Milan municipal election, 2016

Milan mayoral election, 2016
Turnout	54.6% and 51.8%
	Result of second round voting by Milan municipalities. Red municipalities are those with most votes for Sala and Azure those for Parisi.
Mayor before election; Giuliano Pisapia ;	Elected Mayor; Giuseppe Sala ;

Last updated April 24, 2019

Municipal elections were held in Milan on 5 and 19 June 2016 to elect the Mayor of Milan and the 48 members of the City Council.

Milan is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,372,810 while its metropolitan city has a population of 3,245,308. Its continuously built-up urban area has a population estimated to be about 5,270,000 over 1,891 square kilometres. The wider Milan metropolitan area, known as Greater Milan, is a polycentric metropolitan region that extends over central Lombardy and eastern Piedmont and which counts an estimated total population of 7.5 million, making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the 54th largest in the world. Milan served as capital of the Western Roman Empire from 286 to 402 and the Duchy of Milan during the medieval period and early modern age.

The Mayor of Milan is an elected politician who, along with the Milan’s City Council of 48 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Milan in northern Italy. The title is the equivalent of Lord Mayor in the meaning of an actual executive leader.

The City Council of Milan is the top-tier administrative body of the municipality of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. It consists of the elected Mayor of Milan and an elected 48-member assembly. It represents a legislative body which can also control Mayor's policy guidelines and be able to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence.

Giuliano Pisapia is an Italian lawyer and politician, twice member of the Parliament and former Mayor of Milan. As a politician, he has been a member of two left-wings parties, first Proletarian Democracy and then the Communist Refoundation Party; in Milan's mayoral election, he was endorsed by a large left-wing coalition, after winning the primary election of the Centre-left with the strong support of Nichi Vendola's Left Ecology Freedom. As a lawyer, he participated in a number of notable trials with political implications, including that of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and the trial that followed the death of anti-global activist Carlo Giuliani, shot by the police during the 27th G8 summit.

Background

Center-left primary election

On 22 March 2015, the incumbent mayor Giuliano Pisapia announced that he had chosen not to run for re-election in 2016 for a second term in office. Following Pisapia's decision, the ruling center-left coalition decided to call an open primary election to choose a new single mayoral candidate.^[3]

A primary election is the process by which voters, either the general public or members of a political party, can indicate their preference for a candidate in an upcoming general election or by-election, thus narrowing the field of candidates.

Four people registered to be candidates in this election: Giuseppe Sala, business executive and Milan Expo 2015 CEO;^[4] Francesca Balzani, current deputy mayor, responsible for Budget in the Milan's municipal government and former MEP;^[5] Pierfrancesco Majorino, current responsible for Social Equalities in the municipal government of the city;^[6] Antonio Iannetta, former president of UISP (Italian Sport Union for Everyone).

Giuseppe "Beppe" Sala is an Italian manager and politician. He was CEO of the 2015 Universal Exposition in Milan from June 2010 to December 2015. Sala was also a candidate for the Democratic Party to become Mayor of Milan in the 2016 municipal election, which he won, becoming mayor on 21 June 2016. Sala is often nicknamed "Mr. Expo", for his position as CEO of the Universal Exposition.

Expo 2015 was a universal exposition hosted by Milan, Italy. It opened on May 1 at 10:00 CEST and closed on October 31. Milan hosted an exposition for the second time; the first was the 1906 Milan International.

A Member of the European Parliament (MEP), also called a Eurodeputy is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

The election took place on 6–7 February 2016:

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Giuseppe Sala	PD	25,600	42.33
	Francesca Balzani	PD	20,516	33.92
	Pierfrancesco Majorino	PD	13,916	23.01
	Antonio Iannetta	Independent	443	0.73
Total			60,475	100.00

Total voters: 60,900

Center-right candidacy

On 10 February 2016, Stefano Parisi, former City manager of Milan (1997-2001), announced his acceptance to become the center-right coalition candidate for the mayoral election, a role proposed to him by the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.^[7] Parisi is also the former CEO of the telecommunication company Fasteweb; Parisi in last 2015 was the manager of Corrado Passera's early majoral campaign for their party, Italia Unica: Passera retired to run for Major when Parisi resigned after a meeting with Berlusconi.

