2020 Venice municipal election

2020 Venice municipal election

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Turnout	62.2% (2.4%)
Candidate Luigi Brugnaro Pier Paolo Baretta Marco Gasparinetti Party Independent Democratic Party Independent Alliance Centre-right Centre-left Popular vote 66,750 36,092 5,005 Percentage 54.14% 29.27% 4.06%
Mayor before election Luigi Brugnaro Centre-right Elected mayor Luigi Brugnaro Centre-right

A Municipal election was held in Venice, Italy, on 20 and 21 September. It was originally scheduled to take place on May 31, 2020, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy. ^{[1] [2]}

Electoral system

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities 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 during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats. ^[3]

Parties and candidates

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-right coalition		Forza Italia (FI)	Luigi Brugnaro
			League (Lega)
			Brothers of Italy (FdI)
			Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor
	Centre-left coalition		Democratic Party (PD)	Pier Paolo Baretta
			Green Progressive Venice (incl. Art.1, EV, SI, Pos and PRC)
			Venice is Yours (incl. IV, +E and PSI)
			Common Idea for Venice and Mestre
			Turning Point in Common (incl. Volt and IiC)
	Five Star Movement (M5S)			Sara Visman
	All the City Together! (TCI) (incl. PaP)			Giovanni Andrea Martini
	Earth and Water 2020 (TeA)			Marco Gasparinetti
	Party of Venetians (PdV)			Stefano Zecchi
	Solidary and Young Italy (IGS)			Maurizio Callegari
	Sitran Civic List			Marco Sitran

Opinion polls

Candidates

Date	Polling firm/ Client	Sample size	Brugnaro	Baretta	Visman	Martini	Zecchi	Gasparinetti	Others	Undecided	Lead
10 Aug 2020	Fabbrica Politica [a]	500	55.0	24.3	5.4 [b]	5.6	7.1	2.6	—	—	30.7

Parties

Date	Polling firm	Sample size	Centre-right				Centre-left				M5S	TCI	TeA	PdV	Others	Undecided	Lead
			Lega	FI	FdI	Other	PD	IV	VVP	Other
16 Jun 2020	Quorum [a]	900	22.6	3.9	7.8	21.1	23.2	1.7	1.7	0.4	5.0	2.4	5.2	3.0	2.0	53.1	0.6

1. This poll was commissioned by a political party.
2. In this poll the M5S mayoral candidate was Elena La Rocca

Results

Summary of the 20–21 September 2020 Venice City Council election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Leaders seats	Parties	Votes	%	Seats
	Luigi Brugnaro	66,750	54.14	–	Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor	37,914	31.67	14
					League – Venetian League	14,806	12.37	5
					Brothers of Italy	7,855	6.56	2
					Forza Italia	3,255	2.72	1
					The Cities	1,148	0.96	–
	Pier Paolo Baretta	36,092	29.27	1	Democratic Party	22,962	19.18	7
					Green Progressive Venice	5,907	4.93	1
					Venice is Yours (+Eu – IV – PSI)	4,308	3.60	1
					Turning Point in Common (Volt – IiC)	952	0.80	–
					Common Idea	789	0.66	–
	Marco Gasparinetti	5,005	4.06	1	Earth and Water 2020	4,847	4.05	–
	Sara Visman	4,822	3.91	1	Five Star Movement	4,716	3.94	–
	Stefano Zecchi	4,344	3.52	1	Party of Venetians	4,228	3.53	–
	Giovanni Andrea Martini	4,305	3.49	1	All the City Together!	3,021	2.52	–
					For Mestre and Venice	1,083	0.90	–
	Alessandro Busetto	807	0.65	–	Workers' Communist Party	783	0.65	–
	Marco Sitran	605	0.49	–	Sitran Civic List	553	0.46	–
	Maurizio Callegari	570	0.46	–	Solidary and Young Italy – Vox – Human Value Party	570	0.48	–
Total		123,300	100.00	5		119,697	100.00	31
Source: Ministry of the Interior

See also

• 2020 Italian local elections

References

1. "Il governo ha rinviato le elezioni regionali e comunali" (in Italian). Il Post. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
2. Elezioni Regionali, il 31 Maggio si vota in Toscana, Veneto, Campania, Puglia, Liguria e Marche
3. "Ministero dell'Interno - Approfondimento". Ministero dell'Interno (in Italian). Retrieved 17 July 2020.