2014 Emilia-Romagna regional election

The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 2014 took place on 23 November 2014.

2014 Emilia-Romagna regional election

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All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna
Turnout37.7%[1]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Stefano Bonaccini Alan Fabbri
Party Democratic Party Northern League
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
Seats won 32 12
Seat change Steady Decrease3
Popular vote 615,723 374,736
Percentage 49.1 29.8
Swing Decrease3.0% Decrease6.9%

Seat totals by Province. As this is a PR election, seat totals are determined by popular vote in each province.

President before election

Vasco Errani
Democratic Party

President

Stefano Bonaccini
Democratic Party

The three-term incumbent President of the Region, Vasco Errani of the centre-left Democratic Party resigned in July 2014 after the conviction for fraudulent misrepresentation,[2] triggering a snap election.

In an election marked by the lowest turnout ever in the Region (37.7%), Stefano Bonaccini, a Democrat, was elected President by defeating several candidates, mainly Alan Fabbri of the Northern League (29.9%) and Giulia Gibertoni of the Five Star Movement (13.3%).

Electoral system edit

In Emilia-Romagna, a new electoral law was approved by the Legislative Assembly in July 2014, abolishing the blocked list. The first elections regulated by this law were the regional elections of 2014.

The voter can express one or two preference votes for the candidates on the chosen list; in the case of the expression of two preferences, these must concern candidates of different sex according to "gender preference" (under penalty of annulment of the second preference). As regards the election of the councilors, the law guarantees in any case at least 27 seats on the lists that support the elected president (majority prize), obtaining effects that are very similar to those of the list but acting on the provincial lists. The first 40 seats are distributed on a proportional basis. A seat is then attributed to the candidate for president who came second. The remaining 9 seats are assigned by majority method to the lists that support the elected president if these lists have obtained less than 25 seats with the previous procedure, otherwise the "prize" will be only 4 seats. If, at the end of these assignments, the majority lists have not obtained at least 27 seats, these will be guaranteed by removing some of the seats already assigned to the opposition lists.

Parties and leaders edit

Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party 40.6 18 Stefano Bonaccini
Left Ecology Freedom 1.8 1
Civic Emilia-Romagna (incl. PSI, Greens and SC)
Democratic CentreDemoS (incl. IdV)
Centre-right coalition Forza Italia 24.6 10 Alan Fabbri
Northern League Emilia-Romagna (incl. LNE+LNR) 13.7 4
Brothers of Italy
Five Star Movement 6.0 2 Giulia Gibertoni
The Other Emilia-Romagna (incl. PRC and PdCI) 2.8 1 Maria Cristina Quintavalla
Popular Emilia-Romagna (incl. NCD and UDC) Alessandro Rondoni

Results edit

 
Results by municipality
23 November 2014 Emilia-Romagna regional election results
 
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seats
Stefano Bonaccini 615,723 49.05 1
Democratic Party 535,109 44.52 29
Left Ecology Freedom 38,845 3.23 2
Civic Emilia-Romagna 17,984 1.49
Democratic CentreSolidary Democracy 5,247 0.43
Total 597,185 49.69 31
Alan Fabbri 374,736 29.85 1
Northern League Emilia-Romagna 233,439 19.42 8
Forza Italia 100,478 8.36 2
Brothers of Italy 23,052 1.91 1
Total 356,969 29.70 11
Giulia Gibertoni 167,022 13.31 Five Star Movement 159,456 13.26 5
Maria Cristina Quintavalla 50,211 4.00 The Other Emilia-Romagna 44,676 3.71 1
Alessandro Rondoni 33,437 2.66 Popular Emilia-Romagna 31,635 2.63
Maurizio Mazzanti 14,129 1.13 Free Citizens for Emilia-Romagna 11,864 0.98
Total candidates 1,255,258 100.00 2 Total parties 1,201,785 100.00 48
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections
Popular vote
PD
44.52%
LN
19.42%
M5S
13.26%
FI
8.36%
PRCPdCI
3.71%
SEL
3.23%
ERP
2.63%
Others
4.81%
President
Bonaccini
49.05%
Fabbri
29.85%
Gibertoni
13.30%
Quintavalla
4.00%
Rondoni
2.66%
Mazzanti
1.12%
Seats summary
CSX
64.00%
CDX
24.00%
M5S
10.00%
LER
2.00%

References edit

  1. ^ "In Emilia-Romagna Pd primo partito, Salvini insegue, crollo dei Cinque Stelle". 27 January 2020.
  2. ^ Errani condannato a un anno per falso, il presidente della Regione si dimette