1995 Lombard regional election

none 1995 Lombard regional election Lombardy legislative no 1990 Lombard regional election 1990 2000 Lombard regional election 2000 All 90Ten overhang seats added according to new electoral law. seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy 23 April 1995 84.24% ( 6.97%) 160x160px Roberto Formigoni FI Centre-right coalition (Italy) 54 2,200,921 41.1% 0A6BE1 160x160px Diego Masi PdD Centre-left coalition (Italy) EF3E3E 19 1,462,438 27.4% 160x160px Francesco Speroni LN 12 937,649 18.7% File:Lombardia_1995_Coalizioni.png President President-elect Paolo Arrigoni LN Roberto Formigoni FI The 1995 Lombard regional election took place on 23 April 1995. The 6th term of the Regional Council was chosen. For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term. Roberto Formigoni (member of the right wing of the Italian People's Party, on the list of Forza Italia) was elected President of the Region, defeating Diego Masi (Segni Pact) and Francesco Speroni (Northern League). Electoral system Lombardy used for the first time the national Tatarella Law to elect its Council. Sixty-four councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists; remained seats and votes are grouped at regional level where a Hare quota is used, and then distributed to provincial party lists. Sixteen councillors are elected at-large using a general ticket: parties are grouped in alliances, and the alliance which receives a plurality of votes elects all its candidates, its leader becoming the President of Lombardy. If an alliance wins more than 60% of votes, only 8 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 72; if the winning alliance receives less than 50% of votes, special seats are added to the Council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition. Council apportionment According to the official 1991 Italian census, the 64 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation were so distributed between Lombard provinces.  BG   BS   CO   CR   LC   LO   MN   MI   PV   SO   VA  total 7 8 4 2 2 1 3 27 3 1 6 64 The allocation is not fixed. Remaining seats and votes after proportional distribution, are all grouped at regional level and divided by party lists. The consequent division of these seats at provincial level usually change the original apportionment. Only 41 seats were directly assigned at provincial level, and the final distribution between provinces changed in this way.  BG   BS   CO   CR   LC   LO   MN   MI   PV   SO   VA  total +3 +3 +1 = = = -1 +1 +2 = +1 +10 As it can be seen, the simple plurality victory of the Pole of Freedoms caused the distribution of ten more seats to the President's majority at provincial level. Brescia and Como and Pavia received two new seats, Bergamo and Lodi and Milan and Varese one each. Parties and candidates Political party or allianceConstituent listsPrevious resultCandidateVotes (%)Seats Centre-left coalition Populars 28.6 25 Diego Masi Democratic Party of the Left 18.8 15 Federation of the Greens 5.2 3 Pact of Democrats Labour Federation Populars and Democrats Northern League – Lombard League 18.915 Francesco Speroni Centre-right coalition National Alliance 2.52 Roberto Formigoni Forza Italia – The People's Pole Christian Democratic Centre Pensioners of Sun Pensioners' Party1.8 1 Carlo Fatuzzo Pannella's coalition Pannella List 1.0 1 Marco Pannella Autonomist FrontCommunist Refoundation Party Giuseppe Torri Results In the context of the profound political changes that invested Italy between 1992 and 1994, Italian Parliament changed the regional electoral law, adapting them to new majoritarian principle now in vogue in the country, trim and tend bipolar politics. The new political geography, however, did not fit properly to Lombardy where, besides a garrison of far-left, assumed significant importance the presence of Umberto Bossi's Northern League, during the previous five years had not made any secret to aim the conquest of the Regional Presidency as a key step for a transformation of Italy in a federal state. In addition to the League, however, another major innovation had originated in Lombardy in 1994: the descent into the political field of Silvio Berlusconi, who by its movement Forza Italia had collected anti-Communist orphans of deceased traditional parties. The central political alliances had not been followed up at Lombardy, with the League in sharp contrast with Forza Italia, not only for connecting the latter with the newly formed training nationalist and post-fascist of National Alliance, but mainly