2017 Italian local elections

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The 2017 Italian local elections were held on Sunday 11 June. If necessary, a run-off vote was held on Sunday 25 June. [1] The term of mayors and councils will last five years, unless an early election is triggered. [2]

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In the autonomous regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Aosta Valley the elections will be held on 7 May. [3] [4]

The elections were characterized by a good performance of the centre-right coalition and many losses for the centre-left coalition, which however won in the majority of municipalities with more than 15,000 inhabitants, but lost in the most important cities like Genoa, L'Aquila and Parma; [5] while the Five Star Movement was excluded from the runoffs in all the most important cities. [6] [7] [8] In Lecce, the result was an anatra zoppa situation, as the centre-left candidate was elected mayor, but the centre-right coalition won a majority of seats on the city council. [9] [10]

Voting system

Every municipality with more than 15,000 inhabitants elects its mayor and city council with the same system.

Voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for one of the parties of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round two weeks later. The coalition of the elected mayor is guaranteed a majority of seats in the council with the attribution of extra seats, unless an anatra zoppa situation occurs. If the Mayor resigns, dies, lose a motion of confidence, or a majority of the municipal councillors step down at the same time, an early election (for the Mayor and for all municipal councillors) is called.

The City Council is elected at the same time as the mayor. Voters can vote for a list of candidates and can express up to two preferences for candidates of said list, provided they are selecting candidates of both genders. Seats are then attributed to parties proportionally, and for each party the candidates with the highest number of preferences are elected. However, if in a first round, no candidate received a majority of the votes, but the lists supporting a candidate different than the runoff winner won a majority of votes; or if a mayor was elected in first round, but the lists supporting them did not receive 40% of the votes, the coalition supporting the mayor will not receive a majority of seats in the council. That is called an anatra zoppa situation.

The municipalities with a population of less than 15,000 elect their mayors with a plurality system. A mayoral candidate can be supported by only one list, and the list of the elected mayor gets a two-thirds majority of seats. Voters can express up to two preferences for candidates of the chosen list, provided they are selecting candidates of both genders. Seats are then attributed to the candidates with the highest number of preferences.

Results

Overall results

Majority of each coalition in 161 municipalities (comuni) with a population higher than 15,000: [11]

CoalitionComuni
Centre-left coalition 67
Centre-right coalition 59
Civic lists 20
Five Star Movement 8
Left-wing coalition 2

Notes: almost all political parties and coalitions in local (municipal and regional) elections usually run with the support of some minor allied list active in local politics forming coalitions under the same nominee as the mayoral candidate, only M5S ran in all elections with a single list (that is the list of M5S under the M5S nominee as the mayoral candidate without forming coalitions with minor local lists or other national parties).

By party

Party votes in the main municipalities: [12]

Party%
Democratic Party 15.6%
Five Star Movement 8.7%
Forza Italia 6.8%
Northern League 6.7%
Italian Left 6.5%
Brothers of Italy 2.5%
By coalition

Coalition votes in the main municipalities:

Coalition%
Centre-left coalition 37.2%
Centre-right coalition 34.4%
Five Star Movement 9.4%
Left-wing coalition 7.0%

