Lazio regional election, 2018

Lazio regional election, 2018
All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Lazio
	Most voted candidate by province.
President of Lazio before election; Nicola Zingaretti ; Democratic Party	President of Lazio; Nicola Zingaretti ; Democratic Party

Last updated April 17, 2019

The Lazio regional election of 2018 took place in Lazio, Italy, on 4 March 2018,^[1] concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lombard regional election.

Lazio is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy. Situated in the central peninsular section of the country, it has almost 5.9 million inhabitants – making it the second most populated region of Italy – and its GDP of more than 170 billion euros per annum means that it has the nation's second largest regional economy. The capital of Lazio is Rome, which is also Italy's capital and the country's largest city.

The Five Star Movement is a political party in Italy. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian and blogger, and Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web strategist. After Casaleggio's death in April 2016, Grillo appointed a directorate composed of five leading MPs, which lasted until the following October when he dissolved it and proclaimed himself the "political head" of the M5S. Grillo is also formally president of the association named the Five Star Movement; his nephew, Enrico Grillo, serves as vice president; and his accountant, Enrico Maria Nadasi, as secretary. Davide Casaleggio, Gianroberto's son, has an increasingly important albeit unofficial role.

Electoral system

The Regional Council is elected with a mixed system: 39 MPs are chosen with a form of proportional representation using a largest remainder method with open lists and a 5% threshold, while 11 MPs are elected with a block voting system with closed lists. One seat is for the elected President.

Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems in which divisions in an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. If n% of the electorate support a particular political party, then roughly n% of seats will be won by that party. The essence of such systems is that all votes contribute to the result - not just a plurality, or a bare majority. The most prevalent forms of proportional representation all require the use of multiple-member voting districts, as it is not possible to fill a single seat in a proportional manner. In fact, the implementations of PR that achieve the highest levels of proportionality tend to include districts with large numbers of seats.

The largest remainder method is one way of allocating seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems. It contrasts with various divisor methods.

Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected. This is as opposed to closed list, which allows only active members, party officials, or consultants to determine the order of its candidates and gives the general voter no influence at all on the position of the candidates placed on the party list. Additionally, an open list system allows voters to select individuals rather than parties. Different systems give voter different amounts of influence. Voter's choice is usually called preference vote.

RM	LT	VT	FR	RT	Total
30	3	3	3	0	39

Parties and candidate

		Leader
Centre-left coalition	Democratic Party (PD)	Nicola Zingaretti
	Zingaretti List (LZ)
	Free and Equal (LeU)
	More Europe (+E)
	Solidary Centre (CS)
	Together (I)
Centre-right coalition	Forza Italia (FI)	Stefano Parisi
	League (L)
	Brothers of Italy (FdI)
	Us with Italy–UDC (NcI–UDC)
	Energies for Italy (EpI)
Five Star Movement (M5S)		Roberta Lombardi
Pirozzi for President	Sergio Pirozzi for President (SP)	Sergio Pirozzi
Pirozzi for President	Nathan List (LN)	Sergio Pirozzi
CasaPound Italy (CPI)		Mauro Antonini
Popular Civic List (CP)		Jean Leonard Touadi
Power to the People (PaP)		Elisabetta Canitano
Christian Democracy (DC)		Giovanni Paolo Azzaro
Reconquer Italy (RI)		Stefano Rosati

Opinion polls

Date	Polling firm	Zingaretti	Parisi	Lombardi	Pirozzi	Others	Lead
Date	Polling firm					Others	Lead
15 Feb 2018	Index Research	37.0	27.0	25.5	7.5	3.0	10.0
13 Feb 2018	Termometro Politico	30.9	25.0	27.0	10.7	6.4	3.9
12 Feb 2018	Ipsos	33.0	22.0	29.0	12.0	4.0	4.0
8 Feb 2018	Index Research	39.0	26.0	23.5	8.5	3.0	13.0
2 Feb 2018	Piepoli	40.0	17.0	26.5	7.0	9.5	13.5
30 Jan–1 Feb 2018	Izi	36.6	23.2	25.7	11.7	2.8	10.9
18 Jan 2018	Index Research	45.0	20.0	20.0	11.0	4.0	25.0
8–10 Jan 2018	Index Research	44.0	25.0	20.0	8.0	3.0	19.0

Results

4 March 2018 Lazio regional election results
Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats

	Nicola Zingaretti	1,018,736	32.92	1
						Democratic Party	539,131	21.25	18
						Zingaretti List	110,080	4.34	3
						Free and Equal	88,416	3.48	1
						More Europe	52,451	2.07	1
						Solidary Centre	48,872	1.93	1
						Together	28,443	1.12	–
					Total		867,393	34.19	24
	Stefano Parisi	964,757	31.18	1
						Forza Italia	371,155	14.63	6
						League	252,772	9.96	4
						Brothers of Italy	220,460	8.69	3
						Us with Italy–UDC	41.234	1.63	1
						Energies for Italy	37,043	1.46	–
					Total		922,664	36.37	14
	Roberta Lombardi	835,137	26.99	–		Five Star Movement	559,752	22.06	10
	Sergio Pirozzi	151,339	4.89	–
						Sergio Pirozzi for President	93,942	3.70	1
						Nathan List	3,443	0.14	–
					Total		97,385	3.84	1
	Mauro Antonini	59,898	1.94	–		CasaPound Italy	42,609	1.68	–
	Elisabetta Canitano	43,895	1.42	–		Power to the People	33,372	1.32	–
	Jean Leonard Touadi	7,708	0.25	–		Popular Civic List	6,073	0.24	–
	Giovanni Paolo Azzaro	7,614	0.25	–		Christian Democracy	5,325	0.21	–
	Rosati Stefano	4,952	0.16	–		Reconquer Italy	2,565	0.10	–

Total candidates		3,094,036	100.00	2	Total parties		2,537,138	100.00	49
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Aftermath

2018 motion of no confidence

On 1 December 2018, a motion of no confidence in the government of Nicola Zingaretti tabled by Centre-right coalition was defeated 22 to 26, with one no-vote of Forza Italia and a few absent.

The centre-right coalition is a political alliance of political parties in Italy, active—under several forms and names—since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed his Forza Italia party.

Ballot →		1 December 2018
Motion of no confidence
Required majority →		26 out of 51 N
	YYes • M5S (10) • FI (3) • League (3) • FdI (3) • NcI (1) • EpI (1) • Mixed Group (1)	22 / 51
	NNo • PD (19) • Zingaretti (3) • LeU (1) • +E (1) • CS (1) • FI (1)	26 / 51
	Abstentions	0 / 51
	Absentees • Pirozzi (1) • FI (1) • Mixed Group (1)	3 / 51
Sources^[4]^[5]

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[1] Election day il 4 marzo: si vota anche per Lazio e Lombardia

[2] Elezioni Lazio, Zingaretti confermato Presidente: "Me vie' da piagne"

[3] Gli Eletti in Consiglio Regionale

[4] ttp://www.dire.it/01-12-2018/268453-lazio-il-consiglio-regionale-respinge-la-mozione-di-sfiducia-a-zingaretti/

[5] ttps://www.ciociariaoggi.it/news/politica/68479/sfiducia-a-zingaretti-respinta-il-centrodestra-si-sfalda-governatore-pia-forte