2000 Lombard regional election

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2000 Lombard regional election
Flag of Lombardy.svg
  1995 16 April 2000 2005  

All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy
Turnout75.59% (Decrease2.svg 8.65%)
 Majority partyMinority party
  Roberto Formigoni 1994.jpg Mino Martinazzoli.jpg
Leader Roberto Formigoni Mino Martinazzoli
Party Forza Italia People's Party
Alliance Pole for Freedoms The Olive Tree
Last election54 seats, 41.6%19 seats, 27.6%
Seats won5126
Seat changeDecrease2.svg3Increase2.svg7
Popular vote3,355,8031,692,474
Percentage62.4%31.5%
SwingIncrease2.svg3.1% [1] Increase2.svg3.9%

Lombardia 2000 Coalizioni.png

President before election

Roberto Formigoni
CDU/FI

President-elect

Roberto Formigoni
FI

The 2000 Lombard regional election took place on 16 April 2000. The 7th term of the Regional Council was chosen.

Contents

Roberto Formigoni (Forza Italia) was re-elected for the second time in a row President, defeating Mino Martinazzoli (Italian People's Party). His re-election resulted in a landslide, as this time he was supported also by the Northern League.

Electoral system

Regional elections in Lombardy were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which 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 method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: 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, however, 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.

Council apportionment

According to the official 1991 Italian census, the 64 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation were so distributed between Lombard provinces.

  BG    BS    CO    CR    LC    LO    MN    MI    PV    SO    VA  total
78422132731664

The allocation is not fixed. Remaining seats and votes after proportional distribution, are all grouped at regional level and divided by party lists. The consequent division of these seats at provincial level usually change the original apportionment. Only 43 seats were directly assigned at provincial level, and the final distribution between provinces changed in this way.

  BG    BS    CO    CR    LC    LO    MN    MI    PV    SO    VA  total
+2===+1+1-1+2-1+1+2+7

As it can be seen, the landslide victory of the Pole for Freedoms caused the distribution of seven more seats to the oppositions at provincial level. Bergamo and Varese received two new seats, Cremona and Lodi and Sondrio one each.

Parties and candidates

Political party or allianceConstituent listsPrevious resultCandidate
Votes (%)Seats
Pole for Freedoms Forza Italia 29.228Roberto Formigoni
Northern League 17.712
National Alliance 10.08
Christian Democratic Centre 2.22
Pensioners' Party 1.4
United Christian Democrats
Others
The Olive Tree The Olive Tree 26.417Mino Martinazzoli
Communist Refoundation Party 7.75
Italian Democratic SocialistsLiberals
Bonino List 1.8Benedetto Della Vedova
Party of Italian Communists Nerio Nesi

Results

The 1999 European election marked a turning point in relations between Forza Italia and the Northern League. Silvio Berlusconi's attempt to destroy the League by a media campaign aimed at shifting protesting votes to the Italian Radicals, succeeded only in part: the consensus of the federalist movement had fallen so sharply, but not enough to ensure the coalition of the Knight from possible disasters like the 1996 election. In addition, the assembly works in parliament had highlighted a growing programmatic convergence between the two major Lombard parties. And so, in view of the 2001 general election, Berlusconi and Umberto Bossi put aside the old, and even bloody quarrels, and formed a new coalition: the Pole for Freedoms, which found in the regional elections its first test.

The combination of what were the major forces of regional politics, securing a safe and agile reappointment to the Communion and Liberation's incumbent President, Roberto Formigoni, which ensured stability of the Regional Cabinet that the new regulations wanted to coincide in term with the legislature. Forza Italia was confirmed as the largest party in the region with an historic 34% of the vote, while Lega Nord was the second largest party with 15%. The Olive Tree, an alliance comprising several centre-left parties including the Italian People's Party, the Democrats of the Left, The Democrats, the Federation of the Greens and Italian Renewal, which here run in a single list for the first time in Italian history, had a great shock losing a fifth of its votes, falling at only 20%.

