2000 Ligurian regional election

The Ligurian regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.

2000 Ligurian regional election

← 1995 16 April 2000 2005 →
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Sandro Biasotti Giancarlo Mori
Party Forza Italia PPI
Alliance Pole for Freedoms The Olive Tree
Seats won 24 16
Seat change Increase 8 Decrease 13
Popular vote 475,308 431,743
Percentage 50.7% 46.1%
Swing Increase 6.1%[1] Decrease 5.0%[2]


President before election

Giancarlo Mori
PPI

Subsequent President

Sandro Biasotti
FI

Sandro Biasotti (an independent close to Forza Italia) was elected president, defeating incumbent Giancarlo Mori (PPI).

Electoral system

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Regional elections in Liguria were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.

A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes.

The panachage was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

Parties and candidates

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Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
Centre-left coalition Democrats of the Left 30.3 14 Giancarlo Mori
Communist Refoundation Party 8.0 2
Italian People's PartyUDEUR 5.7 3
Federation of the Greens 2.9 1
Italian Democratic SocialistsItalian Republican Party
The Democrats
Party of Italian Communists
For Italy
Centre-right coalition Forza Italia 24.4 9 Sandro Biasotti
National Alliance 11.2 4
Northern League Liguria 6.5 2
Christian Democratic Centre 2.7 1
Pensioners' Party 1.6
New Liguria
United Christian Democrats
Animalist Liguria
Pannella List 1.5 Mario Tarantino
Humanist Party Irene Menghini

Results

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16 April 2000 Ligurian regional election results
 
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seat
Sandro Biasotti 475,308 50.71 8
Forza Italia 240,789 27.27 10
National Alliance 90,396 10.24 3
Northern League Liguria 38,104 4.32 1
New Liguria 24,943 2.83 1
Christian Democratic Centre 22,959 2.60 1
United Christian Democrats 15,837 1.79
Animalist Liguria 11,984 1.36
Pensioners' Party 6,488 0.73
Total 451,500 51.14 16
Giancarlo Mori 431,743 46.07 1
Democrats of the Left 231,496 26.22 9
Communist Refoundation Party 57,619 6.53 2
Italian People's PartyUDEUR 37,351 4.23 1
The Democrats 25,285 2.86 1
Federation of the Greens 18,541 2.10 1
Italian Democratic SocialistsItalian Republican Party 17,284 1.96 1
Party of Italian Communists 16,507 1.87
For Italy 2,806 0.32
Total 406,889 46.09 15
Mario Tarantino 24,168 2.58 Bonino List 20,962 2.37
Irene Menghini 6,028 0.64 Humanist Party 3,473 0.39
Total candidates 937,247 100.00 9 Total parties 882,824 100.00 31
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections

References

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  1. ^ The swing comes from the combined result of Pole for Freedoms (38.0%) and Northern League (6.5%) in the 1995 regional election.
  2. ^ The swing comes from the combined result of The Olive Tree (42.4%) and PRC (8.6%) in the 1995 regional election.