Esteban Abonal Jr. June 30, 1998–June 30, 2004 Aksyon 1998 Sulpicio Roco Jr. Liberal 2001 Jesse Robredo 15 Gabriel Bordado June 30, 2004–June 30, 2013 rowspan="3" Liberal 2004 2007 2010 John Bongat 16 Nelson Legacion June 30, 2013–June 30, 2019 rowspan="2" Liberal 2013 2016 17 Cecilia Veluz-de Asis June 30, 2019–June 30, 2025 rowspan="2" Liberal 2019 Nelson Legacion 2022 18 Gabriel Bordado June 30, 2025–present Liberal 2025 Leni Robredo

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