16 April 2000 Lombard regional election results
Lombardy Regional Council 2000.svg
CandidatesVotes %SeatsPartiesVotes %Seat
Roberto Formigoni 3,355,80362.378
Forza Italia 1,539,35933.7924
Northern LeagueLombard League 702,47915.4210
National Alliance 441,0879.686
United Christian Democrats 111,1122.441
Christian Democratic Centre 76,4231.681
Pensioners' Party 71,9251.581
Socialist Party 31,1780.68
The Liberals Sgarbi 21,8760.48
Total2,995,43965.7543
Mino Martinazzoli 1,692,47431.461
The Olive Tree 918,34520.1619
Communist Refoundation Party 289,5726.365
Italian Democratic SocialistsLiberals–Others86,5171.901
Total1,294,43428.4125
Benedetto Della Vedova 178,4063.32 Bonino List 154,3963.393
Nerio Nesi 110,2022.05 Party of Italian Communists 86,0271.89
Giorgio Schultze43,6960.81 Humanist Party 25,3500.56
Total candidates5,380,581100.009Total parties4,555,646100.0071
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections


Popular vote (party)
FI
33.79%
The Olive Tree
20.16%
LN
15.42%
AN
9.68%
PRC
6.36%
Bonino List
3.39%
CDU
2.44%
SDIFdL–Others
1.90%
PdCI
1.89%
CCD
1.68%
PP
1.58%
Others
1.71%
Popular vote (coalition)
Centre-right
65.75%
Centre-left
28.41%
Bonino List
3.39%
PdCI
1.89%
PU
0.81%

Results by province

Election results map. Orange denotes municipalities won by Martinazzoli and Blue denotes those won by Formigoni. Lombardia 2000 Coalizioni.png
Election results map. Orange denotes municipalities won by Martinazzoli and Blue denotes those won by Formigoni.
Province Roberto Formigoni Mino Martinazzoli Benedetto Della Vedova Turnout
Milan 1,311,057 (60.01%)724,518 (33.16%)75,064
(3.44%)
73.38%
Brescia 410,929 (62.24%)220,489 (33.39%)16,039
(2.43%)
78.34%
Bergamo 400,883 (67.94%)159,419 (27.02%)16,367
(2.77%)
79.15%
Varese 319,092 (67.06%)124,027 (26.07%)18,742
(3.94%)
74.05%
Como 226,699 (69.81%)81,712
(25.16%)
11,721
(3.61%)
75.71%
Pavia 188,138 (62.02%)92,449
(30.48%)
11,997
(3.96%)
77.28%
Mantua 121,621 (53.08%)88,549
(38.65%)
8,202
(3.58%)
77.40%
Cremona 123,317
(59.72%)
70,621
(34.20%)
5,667
(2.74%)
79.51%
Lecco 117,140 (62.06%)62,995
(33.37%)
6,004
(3.18%)
78.66%
Lodi 68,245
(58.21%)
41,716
(35.58%)
3,778
(3.22%)
78.38%
Sondrio 68,682
(68.44%)
25,979
(25.89%)
4,825
(4.81%)
69.26%

Results by capital city

City Roberto Formigoni Mino Martinazzoli Benedetto Della Vedova Turnout
Milan 435,304
(59.83%)
244,591
(33.62%)
26,177
(3.60%)
68.80%
Brescia 67,017
(57.09%)
44,515
(37.92%)
3,337
(2.88%)
76.65%
Bergamo 45,064
(62.11%)
23,506
(32.40%)
2,374
(3.27%)
77.10%
Como 33,466
(66.37%)
13,798
(27.37%)
2,222
(4.41%)
72.76%
Varese 31,297
(66.37%)
12,602
(26.73%)
1,988
(4.22%)
69.82%
Pavia 27,578
(59.69%)
15,281
(33.07%)
1,809
(3.92%)
79.16%
Cremona 24,833
(55.20%)
17,015
(37.82%)
1,447
(3.22%)
77.78%
Mantua 14,621
(47.96%)
13,077
(42.90%)
1,312
(4.30%)
76.66%
Lecco 16,800
(60.36%)
9,846
(35.37%)
808
(2.90%)
75.95%
Lodi 15,151
(58.98%)
8,980
(34.96%)
836
(3.25%)
77.73%
Sondrio 7,827
(61.26%)
4,169
(32.63%)
645
(5.05%)
69.49%

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References

  1. The swing comes from the combined result of the Pole of Freedoms (41.6%) and Lega Nord (17.7%) in the 1995 regional election.