Lombard regional election, 2013
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The Lombard regional election of 2013 took place on February 24 and 25, 2013 and was the first snap election in Lombard political history, and the first one paired with a senatorial election. The 10th term of the Regional Council was chosen.
Electoral law
Lombardy used for the first time its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national Tatarella Law of 1995. The new electoral law was adopted before the resignation of 74 members of the Council on October 26, 2012.[1] While the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councillors, instead of 64 as it was before, are elected by party lists under a form of semi-proportional representation. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the D'Hondt method, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its provincial lists, where candidates are openly selected.
Campaign
Center-left primary election, 2012
On December 15, 2012, took place the center-left primary election to decide the official candidate of the coalition in the election. There were three candidates: Umberto Ambrosoli, son of Giorgio killed in 1979, Alessandra Kustermann and Andrea Di Stefano. Umberto Ambrosoli received the 57% of the votes and became the center-left official candidate for the regional election.[2]
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Umberto Ambrosoli | 86,732 | 57.66 |
| Andrea Di Stefano | 34,946 | 23.23 |
| Alessandra Kustermann | 28,744 | 19.11 |
| Total | 150,604 | 100.00 |
Candidates for President
- Roberto Maroni, Lega Nord, former minister of Interior
- Umberto Ambrosoli, independent of the Democratic Party, attorney
- Gabriele Albertini, Civic Choice, MEP and former mayor of Milan
- Silvana Carcano, Five Star Movement
- Carlo Maria Pinardi, Act to Stop the Decline
Opinion polls
This is a list of opinion polls taken from January 2012. The data are expressed in %.
By party or joint electoral list
The following table shows opinion polls broken down by individual party, providing insight into the intra-coalition balance of power.
| Institute |
Release date | Italy. Common Good (Umberto Ambrosoli) |
With Monti for Italy (Gabriele Albertini) |
Centre-right (Roberto Maroni) |
Oth. | U/A | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M5S | RC | SEL | PD | PSI | CD | SC | UdC | FLI | Rd | FiD | LN | PdL | FdI | LD | ||||
| Election[3] | 28 March 2010 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 22.9 | 0.3 | – | – | 3.8 | – | – | – | 26.2 | 31.8 | – | 0.2 | 8.2 | |
| Tecnè | 6 February 2013 | 10.2 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 28.3 | 0.7 | 6.9 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 10.9 | 18.3 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 10.1 | 31.6 | |||
| SP | 2 February 2013 | 9.0 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 28.0 | 0.5 | 9.5 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 16.5 | 14.5 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 3.5 | ||
| SP | 24 January 2013 | 9.5 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 25.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 18.0 | 16.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 3.5 | |
| SP | 10 January 2013 | 10.5 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 23.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 8.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 6.0 | 22.0 | 12.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 2.5 | |
| Ipsos | 8 January 2013 | 11.5 | 5.6 | 2.5 | 29.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 16.3 | 1.5 | 14.8 | 14.5 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 30.3 | |||
| SP | 4 January 2013 | 15.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 24.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 21.0 | 14.0 | 1.0 | 4.5 | |||
| SP | 14 December 2013 | 19.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 23.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 18.0 | 14.0 | 1.5 | 8.5 | |||
| GPG | 21 October 2012 | 15.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 22.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 17.0 | 18.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | |||
| GPG | 19 August 2012 | 15.0 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 22.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 16.5 | 20.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | ||||
| GPG | 2 June 2012 | 13.0 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 22.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 17.5 | 20.5 | 2.0 | 7.0 | ||||
| GPG | 2 May 2012 | 7.5 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 22.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 18.0 | 22.5 | 2.0 | 8.0 | ||||
| Election | 28 March 2010 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 22.9 | 0.3 | – | – | 3.8 | – | – | – | 26.2 | 31.8 | – | 0.2 | 8.2 | |
| M5S | RC | SEL | PD | PSI | CD | SC | UdC | FLI | Rd | FiD | LN | PdL | FdI | LD | Oth. |
U/A | ||
| Italy. Common Good (Umberto Ambrosoli) |
With Monti for Italy (Gabriele Albertini) |
Centre-right (Roberto Maroni) | ||||||||||||||||
Notes:
- Merged columns denote that a common name was used in the polling.
- RC: Common list of IdV, PRC, PdCI, FdV and MA.
- Note on IdV: IdV's independent results from before 2013 are not added with RC. Their result is listed with the joint list from the time IdV agreed to join the joint list.
- SC: Listed as VTR in 2012.
- CD: Listed as ApI in 2012.
- U/A: Undecided or to abstain.
Results
According to the final results, Roberto Maroni was the new President of Lombardy with more than 40% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.
| Candidates | Regional candidates | Provincial lists | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| votes | % | seats | Parties | votes | % | swing | seats | party | group | |
| Roberto Maroni | 2,456,921 | 42.82 | 1 | The People of Freedom | 904,742 | 16.73 |  15.1 |
19 | 19 | 49 |
| Lega Lombarda–Lega Nord | 700,907 | 12.96 | 13.2 |
15 | 16 | |||||
| Maroni President | 552,863 | 10.23 | new | 11 | 11 | |||||
| Brothers of Italy | 83,810 | 1.55 | new | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Pensioners' Party | 50,843 | 0.94 | 0.7 |
1 | 1 | |||||
| Labour and Freedom List | 27,374 | 0.51 | new | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Ecological Alliance | 8,270 | 0.15 | new | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Umberto Ambrosoli | 2,194,169 | 38.24 | 1 | Democratic Party | 1,369,440 | 25.33 |  2.4 |
17 | 17 | 22 |
| Ambrosoli List – Civic Pact | 380,241 | 7.03 | new | 4 | 5 | |||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 97,627 | 1.81 | 0.4 |
- | - | |||||
| Lombard Popular Centre | 63,885 | 1.18 | new | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Ethical to Left | 52,152 | 0.96 | new | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Italy of Values | 35,141 | 0.65 | 5.6 |
0 | 0 | |||||
| Italian Socialist Party | 16,624 | 0.31 |  0.0 |
0 | 0 | |||||
| Silvana Carcano | 782,007 | 13.63 | - | Five Star Movement | 775,211 | 14.34 | 12.0 |
9 | 9 | 9 |
| Gabriele Albertini | 236,597 | 4.12 | - | Civic Lombardy | 133,435 | 2.47 | new | 0 | 0 | - |
| Union of the Centre | 85,721 | 1.59 | 2.2 |
0 | 0 | |||||
| Carlo Pinardi | 68,133 | 1.19 | - | Act to Stop the Decline | 68,469 | 1.27 | new | 0 | 0 | - |
| Total candidates | 5,737,827 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 5,406,755 | 100.00 | = | 78 | 80 | 80 |
Source: Region Lombardy
References
- ↑ La Repubblica, October 26, 2012.
- ↑ La Repubblica, December 16, 2012.
- ↑ Ministry of the Interior -- Historical Archive of Elections
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