because the entrance into the political arena of Forza Italia, accused by the League to be the trojan horse for the recycling of the old political class, had led to the arrest of the Northern League's electoral steady ascent - which had previously yielded the capture of the City of Milan in 1993 - if not also a marked reflux into the consent of the federalist party. The election on 23 April saw the success of the broad coalition of Berlusconi, grouping ex-Christian Democrats, ex-Socialists, Liberals and post-fascist, and led to presidency Communion and Liberation's Roberto Formigoni that, with the majority premium, was able to give life to the first government in the history of the region that managed to last the entire legislature. + 23 April 1995 Lombard regional election results300px|center Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seat Roberto Formigoni2,386,73241.0716 Forza Italia – The People's Pole1,455,70629.2428 National Alliance496,9399.988 Christian Democratic Centre110,0582.212Pensioners of Sun14,5180.29–Total2,077,22141.7238 Diego Masi1,591,41727.39– Democratic Party of the Left821,28016.5011 Italian People's Party321,3146.454 Federation of the Greens154,6243.112 Pact of Democrats146,2932.942 Labour Federation18,6820.38– Populars and Democrats11,1460.22–Total1,473,33929.5919 Francesco Speroni1,087,12818.71– Northern League – Lombard League879,13917.6612 Giuseppe Torri459,0517.90– Communist Refoundation Party381,2217.665Marco Pannella165,8382.85– Pannella List90,4451.82– Autonomist Front5.5960.11–Total96,0411.93– Carlo Fatuzzo120,6652.08– Pensioners' Party71,6081.44– Total candidates5,810,831100.0016 Total parties4,978,569100.0074Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections Popular vote (party) #ddd 500px 350px FI Forza Italia 29.24 LN Lega Nord 17.66 PDS Democratic Party of the Left 16.50 AN National Alliance (Italy) 9.98 PRC Communist Refoundation Party 7.66 PPI Italian People's Party (1994) 6.45 FdV Federation of the Greens 3.11 PdD Pact of Democrats 2.94 CCD Christian Democratic Centre 2.21 Pannella List Italian Radicals 1.82 PP Pensioners' Party (Italy) 1.44 Others Other 0.99 Popular vote (coalition) #ddd 500px 350px Pole Centre-right coalition 41.72 Olive Tree Centre-left coalition 29.59 LN Lega Nord 17.66 PRC Communist Refoundation Party 7.66 Pannella List Italian Radicals 1.93 Pensioners Pensioners' Party (Italy) 1.44 Results by province thumb|right|350px|Election results map. Orange denotes municipalities won by Masi, Blue denotes those won by Formigoni, Green denotes those won by Speroni and Dark red denotes those won by Torri. Province Roberto Formigoni Diego Masi Francesco Speroni Giuseppe Torri Turnout Milan 1,055,959 (44.04%) 686,933 (28.65%) 308,557 (12.87%) 219,034 (9.14%) 81.15% Brescia 261,475 (37.18%) 206,475 (29.36%) 161,185 (22.92%) 43,162 (6.14%) 88.07% Bergamo 217,679 (34.90%) 141,144 (22.63%) 188,726 (30.26%) 35,518 (5.69%) 87.70% Varese 207,136 (40.91%) 110,368 (21.80%) 136,866 (27.03%) 33,079 (6.53%) 82.79% Como 151,132 (44.32%) 73,498 (21.55%) 80,339 (23.56%) 21,126 (6.19%) 84.77% Pavia 146,761 (44.74%) 86,502 (26.37%) 47,626 (14.52%) 31,512 (9.61%) 85.90% Mantua 88,822 (35.44%) 95,032 (37.92%) 36,581 (14.60%) 23,035 (9.19%) 87.04% Cremona 89,472 (39.35%) 70,704 (31.09%) 33,182 (14.59%) 21,589 (9.49%) 89.81% Lecco 72,633 (36.72%) 58,694 (29.68%) 46,622 (23.57%) 12,263 (6.20%) 87.32% Lodi 52,052 (41.28%) 39,594 (31.40%) 15,858 (12.58%) 12,021 (9.53%) 89.04% Sondrio 43,611 (40.00%) 22,473 (20.61%) 31,586 (28.97%) 6,712 (6.16%) 82.75% Results by capital city City Roberto Formigoni Diego Masi Francesco Speroni Giuseppe Torri Turnout Milan 406,163 (48.34%) 236,249 (28.12%) 77,362 (9.21%) 73,409 (8.74%) 75.87% Brescia 52,920 (39.95%) 43,844 (33.10%) 20,869 (15.76%) 8,802 (6.65%) 85.27% Bergamo 33,591 (41.07%) 22,373 (27.35%) 15,659 (19.14%) 4,701 (5.75%) 85.83% Como 27,783 (49.60%) 13,027 (23.26%) 8,882 (15.86%) 3,801 (6.79%) 80.89% Varese 22,923 (43.52%) 12,103 (22.98%) 12,746 (24.20%) 2,761 (2.46%) 78.94% Pavia 22,637 (44.32%) 14,708 (28.80%) 6,701 (13.12%) 4,170 (8.16%) 84.99% Cremona 20,190 (38.31%) 17,838 (33.85%) 6,353 (12.06%) 5,289 (10.04%) 88.68% Mantua 12,463 (35.19%) 14,359 (40.54%) 4,015 (11.34%) 3,337 (9.42%) 83.36% Lecco 12,200 (40.09%) 9,668 (31.77%) 5,555 (18.26%) 1,826 (6.00%) 84.27% Lodi 12,424 (42.80%) 9,087 (31.31%) 3,574 (12.31%) 2,235 (7.70%) 85.19% Sondrio 5,938 (42.67%) 3,287 (23.62%) 2,944 (21.16%) 1,103 (7.93%) 77.88% References Category:Regional elections in Lombardy Lombard regional election Lombard regional election