2018 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

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2018 Italian Senate election in Lombardy
Flag of Lombardy.svg
  2013 March 4, 20182022 

All 49 Lombard seats to the Italian Senate
 First partySecond party
  Matteo Salvini Viminale (cropped).jpg Matteo Renzi 2015.jpeg
Leader Matteo Salvini Matteo Renzi
Party Lega Democratic Party
Alliance Centre-right Centre-left
Last election27 seats, 37.6%11 seats, 29.7%
Seats won329
Seat changeIncrease2.svg5Decrease2.svg2
Popular vote2,450,4061,310,715
Percentage47.2%25.3%
SwingIncrease2.svg9.6%Decrease2.svg4.4%

Local majority before election

Centre-right coalition

New local majority

Centre-right coalition

Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on March 4, 2018. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2018 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

Contents

This senatorial election was paired with the 2018 Lombard regional election.

The election was won by the centre-right coalition between The People of Freedom. The centre-left arrived near the Five Star Movement of comedian Beppe Grillo. All the twelve provinces gave a plurality to the centre-right coalition.

Electoral law

The new electoral law for the Senate established in 2017 by the Rosatellum Law was a form of mixed single vote. A party presents its own closed lists and it can join other parties in alliances. Two thirds of the seats are divided between coalitions, and subsequently to party lists, using the largest remainder method with a Hare quota. The party votes are then automatically transferred to the coalition leaders running in the first-past-the-post.

Results

Constituencies

ConstituencyWinnerAlliancePartyVotes %
1 Milan Central Tommaso Cerno Centre-left Democratic Party 41.3%
2 Milan Rogoredo Maria Cristina Cantù Centre-right League 38.4%
3 Milan Legnano Salvatore Sciascia Centre-right Forza Italia 41.9%
4 Rozzano Ignazio La Russa Centre-right Brothers of Italy 44.5%
5 Cologno Monzese Emanuele Pellegrini Centre-right League 41.2%
6 Monza Stefania Craxi Centre-right Forza Italia 46.8%
7 Sesto San Giovanni Paolo Romani Centre-right Forza Italia 41.1%
8 Lecco Antonella Faggi Centre-right League 51.0%
9 Cantù Lucia Ronzulli Centre-right Forza Italia 56.8%
10 Como Erica Rivolta Centre-right League 48.5%
11 Varese Stefano Candiani Centre-right League 49.3%
12 Bergamo Maria Gallone Centre-right Forza Italia 52.4%
13 Treviglio Simona Pergreffi Centre-right League 55.9%
14 Brescia Adriano Paroli Centre-right Forza Italia 47.9%
15 Lumezzane Stefano Borghesi Centre-right League 56.2%
16 Pavia Gian Marco Centinaio Centre-right League 49.6%
17 Cremona Daniela Santanchè Centre-right Brothers of Italy 48.1%
18 Mantova Isabella Rauti Centre-right Brothers of Italy 44.4%

Proportional representation

League M5S Democratic Party Forza Italia Brothers of Italy Free and Equal

Notes

  1. Resigned on 10.07.2018; Gianpietro Maffoni took her post.

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