2021 Milan municipal election

2021 Milan municipal election
Turnout	47.7% 6.9 pp
	Mayoral election
Mayor before election; Giuseppe Sala ; Independent	Elected Mayor; Giuseppe Sala ; Independent
	City Council election
	All 48 seats in City Council ; 25 seats needed for a majority

Last updated March 10, 2024

Municipal elections took place in Milan, Italy, on 3 and 4 October 2021 to elect the Mayor and the 48 members of the City Council, as well as the nine presidents and 270 councillors of the nine administrative zones (municipi) in which the municipality is divided, each one having one president and 30 councillors.

Electoral system

The semipresidential voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants, for the seventh time. 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.

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 losing party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.^[3]

Background

Centre-left coalition

On 7 December 2020, the incumbent mayor Giuseppe Sala announced that he had chosen to run for re-election in 2021 for a second term in office.^[4] Sala announced that he would present his electoral program and the lists of his coalition before the end of January,^[5] ruling out a possible alliance with the Five Star Movement (M5S).^[6] Sala also sought a reconciliation with Green Europe after the rupture following the cutting of the trees in the Bassini Park to make way for a new department of chemistry for the Politecnico di Milano. Spokeswoman Elena Grandi initially announced an autonomous candidacy with its own candidate for mayor, but ultimately they had a meeting with the outgoing mayor to discuss their support for his candidacy.^[7]

On 12 March 2021 Sala joined the European Green Party.

Parties and candidates

This is a partial list of the major parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.^[8]

		Candidate
Centre-left coalition	Democratic Party	Giuseppe Sala
	Beppe Sala for Mayor (incl. Art.1, DemoS, VèP)
	United Milan – The Left for Sala (incl. SI, èViva)
	The Reformers – Let's work for Milan with Sala (incl. IV, A, +E, CD, PRI, ALI, others)
	Green Europe
	Healthy Milan
	Volt
	Radical Milan with Sala
Centre-right coalition	League	Luca Bernardo
	Brothers of Italy
	Forza Italia
	Luca Bernardo for Mayor
	Popular Milan (incl. Rin., NcI)
	European Liberal Party
Five Star Movement		Layla Pavone
Mariani coalition	Milan in Common (incl. PRC, Pos, RS)	Gabriele Antonio Mariani
Mariani coalition	Civic EnvironmentaList	Gabriele Antonio Mariani
Goggi coalition	Socialists of Milan (incl. PSI, others)	Giorgio Goggi
Goggi coalition	Liberal Milan	Giorgio Goggi
Communist Party		Alessandro Pascale
Power to the People		Bianca Tedone
Gay Party		Mauro Festa
Milan Starts Here		Bryant Biavaschi
Paragone coalition	Paragone for Mayor (incl. Italexit, Vox Italy, PdF)	Gianluigi Paragone
Paragone coalition	Great North	Gianluigi Paragone
Workers' Communist Party		Natale Azzaretto
3V Movement		Teodosio De Bonis
Italian Communist Party		Marco Muggiani

Monica Romano, a municipal councillor of the Democratic Party, became the first trans woman elected to political office in Milan in 2021.^[9]^[10]

Opinion polls

Candidates

First round

Date	Polling firm/ Client	Sample size	Sala	Bernardo	Pavone	Others	Undecided	Lead
Date	Polling firm/ Client	Sample size				Others	Undecided	Lead
4 October 2021	Election result	-	57.7	32.0	2.7	7.6	-	25.7
13–16 Sep 2021	SWG	1,200	51.0	38.0	4.0	7.0	17.0	13.0
13–15 Sep 2021	Winpoll	804	55.5	35.9	3.0	5.6	—	20.0
12–15 Sep 2021	Noto	1,000	48.0	36.5	4.0	11.5	27.0	11.5
7–13 Sep 2021	Ipsos	1,000	49.5	34.9	6.4	9.2	25.0	14.6
10–12 Sep 2021	BiDiMedia	809	48.1	39.2	4.0	8.7	21.0	8.9
6–11 Sep 2021	Tecné	2,000	47.0	41.0	5.0	7.0	42.0	6.0
7–10 Sep 2021	Quorum	805	50.9	37.0	5.6	6.5	47.4	13.9
3–8 Sep 2021	Quorum	804	51.4	37.2	4.6	6.7	47.0	14.2
25–27 Aug 2021	BiDiMedia	811	47.1	39.8	5.1	8.0	28.0	7.3
15–27 Jul 2021	Winpoll	800	48.3	39.6	3.4	8.7	—	8.7
17–26 Jul 2021	Ipsos	1,200	47.5	38.6	7.8	6.2	—	8.9
16–19 Jul 2021	Tecnè	1,000	44.0	44.0	6.0	6.0	43.0	Tie
13–16 Jul 2021	Demopolis	4,220	45.5	42.5	5.0	6.0	—	3.0
2–5 Jul 2021	Demetra	702	46.0	45.0	—	9.0	—	1.0
18–20 Jun 2021	Tecnè	800	44.0	45.0	7.0	4.0	45.0	1.0
14–20 Feb 2021	BiDiMedia	736	47.1	36.9	6.0	10.0	24.0	10.2

