Italian local elections, 2015

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The 2015 Italian local elections were to be held on 31 May, with a second round on 14 June, concurrently with the Regional elections. In Italy, direct elections were held in 1063 comuni: in each comune were chosen mayor and members of the City Council. Of the 1603 comuni, 15 were capoluoghi and 120 had a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants.[1]

In Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Aosta Valley the elections were held on 10 May with a second ballot on 24 May.

Municipal councilors and mayors ordinarily serve a terms of five years.

Voting System

All mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 use the same system.[2]

Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for one of the parties of the candidate's coalition.

If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round two weeks later. The coalition of the elected mayor is guaranteed a majority of seats in the council with the attribution of extra seats, but the majority bonus system is not adopted by the cities of Trentino-Alto Adige. If a Mayor resigns, dies or is ousted from office after more than half the municipal councillors stepped down, an early municipal election[2] (for the Mayor and for all municipal councillors) is called.

The City Council is elected at the same time as the mayor. Voters can vote for a list of candidates and can express up to 2 preferences for candidates of said list.[2] In case of two preferences, they must be given to candidates of both genders. Seats are the attributed to parties proportionally, and for each party list the candidates with the highest number of preferences are elected.

Results

Majority of each coalition in 120 comuni which have a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants:

PartyPolitical leaningComuni
Centre-left coalitionCentre-left41
Centre-right coalitionCentre-right24
Five Star MovementBig tent[3]5
Independents and othersnone45

Mayoral results

Cities Population Incumbent mayor Party Elected mayor Party
Aosta 35,031 Bruno Giordano Centre-right Fulvio Centoz Centre-left
Bolzano 106,075 Luigi Spagnolli Centre-left Luigi Spagnolli Centre-left
Trento 117,311 Alessandro Andreatta Centre-left Alessandro Andreatta Centre-left
Venice 264,919 Vittorio Zappalorto[4] none Luigi Brugnaro Centre-right
Mantua 48,684 Mario Sodano Centre-right Mattia Palazzi Centre-left
Lecco 48,174 Virginio Brivio Centre-left Virginio Brivio Centre-left
Rovigo 50,590 Claudio Ventrice[5] none Massimo Bergamin Centre-left
Chieti 52,218 Umberto Di Primio Centre-right Umberto Di Primio Centre-right
Matera 60,505 Salvatore Adduce Centre-left Raffaello De Ruggieri Centre-right
Andria 100,459 Nicola Giorgino Centre-right Nicola Giorgino Centre-right
Trani 55,810 Maria Rita Iaculli[6] none Amedeo Bottaro Centre-left
Vibo Valentia 33,609 Nicola D'Agostino Centre-right Elio Costa Centre-right
Enna 28,280 Paolo Garofalo Centre-left Maurizio Dipietro Civic
Nuoro 37,358 Alessandro Bianchi Centre-left Andrea Soddu Civic
Macerata 41,625 Romano Carancini Centre-left Romano Carancini Centre-left
Fermo 37,834 Vittorio Saladino[7] none Paolo Calcinaro Civic
Arezzo 99,392 Stefano Gasperini Centre-left Alessandro Ghinelli Centre-right
Agrigento 60,075 Luciana Giammanco[8] none Calogero Firetto Centre-left

City councils

City PD FI LN SEL M5S FdI NCD Others
Trento 19 1 5 0 2 0 3 6
Bolzano 12 2 5 3 4 1 0 18
Aosta 5 0 2 1 2 0 0 17
Venice 7 3 1 0 2 0 2 17
Mantua 18 5 2 2 1 0 0 0
Lecco 20 1 4 0 0 0 3 0
Rovigo 4 6 9 0 1 0 4 2
Arezzo 8 13 5 1 1 2 0 0
Macerata 16 3 0 2 2 2 2 0
Fermo 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 20
Chieti 7 12 0 0 1 0 8 0
Trani 17 1 0 2 1 1 3 2
Andria 6 17 1 2 4 0 2 0
Matera 10 2 0 0 0 0 1 17
Vibo Valentia 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 20
Agrigento 7 7 0 0 2 0 14 0

Results in the capital cities

Trento

Incumbent mayor: Alessandro Andreatta (PD), elected in 2010

Candidate Coalition First round
Votes %
Alessandro Andreatta PD-PATT 26,420 53.70
Claudio Cia FI-LN-FdI 15,266 31.03
Paolo Negroni M5S 4,123 8.38
Antonia Romano SEL-PRC 2,229 4.53
Paolo Primon Independent 1,164 2.37
Eligible voters 93,941 100.0
Did not vote 40,144 39.9
Voted 53,797 60.1
Blank or invalid ballots 2,227 4.3
Total valid votes 49,202 95.7

Bolzano

Incumbent mayor: Luigi Spagnolli (PD), elected in 2005 and re-elected 2010

Candidate Coalition First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Luigi Spagnolli PD-SVP 17,983 41.58 17,630 57.70
Alessandro Urzì FI-others 5,508 12.74 12,926 42.30
Carlo Vettori Lega Nord 4,613 10.67
Cecilia Stefanelli SEL-PRC-Greens 4,521 10.45
Rudi Rieder M5S 4,119 9.52
Giovanni Ivan Benussi CasaPound List 2,952 6.83
Others - 3,550 8.21
Eligible voters 78,460 100.00 78,460 100.0
Did not vote 27,171 34.2 46,531 59.3
Voted 51,289 65.8 31,929 40.7
Blank or invalid ballots 2,071 4.6 1,373 4.3
Total valid votes 49,246 95.4 30,556 95.7

Aosta

Incumbent mayor: Bruno Giordano (UV), elected in 2010

Candidate Coalition First round
Votes %
Fulvio Centoz PD-VdA Left-UV-SA 8,935 54.18
Loris Sartore ALPE 2,094 12.70
Nicoletta Spelgatti Lega Nord 1,719 10.42
Luca Giuseppe Lotto M5S 1,577 9.56
Oreste Alexandre Andrione UVP 1,141 6.92
Carola Carpinello SEL-PRC 608 3.69
Luca Lattanzi FI 417 2.53
Eligible voters 28,661 100.0
Did not vote 11,108 38.7
Voted 17,553 61.3
Blank or invalid ballots 820 4.7
Total valid votes 16,773 95.3

Venice

Incumbent mayor: Vittorio Zappalorto (as Special Commissioner)
previously Giorgio Orsoni (PD), elected in 2010

Candidate Coalition First round Second round
Votes % Votes %
Felice Casson PD-SEL-Greens 46,298 38.01 47,838 46.79
Luigi Brugnaro FI-NCD-UDC 34,790 28.56 54,405 53.21
Davide Scano M5S 15,348 12.60
Angelo Bellati Lega Nord 14,482 11.89
Francesca Zaccariotto FdI-others 8,292 6.80
Others 2,567 2.08
Eligible voters 100.00
Did not vote
Voted
Blank or invalid ballots
Total valid votes

Notes

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
  2. 1 2 3 For more news, Italian electoral law of 1993 for Comuni
  3. ↑ M5S is considered populist, anti-corruption, environmentalist and Eurosceptic.
  4. ↑ Special Commissioner since June 2014.
  5. ↑ Special Commissioner since July 2014.
  6. ↑ Special Commissioner since January 2015.
  7. ↑ Special Commissioner since February 2015.
  8. ↑ Special Commissioner since July 2014.
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