Lega Nord Toscana (North League Tuscany, LNT) is a regionalist political party in Italy which is the regional section of Lega Nord in Tuscany.
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The party was founded in 1987 as Movement for Tuscany (Movimento per la Toscana, MpT). In 1988, under the leadership of Tommaso Fragassi, the party changed name into Tuscan Alliance (Alleanza Toscana, AT).
AT 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. In February 1991 it merged into Lega Nord, taking the current name, and since then it is the regional section of that party in Tuscany.[1]
The party was led by federal commissioner Luca Rodolfo Paolini, national secretary of Lega Nord Marche, from 2006 to 2008, when Claudio Morganti was elected national secretary. In the 2008 general election the party elected a deputy, Paolini himself, after almost ten years of no representation in the Italian Parliament. In the 2009 European Parliament election Morganti was elected MEP.[2] 2010 was a much more historic year for the party, that entered for the first time the Regional Council of Tuscany with four councillors.
In September 2011, Morganti resigned from national secretary and was temporarily replaced by federal commissioner Giovanni Fava.[3][4]
Lega Nord is not particularly strong in Tuscany, but in the 2010 regional election it gained its best result ever (6.5%). The party was particularly strong, by Tuscan standards, in the Provinces of Prato (9.8%), Lucca (8.5%), Arezzo (8.3%), Pistoia (7.4%) and Massa-Carrara (6.7%), while gaining less in the Province of Florence (5.1%), in the coastal and southern parts of the region.
The electoral results of Lega Nord Toscana in the Region 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 |
| 0.8 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 6.5 |
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