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2005 Emilia-Romagna regional election

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2005 Emilia-Romagna regional election

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All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Vasco Errani Carlo Monaco
Party DS Forza Italia
Alliance The Union House of Freedoms
Seats won 32 18
Seat change Decrease1 Increase1
Popular vote 1,579,989 886,775
Percentage 62.7% 35.3%
Swing Increase6.2% Decrease5.0%

Seat totals by Province. As this is a PR election, seat totals are determined by popular vote in each province.

President before election

Vasco Errani
DS

President-elect

Vasco Errani
DS

The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005.

The incumbent President Vasco Errani, a member of the social democratic Democrats of the Left, was re-elected defeating by a landslide Carlo Monaco, the candidate of the centre-right coalition led by Forza Italia.

Electoral system

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Regional elections in Emilia-Romagna 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

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Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
The Union The Olive Tree 44.5 19 Vasco Errani
Communist Refoundation Party 5.7 2
Federation of the Greens 2.7 1
Party of Italian Communists 2.1 1
Union of Democrats for Europe 0.1
Italy of Values
House of Freedoms Forza Italia 21.1 10 Monaco Carlo
National Alliance 11.4 4
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats 3.7 1
Northern League Emilia-Romagna (LNE+LNR) 3.3 1
New Italian Socialist Party 0.4

Results

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3–4 April 2005 Emilia-Romagna regional election results
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seats
Vasco Errani 1,579,989 62.73 5
The Olive Tree 1,095,566 48.03 22
Communist Refoundation Party 130,609 5.73 2
Party of Italian Communists 79,406 3.48 1
Federation of the Greens 69,475 3.05 1
Italy of Values 31,929 1.40 1
Union of Democrats for Europe 7,732 0.34
Total 1,414,717 62.02 27
Monaco Carlo 886,775 35.21 1
Forza Italia 415,406 18.21 9
National Alliance 201,963 8.85 4
Northern League Emilia-Romagna 109,092 4.78 3
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats 89,787 3.94 1
New Italian Socialist Party 19,372 0.85
Total 835,620 36.63 17
Bruno Barbieri 26,712 1.06 Consumers' List 15,520 0.68
Gianni Correggiari 25,052 0.99 Social Alternative 15,193 0.67
Total candidates 2,518,528 100.00 6 Total parties 2,281,050 100.00 44
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections
Popular vote
Ulivo
48.03%
FI
18.21%
AN
8.85%
PRC
5.73%
LN
4.78%
UDC
3.94%
PdCI
3.48%
FdV
3.05%
Others
3.94%
President
Errani
62.73%
Monaco
35.21%
Barbieri
1.06%
Correggiari
0.99%

References

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