2010 Ligurian regional election
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The Ligurian regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010.
The incumbent President Claudio Burlando of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) faced Sandro Biasotti, backed by The People of Freedom (PdL) and Northern League Liguria.[1] Biasotti was President of the Region from 2000 to 2005, when he was defeated by Burlando. The Union of the Centre (UdC), a traditionally centre-right political force, supported the centre-left candidate Burlando.
Burlando secured a second consecutive term, but the PdL came out as the largest party in the region.
Electoral system
[edit]Regional elections in Liguria were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.
A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes.
The panachage was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.
Parties and candidates
[edit]| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | 34.4 | 12 | Claudio Burlando | ||
| Federation of the Left | 9.3 | 3 | ||||
| Union of the Centre | 3.3 | 1 | ||||
| Federation of the Greens | 2.0 | 1 | ||||
| Italy of Values | 1.3 | 1 | ||||
| Pensioners' Party | 0.9 | – | ||||
| Burlando List | — | — | ||||
| Bertone List | — | — | ||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | — | — | ||||
| Centre-right coalition | The People of Freedom | 26.8 | 8 | Sandro Biasotti | ||
| Biasotti List | 8.7 | 3 | ||||
| Northern League Liguria | 4.7 | 1 | ||||
| People of Italy | 4.4 | 1 | ||||
| Pensioners' Party | 0.9 | – | ||||
| New Italian Socialist Party | 0.7 | – | ||||
| The Right | — | — | ||||
Results
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claudio Burlando | 424,044 | 52.15 | 8 | Democratic Party | 211,500 | 28.35 | 10 | ||
| Italy of Values | 63,028 | 8.45 | 3 | ||||||
| Union of the Centre | 29,335 | 3.93 | 1 | ||||||
| Federation of the Left | 29,148 | 3.91 | 1 | ||||||
| Us with Burlando | 27,607 | 3.70 | 1 | ||||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 18,418 | 2.47 | 1 | ||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 8,624 | 1.16 | 1 | ||||||
| Bertone List – Democratic Alliance | 5,723 | 0.77 | – | ||||||
| Total | 393,383 | 52.73 | 17 | ||||||
| Sandro Biasotti | 389,132 | 47.85 | 1 | The People of Freedom | 218,398 | 31.10 | 10 | ||
| Northern League Liguria | 76,265 | 10.22 | 3 | ||||||
| Civic Lists for Biasotti for President | 45,261 | 6.07 | 1 | ||||||
| People of Italy | 5,398 | 0.72 | – | ||||||
| The Right | 2,688 | 0.36 | – | ||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 2,566 | 0.34 | – | ||||||
| New Italian Socialist Party | 2,076 | 0.28 | – | ||||||
| Total | 352,652 | 47.27 | 14 | ||||||
| Total candidates | 813,176 | 100.00 | 9 | Total parties | 746,035 | 100.00 | 31 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | |||||||||