2013 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

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2013 Italian Senate election in Lombardy
Flag of Lombardy.svg
  2008 February 24, 20132018 

All 49 Lombard seats to the Italian Senate
 First partySecond party
  Berlusconi-2010-1.jpg Bersani cropped.png
Leader Silvio Berlusconi Pier Luigi Bersani
Party People of Freedom Democratic Party
Alliance Centre-right Italy. Common Good
Last election30 seats, 55.1%17 seats, 32.0%
Seats won2711
Seat changeDecrease2.svg3Decrease2.svg6
Popular vote2,003,0551,583,003
Percentage37.6%29.7%
SwingDecrease2.svg17.5%Decrease2.svg2.3%

Local majority before election

Centre-right coalition

New local majority

Centre-right coalition

Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on February 24, 2013. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2013 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

Contents

Lombardy obtained two more seats to the Senate, following the redistricting subsequent to the 2011 Census. For the first time in history, a senatorial election was paired with a regional election.

The election was won by the centre-right coalition between The People of Freedom and the Northern League, differently as it happened at national level and hugely contributing to create that hung parliament which was the general result of the 2013 vote. All the two coalitions lost votes to the newly created Five Star Movement of comedian Beppe Grillo and, in a minor scale, to the Civic Choice of incumbent PM Mario Monti. Ten provinces gave a plurality to the centre-right coalition, while the provinces of Milan and Mantua preferred Bersani's alliance.

Electoral law

The electoral law for the Senate was established in 2005 by the Calderoli Law, and it is a form of semi-proportional representation. A party presents its own closed list and it can join other parties in alliances. The coalition which receives a plurality automatically wins at least 27 seats. Respecting this condition, seats are divided between coalitions, and subsequently to party lists, using the largest remainder method with a Hare quota. To receive seats, a party must overcome the barrage of 8% of the vote if it contests a single race, or of 3% of the vote if it runs in alliance.

Results

Coalition leadervotesvotes (%)seatsPartyvotesvotes (%)swingseatschange
Silvio Berlusconi 2,003,05537.627 The People of Freedom 1,109,41120.8−13.616−3
Northern League 730,64513.7−7.0110
Others162,9993.1+1.5--
Pier Luigi Bersani 1,583,00329.711 Democratic Party 1,453,38527.3−0.911−4
Others129,6392.4+2.4--
Beppe Grillo 927,95117.47 Five Star Movement 927,95117.4+16.97+7
Mario Monti 572,04610.74 With Monti for Italy 572,04610.7+6.54+4
Others236,8224.60 Others236,8224.6−5.8-−2
Total coalitions5,323,027100.049Total parties5,323,027100.0=49+2

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Lombard delegation to Senate

The People of Freedom

Democratic Party

Northern League

Five Star Movement

With Monti for Italy

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