Italian regional elections, 2005

Italian regional elections, 2005

April 3-4, 2005

Presidents and regional assemblies of Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Marche, Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria

Elected Presidents:   The House of Freedoms   The Union

The Italian regional elections of 3–4 April 2005 were a major victory (11-2) for the centre-left The Union coalition, led by Romano Prodi. The centre-right coalition, governing in the national government, was defeated in all the regions it held, except for its strongholds in Lombardy and Veneto, whose population is anyway a fourth of Italian population. The elections resulted in the national government, led by Silvio Berlusconi, to acknowledge defeat and open a crisis, which resulted in the formation of Berlusconi III Cabinet, with some ministers being substituted.

Due to a series of bureaucratic issues involving the presentation of the list of Social Alternative in Basilicata, the election there would have been held two weeks later. There, the victory of the centre-left coalition brought the tally to 12-2.

The fact that the centre-left was particularly strong in small regions led to the even result of the 2006 general election.

Summary of results

Note: The Communist Refoundation Party presented its own candidate in Tuscany, even though it is full member of left-wing coalition The Union, as well as what New Italian Socialist Party, member of right-wing House of Freedoms, did in Umbria.

Results by region

• Abruzzo regional election, 2005
• Apulian regional election, 2005
• Basilicata regional election, 2005
• Calabrian regional election, 2005
• Campania regional election, 2005
• Emilia-Romagna regional election, 2005
• Lazio regional election, 2005
• Ligurian regional election, 2005
• Lombard regional election, 2005
• Piedmontese regional election, 2005
• Marche regional election, 2005
• Tuscan regional election, 2005
• Umbrian regional election, 2005
• Venetian regional election, 2005

External links

• Ministry of the Interior – Electoral Archive

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