2015 Ligurian regional election

2015 Ligurian regional election

31 May 2015

Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Giovanni Toti Raffaella Paita Alice Salvatore Party Forza Italia Democratic Party Five Star Movement Alliance Centre-right Centre-left Seats won 16 8 6 Seat change 1 17 new Popular vote 226,710 183,272 163,527 Percentage 34.4% 27.8% 24.8% Swing 23.5% 24.4% new

President before election Claudio Burlando PD Subsequent President Giovanni Toti FI

The Ligurian regional election of 2015 took place on 31 May 2015.

Giovanni Toti of Forza Italia, who benefited of the decisive support of the Northern League Liguria, was elected President in a three-way race with Raffaella Paita of the Democratic Party, which was the largest party, and Alice Salvatore of the Five Star Movement.

Electoral system

The Regional Council of Liguria is composed of 30 members, plus the president elect. The president elect is the candidate winning a plurality of votes at the election. Within the council, 24 seats are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation. The remaining 6 councillors are assigned as a majority bonus if the winning candidate has less than 18 seats, otherwise they are distributed among the losing coalitions.

A single list must get at least 3% of the votes in a province in order to access the proportional distribution of seats, unless the list is connected to a coalition with more than 5% of the vote.

Parties and candidates

Political party or alliance		Constituent lists		Previous result		Candidate
				Votes (%)	Seats
	Centre-left coalition		Democratic Party	28.3	10	Raffaella Paita
			Civic lists	—	—
	Centre-right coalition		Forza Italia	31.1	10	Giovanni Toti
			Northern League Liguria	10.2	3
			Brothers of Italy	—	—
			Popular Area (incl. NCD, UDC)	—	—
	Network to the Left (incl. SEL, PRC, PCdI)			6.4	2	Luca Pastorino
	Five Star Movement			1.0	–	Alice Salvatore

Results

31 May 2015 Ligurian regional election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Giovanni Toti	226,710	34.45	7		Northern League Liguria	109,209	20.25	5
						Forza Italia	68,286	12.66	3
						Brothers of Italy	16,562	3.07	1
						Popular Area	9,269	1.72	–
					Total		203,326	37.71	9
	Raffaella Paita	183,272	27.85	1		Democratic Party	138,257	25.64	7
						Ligurians for Paita	17,060	3.16	–
						Change Liguria	8,330	1.54	–
					Total		163,647	30.35	7
	Alice Salvatore	163,527	24.85	–		Five Star Movement	120,219	22.29	6
	Luca Pastorino	61,988	9.42	–		Network to the Left (incl. SEL, PRC, PCd’I)	22,093	4.10	1
						Pastorino List	13,500	2.50	–
					Total		35,593	6.60	1
	Enrico Musso	10,667	1.62	–		Free Liguria	8,408	1.56	–
	Matteo Piccardi	5,136	0.78	–		Workers' Communist Party	3,036	0.56	–
	Antonio Bruno	4,855	0.74	–		Other Liguria Project	3,937	0.73	–
	Mirella Batini	2,016	0.31	–		Women Brotherhood	1,084	0.20	–
Total candidates		658,171	100.00	8	Total parties		539,250	100.00	23
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results

See also

• 2015 Italian regional elections