1995 Piedmontese regional election

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1995 Piedmentese regional election
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  1990 23 April 1995 2000  

All 60 seats to the Regional Council of Piedmont
Turnout82.98% (Decrease2.svg 5.99%)
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Enzo Ghigo.jpg No image available.svg Domenico Comino 1994.jpg
Leader Enzo Ghigo Giuseppe Pichetto Domenico Comino
Party Forza Italia Independent Northern League
Alliance Centre-right Centre-left
Seats won33185
Popular vote1,059,602938,280296,966
Percentage39.7%35.2%11.1%

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President before election

Gian Paolo Brizio
PPI

President-elect

Enzo Ghigo
FI

The 1995 Piedmontese regional election took place on 23 April 1995. For the first time, the president of Piedmont was directly elected by the people; the election was not yet binding and the president-elect could have been replaced during the term.

Contents

In an upset, Enzo Ghigo of Forza Italia (FI) was elected president of the region, defeating Giuseppe Pichetto, an independent politician running for the country's centre-left coalition, and Domenico Comino of the Lega Nord (Northern League) regional branch Lega Nord Piemont (Northern League Piedmont). FI, which was founded the year before by Silvio Berlusconi, formed the People's Pole joint list and became the largest party in the region with 26.7% of the vote, while the Democrats of the Left came second with 21.7%.

Electoral system

Regional elections in Piedmont were ruled by the Tatarella law, which was approved in 1995 and provided for a mixed electoral system. Four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a single regional constituency, where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare quota among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian representation system, in which the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the region, while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.

A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes. The panachage was also allowed; the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

Parties and candidates

Political party or allianceConstituent listsPrevious resultCandidate
Votes (%)Seats
Centre-left coalition Italian People's Party 27.918Giuseppe Pichetto
Democratic Party of the Left 22.814
Federation of the Greens 6.74
Pensioners' Party 1.41
Pact of Democrats
Northern League Piedmont 5.13Domenico Comino
Centre-right coalition National Alliance 3.62Enzo Ghigo
Forza Italia
Christian Democratic Centre
Pannella List 1.21Carmelo Palma
Communist Refoundation Party Giovanni Alasia

Results

23 April 1995 Piedmontese regional election results
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CandidatesVotes%SeatsPartiesVotes%Seats
Enzo Ghigo 1,059,60239.7012
Forza Italia – The People's Pole 588,17126.7114
National Alliance 247,10311.226
Christian Democratic Centre 65,0992.961
Total900,37340.8821
Giuseppe Pichetto938,28035.16
Democratic Party of the Left 478,61521.7311
Italian People's Party 136,6646.213
Pact of Democrats 76,5923.482
Federation of the Greens 59,2382.691
Pensioners' Party 35,1621.601
Populars and Democrats8,5070.39
Total794,77836.0918
Domenico Comino 296,96611.13 Northern League Piedmont 217,1949.865
Giovanni Alasia248,1589.30 Communist Refoundation Party 203,8429.264
Carmelo Palma54,4362.04
Pannella List 35,8991.63
Autonomist Front2,7030.12
Total38,6021.75
Alessandro Lupi45,4281.70 Greens Greens 31,1451.41
Renzo Rabellino 26,0060.97Piedmont Nation of Europe16,3560.74
Total candidates2,668,876100.0012Total parties2,202,290100.0048
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections