2000 Piedmontese regional election
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All 60 seats to the Regional Council of Piedmont |
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Piedmontese regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.
Enzo Ghigo (Forza Italia) was re-elected for the second time in a row President, defeating Livia Turco (Democrats of the Left). His re-election resulted in a landslide, as this time he was supported also by the Northern League.
Forza Italia was confirmed as the largest party in the region with an historic 30.8% of the vote, while the Democrats of the left 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" (approved in 1995), which 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 method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: 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, however, 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 | N/A | N/A | ||||
Party of Italian Communists | N/A | N/A | ||||
Italian Democratic Socialists | N/A | N/A | ||||
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 | N/A | N/A | ||||
Others | N/A | N/A | ||||
Bonino List | 1.6 | – | Emma Bonino |
Results
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.