2000 Piedmontese regional election

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2000 Piedmentese regional election
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  1995 16 April 2000 2005  

All 60 seats to the Regional Council of Piedmont
Turnout71.96% (Decrease2.svg 11.02%)
 Majority partyMinority party
  Enzo Ghigo datisenato.jpg Livia Turco daticamera.jpg
Leader Enzo Ghigo Livia Turco
Party Forza Italia DS
Alliance Pole for Freedoms The Olive Tree
Last election33 seats, 39.7%18 seats, 35.2%
Seats won4018
Seat changeIncrease2.svg7Steady2.svg
Popular vote1,249,840953,163
Percentage51.8%39.5%
SwingIncrease2.svg1.0% [1] Increase2.svg3.7%

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President before election

Enzo Ghigo
FI

President-elect

Enzo Ghigo
FI

The 2000 Piedmontese regional election took place on 16 April 2000. Enzo Ghigo of Forza Italia (FI) was re-elected for the second time in a row as the president of Piedmont, defeating Livia Turco of the Democrats of the Left (DS). His re-election resulted in a landslide, as this time he was also supported also by Lega Nord (Northern League).

Contents

FI was confirmed as the largest party in the region with an historic 30.8% of the vote, while the DS were the second largest party with 17.7%. Piedmont was confirmed as a stronghold of Bonino List, whose leader Emma Bonino was candidate for president and took 5.7% of the vote.

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
The Olive Tree Democrats of the Left 21.711Livia Turco
Communist Refoundation Party 9.34
Italian People's PartyUDEURItalian Renewal 6.23
Federation of the Greens 2.71
Pensioners' Party 1.61
The Democrats
Party of Italian Communists
Italian Democratic Socialists
Pole for Freedoms Forza Italia 26.714Enzo Ghigo
National Alliance 11.26
Northern League Piedmont 9.95
Christian Democratic Centre 3.01
United Christian Democrats
Others
Bonino List 1.6Emma Bonino

Results

16 April 2000 Piedmontese regional election results
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CandidatesVotes%SeatsPartiesVotes%Seats
Enzo Ghigo 1,249,84051.7812
Forza Italia 626,90730.7817
National Alliance 241,86411.886
Northern League Piedmont 153,9357.563
United Christian Democrats 48,7072.391
Christian Democratic Centre 43,8272.151
Socialist Party 16,2830.80
The Liberals Sgarbi 5,7250.28
Christian Democratic Party 2,1390.11
Total1,139,38755.9528
Livia Turco 953,16339.491
Democrats of the Left 360,82617.729
Communist Refoundation Party 112,4895.522
The Democrats 86,3494.242
Italian People's PartyUDEURItalian Renewal 74,8883.681
Party of Italian Communists 41,9302.061
Federation of the Greens 41,8532.061
Italian Democratic Socialists 36,7881.811
Pensioners' Party 15,9640.78
Total771,08737.8717
Emma Bonino 138,6325.74 Bonino List 90,7964.462
Alessandra Calvo62,2882.58
Autonomists for Europe 26,6391.31
Greens Greens 8,4980.42
Total35,1371.73
Antonio Tevere9,6240.40 Humanist Party
Total candidates2,413,547100.0013Total parties2,036,407100.0047
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections

References

  1. The swing comes from the combined result of the Pole of Freedoms (39.7%) and Lega Nord (11.1%) in the 1995 regional election.