2017 Italian local elections

The 2017 Italian local elections were held on Sunday 11 June. If necessary, a run-off vote was held on Sunday 25 June.[1] The term of mayors and councils will last five years, unless an early election is triggered.[2]

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In the autonomous regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Aosta Valley the elections will be held on 7 May.[3][4]

The elections were characterized by a good performance of the centre-right coalition and many losses for the centre-left coalition, which however won in the majority of municipalities with more than 15,000 inhabitants, but lost in the most important cities like Genoa, L'Aquila and Parma;[5] while the Five Star Movement was excluded from the runoffs in all the most important cities.[6][7][8]

Voting system

Every municipality with more than 15,000 inhabitants elects its mayor and city council with the same system.

Voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for one of the parties of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round two weeks later. The coalition of the elected mayor is guaranteed a majority of seats in the council with the attribution of extra seats. If the Mayor resigns, dies, lose a motion of confidence, or a majority of the municipal councillors step down at the same time, an early election (for the Mayor and for all municipal councillors) is called.

The City Council is elected at the same time as the mayor. Voters can vote for a list of candidates and can express up to two preferences for candidates of said list, provided they are selecting candidates of both genders. Seats are then attributed to parties proportionally, and for each party the candidates with the highest number of preferences are elected.

The municipalities with a population of less than 15,000 elect their mayors with a plurality system. A mayoral candidate can be supported by only one list, and the list of the elected mayor gets a two-thirds majority of seats. Voters can express up to two preferences for candidates of the chosen list, provided they are selecting candidates of both genders. Seats are then attributed to the candidates with the highest number of preferences.

Results

Overall results

Majority of each coalition in 161 municipalities (comuni) with a population higher than 15,000:[9]

CoalitionComuni
Centre-left coalition67
Centre-right coalition59
Civic lists20
Five Star Movement8
Left-wing coalition2

Notes: almost all political parties and coalitions in local (municipal and regional) elections usually run with the support of some minor allied list active in local politics forming coalitions under the same nominee as the mayoral candidate, only M5S ran in all elections with a single list (that is the list of M5S under the M5S nominee as the mayoral candidate without forming coalitions with minor local lists or other national parties).

By party

Party votes in the main municipalities:[10]

Party %
Democratic Party 15.6%
Five Star Movement 8.7%
Forza Italia 6.8%
Northern League 6.7%
Italian Left 6.5%
Brothers of Italy 2.5%
By coalition

Coalition votes in the main municipalities:

Coalition %
Centre-left coalition 37.2%
Centre-right coalition 34.4%
Five Star Movement 9.4%
Left-wing coalition 7.0%

Mayoral election results
  Centre-left coalition
  Centre-right coalition
  Five Star Movement
  Civic lists
  Centrist coalition
  Left-wing coalition
  Prefectural commissioner
Region City Population Incumbent mayor Elected mayor 1st round 2nd round Seats Source
Votes  % Votes  %
Piedmont Alessandria 93,894 Maria Rita Rossa (PD) Gianfranco Cuttica di Revigliasco (LN) 12,144 30.25% 18,762 55.68%
20 / 32
Asti 76,048 Fabrizio Brignolo (PD) Maurizio Rasero (FI) 15,868 47.62% 13,218 54.90%
20 / 32
Cuneo 56,051 Federico Borgna (Ind.) Federico Borgna (Ind.) 15,400 59.65% — —
21 / 32
Lombardy Como 84,495 Mario Lucini (PD) Mario Landriscina (Ind.) 11,826 34.77% 13,045 52.68%
20 / 32
Lodi 44,945 Mariano Savastano[11] Sara Casanova (LN) 5,523 27.32% 9,859 56.90%
19 / 32
Monza 122,849 Roberto Scanagatti (PD) Dario Allevi (FI) 19,344 39.84% 21,869 51.33%
20 / 32
Veneto Belluno 35,870 Jacopo Massaro (Ind.) Jacopo Massaro (Ind.) 7,555 46.19% 8,511 63.15%
20 / 32
Padua 211,215 Paolo De Biagi[12] Sergio Giordani (PD) 28,593 29.20% 47,888 51.84%
19 / 32
Verona 258,274 Flavio Tosi (F!) Federico Sboarina (Ind.) 33,440 29.13% 46,962 58.11%
22 / 36
Friuli-Venezia Giulia Gorizia 34,844 Ettore Romoli (FI) Rodolfo Ziberna (FI) 8,543 49.88% 7,774 59.79%
24 / 40
Liguria Genoa 585,407 Marco Doria (Ind.) Marco Bucci (Ind.) 88,781 38.80% 112,398 55.24%
24 / 40
La Spezia 116,456 Massimo Federici (PD) Pierluigi Peracchini (Ind.) 13,187 32.61% 20,636 59.98%
19 / 32
Emilia-Romagna Parma 194,001 Federico Pizzarotti (M5S) Federico Pizzarotti (Ind.) 26,496 34.78% 37,157 57.87%
20 / 32
Piacenza 102,191 Paolo Dosi (PD) Patrizia Barbieri (Ind.) 14,625 34.78% 20,500 58.54%
20 / 32
Tuscany Lucca 89,781 Alessandro Tambellini (PD) Alessandro Tambellini (PD) 13,922 37.48% 17,453 50.52%
20 / 32
Pistoia 90,315 Samuele Bertinelli (PD) Alessandro Tomasi (FdI) 10,435 26.68% 19,049 54.28%
20 / 32
Lazio Frosinone 46,323 Nicola Ottaviani (FI) Nicola Ottaviani (FI) 15,038 56.38% — —
20 / 32
Rieti 47,698 Simone Petrangeli (SEL) Antonio Cicchetti (FI) 13,138 47.29% 12,660 50.20%
20 / 32
Abruzzo L'Aquila 69,627 Massimo Cialente (PD) Pierluigi Biondi (FdI) 14,142 35.84% 16,410 53.52%
20 / 32
Apulia Lecce 94,916 Paolo Perrone (CoR) Carlo Salvemini (Ind.) 15,243 28.90% 22,050 54.76%
14 / 32
Taranto 200,461 Ippazio Stefano (SEL) Rinaldo Melucci (PD) 16,799 17.92% 26,913 50.91%
20 / 32
Calabria Catanzaro 90,612 Sergio Abramo (FI) Sergio Abramo (FI) 21,055 39.72% 21,963 64.39%
20 / 32
Sicily Palermo 671,696 Leoluca Orlando (Ind.) Leoluca Orlando (Ind.) 125,913 46.28% — —
24 / 40
Trapani 68,759 Vito Damiano (Ind.) Francesco Messineo[13] — — — — —
Sardinia Oristano 31,630 Guido Tendas (PD) Andrea Lutzu (FI) 4,955 29.60% 7,822 65.29%
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  11. Prefectural commissioner replacing mayor Simone Uggetti (PD) since 22 August 2016.
  12. Prefectural commissioner replacing mayor Massimo Bitonci (LN) since February 2017
  13. The centre-right candidate withdrawn from the second round because he was under investigation for corruption. However to be elected, the centre-left candidate needed at least a 50% of the turnout, but only 26.75% of the electors voted, so a Prefectural commissioner was appointed.
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