Municipal elections were held in Milan on 28–29 May 2006, to elect the Mayor of Milan and the 60 members of the City Council.
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Mayoral election | |||||||||||||||||||
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All 60 seats in City Council 31 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. | |||||||||||||||||||
The incumbent Mayor Gabriele Albertini was term-limited and could not run for a third term.
The main candidates were the incumbent Minister of Education Letizia Moratti, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition House of Freedoms, and the former prefect of Milan Bruno Ferrante, supported by the centre-left coalition The Union.
As a result of the election, Letizia Moratti was officially proclaimed new Mayor of Milan on 1 June 2006, becoming the first female to fill the office.[1]
Background edit
Centre-left primary election edit
In December 2005 the centre-left coalition decided to call an open primary election to choose its mayoral candidate.[2] Four people registered to be candidates in this election: Bruno Ferrante, former prefect of Milan (2000–2005); Dario Fo, playwright and 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature; Milly Moratti, environmentalist activist; and Dario Corritore, an independent business executive.
The election took place on 29 January 2006:[2]
| Candidate | Supported by | Votes (%) | |
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| Bruno Ferrante | DS, DL | 67.85% | |
| Dario Fo | PRC | 23.09% | |
| Milly Moratti | FdV | 5.78% | |
| Davide Corritore | none | 3.28% | |
| Total | 100.00 | ||
Total voters: 82,496
Voting System edit
The semipresidential voting system was the one used for all mayoral elections in Italy of cities with a population higher than 15,000 for the fourth time. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the Mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support.
The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each losing party is determined proportionally.
Parties and candidates edit
This is a list of the major parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.
Results edit
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Leader's seat |
Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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| Letizia Moratti | 353,410 | 51.97 | – | Forza Italia | 194,995 | 32.22 | 24 | |||
| National Alliance | 51,801 | 8.56 | 6 | |||||||
| Letizia Moratti List | 30,781 | 5.09 | 3 | |||||||
| Northern League | 22,702 | 3.75 | 2 | |||||||
| Union of Christian and Centre Democrats | 14,713 | 2.43 | 1 | |||||||
| Pensions and Work | 3,537 | 0.58 | – | |||||||
| Christian Democracy for Autonomies | 2,560 | 0.42 | – | |||||||
| Social Action | 2,305 | 0.38 | – | |||||||
| Tricolour Flame | 1,634 | 0.27 | – | |||||||
| Young people for Milan | 1,418 | 0.23 | – | |||||||
| New Italian Socialist Party | 920 | 0.15 | – | |||||||
| Pensioners and Disabled | 879 | 0.15 | – | |||||||
| S.O.S. Italy | 230 | 0.04 | – | |||||||
| Total | 328,475 | 54.28 | 36 | |||||||
| Bruno Ferrante | 319,487 | 46.98 | 
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The Olive Tree | 133,315 | 22.03 | 14 | |||
| Ferrante List | 45,501 | 7.52 | 4 | |||||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 25,252 | 4.17 | 2 | |||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 20,346 | 3.36 | 2 | |||||||
| United with Dario Fo | 12,821 | 2.12 | 1 | |||||||
| Party of Italian Communists | 9,345 | 1.54 | – | |||||||
| Italy of Values | 8,843 | 1.46 | – | |||||||
| Rose in the Fist | 8,563 | 1.41 | – | |||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 3,654 | 0.60 | – | |||||||
| Union of Democrats for Europe | 1,989 | 0.33 | – | |||||||
| Consumers' List | 603 | 0.10 | – | |||||||
| Total | 270,232 | 44.65 | 23 | |||||||
| Giorgio Ballabio | 1,329 | 0.20 | – | Your Milan | 1,323 | 0.22 | – | |||
| Cesare Fracca | 1,220 | 0.18 | – | Living Milan | 1,169 | 0.19 | – | |||
| Gabriele Pagliuzzi | 1,187 | 0.17 | – | Liberal Right – Federal Europe | 935 | 0.15 | – | |||
| Ambrogio Crespi | 1,086 | 0.16 | – | Liberal-Democratic Socialists – No ICI | 853 | 0.14 | – | |||
| Valerio Colombo | 752 | 0.11 | – | Humanist Party | 696 | 0.12 | – | |||
| Alberto Beniamino Saiabene | 676 | 0.10 | – | This is a City | 690 | 0.11 | – | |||
| Sante Gaiardoni | 523 | 0.08 | – | Sante Gaiardoni List | 435 | 0.07 | – | |||
| Pietro Vangeli | 392 | 0.06 | – | Communist List | 370 | 0.06 | – | |||
| Total | 680,062 | 100.00 | 1 | 605,178 | 100.00 | 59 | ||||
| Eligible voters | 1,030,616 | 100.00 | ||||||||
| Did not vote | 334,074 | 32.48 | ||||||||
| Voted | 695,912 | 67.52 | ||||||||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 15,850 | 2.3 | ||||||||
| Total valid votes | 680,062 | 97.7 | ||||||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||||||
References edit
- ^ "Milano, la Moratti è sindaco dopo lo scrutinio nella notte" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 29 May 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Primarie Milano, vince Ferrante" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 29 January 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2021.