2014 Emilia-Romagna regional election
The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 2014 took place on 23 November 2014.
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All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 37.7%[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Seat totals by Province. As this is a PR election, seat totals are determined by popular vote in each province. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The three-term incumbent President of the Region, Vasco Errani of the centre-left Democratic Party resigned in July 2014 after the conviction for fraudulent misrepresentation,[2] triggering a snap election.
In an election marked by the lowest turnout ever in the Region (37.7%), Stefano Bonaccini, a Democrat, was elected President by defeating several candidates, mainly Alan Fabbri of the Northern League (29.9%) and Giulia Gibertoni of the Five Star Movement (13.3%).
Electoral system
editIn Emilia-Romagna, a new electoral law was approved by the Legislative Assembly in July 2014, abolishing the blocked list. The first elections regulated by this law were the regional elections of 2014.
The voter can express one or two preference votes for the candidates on the chosen list; in the case of the expression of two preferences, these must concern candidates of different sex according to "gender preference" (under penalty of annulment of the second preference). As regards the election of the councilors, the law guarantees in any case at least 27 seats on the lists that support the elected president (majority prize), obtaining effects that are very similar to those of the list but acting on the provincial lists. The first 40 seats are distributed on a proportional basis. A seat is then attributed to the candidate for president who came second. The remaining 9 seats are assigned by majority method to the lists that support the elected president if these lists have obtained less than 25 seats with the previous procedure, otherwise the "prize" will be only 4 seats. If, at the end of these assignments, the majority lists have not obtained at least 27 seats, these will be guaranteed by removing some of the seats already assigned to the opposition lists.
Parties and leaders
edit| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
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| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | 40.6 | 18 | Stefano Bonaccini | ||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 1.8 | 1 | ||||
| Civic Emilia-Romagna (incl. PSI, Greens and SC) | — | — | ||||
| Democratic Centre – DemoS (incl. IdV) | — | — | ||||
| Centre-right coalition | Forza Italia | 24.6 | 10 | Alan Fabbri | ||
| Northern League Emilia-Romagna (incl. LNE+LNR) | 13.7 | 4 | ||||
| Brothers of Italy | — | — | ||||
| Five Star Movement | 6.0 | 2 | Giulia Gibertoni | |||
| The Other Emilia-Romagna (incl. PRC and PdCI) | 2.8 | 1 | Maria Cristina Quintavalla | |||
| Popular Emilia-Romagna (incl. NCD and UDC) | — | — | Alessandro Rondoni | |||
Results
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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| Stefano Bonaccini | 615,723 | 49.05 | 1 | ||||||
| Democratic Party | 535,109 | 44.52 | 29 | ||||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 38,845 | 3.23 | 2 | ||||||
| Civic Emilia-Romagna | 17,984 | 1.49 | – | ||||||
| Democratic Centre – Solidary Democracy | 5,247 | 0.43 | – | ||||||
| Total | 597,185 | 49.69 | 31 | ||||||
| Alan Fabbri | 374,736 | 29.85 | 1 | ||||||
| Northern League Emilia-Romagna | 233,439 | 19.42 | 8 | ||||||
| Forza Italia | 100,478 | 8.36 | 2 | ||||||
| Brothers of Italy | 23,052 | 1.91 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 356,969 | 29.70 | 11 | ||||||
| Giulia Gibertoni | 167,022 | 13.31 | – | Five Star Movement | 159,456 | 13.26 | 5 | ||
| Maria Cristina Quintavalla | 50,211 | 4.00 | – | The Other Emilia-Romagna | 44,676 | 3.71 | 1 | ||
| Alessandro Rondoni | 33,437 | 2.66 | – | Popular Emilia-Romagna | 31,635 | 2.63 | – | ||
| Maurizio Mazzanti | 14,129 | 1.13 | – | Free Citizens for Emilia-Romagna | 11,864 | 0.98 | – | ||
| Total candidates | 1,255,258 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 1,201,785 | 100.00 | 48 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | |||||||||