2006 Milan municipal election

2006 Milan municipal election
	28–29 May 2006
Turnout	67.5% 14.8 pp
	Mayoral election
Mayor before election; Gabriele Albertini; FI	Elected Mayor ; Letizia Moratti; FI
	City Council election
	All 60 seats in City Council; 31 seats needed for a majority

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.

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

Centre-left primary election

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 (%)
	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

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

This is a list of the major parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.

		Candidate
Centre-left coalition (The Union)	The Olive Tree	Bruno Ferrante
	Communist Refoundation Party
	Party of Italian Communists
	Rose in the Fist
	Federation of the Greens
	Italy of Values
Centre-right coalition (House of Freedoms)	Forza Italia	Letizia Moratti
	National Alliance
	Northern League
	Union of Christian and Centre Democrats

Results

Summary of the 2006 Milan City Council and Mayoral election results
Candidates		Votes	%	Leader's seat		Votes	%	Seats

	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	Y	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

"Milano, la Moratti è sindaco dopo lo scrutinio nella notte" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 29 May 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
"Primarie Milano, vince Ferrante" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 29 January 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2021.

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[Moratti-1] "Milano, la Moratti è sindaco dopo lo scrutinio nella notte" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 29 May 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2021.

[Primarie-2] "Primarie Milano, vince Ferrante" (in Italian). la Repubblica. 29 January 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2021.