Lazio regional election, 2005

Lazio regional election, 2005
Lazio
April 3, 2005

All 70 seats to the Regional Council of Lazio

  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Piero Marrazzo Francesco Storace
Party The Olive Tree National Alliance
Alliance The Union House of Freedoms
Last election 22 seats, 46,0% 38 seats, 51,3%
Seats won 42 28
Popular vote 1,631,501 1,524,712
Percentage 50.7% 47.4%
Swing +4,7% -3,1%

President of Lazio before election

Francesco Storace
House of Freedoms

President of Lazio

Piero Marrazzo
The Olive Tree

The Lazio regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005.

Piero Marrazzo (Indep. The Olive Tree, The Union) defeated incumbent Francesco Storace (National Alliance, House of Freedoms).

The defeat in Lazio for House of Freedoms was especially important as the centre-right expected to maintain control of the Region. Storace, a leading member in the centre-right, was subsequently granted the status of Minister of Public Health in Berlusconi III Cabinet.

During the electoral campaign, Storace came out with factual evidence that Alessandra Mussolini's Social Alternative had added fake signatures to real ones to reach the minimum number needed to present a list. However, to demonstrate this, he had someone "hack" into the database of the municipality of Rome in order to verify the signatures: he was therefore nicknamed "Storhacker" by Mussolini. It also appeared that someone spied on the centre-left candidate Marrazzo.[1] Storace however denied all the charges.

Results

Candidates & parties votes votes (%) seats
reg. list
seats
prov. lists
Piero Marrazzo 1,631,501 50.69 14 28
The Olive Tree 748,756 27.04 16
Marrazzo List 186,740 6.74 4
Communist Refoundation Party 162,775 5.88 3
Federation of the Greens 73,045 2.64 2
Party of Italian Communists 64,676 2.34 1
UDEUR 46,243 1.67 1
Italy of Values 28,600 1.03 1
United Consumers 18,163 0.66 0
Forza Roma 10,336 0.37 0
Avanti Lazio 3,285 0.12 0
Francesco Storace 1,524,712 47.37 1 27
National Alliance 468,679 16.93 10
Forza Italia 425,128 15.35 9
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats 217,390 7.85 4
Storace List 195,356 7.05 4
Socialist Party – New PSI 30,429 1.10 0
The Clover 15,763 0.57 0
Social Idea Movement 12,611 0.46 0
PRIPLI 11,763 0.42 0
Pensioners' Party 7,788 0.28 0
Consumers' List 4,207 0.15 0
Democratic Constituent 2,915 0.11 0
Alessandra Mussolini 62,498 1.94 - -
Social Alternative 32,541 1.18 0
Four-leaf Clover List 1,908 0.07 0
Total 3,218,711 100.00 15 55

Source: Ministry of the Interior

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