Lombard regional election, 2018

Lombard regional election, 2018
4 March 2018
All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy
Turnout 73.10% Decrease 3.64%

  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Attilio Fontana Giorgio Gori
Party Northern League Democratic Party
Last election 49 seats, 42.8% 22 seats, 38.2%
Seats won 49 18
Seat change Steady Decrease 4
Popular vote 2,793,370 1,633,367
Percentage 49.7% 29.1%
Swing Increase 7.5% Decrease 9.1%
President before election

Roberto Maroni
LN

 President-elect

Attilio Fontana
LN

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

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

Electoral law

Since 2012, Lombardy has adopted its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to 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 since the fourth Sunday before the completion of this five years period.

Campaign

On 1 March 2016, President Maroni announced his intention to run for a 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 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 candidate

Political alliance Constituent lists Leader
Centre-right coalition Forza Italia (FI)
Attilio Fontana
Northern League (LN)
Brothers of Italy (FdI)
Energies for Lombardy (EpL)
Us with Italy–UDC (NcI–UDC)
Fontana List (LF)
Pensioners' Party (PP)
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party (PD)
Giorgio Gori
Together (I)
More Europe (+E)
Popular Civic List (CP)
Progressive Lombardy (LP)
Gori List (LG)
Focus Lombardy for Autonomies (OLpA)
Five Star Movement (M5S)
Dario Violi
Free and Equal (LeU)
Onorio Rosati
Great North (GN)
Giulio Arrighini
CasaPound Italy (CPI)
Angela De Rosa

Results

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
Candidate Regional candidates Provincial lists Total
votes % seats Party votes % swing seats party group
Attilio Fontana 2,793,370 49.75 1 Lega Lombarda—Lega Nord LN 1,553,514 29.64 Increase16.68 28 29 49
Forza Italia FI 750,628 14.32 Decrease2.41 14 14
Brothers of Italy FdI 190,804 3.64 Increase2.09 3 3
Fontana List LF 76,637 1.46 new 1 1
Us with Italy–UDC NCI–UDC 66,355 1.26 new 1 1
Energies for Lombardy EpI 27,967 0.53 new 1 1
Pensioners' Party PP 20,259 0.38 Decrease0.56 0 0
Giorgio Gori 1,633,367 29.09 1 Democratic Party PD 1,008,496 19.24 Decrease6.09 15 16 18
Gori List LG 158,671 3.02 new 2 2
More Europe +E 108,743 2.07 new 0 0
Lombardy for the Autonomies 62,840 1.19 new 0 0
Together 35,071 0.66 new 0 0
Popular Civic List 20,668 0.39 new 0 0
Progressive Lombardy 20,036 0.38 new 0 0
Dario Violi 974,984 17.36 - Five Star Movement M5S 933,243 17.80 Increase3.46 13 13 13
Onorio Rosati 108,407 1.93 - Free and Equal LeU 111,296 2.12 new 0 0 -
Angela De Rosa 50,368 0.89 - CasaPound 45,416 0.86 new 0 0 -
Roberto Massimo Gatti 38,194 0.68 - Left for Lombardy 35,713 0.68 new 0 0 -
Giulio Arrighini 15,791 0.28 - Great North 13,769 0.26 new 0 0 -
Total candidates 5,614,481 100.00 2 Total parties 5,240,126 100.00 = 78 80 80

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Popular vote (party)
LN
 
 29.64%
PD
 
 19.24%
M5S
 
 17.80%
FI
 
 14.32%
FdI
 
 3.64%
Gori List
 
 3.02%
LeU
 
 2.12%
Others
 
 10.39%
Popular vote (coalition)
Centre-right
 
 51.33%
Centre-left
 
 27.02%
M5S
 
 17.80%
LeU
 
 2.12%

Results by province

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
Metropolitan City
of 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

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

Province LN 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

  1. ↑ Tangenti, Maroni: mi ricandido nel 2018, Ansa, 1 March 2016
  2. ↑ Lombardia un sindaco governatore, La Repubblica, 1 June 2017
  3. ↑ White race at risk - Fontana on migrants
  4. ↑ Italian political candidate in race storm
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