Italian Senate election in Lombardy, 2001

Italian Senate election in Lombardy, 2001

1996 ←
May 13, 2001
→ 2006

All 47 Lombard seats in the Italian Senate
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Silvio Berlusconi Francesco Rutelli
Party FI The Daisy
Alliance House of Freedoms The Olive Tree
Last election 27 seats, 57.2%
as Pole and League
19 seats, 34.2%
Seats won 33 11
Seat change +6 -7
Popular vote 2,557,622 1,924,113
Percentage 44.8% 33.7%
Swing -12.4% -0.5%

Majority before election

House of Freedoms

New Majority

House of Freedoms

Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on May 13, 2001. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2001 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

The election was won by the centre-right coalition called House of Freedoms, as it happened at the national level. The House was a new alliance formed for Lombard regional election of 2000 between political giants Pole of Freedoms and Northern League. All provinces gave a majority or a plurality to the new Italian Prime Minister.

Contents

Background

Silvio Berlusconi was the largely predicted winner of this election. He had a complete victory during the 1999 European election and, more, he strengthened his position with the alliance between his Pole of Freedoms and his former rivals of Umberto Bossi's Northern League, forming the House of Freedoms for the 2000 regional election which gave him a landslide. In this context, the majoritarian system was ensuring him a literal triumph in Lombardy.

On the other side, The Olive Tree was coming from five years of troubled government, with three different Prime Ministers, and divisions between member parties obliged to give a nomination to a fourth man, Francesco Rutelli.

Electoral system

The intricate electoral system introduced in 1993, called Mattarella Law, provided 75% of the seats in the Senate as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned by a special proportional method that actually assigned the remaining seats to minority parties.

Formally this was an example of Additional member system.

Results

e • d 
Coalitions votes votes (%) seats Parties seats change
House of Freedoms 2,557,622 44.8 33 Forza Italia 15 +5
Lega Nord 9 -2
National Alliance 7 +2
Union of Christian Democrats 1 +1
Italian Republican Party 1 =
The Olive Tree 1,924,113 33.7 11 Democrats of the Left 4 -8
The Daisy 4 -1
Federation of the Greens 2 =
Party of Italian Communists 1 +1
Autonomous Lombard Alliance 308,559 5.4 1 Autonomous Lombardy Alliance 1 +1
Communist Refoundation Party 279,152 4.9 1 Communist Refoundation Party 1 =
Italy of Values 180,828 3.2 1 Italy of Values 1 +1
Others 459,023 8.0 - Others - -
Total coalitions 5,709,297 100.0 47 Total parties 47 =

