2014 Piedmontese regional election
The 2014 Piedmontese regional election took place on 25 May 2014.
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All 51 seats to the Regional Council of Piedmont | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 66.44% ( 2.11%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Electoral system edit
Regional elections in Piedmont were ruled by the Tatarella law, which was approved in 1995 and 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 quota among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian representation system, in which 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 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.
Background edit
A snap election, it was prompted by the dissolution of the Regional Council of Piedmont by the Regional Administrative Tribunal on the grounds that one of the lists supporting Roberto Cota (Northern League) in the 2010 Piedmontese regional election in which Cota narrowly defeated Mercedes Bresso, the incumbent president for the Democratic Party (PD), had committed irregularities in filing the slates for the election.[1]
In 2014, Cota chose not to stand again for president and the parties composing his coalition failed to agree on a single candidate,[2] resulting in a landslide victory for Sergio Chiamparino, a member of the PD who had been mayor of Turin from 2001 to 2011.[3]
Parties and candidates edit
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| Centre-right coalition | Forza Italia | 25.0 | 13 | Gilberto Pichetto Fratin | ||
| Northern League Piedmont | 16.7 | 9 | ||||
| Greens Greens | 1.8 | 1 | ||||
| Pensioners' Party | 1.5 | 1 | ||||
| United Right (incl. LD, FLI, DS) | 0.7 | – | ||||
| Civic List for Piedmont | — | — | ||||
| Great South | — | — | ||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | 23.2 | 12 | Sergio Chiamparino | ||
| Italy of Values | 6.9 | 3 | ||||
| Moderates | 3.1 | 1 | ||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 1.4 | 1 | ||||
| Chiamparino for President | — | — | ||||
| Civic Choice | — | — | ||||
| Five Star Movement | 3.7 | 2 | Davide Bono | |||
| Brothers of Italy | — | — | Guido Crosetto | |||
| New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre | — | — | Enrico Costa | |||
| The Other Piedmont to the Left (incl. PRC, SA, AC) | — | — | Mauro Filingeri | |||
Results edit
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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| Sergio Chiamparino | 1,057,031 | 47.09 | 11 | ||||||
| Democratic Party | 704,541 | 36.17 | 17 | ||||||
| Chiamparino for President | 94,615 | 4.85 | 2 | ||||||
| Moderates | 47,901 | 2.45 | 1 | ||||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 40,873 | 2.09 | 1 | ||||||
| Civic Choice | 29,313 | 1.50 | 1 | ||||||
| Italy of Values | 13,658 | 0.70 | – | ||||||
| Total | 930,901 | 47.79 | 22 | ||||||
| Gilberto Pichetto Fratin |
495,993 | 22.09 | 1 | ||||||
| Forza Italia | 302,743 | 15.57 | 6 | ||||||
| Northern League Piedmont | 141,741 | 7.27 | 2 | ||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 13,837 | 0.71 | – | ||||||
| Civic List for Piedmont | 8,853 | 0.45 | – | ||||||
| Greens Greens | 5,435 | 0.27 | – | ||||||
| United Right | 5,004 | 0.25 | – | ||||||
| Great South | 1,676 | 0.08 | – | ||||||
| Total | 479,289 | 24.61 | 8 | ||||||
| Davide Bono | 481,453 | 21.45 | – | Five Star Movement | 396,295 | 20.34 | 8 | ||
| Guido Crosetto | 117,807 | 5.24 | – | Brothers of Italy | 72,776 | 3.73 | 1 | ||
| Enrico Costa | 67,025 | 2.98 | – | New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre | 49,059 | 2.51 | – | ||
| Mauro Filingeri | 25,193 | 1.12 | – | The Other Piedmont to the Left | 19,467 | 0.99 | – | ||
| Total candidates | 2,244,502 | 100.00 | 12 | Total parties | 1,947,787 | 100.00 | 39 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | |||||||||
References edit
- ^ "La Cassazione conferma l'annullamento delle elezioni regionali del 2010 - Repubblica.it". Torino.repubblica.it. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ Altri articoli dalla categoria (13 May 2014). "Piemonte, il centrodestra diviso per tre spiana la strada a Chiamparino - Repubblica.it". Torino.repubblica.it. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "[Scrutini] Regionali - Elezioni del 31 maggio 2015 - Ministero dell'Interno". Elezioni.interno.it. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2016.