Ballotpedia features 395,577 encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. This is a list of mayors of Sacramento, California.The Sacramento City Council met for the first time on August 1, 1849 and the citizens approved the city charter on October 13, 1849. [2] Based on 2020 population estimates, 76.1% of the population of the top 100 cities lived in cities with Democratic mayors, and 16.2% lived in cities with Republican mayors at the start of 2022. Heather Fargo (born December 12, 1952) is an American politician who served as mayor and was a former City Council Member of Sacramento, California. Mayors - United States Conference of Mayors Mayors Meet the Mayors Our full database of over 1,400 mayors from across the United States, representing cities with a population of 30,000 and larger. Louisville, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Nashville, and Honolulu have consolidated city-county governments where the mayor is elected by residents of the entire county, not just that of the main city; in these cases the population and respective rank are for the county. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r