2014 Piedmontese regional election

2014 Piedmentese regional election

25 May 2014
All 51 seats to the Regional Council of Piedmont
Turnout	66.44% ( 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 11 27 6 Popular vote 1,057,031 495,993 481,453 Percentage 47.1% 22.1% 21.4% Swing 0.2% 25.2% 17.3%
President before election Roberto Cota LN President-elect Sergio Chiamparino PD

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

Electoral system

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

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

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

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

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.