Stefano Parisi is an Italian businessman and politician, General Secretary of Confindustria for 4 years and founder of Energies for Italy, a political party member of the centre-right coalition.

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government. Local officials serving in this position are sometimes referred to as the chief executive officer (CEO) or chief administrative officer (CAO) in some municipalities.

Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments.

Others

On 8 November 2015, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement choose its own candidate with a closed primary election. The 52 yo unemployed activist Patrizia Bedori was chosen as official mayoral candidate. On that date no official data were provided by the movement.^[8] However, on 12 March 2016 Bedori stepped down from the candidacy, saying tearful during an assembly that she wasn't the right person to represent the movement. Afterwards on 24 March 2016 with a closed virtual primary on the web, the Five Star Movement choose its new candidate, Gianluca Corrado, who received 632 votes out of 876.^[9]

Voting system

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy of cities with a population higher than 15,000. 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 at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.

For the zones the voting system is the same, not referred to the mayor but to the president of the zones.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

Parties and candidates

This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.

		Leader
Centre-left coalition	Democratic Party	Giuseppe Sala
	Left for Milan
	Italy of Values
Centre-right coalition	Forza Italia	Stefano Parisi
	Lega Nord
	Brothers of Italy
	New Centre-Right
	Unique Italy
Five Star Movement	Five Star Movement	Gianluca Corrado
Milan in common	Milan in common	Basilio Rizzo
Italian Radicals	Italian Radicals	Marco Cappato

Opinion polling

Results

Candidate		Party	First round		Second round
Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Giuseppe Sala	PD–SI–IdV	224,156	41.69	264,481	51.70
	Stefano Parisi	FI–LN–FdI–NCD–PP	219,218	40.77	247,052	48.30
	Gianluca Corrado	M5S	54,099	10.06	N/A
	Basilio Rizzo	PRC	19,143	3.56	N/A
	Marco Cappato	RI	10,104	1.88	N/A
	Niccolò Mardegan	PdF	6,018	1.12	N/A
	Natale Azzaretto	PCdL	2,220	0.41	N/A
	Luigi Santambrogio	PSI	1,483	0.28	N/A
	Maria Teresa Baldini	Independent	1,143	0.21	N/A

Eligible voters			1,006,701	100.0	1,006,701	100.0
Did not vote			456,507	45.35	485,214	48.20
Voted			550,194	54.65	521,487	51.80
Blank or invalid ballots			12,610	2.30	9,954	1.90
Total valid votes			537,584	97.70	511,533	98.10

Summary of the 2016 Milan City Council election results

e • d
Parties and coalitions				Votes	%	Seats

		Democratic Party (Partito Democratico)	PD	145,933	28.97	22
		Left for Milan (Sinistra per Milano)	SpM	19,281	3.83	2
		Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori)	IdV	3,454	0.69	0
		Others		38,674	7.68	5
Sala coalition (Left)				207,342	41.16	29
		Forza Italia	FI	101,802	20.21	9
		Lega Nord	LN	59,313	11.77	4
		New Centre-Right (Nuovo Centro-Destra)	NCD	15,803	3.14	1
		Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia)	FdI	12,197	2.42	0
		Pensioners' Party (Partito Pensionati)	PP	2,164	0.43	0
		Others		15,215	3.02	1
Parisi coalition (Right)				206,494	40.99	15
	Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle)		M5S	52,376	10.40	3
	Milan in Common (Milano in Comune)		MC	17,635	3.50	1
	Italian Radicals (Radicali Italiani)		RI	9,390	1.86	0
	Others			10,484	2.08	0

Total				503,721	100.00	48

Votes cast / turnout				516,331	51.28
Registered voters				1,006,701

Source: Municipality of Milan - Electoral Service

Note: if a defeated candidate for Mayor obtained over 3% of votes, he/she is automatically elected city councilor.

The candidate elected Major is not a member of the City Council, but has the right to vote in the City Council; if Stefano Parisi will resign, his seat in the City Council will pass to Riccardo De Corato (former Deputy Major, 1997-2011), first candidate of Brothers of Italy (FdI), because this list is the first list in the coalition under the electoral threshold.

