2005 Piedmontese regional election
The Piedmontese regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005.
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All 60 seats to the Regional Council of Piedmont | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 71.38% ( 0.58%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mercedes Bresso (Democrats of the Left) defeated incumbent Enzo Ghigo (Forza Italia).
Electoral system
Regional elections in Piedmont were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which 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 method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: 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, however, 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.
Parties and candidates
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| The Union | Democrats of the Left | 17.7 | 9 | Mercedes Bresso | ||
| Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy | 7.9 | 3 | ||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 5.5 | 2 | ||||
| Federation of the Greens | 2.1 | 1 | ||||
| Party of Italian Communists | 2.1 | 1 | ||||
| Italian Democratic Socialists | 1.8 | 1 | ||||
| Union of Democrats for Europe | — | — | ||||
| Italy of Values | — | — | ||||
| Others | — | — | ||||
| House of Freedoms | Forza Italia | 30.8 | 17 | Enzo Ghigo | ||
| National Alliance | 11.9 | 6 | ||||
| Northern League Piedmont | 7.6 | 3 | ||||
| Union of Christian and Centre Democrats | 4.5 | 2 | ||||
| Pensioners' Party | 0.7 | – | ||||
| Greens Greens | 0.4 | – | ||||
| Others | — | — | ||||
Results
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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| Mercedes Bresso | 1,226,355 | 50.91 | 12 | ||||||
| Democrats of the Left | 411,237 | 20.10 | 11 | ||||||
| Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy | 211,457 | 10.34 | 6 | ||||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 130,776 | 6.39 | 4 | ||||||
| Together for Bresso | 60,314 | 2.95 | 1 | ||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 57,516 | 2.81 | 1 | ||||||
| Party of Italian Communists | 53,359 | 2.61 | 1 | ||||||
| Italian Democratic Socialists | 49,821 | 2.44 | 1 | ||||||
| Italy of Values | 31,016 | 1.52 | 1 | ||||||
| Union of Democrats for Europe | 10,734 | 0.52 | – | ||||||
| Pensioners for Europe | 5,156 | 0.25 | – | ||||||
| Total | 1,021,386 | 49.93 | 26 | ||||||
| Enzo Ghigo | 1,133,358 | 47.05 | 1 | ||||||
| Forza Italia | 457,397 | 22.36 | 11 | ||||||
| National Alliance | 195,318 | 9.55 | 5 | ||||||
| Northern League Piedmont | 173,020 | 8.46 | 4 | ||||||
| Union of Christian and Centre Democrats | 93,872 | 4.59 | 2 | ||||||
| Greens Greens | 23,761 | 1.16 | 1 | ||||||
| Consumers' List | 23.378 | 1.14 | 1 | ||||||
| Socialists and Liberals | 16.944 | 0.83 | – | ||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 11,883 | 0.58 | – | ||||||
| Total | 995,573 | 48.67 | 24 | ||||||
| Gianfranco Rotondi | 24,813 | 1.03 | – | Democratic Ecologists – Christian Democracy | 14,255 | 0.70 | – | ||
| Lodovico Ellena | 24,454 | 1.02 | – | Social Alternative | 14,515 | 0.71 | – | ||
| Total candidates | 2,408,980 | 100.00 | 13 | Total parties | 2,045,729 | 100.00 | 50 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | |||||||||