Mayoral election results

  Prefectural commissioner
RegionCityPopulationIncumbent mayorElected mayor1st round2nd roundSeatsSource
Votes %Votes %
Regione-Piemonte-Stemma.svg Piedmont Alessandria 93,894 Maria Rita Rossa (PD) Gianfranco Cuttica di Revigliasco (LN)12,14430.25%18,76255.68%
20 / 32
Asti 76,048 Fabrizio Brignolo (PD) Maurizio Rasero (FI)15,86847.62%13,21854.90%
20 / 32
Cuneo 56,051 Federico Borgna (Ind.) Federico Borgna (Ind.)15,40059.65%
21 / 32
Flag of Lombardy square.svg Lombardy Como 84,495 Mario Lucini (PD) Mario Landriscina (Ind.)11,82634.77%13,04552.68%
20 / 32
Lodi 44,945Mariano Savastano [13] Sara Casanova (LN)5,52327.32%9,85956.90%
19 / 32
Monza 122,849 Roberto Scanagatti (PD) Dario Allevi (FI)19,34439.84%21,86951.33%
20 / 32
Coat of Arms of Veneto.png Veneto Belluno 35,870 Jacopo Massaro (Ind.) Jacopo Massaro (Ind.)7,55546.19%8,51163.15%
20 / 32
Padua 211,215Paolo De Biagi [14] Sergio Giordani (PD)28,59329.20%47,88851.84%
19 / 32
Verona 258,274 Flavio Tosi (F!) Federico Sboarina (Ind.)33,44029.13%46,96258.11%
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CoA of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.svg Friuli-Venezia Giulia Gorizia 34,844 Ettore Romoli (FI) Rodolfo Ziberna (FI)8,54349.88%7,77459.79%
24 / 40
Coat of arms of Liguria.svg Liguria Genoa 585,407 Marco Doria (Ind.) Marco Bucci (Ind.)88,78138.80%112,39855.24%
24 / 40
La Spezia 116,456 Massimo Federici (PD) Pierluigi Peracchini (Ind.)13,18732.61%20,63659.98%
19 / 32
Regione-Emilia-Romagna-Stemma.svg Emilia-Romagna Parma 194,001 Federico Pizzarotti (M5S) Federico Pizzarotti (Ind.)26,49634.78%37,15757.87%
20 / 32
Piacenza 102,191 Paolo Dosi (PD) Patrizia Barbieri (Ind.)14,62534.78%20,50058.54%
20 / 32
Coat of arms of Tuscany.svg Tuscany Lucca 89,781 Alessandro Tambellini (PD) Alessandro Tambellini (PD)13,92237.48%17,45350.52%
20 / 32
Pistoia 90,315 Samuele Bertinelli (PD) Alessandro Tomasi (FdI)10,43526.68%19,04954.28%
20 / 32
Lazio Coat of Arms.svg Lazio Frosinone 46,323 Nicola Ottaviani (FI) Nicola Ottaviani (FI)15,03856.38%
20 / 32
Rieti 47,698 Simone Petrangeli (SEL) Antonio Cicchetti (FI)13,13847.29%12,66050.20%
20 / 32
Regione-Abruzzo-Stemma.svg Abruzzo L'Aquila 69,627 Massimo Cialente (PD) Pierluigi Biondi (FdI)14,14235.84%16,41053.52%
20 / 32
Coat of Arms of Apulia.svg Apulia Lecce 94,916 Paolo Perrone (CoR) Carlo Salvemini (Ind.)15,24328.90%22,05054.76%
14 / 32
Taranto 200,461 Ippazio Stefano (SEL) Rinaldo Melucci (PD)16,79917.92%26,91350.91%
20 / 32
Coat of arms of Calabria.svg Calabria Catanzaro 90,612 Sergio Abramo (FI) Sergio Abramo (FI)21,05539.72%21,96364.39%
20 / 32
Coat of arms of Sicily.svg Sicily Palermo 671,696 Leoluca Orlando (Ind.) Leoluca Orlando (Ind.)125,91346.28%
24 / 40
Trapani 68,759 Vito Damiano (Ind.)Francesco Messineo [15]
Sardegna-Stemma.svg Sardinia Oristano 31,630 Guido Tendas (PD) Andrea Lutzu (FI)4,95529.60%7,82265.29%
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  13. Prefectural commissioner replacing mayor Simone Uggetti (PD) since 22 August 2016.
  14. Prefectural commissioner replacing mayor Massimo Bitonci (LN) since February 2017
  15. The centre-right candidate withdrawn from the second round because he was under investigation for corruption. However to be elected, the centre-left candidate needed at least a 50% of the turnout, but only 26.75% of the electors voted, so a Prefectural commissioner was appointed.