Sources: Ministry of the Interior, Italian Senate

Constituencies

e • d 
Constituency Winner Alliance Party Votes % Losers
1 Milan Central Marcello Dell'Utri Forza Italia 46.1% A. Onofrio (Olive) 30.1%
2 Milan East Gianpiero Cantoni Forza Italia 49.2% G. Malagoli (Olive) 33.9%
3 Milan West Riccardo De Corato National Alliance 51.2% F. Besostri (Olive) 33.2%
4 Milan South Raffaele Iannuzzi Forza Italia 46.3% A. Duva (Olive) 34.0%
5 Milan North Sergio Travaglia Forza Italia 44.0% Gianfranco Pagliarulo (Olive) 35.9%
Luigi Malabarba (PRC) 6.8%
6 Sesto San Giovanni Antonio Del Pennino Italian Republican Party 42.9% Antonio Pizzinato (Olive) 38.7%
7 Lodi Romano Comincioli Forza Italia 43.5% Gianni Piatti (Olive) 36.2%
8 Rozzano Antonino Caruso National Alliance 46.2% Ornella Piloni (Olive) 36.0%
9 Abbiategrasso Francesco Servello National Alliance 46.4% G. Mainini (Olive) 33.0%
10 Rho Giuseppe Valditara National Alliance 44.2% Roberto Biscardini (Olive) 35.3%
11 Bollate Cesarino Monti Northern League 44.5% A. Pollio (Olive) 35.3%
12 Cinisello Balsamo Alberto Zorzoli Forza Italia 41.5% Patrizia Toia (Olive) 40.6%
13 Seregno Enrico Rizzi Forza Italia 49.4% L. Mariani (Olive) 29.6%
14 Monza Alfredo Mantica National Alliance 46.1% Emanuela Baio (Olive) 35.4%
15 Melzo Luigi Scotti Forza Italia 41.5% Loris Maconi (Olive) 38.4%
16 Cologno Monzese Enrico Pianetta Forza Italia 44.8% Natale Ripamonti (Olive) 36.4%
17 Varese Piero Pellicini National Alliance 45.8% M. Marzaro (Olive) 31.1%
18 Gallarate Luigi Peruzzotti Northern League 46.9% M. Ampollini (Olive) 30.4%
19 Busto Arsizio Antonio Tomassini Forza Italia 46.6% G. Canziani (Olive) 29.7%
20 Como Celestino Pedrazzini Northern League 48.4% A. Rinaldi (Olive) 29.5%
21 Cantù Graziano Maffioli Union of Christian Democrats 45.7% G. Ballabio (Olive) 31.0%
22 Brescia Paolo Guzzanti Forza Italia 42.8% Pierluigi Petrini (Olive) 37.0%
23 Lumezzane Guglielmo Castagnetti Forza Italia 41.8% A. Bonomelli (Olive) 33.6%
24 Desenzano del Garda Francesco Tirelli Northern League 44.8% A. Zanelli (Olive) 32.5%
25 Chiari Sergio Agoni Northern League 45.7% D. Buizza (Olive) 30.6%
26 Suzzara Franco Danieli The Daisy 38.6% M. Pini (House) 37.5%
27 Mantova Anna Donati Federation of the Greens 42.1% F. Scopelliti (House) 38.3%
28 Cremona Lamberto Grillotti National Alliance 41.8% A. Rescaglio (Olive) 35.0%
29 Pavia Luigi Fabbri Forza Italia 44.8% T. Montagna (Olive) 34.9%
30 Vigevano Domenico Contestabile Forza Italia 47.4% M. Donato (Olive) 32.2%
31 Bergamo Vittorio Pessina Forza Italia 40.8% G. Zilio (Olive) 33.7%
32 Albino Roberto Calderoli Northern League 44.2% D. Carminati (Olive) 28.8%
Elidio De Paoli (Alliance) 11.5%
Valerio Carrara (Italy of Values) 4.7%
33 Treviglio Ettore Pirovano Northern League 43.6% C. Bonfichi (Olive) 28.4%
34 Sondrio Fiorello Provera Northern League 52.1% E. Dioli (Olive) 28.0%
35 Lecco Roberto Castelli Northern League 41.7% I. Bruseghini (Olive) 35.2%

Additional senators

  1. Patrizia Toia (The Daisy, 40.6%)[1]
  2. Antonio Pizzinato (Democrats of the Left, 38.7%)
  3. Loris Maconi (Democrats of the Left, 38.4%)
  4. Pierluigi Petrini (The Daisy, 37.0%)
  5. Natale Ripamonti (Federation of the Greens, 36.4%)
  6. Gianni Piatti (Democrats of the Left, 36.2%)
  7. Ornella Piloni (Democrats of the Left, 36.0%)
  8. Gianfranco Pagliarulo (Party of Italian Communists, 35.9%)
  9. Emanuela Baio (The Daisy, 35.4%)
  1. Elidio De Paoli (Autonomous Lombard Alliance, 11.5%)
  1. Luigi Malabarba (Communist Refoundation Party, 6.8%)
  1. Valerio Carrara (Italy of Values, 4.7%)

Notes

  1. ^ She resigned in 2004 when she became MEP. She was then substituted by Roberto Biscardini (SDI).

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