Popular vote

PD			28.97%
FI			20.20%
LN			11.77%
M5S			10.39%
NM			7.67%
SpM			3.82%
MiC			3.50%
NCD			3.13%
Others			10.55%

Council Seats

PD			45.83%
FI			18.75%
NM			10.42%
LN			8.33%
M5S			6.25%
SpM			4.12%
MiC			2.1%
NCD			2.1%
Others			2.1%

Popular vote (coalition)

Centre-left			41.16%
Centre-right			40.99%
M5S			10.06%
MiC			3.56%

Council Seats (coalition)

Centre-left			60.42%
Centre-right			31.25%
M5S			6.25%
MiC			2.10%

Zone results

After the 2011 election, all nine zone were governed by the center-left. Following the 2016 election, five were gained by the center-right coalition and four by the center-left.

Table below show the results for each zones with the percentage for each coalition:

Zone	Centre-left	Centre-right	M5S	Others	Elected President	Party
Zone
1	45.2	41.3	6.1	6.4	Fabio Luigi Arrigoni	PD
2	38.5	43.1	11.6	6.9	Samuele Piscina	LN
3	43.7	38.8	9.6	7.8	Caterina Antola	PD
4	41.2	41.6	10.5	6.8	Paolo Guido Giancarlo Maria Bassi	LN
5	40.7	41.0	11.8	8.4	Alessandro Bramanti	NCD
6	41.7	40.2	11.5	6.7	Santo Minniti	PD
7	39.7	42.3	11.4	6.6	Marco Bestetti	FI
8	42.6	40.2	11.0	6.1	Simone Zambelli	SI
9	38.9	40.9	12.9	7.2	Giuseppe Antonio Lardieri	FI

Source: Municipality of Milan - Electoral Service

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References

↑ According to the Italian Law, the first round of local elections in Italy must always be held on a sunday between 15 April and 15 June. The second round must always be held on a sunday after 14 days from first round.
↑ Oriana Liso (March 22, 2015). "L'annuncio di Pisapia: "Non mi ricandido"". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
↑ Oriana Liso (December 8, 2015). "Milano, il centrosinistra ha deciso: primarie il 7 febbraio". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
↑ Oriana Liso (December 22, 2015). "Milano, Giuseppe Sala ai blocchi di partenza". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
↑ Oriana Liso (December 16, 2015). "Milano, la vicesindaco Balzani si candida". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
↑ Oriana Liso (December 22, 2015). "Primarie Milano, Majorini ce l'ha fatta". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
↑ Sergio Rame (February 10, 2016). "Parisi in campo a Milano: sarà lui il candidato del centrodestra". Il Giornale. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
↑ Luca De Vito (November 8, 2015). "Milano, I grillini hanno scleto". La Repubblica. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
↑ Andrea Monatanri (March 24, 2016). "M5S, referendum a Milano". La Repubblica. Retrieved April 17, 2016.

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[1] According to the Italian Law, the first round of local elections in Italy must always be held on a sunday between 15 April and 15 June. The second round must always be held on a sunday after 14 days from first round.

[2] Oriana Liso (March 22, 2015). "L'annuncio di Pisapia: "Non mi ricandido"". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 22, 2015.

[3] Oriana Liso (December 8, 2015). "Milano, il centrosinistra ha deciso: primarie il 7 febbraio". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 22, 2015.

[4] Oriana Liso (December 22, 2015). "Milano, Giuseppe Sala ai blocchi di partenza". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

[5] Oriana Liso (December 16, 2015). "Milano, la vicesindaco Balzani si candida". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

[6] Oriana Liso (December 22, 2015). "Primarie Milano, Majorini ce l'ha fatta". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

[7] Sergio Rame (February 10, 2016). "Parisi in campo a Milano: sarà lui il candidato del centrodestra". Il Giornale. Retrieved February 23, 2016.

[8] Luca De Vito (November 8, 2015). "Milano, I grillini hanno scleto". La Repubblica. Retrieved April 17, 2016.

[9] Andrea Monatanri (March 24, 2016). "M5S, referendum a Milano". La Repubblica. Retrieved April 17, 2016.