1995 Molise regional election

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1995 Molise regional election
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  1990 23 April 1995 2000  

All 30 seats to the Regional Council of Molise
 Majority partyMinority party
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Leader Marcello Veneziale Quintino Vincenzo Pallante
Party PDS Forza Italia
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
Seats won1812
Popular vote103,226101,348
Percentage50.5%49.5%

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President before election

Giovanni Di Giandomenico
PPI

Elected President

Marcello Veneziale
PDS

The Molise regional election of 1995 took place on 23 April 1995.

Marcello Veneziale (Democratic Party of the Left) was elected President of the Region, defeating Quintino Pallante (National Alliance) by a narrow margin.

For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term. This is precisely what happened in 1998, when a centrist majority ousted Veneziale and replaced him with Michele Iorio (a splinter of the Italian People's Party, who switched to the Democratic Union for the Republic). In 1999 Iorio switched again party, this time to Forza Italia, and formed a centre-right government, but was soon replaced by a centre-left majority, which reinstated Veneziale.

Results

Candidatesvotesvotes (%)seats
reg. list
seats
prov. lists
Marcello Veneziale 103,22650.46612
Democratic Party of the Left 38,10220.135
Italian People's Party 20,75910.973
Pact of Democrats 17,4799.242
Communist Refoundation Party 13,2597.012
Federation of the Greens 2,9191.54-
Quintino Vincenzo Pallante 101,34849.54-12
Forza Italia – The People's Pole 37,13219.625
National Alliance 32,60317.234
Christian Democratic Centre 21,83011.302
Progressive People's Party 5,6112.961
Total204,574100.00624

Source: Ministry of the Interior