Italian local elections, 2016

Italian local elections, 2016
Italy
5 June and 19 June 2016

1,343 city mayors and councils
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Matteo Renzi Beppe Grillo Silvio Berlusconi
Party Democratic Party Five Star Movement Forza Italia
Leader since 15 December 2013 4 October 2009 16 November 2013
Popular vote 688,557[1] 688,061 266,773[1]
Percentage 20.17%[1] 20.16% 7.82%[1]
Comuni 22[2] 21[2] 24[2]

The 2016 Italian local elections were held on 5 June, with a run-off, where necessary if a candidate for Mayor obtained less than 50 percent of votes in the first round, held on 19 June.[3]

In Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol the elections were held on 8 May (second round on 22 May),[4] in Aosta Valley on 15 May.[5] Municipal councilors and mayors ordinarily serve a term of five years.

Voting system

All mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 use the same system.[6]

Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for one of the parties of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round two weeks later. The coalition of the elected mayor is guaranteed a majority of seats in the council with the attribution of extra seats, but the majority bonus system is not adopted by the cities of Trentino-Alto Adige. If a Mayor resigns, dies or is ousted from office after more than half the municipal councillors stepped down, an early municipal election[6] (for the Mayor and for all municipal councillors) is called.

The City Council is elected at the same time as the mayor. Voters can vote for a list of candidates and can express up to two preferences for candidates of said list.[6] In case of two preferences, they must be given to candidates of both genders. Seats are the attributed to parties proportionally, and for each party the candidates with the highest number of preferences are elected.

Opinion polling

Results

Majority of each coalition in 120 comuni which have a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants:

Party Political leaning of party Comuni
Forza Italia (FI) Centre-right 24
Democratic Party (PD) Center-left 22
Five Star Movement (M5S) Big tent[7] 21
Lega Nord (LN) Right-wing 9
Italian Left (SI) Left-wing 5
Brothers of Italy (FDI-AN) Right-wing 3
Union of the Centre (UDC) Centre 1
Conservatives and Reformists (CR) Centre-right 1

Notes: almost all political parties (PD, FI, LN, SI, FDI-AN, UDC, CR and other national parties not included in the table above) in local (municipal and regional) elections usually run with the support of some minor allied list active in local politics forming coalitions under the same nominee as the mayoral candidate, only M5S ran in all elections with a single list (that is the list of M5S under the M5S nominee as the mayoral candidate without forming coalitions with minor local lists or other national parties). Civic (lista civica) is a local list.

Mayoral results

Cities Population Incumbent mayor Party Elected mayor Party
Benevento 63,489 Fausto Pepe PD Clemente Mastella FI
Bologna 386,386 Virginio Merola PD Virginio Merola PD
Bolzano 102,575 Michele Penta[8] none Renzo Caramaschi PD
Brindisi 88,355 Cesare Castelli[9] none Angela Carluccio CR
Cagliari 154,400 Massimo Zedda SI Massimo Zedda SI
Carbonia 28,882 Giuseppe Casti PD Paola Massidda M5S
Caserta 79,640 Maria Grazia Nicolò[10] none Carlo Marino PD
Cosenza 67,679 Angelo Carbone[11] none Mario Occhiuto FI
Crotone 58,881 Peppino Vallone PD Ugo Pugliese UDC
Grosseto 78,630 Emilio Bonifazi PD Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna FI
Isernia 22,025 Vittorio Saladino[12] none Giacomo D'Apollonio FDI-AN
Latina 117,892 Giacomo Barbato[13] none Damiano Coletta Civic
Milan 1,343,163 Giuliano Pisapia SI Giuseppe Sala PD
Naples 980,716 Luigi de Magistris Civic Luigi de Magistris Civic
Novara 104,388 Andrea Ballarè PD Alessandro Canelli LN
Olbia 53,307 Gianni Giovannelli PD Settimo Nizzi FI
Pordenone 50,583 Claudio Pedrotti PD Alessandro Ciriani Civic
Ravenna 153,740 Fabrizio Matteucci PD Michele De Pascale PD
Rimini 147,793 Andrea Gnassi PD Andrea Gnassi PD
Rome 2,864,348 Francesco Paolo Tronca[14] none Virginia Raggi M5S
Salerno 140,608 Vincenzo Napoli[15] PD Vincenzo Napoli PD
Savona 60,661 Federico Berruti PD Ilaria Caprioglio Civic
Turin 892,649 Piero Fassino PD Chiara Appendino M5S
Trieste 204,590 Roberto Cosolini PD Roberto Dipiazza FI
Varese 79,793 Attilio Fontana LN Davide Galimberti PD
Villacidro 14,281 Teresa Maria Pani PD Cabriolu Marta Civic

References and notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 The electoral results of the main national party does not include the votes obtained by the minor allied lists to the main national party. For example, M5S have no minor allied list, PD and FI have some minor allied lists: FI obtained less votes than PD and M5S, but FI obtajned with the support of some minor allied lists active in local politics more comuni than PD and M5S.
  2. 1 2 3 Only in 120 comuni with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitans (10,000 for Sicily).
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  4. "Normativa e istruzioni". Web.archive.org. 2016-04-18. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  5. "Regione Valle d'Aosta". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  6. 1 2 3 For more news, Italian electoral law of 1993 for Comuni
  7. M5S is considered populist, anti-corruption, environmentalist and Eurosceptic.
  8. Special Commissioner since November 2015.
  9. Special Commissioner since February 2016.
  10. Special Commissioner since June 2015.
  11. Special Commissioner since February 2016.
  12. Special Commissioner since September 2015.
  13. Special Commissioner since June 2015.
  14. Special Commissioner since November 2015.
  15. Deputy Mayor who obtained the official title and the administrative power of Interim Mayor in June 2015 when Mayor Vincenzo De Luca was elected as new Regional President of Campania.
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