 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Municipal elections were held in Bologna on 5 and 19 June 2016. The centre-left candidate Virginio Merola was elected mayor at the second round with 54.64% of votes. [1]
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Municipal elections were held in Bologna on 5 and 19 June 2016. The centre-left candidate Virginio Merola was elected mayor at the second round with 54.64% of votes. [1]
The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.
The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.
This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.
| Political force or alliance | Constituent lists | Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | Virginio Merola | ||
| Common City with Amelia | ||||
| Bologna Alive | ||||
| Citizens for Bologna | ||||
| Bologna metropolitan hits the mark | ||||
| Centre-right coalition | Northern League | Lucia Borgonzoni | ||
| Forza Italia | ||||
| United We Win | ||||
| Brothers of Italy | ||||
| Let's take back Bologna | ||||
| Five Star Movement | Five Star Movement | Massimo Bugani | ||
| Popular Area | Together Bologna | Manes Bernardini | ||
| Left-wing coalition | Civic Coalition (incl. SEL and Possible) | Federico Martelloni | ||
| Federation of the Greens | Federation of the Greens | Matteo Badiali | ||
| Workers' Communist Party | Workers' Communist Party | Ermanno Lorenzoni | ||
| The People of Family | The People of Family | Mirko De Carli | ||
| Justice Honor Freedom | Justice Honor Freedom | Sergio Celloni | ||
 | ||||||||||
| Candidates | 1st round | 2nd round | Leaders seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||
| Virginio Merola | 68,772 | 39.48 | 83,907 | 54.64 | – | Democratic Party | 60,066 | 35.46 | 21 | |
| Common City with Amelia | 4,917 | 2.90 | 1 | |||||||
| Federation of the Greens (A) | 2,574 | 1.52 | – | |||||||
| Bologna Alive | 1,416 | 0.84 | – | |||||||
| Citizens for Bologna | 1,325 | 0.78 | – | |||||||
| Bologna metropolitan hits the mark | 487 | 0.29 | – | |||||||
| Lucia Borgonzoni | 38,807 | 22.28 | 69,660 | 45.36 | 1 | Northern League | 17,376 | 10.26 | 3 | |
| Forza Italia | 10,614 | 6.27 | 2 | |||||||
| United We Win | 4,176 | 2.47 | – | |||||||
| Brothers of Italy | 4,073 | 2.40 | – | |||||||
| Let's take back Bologna | 1,025 | 0.61 | – | |||||||
| Massimo Bugani | 28,889 | 16.59 | – | – | 1 | Five Star Movement | 28,115 | 16.60 | 3 | |
| Manes Bernardini | 18,188 | 10.44 | – | – | 1 | Together Bologna | 16,844 | 9.94 | 1 | |
| Federico Martelloni | 12,188 | 7.00 | – | – | 1 | Civic Coalition | 12,017 | 7.09 | 1 | |
| Matteo Badiali | 2,645 | 1.52 | – | – | – | Federation of the Greens | 2,569 | 1.51 | – | |
| Ermanno Lorenzoni | 2,178 | 1.25 | – | – | – | Workers' Communist Party | 1,869 | 1.10 | – | |
| Mirko De Carli | 2,074 | 1.19 | – | – | – | The People of Family | 2,087 | 1.23 | – | |
| Sergio Celloni | 446 | 0.26 | – | – | – | Justice Honor Freedom | 428 | 0.25 | – | |
| Total | 174,187 | 100.00 | 153,567 | 100.00 | 4 | 169,409 | 100.00 | 32 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||||||
Notes: if a defeated candidate for Mayor obtained over 3% of votes, the mayoral candidate is automatically elected communal councilor (Borgonzoni, Bugani, Bernardini and Martelloni); see Italian electoral law of 1993 for Comuni. The candidate elected Mayor is not a member of communal council, but Merola votes in the communal council (see Italian electoral law 1993).
{{Infobox Political post |post = Mayor |body = Bologna |insignia = Coat of arms of Bologna.svg |insigniasize = 100px |insigniacaption = |native_name = Sindaco di Bologna |alt = |incumbent = [[this is not over. | = pwning since 2021 |style = No courtesy or style |seat = Palazzo d'Accursio |appointer = Electorate of Bologna |termlength = 5 years, renewable once |formation = 6 April 1860 |inaugural = Luigi Pizzardi |deputy = Emily Marion Clancy |salary = €114,960 per year |website = Official website }}
The 2010 Italian local elections were held on different dates; most on 29–30 March concurrently with the Regional elections.
Snap municipal elections were held in Rome on 13–14 and 27–28 April 2008 to elect the Mayor of Rome and 60 members of the City Council, as well as the nineteen presidents and more than 400 councillors of the 19 municipi in which the municipality was divided. The first round of the elections occurred on the same dates of the national general election.
Municipal elections were held in Rome on 13 and 27 May 2001 to elect the Mayor of Rome and 60 members of the City Council, as well as the nineteen presidents and more than 400 councillors of the 19 municipi in which the municipality was divided. The first round of the elections occurred on the same date of the national general election.
The mayor of Venice is an elected politician who, along with the Venice City Council of 36 members, is accountable for the strategic government of the municipality of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
Municipal elections were held in Rome on 21 November and 5 December 1993 to elect the Mayor of Rome and 60 members of the City Council.
Municipal elections were held in Naples on 5 June 2016.
Municipal elections were held in Turin, northern Italy, in May 2016. Chiara Appendino, the candidate of the Five Star Movement, was elected after defeating former mayor Piero Fassino in the runoff.
The municipal elections in Bologna took place on 3 and 4 October 2021. The incumbent Mayor of Bologna was Virginio Merola of Democratic Party, who won the 2016 Bologna municipal election. The centre-left candidate Matteo Lepore won in a landslide with 62% of votes, becoming the most voted mayor since the introduction of direct elections in 1995.