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2018 Lombard regional election

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2018 Lombard regional election

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All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy
Turnout73.10% (Decrease 3.64%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Attilio Fontana Giorgio Gori Dario Violi
Party Lega Democratic Party Five Star Movement
Alliance Centre-right Centre-left
Last election 49 seats, 42.8% 22 seats, 38.2% 9 seats, 13.6%
Seats won 49 18 13
Seat change Steady Decrease 4 Increase 4
Popular vote 2,793,370 1,633,367 974,984
Percentage 49.8% 29.1% 17.4%
Swing Increase 7.5% Decrease 9.1% Increase 3.8%

Map of results for the presidential and legislative election .

President before election

Roberto Maroni
LN

President-elect

Attilio Fontana
Lega

The 2018 Lombard regional election took place on 4 March 2018.

The election took place concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lazio regional election.

Electoral system

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Since 2012, Lombardy has adopted its legislation to elect its Council, very similar to the national Tatarella Law of 1995.

While the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councilors are elected by party lists under a form of semi-proportional representation. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the D'Hondt method, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its provincial lists, where candidates are openly selected.

According to the Law 17 February 1968, no. 108, the Regional Council is elected every five years. The election can take place on the fourth Sunday before the completion of five years period.

Campaign

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On 1 March 2016, President Maroni announced his intention to run for re-election as president.[1] Nonetheless, on 8 January 2018 he announced he'd not seek a re-election as president, citing personal reasons and launching former mayor of Varese Attilio Fontana as a candidate of the center-right coalition.

On 1 June 2017 Giorgio Gori, the incumbent mayor of Bergamo, announced his decision to run for the presidency for the center-left coalition.[2]

On 15 January 2018, Fontana stated that the white race and the Western culture were in danger due to the migration flows from Africa.[3] This created lot of protests and criticisms from the centre-left Democratic Party and also the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.[4]

Parties and candidates

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Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
Centre-right coalition Forza Italia (FI) 16.7 19
League (Lega) 13.0 15
Brothers of Italy (FdI) 1.6 2
Us with ItalyUDC (NcI–UDC) 1.6
Pensioners' Party (PP) 0.9 1
Energies for Lombardy (EpL)
Fontana for President (FP)
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party (PD) 25.3 17
Together (PSIGreensAC)
More Europe (+E)
Popular Civic List (CP)
Progressive Lombardy (LP)
Gori for President (GP)
Lombardy for Autonomies Target (OLA)
Five Star Movement (M5S) 14.3 9
Free and Equal (LeU)
Onorio Rosati
Great North (GN)
Giulio Arrighini
CasaPound (CPI)
Angela De Rosa

Results

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Seats in the Regional Council by coalition:
  Centre-right (49)
  Centre-left (18)
  M5S (13)

According to the final results, Attilio Fontana was the new President of Lombardy with more than 49% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.

4 March 2018 Lombard regional election results
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seats
Attilio Fontana 2,793,370 49.75 1
LeagueLombard League 1,553,514 29.64 28
Forza Italia 750,628 14.32 14
Brothers of Italy 190,804 3.64 3
Fontana for President 76,637 1.46 1
Us with ItalyUDC 66,355 1.26 1
Energies for Lombardy 27,967 0.53 1
Pensioners' Party 20,259 0.38
Total 2,686,610 51.29 48
Giorgio Gori 1,633,367 29.09 1
Democratic Party 1,008,496 19.24 15
Gori for President 158,671 3.02 2
More Europe 108,743 2.07
Lombardy for the Autonomies Target 62,840 1.19
Together 35,071 0.66
Popular Civic List 20,668 0.39
Progressive Lombardy 20,036 0.38
Total 1,414,674 26.99 17
Dario Violi 974,984 17.36 Five Star Movement 933,243 17.80 13
Onorio Rosati 108,407 1.93 Free and Equal 111,296 2.12
Angela De Rosa 50,368 0.89 CasaPound 45,416 0.86
Massimo Gatti 38,194 0.68 Left for Lombardy 35,713 0.68
Giulio Arrighini 15,791 0.28 Great North 13,769 0.26
Total candidates 5,614,481 100.00 2 Total parties 5,240,126 100.00 78
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections


Popular vote (party)
Lega
29.64%
PD
19.24%
M5S
17.80%
FI
14.32%
FdI
3.64%
GP
3.02%
LeU
2.12%
+E
2.07%
FP
1.46%
NcIUDC
1.26%
Others
5.43%
Popular vote (coalition)
CDX
51.33%
CSX
27.02%
M5S
17.80%
LeU
2.12%
Others
1.77%


