2015 Campania regional election

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2015 Campania regional election
Flag of Campania.svg
  2010 31 May 2015 2020  

All 51 seats to the Regional Council
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Vincenzo De Luca crop.jpg Stefano Caldoro crop.jpg Valeria.ciarambino (cropped).jpg
Leader Vincenzo De Luca Stefano Caldoro Valeria Ciarambino
Party Democratic Party Forza Italia Five Star Movement
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
Last election22 seats, 43.0%38 seats, 54.3%0 seats, 1.4%
Seats won31137
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 9Decrease2.svg 25Increase2.svg 7
Popular vote987,927921,379420,839
Percentage41.2%38.4%17.5%
SwingDecrease2.svg 1.9Decrease2.svg 19.5%Increase2.svg 16.1%

Campania 2015 Candidati.png

President before election

Stefano Caldoro
Forza Italia

President

Vincenzo De Luca
Democratic Party

The 2015 Campania regional election took place on 31 May 2015. [1] [2] The centre-left coalition candidate Vincenzo De Luca defeated the incumbent president, Stefano Caldoro of Forza Italia within the centre-right coalition, and became the new president of Campania. Until the 2024 Sardinian regional election, this was the last regional gain for the centre-left coalition.

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Results

31 May 2015 Campania regional election results
Campania Regional Council 2015.svg
CandidatesVotes %SeatsPartiesVotes %Seats
Vincenzo De Luca 987,92741.151
Democratic Party 443,87919.4915
De Luca for President111,6984.904
Free Campania108,9214.783
Democratic CentreCivic Choice 62,9752.762
Union of the Centre 53,6282.352
Italian Socialist Party 49,6432.181
Campania in Network (incl. ApI, New CDU, AS)34,3371.501
Really–Greens 26,4011.151
Italy of Values (incl. RD)25,9131.131
Total917,39540.2930
Stefano Caldoro 921,37938.371
Forza Italia 405,77317.817
Caldoro for President (incl. New PSI and PLI)163,4687.172
New Centre-Right 133,7535.871
Brothers of Italy 124,5435.462
We the South 47,3672.09
Populars for ItalyItalian Republican Party 17,4750.76
No More Land of Fire6,5610.28
Victims of Justice5,9410.26
Total904,88139.7412
Valeria Ciarambino420,83917.52 Five Star Movement 387,54617.017
Salvatore Vozza52,7772.19Left at Work (incl. SEL, PRC, PCdI, GI, PDL, PdS)53,0002.32
Marco Esposito17,8600.74Mo! Campania Civic List14,3320.62
Total candidates2,400,782100.002Total parties2,277,154100.0049
Source: Ministry of the Interior
Popular vote
PD
19.49%
FI
17.81%
M5S
17.01%
New PSIPLI
7.17%
NCD
5.87%
FdI
5.46%
De Luca
4.90%
CL
4.78%
CDSC
2.76%
UdC
2.35%
SaL
2.32%
PSI
2.18%
NS
2.09%
Others
5.81%
President
De Luca
41.15%
Caldoro
38.37%
Ciarambino
17.52%
Vozza
2.19%
Esposito
0.74%

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