2001 Sicilian regional election

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2001 Sicilian regional election
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  1996 24 June 2001 2006  

All 90 seats to the Sicilian Regional Assembly
Turnout63.5%
 Majority partyMinority party
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Leader Salvatore Cuffaro Leoluca Orlando
Party CDU The Daisy
Alliance House of Freedoms The Olive Tree
Seats won5729
Popular vote1,572,178972,010
Percentage59.1%36.6%

President before election

Vincenzo Leanza
FI

President-elect

Salvatore Cuffaro
UDC

The 2001 Sicilian regional election was held on 24 June 2001. For the first time the president of Region was elected directly by the citizens.

The election was competed by three competitors: Salvatore Cuffaro, House of Freedoms candidate; Leoluca Orlando, candidate of The Olive Tree and former mayor of Palermo; and Sergio D'Antoni, leader of European Democracy. Cuffaro won by a landslide.

Results

24 June 2001 Sicilian regional election results
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CandidatesVotes%SeatsPartiesVotes%Seats
Salvatore Cuffaro 1,572,17859.19
Forza Italia 628,02025.120
National Alliance 281,70411.38
Christian Democratic Centre 223,4208.96
United Christian Democrats 215,0478.66
New Sicily 101,3684.13
New Italian Socialist Party 69,6972.82
Whiteflower54,5502.21
Liberal Socialists 24,1101.01
Italian Republican Party 22,1100.91
Tricolour Flame 9,2240.4
Total1,629,25065.348
Leoluca Orlando 972,01036.61
Democrats of the Left 253,52210.310
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy 199,3038.07
The Daisy for Sicily107,5164.34
Communist Refoundation Party 61,0682.43
Italian Democratic Socialists 46,9031.91
Sicilian Spring 29,5641.21
Party of Italian Communists 28,8261.21
Italy of Values 25,8881.01
We Sicilians 2,3820.1
Total754,97226.128
Sergio D'Antoni 114,7994.3 European Democracy 113,6644.54
Total candidates2,658,987100.0010Total parties2,498,244100.0080
Source: Sicilian Region [ dead link ]