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2014 Piedmontese regional election

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2014 Piedmentese regional election

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All 51 seats to the Regional Council of Piedmont
Turnout66.44% (Increase 2.11%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Sergio Chiamparino Gilberto Pichetto Fratin Davide Bono
Party Democratic Party Forza Italia Five Star Movement
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
Last election 22 seats, 46.9% 36 seats, 47.3% 2 seats, 4.1%
Seats won 33 9 8
Seat change Increase11 Decrease27 Increase6
Popular vote 1,057,031 495,993 481,453
Percentage 47.1% 22.1% 21.4%
Swing Increase0.2% Decrease25.2% Increase17.3%


President before election

Roberto Cota
LN

President-elect

Sergio Chiamparino
PD

The 2014 Piedmontese regional election took place on 25 May 2014.

Electoral system

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Regional elections in Piedmont were ruled by the Tatarella law, which was approved in 1995 and 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 quota among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian representation system, in which 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 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.

Background

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A snap election, it was prompted by the dissolution of the Regional Council of Piedmont by the Regional Administrative Tribunal on the grounds that one of the lists supporting Roberto Cota (Northern League) in the 2010 Piedmontese regional election in which Cota narrowly defeated Mercedes Bresso, the incumbent president for the Democratic Party (PD), had committed irregularities in filing the slates for the election.[1]

In 2014, Cota chose not to stand again for president and the parties composing his coalition failed to agree on a single candidate,[2] resulting in a landslide victory for Sergio Chiamparino, a member of the PD who had been mayor of Turin from 2001 to 2011.[3]

Parties and candidates

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Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
Centre-right coalition Forza Italia 25.0 13 Gilberto Pichetto Fratin
Northern League Piedmont 16.7 9
Greens Greens 1.8 1
Pensioners' Party 1.5 1
United Right (incl. LD, FLI, DS) 0.7
Civic List for Piedmont
Great South
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party 23.2 12 Sergio Chiamparino
Italy of Values 6.9 3
Moderates 3.1 1
Left Ecology Freedom 1.4 1
Chiamparino for President
Civic Choice
Five Star Movement 3.7 2 Davide Bono
Brothers of Italy Guido Crosetto
New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre Enrico Costa
The Other Piedmont to the Left (incl. PRC, SA, AC) Mauro Filingeri

Results

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25 May 2014 Piedmontese regional election results
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seats
Sergio Chiamparino 1,057,031 47.09 11
Democratic Party 704,541 36.17 17
Chiamparino for President 94,615 4.85 2
Moderates 47,901 2.45 1
Left Ecology Freedom 40,873 2.09 1
Civic Choice 29,313 1.50 1
Italy of Values 13,658 0.70
Total 930,901 47.79 22
Gilberto Pichetto
Fratin
495,993 22.09 1
Forza Italia 302,743 15.57 6
Northern League Piedmont 141,741 7.27 2
Pensioners' Party 13,837 0.71
Civic List for Piedmont 8,853 0.45
Greens Greens 5,435 0.27
United Right 5,004 0.25
Great South 1,676 0.08
Total 479,289 24.61 8
Davide Bono 481,453 21.45 Five Star Movement 396,295 20.34 8
Guido Crosetto 117,807 5.24 Brothers of Italy 72,776 3.73 1
Enrico Costa 67,025 2.98 New Centre-Right – Union of the Centre 49,059 2.51
Mauro Filingeri 25,193 1.12 The Other Piedmont to the Left 19,467 0.99
Total candidates 2,244,502 100.00 12 Total parties 1,947,787 100.00 39
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections


References

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  1. ^ "La Cassazione conferma l'annullamento delle elezioni regionali del 2010 - Repubblica.it". Torino.repubblica.it. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  2. ^ Altri articoli dalla categoria (13 May 2014). "Piemonte, il centrodestra diviso per tre spiana la strada a Chiamparino - Repubblica.it". Torino.repubblica.it. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  3. ^ "[Scrutini] Regionali - Elezioni del 31 maggio 2015 - Ministero dell'Interno". Elezioni.interno.it. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2016.