1999 Sardinian regional election

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1999 Sardinian regional election
Flag of Sardinia.svg
  1994 13 and 27 June 1999 2004  

All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Sardinia
Turnout66.3% (Decrease2.svg8.0%)
 Majority partyMinority party
  Mauro Pili daticamera.jpg No image available.svg
Candidate Mauro Pili Gian Mario Selis
Party Forza Italia PPI
Alliance Pole for Freedoms The Olive Tree
Seats won3737
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 9Decrease2.svg 5
Popular vote369,164318,122
Percentage53.7%46.3%
SwingIncrease2.svg 17.0%Decrease2.svg 7.1% [1]

President before election

Federico Palomba
PDS

Elected President

Mauro Pili
Forza Italia

The Sardinian regional election of 1999 took place on 13 and 27 June 1999.

The centre-right coalition led by Mauro Pili won the election but was short of a clear majority; Pili, who was appointed President of the Region was not able to form a majority and was soon replaced by the defeated candidate, Gian Mario Selis, who was not able to win the confidence vote of the Regional Council himself. The former President Mario Floris was asked to form a government avoiding a new regional election.

Results

Regional council election
Summary of the 1999 Sardinia Regional Council election results Sardinia Regional Council 1999.svg
Parties and coalitionsVotes %Seats
Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra)DS122,67514.210
Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano)PPI87,56610.27
Democratic Federation (Federazione Democratica)FD49,5845.84
The Democrats (I Democratici)Dem46,8575.84
Italian Democratic Socialists (Socialisti Democratici Italiani)SDI43,2505.03
Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista)PRC31,7133.72
Party of Italian Communists (Comunisti Italiani)PdCI18,2572.10
The Greens (I Verdi)FdV15,8331.80
The Olive Tree (Selis)415,73548.630
Forza Italia FI169,47019.713
National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale)AN85,2019.97
Sardinian Reformers (Riformisti Sardi)RS38,2594.43
Christian Democratic Centre (Centro Cristiano Democratico)CCD34,8664.03
New Movement (Nuovo Movimento)NM28,7713.32
Pole for Freedoms (Pili)356,56741.328
Sardinian Action Party (Partito Sardo d'Azione)PSdAz38,4224.53
Democratic Union for the Republic (Unione Democratica per la Repubblica)UDR35,1774.13
Sardinia Nation (Sardigna Natzione)SN15,2831.80
Total861,184100.0064
Turnout66.3
Source: Regional Council of Sardinia
President election
CandidatePartyCoalitionFirst roundSecond roundRegional
seats
Votes%Votes%
Mauro Pili FI Pole for Freedoms 371,81648.1369,16453.79
Gian Mario Selis PPI The Olive Tree 243,83931.5318,12246.37
Franco Meloni PS'dAz 64,4208.3
Mario Floris UDR 47,6976.2
Bustiano Cumpostu SN 46,0145.9
Total votes772,979100.00687,286100.0016

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References

  1. The swing comes from the combined result of the Alliance of Progressives (42.7%) and Pact for Italy (20.7%) in the 1994 regional election.