2008 Italian Senate election, North and Central American division

• Basilio Giordano is a publisher and former municipal politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Augusto Sorriso is a former mayor of Licata, Sicily, who subsequently became an entrepreneur based in New Jersey. He had previously sought election to the Italian Senate in 2006.

• Renato Turano is an entrepreneur in Chicago. He served in the Italian Senate from 2006 to 2008.
• Marina Piazzi was born in Bologna on April 10, 1954, and moved to Mexico in 1976. She has taught Italian as a second language at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Mexico City and worked in the Italian department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Piazzi has been active for many years with the General Council for Italians Abroad and other Italian community organizations.[1]

• Massimo Seracini (June 7, 1943 – January 16, 2009) was born in Florence and received an economics degree from the University of Florence in 1962. He moved to the United States of America in the 1960s and worked in real estate in California.[2] After his marriage failed, he returned to Florence and opened a bistro. He lived for extended periods in both countries during the last decades of his life and became a fixture of the Italian community in San Diego. Seracini had previously campaigned for an overseas seat in the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 general election as a candidate of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats. A newspaper report from 2006 described him as "vague on details about his platform" but eager to serve Italians living in the diaspora.[3] He died in San Diego in 2009, after a two-year battle with cancer.[4]
• Vittorio Coco is a broadcaster in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He had previously sought election to the Italian Senate in 2006.

• Giuseppe (Joseph) P. Cirnigliaro was born on November 10, 1954, in Militello in Val di Catania, Sicily.[5] He ran for the New York State Senate's 19th district in 1988 as a Republican.[6] During the 2008 campaign, he argued that Italy should adopt a strong presidential model of government akin to that of the United States of America.[7]
• Franco Misuraca was born on June 10, 1943, in Aprigliano, Calabria, and later moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[8] He is a longtime supporter of the right-wing Italian Social Movement. In 2008, he centered his campaign around the slogan, "God, country, and family."[9]

Note: The country-by-country totals provided by the Italian Ministry of the Interior do not entirely correspond with the final totals provided by the same source. Adding up the country-by-country totals yields the following results: People of Freedom 37,774; Democratic Party 36,734; Union of the Centre 7,087; The Right–Tricolour Flame 2,126. These results are the same as the provisional totals provided by La Repubblica with 120 out of 123 polling districts reporting. It is therefore assumed that the country-by-country totals represent the provisional and not the final totals.