2000 Piedmontese regional election
The 2000 Piedmontese regional election took place on 16 April 2000. Enzo Ghigo of Forza Italia (FI) was re-elected for the second time in a row as the president of Piedmont, defeating Livia Turco of the Democrats of the Left (DS). His re-election resulted in a landslide, as this time he was also supported also by Lega Nord (Northern League).
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| Turnout | 71.96% ( 11.02%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FI was confirmed as the largest party in the region with an historic 30.8% of the vote, while the DS were the second largest party with 17.7%. Piedmont was confirmed as a stronghold of Bonino List, whose leader Emma Bonino was candidate for president and took 5.7% of the vote.
Electoral system
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.
Parties and candidates
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| The Olive Tree | Democrats of the Left | 21.7 | 11 | Livia Turco | ||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 9.3 | 4 | ||||
| Italian People's Party – UDEUR – Italian Renewal | 6.2 | 3 | ||||
| Federation of the Greens | 2.7 | 1 | ||||
| Pensioners' Party | 1.6 | 1 | ||||
| The Democrats | — | — | ||||
| Party of Italian Communists | — | — | ||||
| Italian Democratic Socialists | — | — | ||||
| Pole for Freedoms | Forza Italia | 26.7 | 14 | Enzo Ghigo | ||
| National Alliance | 11.2 | 6 | ||||
| Northern League Piedmont | 9.9 | 5 | ||||
| Christian Democratic Centre | 3.0 | 1 | ||||
| United Christian Democrats | — | — | ||||
| Others | — | — | ||||
| Bonino List | 1.6 | – | Emma Bonino | |||
Results
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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| Enzo Ghigo | 1,249,840 | 51.78 | 12 | ||||||
| Forza Italia | 626,907 | 30.78 | 17 | ||||||
| National Alliance | 241,864 | 11.88 | 6 | ||||||
| Northern League Piedmont | 153,935 | 7.56 | 3 | ||||||
| United Christian Democrats | 48,707 | 2.39 | 1 | ||||||
| Christian Democratic Centre | 43,827 | 2.15 | 1 | ||||||
| Socialist Party | 16,283 | 0.80 | – | ||||||
| The Liberals Sgarbi | 5,725 | 0.28 | – | ||||||
| Christian Democratic Party | 2,139 | 0.11 | – | ||||||
| Total | 1,139,387 | 55.95 | 28 | ||||||
| Livia Turco | 953,163 | 39.49 | 1 | ||||||
| Democrats of the Left | 360,826 | 17.72 | 9 | ||||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 112,489 | 5.52 | 2 | ||||||
| The Democrats | 86,349 | 4.24 | 2 | ||||||
| Italian People's Party–UDEUR–Italian Renewal | 74,888 | 3.68 | 1 | ||||||
| Party of Italian Communists | 41,930 | 2.06 | 1 | ||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 41,853 | 2.06 | 1 | ||||||
| Italian Democratic Socialists | 36,788 | 1.81 | 1 | ||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 15,964 | 0.78 | – | ||||||
| Total | 771,087 | 37.87 | 17 | ||||||
| Emma Bonino | 138,632 | 5.74 | – | Bonino List | 90,796 | 4.46 | 2 | ||
| Alessandra Calvo | 62,288 | 2.58 | – | ||||||
| Autonomists for Europe | 26,639 | 1.31 | – | ||||||
| Greens Greens | 8,498 | 0.42 | – | ||||||
| Total | 35,137 | 1.73 | – | ||||||
| Antonio Tevere | 9,624 | 0.40 | – | Humanist Party | – | – | – | ||
| Total candidates | 2,413,547 | 100.00 | 13 | Total parties | 2,036,407 | 100.00 | 47 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | |||||||||
References
- The swing comes from the combined result of the Pole of Freedoms (39.7%) and Lega Nord (11.1%) in the 1995 regional election.