Lega Nord Emilia (North League Emilia) is a regionalist political party in Italy active in the Emilian part of Emilia-Romagna. It is one of the 13 "national" sections forming Lega Nord.
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The party was founded in 1989 by Giorgio Conca, a leading member of Lega Lombarda at the time, and Carla Uccelli, as Emilian-Romagna League (Lega Emiliano-Romagnola, thus comprising also Romagna). Soon after the party was joined by Fabio Dosi, who was elected secretary.
The party participated to the 1989 European Parliament election as part of the coalition Lega Lombarda – Alleanza Nord. In 1989–1990 it took part in the process of federating the Northern regionalist parties, ahead of the regional elections, taking the current name. Since then it is one of the two regional sections of Lega Nord in Emilia-Romagna, the other being Lega Nord Romagna.
The current national secretary is Angelo Alessandri, who is also federal president of Lega Nord. In the 2008 general election the party elected four deputies (including Alessandri himself and Gianluca Pini, leader of Lega Nord Romagna) and two senators (including the leader of Extreme South and Deputy-Mayor of Lampedusa Angela Maraventano). It controls also four seats in the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna.
Lega Nord is much stronger in Emilian provinces than in Romagna: in the 2010 regional election it won 22.0% in Piacenza, 17.8% in Parma, 14.6% in Reggio Emilia, 15.5% in Modena, 9.6% in Bologna and 13.7% in Ferrara.
The combined electoral results of Lega Nord Emilia and Lega Nord Romagna in Emilia-Romagna are shown in the table below.
| 1990 regional | 1992 general | 1994 general | 1995 regional | 1996 general | 1999 European | 2000 regional | 2001 general | 2004 European | 2005 regional | 2006 general | 2008 general | 2009 European | 2010 regional |
| 2.9 | 9.6 | 6.4 | 3.4 | 7.2 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 7.8 | 11.1 | 13.7 |
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