Second round

Sala vs. Bernardo

Date	Polling firm/ Client	Sample size	Sala	Bernardo	Undecided	Lead
Date	Polling firm/ Client	Sample size			Undecided	Lead
13–16 Sep 2021	SWG	1,200	57.0	43.0	13.0	14.0
13–15 Sep 2021	Winpoll	804	63.7	36.3	22.0	27.4
7–13 Sep 2021	Ipsos	1,000	60.0	40.0	30.0	20.0
10–12 Sep 2021	BiDiMedia	809	56.5	43.5	24.0	13.0
3–8 Sep 2021	Quorum	804	64.2	35.8	—	28.4
17–26 Jul 2021	Ipsos	1,200	56.1	43.9	—	12.2

Parties

Date	Polling firm	Sample size	Centre-left					Centre-right				M5S		PRC		Others	Undecided	Lead
			PD	+E–A	EV	Art.1-SI	Other	Lega	FI	FdI	Other	M5S	Other	PRC	Other
							Other				Other		Other		Other
4 October 2021	Election result	-	33.9	4.0	5.1	1.6	12.4	10.7	7.1	9.8	5.2	2.8		1.0	0.6	5.9	-	21.5
13–16 Sep 2021	SWG	1,200	23.8	3.8	2.9	2.1	17.1	14.8	7.7	11.8	4.8	5.2		—	6.0	16.0	9.0
13–15 Sep 2021	Winpoll	804	26.3	—	2.8	—	21.9	14.4	8.1	9.6	8.6	3.7		—	4.6	—	11.9
7–13 Sep 2021	Ipsos	1,000	23.5	2.5	1.4	2.4	17.6	13.1	7.1	13.1	4.0	8.5		—	6.8	26.0	10.4
10–12 Sep 2021	BiDiMedia	809	24.6	5.9	1.4	2.6	11.3	15.4	6.5	15.6	4.1	4.1		2.2	1.0	5.0	41.0	9.0
3–8 Sep 2021	Quorum	804	27.6	22.6				14.1	7.9	11.3	3.6	3.4	1.1	—	8.5	45.8	13.5
25–27 Aug 2021	BiDiMedia	811	24.6	5.4	1.4	2.9	10.6	16.6	6.7	14.2	4.1	5.6		2.0	1.0	4.5	—	8.0
14–20 Feb 2021	BiDiMedia	736	20.0	5.6	2.6	2.0	15.2	14.8	10.2	9.8	3.6	6.4		4.1		5.7	24.0	5.2
5 June 2016	Election result	-	29.0	DNP	DNP	3.8	10.2	11.8	20.2	2.4	6.6	10.4		3.5		2.1	-	8.8

Results

Incumbent mayor Beppe Sala, supported by a centre-left coalition, was re-elected in the first round with about 58% of the vote. His main opponent, centre-right candidate Luca Bernardo, got 31% of the votes. The voter turnout was 47.7%, almost 7 percentage points less than in the latest municipal election.^[11]

