2020 Tuscan regional election

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2020 Tuscan regional election
Flag of Tuscany.svg
  2015 20–21 September 2020 2025  

All 41 seats in the Regional Council
Turnout62.6% (Increase2.svg14.3%)
 Majority partyMinority party
  Eugenio Giani (cropped).jpg Susanna Ceccardi (cropped2).jpg
Leader Eugenio Giani Susanna Ceccardi
Party Democratic Party Lega
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
Seats won2514
Seat changeSteady2.svg0Increase2.svg5
Popular vote864,310719,266
Percentage48.6%40.5%
SwingIncrease2.svg0.5%Increase2.svg10.1% [1]

2020 Tuscany election map.svg

President before election

Enrico Rossi
Democratic Party

Elected President

Eugenio Giani
Democratic Party

The 2020 Tuscan regional election was the 7th regional election held in Tuscany, Italy, and took place on 20 and 21 September 2020. It was originally scheduled to take place on 31 May 2020, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. [2] [3] The Democratic candidate, Eugenio Giani, defeated the League candidate, Susanna Ceccardi. Giani took office as President of Tuscany on 8 October 2020.

Contents

Electoral system

Tuscany uses its own legislation of 2014 to elect its Regional Council. The councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. The constituency of Florence is further divided into 4 sub-constituencies. Preferential voting is allowed: a maximum of two preferences can be expressed for candidates of the same party list and provided the two chosen candidates are of different gender.

In this system, parties are grouped in alliances supporting a candidate for the post of President of Tuscany. The candidate receiving at least 40% of the votes is elected to the post and his/her list (or the coalition) is awarded a majority of 23 seats in the Regional Council plus the seat of the President (24+1 seats with more than 45% of the vote). If no candidate gets more than 40% of the votes, a run-off is held fourteen days later, where the two top candidates from the first round run against each other. The winning candidate is then ensured a majority in the Regional Council. [4]

Council apportionment

According to the official 2011 Italian census, the 40 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation are so distributed between Tuscan provinces. The number of seats to be assigned in each province is the following:

  AR    FI    GR    LI    LU    MS    PI    PT    PO    SI  
41124424333

The Province of Florence is further divided into smaller electoral colleges.

Parties and candidates

Political party or allianceConstituent listsPrevious resultCandidate
Votes (%)Seats
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party (PD) (incl. DemoS)45.924Eugenio Giani
Italia VivaMore Europe (IV – +E)
Civic Ecologist Left (incl. Art.1)
Proud Tuscany for Giani (incl. PSI, PRI, CD and IdV)
Green Europe (EV)
Svolta! (IiCVolt – Tuscany in the Heart)
Centre-right coalition League (Lega)16.04Susanna Ceccardi
Forza Italia (FI)8.41
Brothers of Italy (FdI)3.81
Civic Tuscany (incl. C! and FN [5] )
Five Star Movement (M5S)15.04Irene Galletti
Tuscany to the Left (incl. SI, PRC, PaP, SA, èViva)6.31Tommaso Fattori
Communist Party (PC)Salvatore Catello
Italian Communist Party (PCI)Marco Barzanti
3V Movement (M3V)
Tiziana Vigni

Opinion polls

Candidates

Hypothetical candidates

Parties

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 This poll was commissioned by a political party.
  2. Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna (Independent)
  3. Giovanni Donzelli (FdI)

Results

20–21 September 2020 Tuscan regional election results
Tuscany Regional Council 2020.svg
CandidatesVotes%SeatsPartiesVotes%Seats
Eugenio Giani 864,31048.621 Democratic Party 563,11634.6922
Italia VivaMore Europe 72,6494.482
Civic Ecologist Left48,4102.98
Proud Tuscany for Giani47,7782.94
Green Europe 26,9241.66
Svolta!5,2460.32
Total764,12347.0824
Susanna Ceccardi 719,26640.462 League 353,51421.787
Brothers of Italy 219,16513.504
Forza ItaliaUDC 69,4564.281
Civic Tuscany for Change16,9231.04
Total659,05840.6012
Irene Galletti113,7966.401 Five Star Movement 113,8367.011
Tommaso Fattori39,6842.23 Tuscany to the Left 46,5142.87
Salvatore Catello17,0070.96 Communist Party 17,0321.05
Marco Barzanti16,0780.90 Italian Communist Party 15,6170.96
Tiziana Vigni7,6680.43 3V Movement 6,9740.43
Total candidates1,777,809100.004Total parties1,623,154100.0037
Source: Tuscany Region – Electoral Services
Popular vote – Parties
PD
34.69%
League
21.78%
FdI
13.50%
M5S
7.01%
IV
4.48%
FI
4.28%
SCE
2.98%
PT
2.94%
TaS
2.87%
Others
5.47%
Popular vote – President
Giani
48.62%
Ceccardi
40.46%
Galletti
6.40%
Fattori
2.23%
Others
2.29%
Regional Council – Seats summary
Centre-left
60.97%
Centre-right
34.15%
M5S
4.88%

Results by province and capital city

Turnout

RegionTime
20 Sep21 Sep
12:0019:0023:0015:00
Tuscany14.60%36.29%45.89%62.60%
ProvinceTime
20 Sep21 Sep
12:0019:0023:0015:00
Arezzo 13.63%35.60%45.50%64.60%
Florence 16.60%39.74%49.96%66.47%
Grosseto 14.41%33.68%41.87%60.87%
Livorno 14.59%32.87%40.95%57.33%
Lucca 12.39%32.97%41.34%56.64%
Massa and Carrara 12.22%30.98%39.33%54.91%
Pisa 15.27%37.77%48.65%65.57%
Pistoia 13.90%35.77%45.75%61.66%
Prato 15.61%39.69%49.79%64.79%
Siena 13.98%36.22%46.53%64.84%
Source: Tuscany Region – Turnout

See also

References

  1. The swing comes from the combined result of LN–FdI (20.0%), Forza Italia (9.1%) and UdC (1.3%) in the 2015 regional election.
  2. "Il governo ha rinviato le elezioni regionali e comunali". Il Post (in Italian). 20 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. Elezioni Regionali, il 31 Maggio si vota in Toscana, Veneto, Campania, Puglia, Liguria e Marche
  4. "Articolo » Raccolta Normativa Regione Toscana". Raccoltanormativa.consiglio.regione.toscana.it. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
  5. Elezioni regionali Toscana, il Pd: “Candidato di Forza Nuova a Siena nella lista per Ceccardi”