2006 Milan municipal election

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.

2006 Milan municipal election

28–29 May 2006
Turnout67.5% Decrease 14.8 pp
Mayoral election
 
Candidate Letizia Moratti Bruno Ferrante
Party Forza Italia Independent
Alliance Centre-right Centre-left
Popular vote 353,410 319,487
Percentage 51.9% 46.9%

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
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Centre-right Letizia Moratti 54.28 36 0
Centre-left Bruno Ferrante 44.65 23 +4

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.

Political party or alliance Constituent lists 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
Parties 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 checkY 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

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