To elect its own regional council, Tuscany uses its own legislation of 2014. The councillors are elected in provincial constituency by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. The constituency of Florence is further divided into four subconstituencies. 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. Additionally, the electoral threshold is 3% of valid votes for lists belonging to a political coalition that obtained at least 10% of the total votes, or 5% for lists running individually or part of a coalition that did not obtain 10% of the total votes. Under this electoral 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 (24 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.[2]
Council apportionment
According to the official 2011 Italian census, the 41 seats to the Regional Council (including that reserved to the president-elect), which must be covered by proportional representation, are so distributed between the ten Tuscan provinces. The Metropolitan City of Florence is further divided into four smaller electoral constituencies: the first constituency consists solely of the city of Florence, the second is located to the east of the city, the third consists of the western part of the metropolitan city around Empoli, and the fourth consists of Florence's closest western suburbs (Scandicci and Sesto Fiorentino).
Seat distribution of the Regional Council of Tuscany
The electorate for the election was divided into 273 municipalities (comuni) containing 3,922 polling stations across the region for 3,007,061 voters.[15]
Giani defeated Tomasi by 13% in the left-leaning region, winning majorities in six of the ten provinces (Florence, Siena, Livorno, Pisa, Arezzo, and Prato) and a plurality in Lucca. Tomasi won narrow 0.7% pluralities in Grosseto and Massa-Carrara, and was 277 votes short of a majority in Pistoia. Giani won strong majorities in and around Florence, Pisa, and Livorno. Bundu came third with 5% of the vote, while the left-wing list supporting her did not reach the 5% threshold for individual lists. In the region's 39 comuni with populations over 20,000, Giani won in 31, including Florence's suburb of Sesto Fiorentino, where he won over two-thirds of the vote while the AVS list received more votes than PD. Tomasi's strongest result was in Montecatini Terme, which he won by 20%, while Bundu's strongest result was in Piombino, where she received one eighth of the votes. As a result, Tuscany maintained its 150-year old trend as part of Italy's Red Belt and its status as a red region (regione rossa).[16][17]
↑ This is compared to the total of Eugenio Giani (centre-left coalition) and Irene Galletti (Five Star Movement) in 2020. Compared to Giani's 2020 centre-left coalition, it is a 5.30% swing.
↑ "Legge regionale 26 settembre 2014, n. 51". Bollettino Ufficiale (in Italian). No.45. 30 September 2014. Archived from the original on 23 January 2025. Retrieved 15 October 2025– via Raccolta Normativa Regione Toscana.
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