Summary of the 2021 Milan City Council election results
Mayoral candidates		Votes	%	Leaders seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Giuseppe Sala	277,478	57.73	–		Democratic Party	152,200	33.86	20
						Beppe Sala for Mayor – We, Milan	41,135	9.15	5
						Green Europe	19,281	5.11	3
						The Reformers – Let's work for Milan with Sala	18,049	4.01	2
						Healthy Milan	7,367	1.64	1
						United Milan – The Left for Sala	7,012	1.56	–
						Radical Milan with Sala	4,816	1.07	–
						Volt	2,502	0.56	–
					Total		256,075	56.96	31
	Luca Bernardo	153,637	31.97	1		League	48,283	10.74	6
						Brothers of Italy	43,889	9.76	5
						Forza Italia	31,819	7.08	3
						Luca Bernardo for Mayor	14,055	3.13	1
						Popular Milan	8,367	1.86	1
						European Liberal Party	970	0.22	–
					Total		147,383	32.78	16
	Gianluigi Paragone	14,366	2.99	–		Paragone for Mayor	12,366	2.75	–
						Great North	608	0.14	–
					Total		12,974	2.89	–
	Layla Pavone	12,953	2.70	–		Five Star Movement	12,517	2.78	–
	Gabriele Antonio Mariani	7,566	1.57	–		Milan in Common	4,648	1.03	–
						Civic EnvironmentaList	2,527	0.56	–
					Total		7,175	1.60	–
	Giorgio Goggi	3,402	0.71	–		Socialists of Milan	1,984	0.44	–
						Liberal Milan	838	0.19	–
					Total		2,822	0.63	–
	Bianca Tedone	2,750	0.57	–		Power to the People	2,752	0.57	–
	Mauro Festa	2,201	0.46	–		Gay Party	2,103	0.47	–
	Teodosio De Bonis	2,162	0.45	–		3V Movement	1,935	0.43	–
	Marco Muggiani	1,385	0.29	–		Italian Communist Party	1,439	0.32	–
	Alessandro Pascale	1,297	0.27	–		Communist Party	1,203	0.27	–
	Bryant Biavaschi	859	0.18	–		Milan Starts Here	809	0.18	–
	Natale Azzaretto	552	0.11	–		Workers' Communist Party	556	0.12	–
Total		480,608	100.00	1			449,563	100.00	47
Total valid votes		480,608	97.86
Blank or invalid ballots		10,533	2.14
Turnout		491,141	47.72
Eligible voters		1,029,232	100.00
Source: Ministry of the Interior Archived 2021-10-16 at the Wayback Machine

Popular vote

PD			33.86%
Lega			10.74%
FdI			9.76%
Sala list			9.15%
FI			7.08%
EV			5.11%
Reformists			4.01%
Bernardo list			3.13%
Others			17.16%

Popular vote (coalition)

Centre-left			56.96%
Centre-right			32.78%

Council Seats

PD			41.67%
Lega			12.50%
FdI			10.42%
Sala list			10.42%
FI			6.25%
EV			6.25%
Reformists			4.17%
Others			6.25%

Council Seats (coalition)

Centre-left			64.58%
Centre-right			35.42%

Results in municipi

Presidents and Councils

Following the 2021 election, all the nine municipi were gained by the centre-left coalition.

Table below shows the results for each municipio with the percentage for each candidate and president elected:

Municipio	Centre-left		Centre-right		Others		Elected President	Party

	votes	%	votes	%	votes	%
1	23,017	62.48	12,149	32.98	1,671	4.54	Mattia Ibrahim Abdu	PD
2	27,427	55.36	18,637	37.60	3,488	7.04	Simone Locatelli	PD
3	32,477	58.23	17,343	31.10	5,949	10.67	Caterina Antola	PD
4	30,262	54.93	19,363	35.15	5,468	9.92	Stefano Bianco	SS
5	22,938	54.66	14,988	35.71	4,041	9.63	Natale Carapellese	PD
6	30,311	58.51	16,804	32.44	4,691	9.05	Santo Minniti	PD
7	31,747	53.47	22,038	37.12	5,586	9.41	Silvia Fossati	Ind
8	36,140	57.04	21,951	34.64	5,274	8.32	Giulia Pelucchi	PD
9	31,661	53.82	21,878	37.19	5,286	8.99	Anita Pirovano	SS

Source: Municipality of Milan - Electoral Service

Table below shows the seats for each coalition in every Municipal Council:

Municipio	Centre-left	Centre-right	Others	Total
Municipio				Total
1	21	9	–	30
2	18	12	–	30
3	21	9	–	30
4	18	11	1	30
5	18	11	1	30
6	18	10	2	30
7	18	11	1	30
8	18	11	1	30
9	18	11	1	30

Total	168	95	7	270

Source: Municipality of Milan - Electoral Service

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