President
Fontana
49.75%
Gori
29.09%
Violi
17.36%
Rosati
1.93%
De Rosa
0.89%
Gatti
0.68%
Arrighini
0.26%

Results by province

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Election results map. Orange denotes municipalities and provinces won by Gori and Blue denotes those won by Fontana.
Province Attilio Fontana Giorgio Gori Dario Violi Onorio Rosati Others Turnout
Milan 742,685
42.83%
589,969
34.02%
326,040
18.80%
42,123
2.42%
33,169
1.90%
72.03%
Brescia 391,419
54.59%
189,426
26.42%
106,845
14.90%
12,498
1.74%
16,786
2.33%
76.55%
Bergamo 352,462
54.98%
185,003
28.86%
83,409
13.01%
8,254
1.28%
11,889
1.84%
75.87%
Varese 271,614
53.59%
123,917
24.45%
93,234
18.39%
7,985
1.57%
10,064
1.98%
71.06%
Monza and Brianza 245,806
48.39%
145,635
28.67%
98,717
19.43%
9,639
1.89%
8,144
1.58%
75.82%
Como 194,665
56.23%
85,538
24.70%
56,613
16.35%
5,266
1.52%
4,107
1.17%
70.59%
Pavia 153,811
51.42%
76,416
25.55%
56,535
18.90%
5,941
1.98%
6,375
2.12%
69.76%
Mantua 99,923
44.53%
64,569
28.77%
49,990
22.27%
4,981
2.21%
4,927
2.19%
70.36%
Cremona 105,759
51.67%
55,815
27.26%
34,676
16.94%
3,683
1.79%
4,744
2.31%
73.94%
Lecco 103,875
51.85%
60,269
30.08%
30,643
15.29%
3,705
1.84%
1,821
0.89%
75.66%
Lodi 66,061
51.86%
32,115
25.21%
25,151
19.74%
2,547
1.99%
1,493
1.15%
75.12%
Sondrio 65,290
61.74%
24,695
23.35%
13,131
12.41%
1,785
1.68%
834
0.77%
66.26%

Results by capital city

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City Attilio Fontana Giorgio Gori Dario Violi Onorio Rosati Others Turnout
Milan 273,261
40.16%
279,821
41.12%
96,639
14.20%
18,712
2.75%
11,986
1.75%
68.39%
Brescia 45,453
43.38%
38,680
36.92%
15,405
14.70%
2,984
2.84%
2,244
2.13%
74.37%
Monza 30,841
44.93%
24,285
35.38%
10,892
15.87%
1,553
2.26%
1,060
1.52%
73.07%
Bergamo 27,463
41.51%
28,652
43.30%
7,518
11.36%
1,364
2.06%
1,159
1.74%
73.09%
Como 20,958
46.77%
15,501
34.59%
6,902
15.40%
933
2.08%
510
1.12%
64.47%
Varese 23,348
53.13%
13,228
30.10%
5,927
13.48%
744
1.69%
693
1.56%
68.72%
Pavia 17,035
43.22%
14,863
37.66%
5,530
14.03%
1,194
3.02%
811
2.05%
68.02%
Cremona 17,579
44.92%
12,710
32.48%
6,575
16.80%
1,166
2.97%
1,099
2.97%
72.13%
Mantua 9,262
35.70%
10,126
39.03%
4,986
19.22%
866
3.33%
698
2.68%
68.46%
Lecco 12,857
46.55%
9,915
35.90%
3,955
14.32%
665
2.40%
225
0.80%
73.83%
Lodi 11,593
47.35%
8,040
32.84%
3,932
16.06%
607
2.47%
307
1.24%
72.86%
Sondrio 6,038
50.47%
3,998
33.42%
1,514
12.65%
313
2.61%
99
0.81%
66.93%

Seats by province

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Province Lega PD FI M5S FdI Others Total
Milan 6 5 4 5 1 3 24
Brescia 4 1 3 1 1 - 10
Bergamo 4 1 1 1 1 1 9
Varese 3 1 1 1 - 1 7
Monza and Brianza 3 1 2 1 - - 7
Como 2 1 1 1 - - 5
Pavia 1 1 1 1 - - 4
Cremona 1 1 - 1 - - 3
Lecco 1 1 1 - - - 3
Mantua 1 1 - 1 - - 3
Lodi 1 1 - - - - 2
Sondrio 1 - - - - - 1
Total 28 15 14 13 3 5 78

References

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