2020 Tuscan regional election
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All 41 seats in the Regional Council
Turnout62.6% (Increase14.3%)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Eugenio Giani Susanna Ceccardi
Party Democratic Party Lega
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
Seats won 25 14
Seat change Steady0 Increase5
Popular vote 864,310 719,266
Percentage 48.6% 40.5%
Swing Increase0.5% Increase10.1%[1]
President before election

Enrico Rossi
Democratic Party

Elected President

Eugenio Giani
Democratic Party

Politics of Tuscany

The 2020 Tuscan regional election was the 7th regional election held in Tuscany, Italy, and took place on 20 and 21 September 2020. It was originally scheduled to take place on 31 May 2020, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.[2][3] The Democratic candidate, Eugenio Giani, defeated the League candidate, Susanna Ceccardi. Giani took office as President of Tuscany on October 8, 2020.

Electoral system

Tuscany uses its own legislation of 2014 to elect its Regional Council. The councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. The constituency of Florence is further divided into 4 sub-constituencies. Preferential voting is allowed: a maximum of two preferences can be expressed for candidates of the same party list and provided the two chosen candidates are of different gender.

In this system, parties are grouped in alliances supporting a candidate for the post of President of Tuscany. The candidate receiving at least 40% of the votes is elected to the post and his/her list (or the coalition) is awarded a majority of 23 seats in the Regional Council plus the seat of the President (24+1 seats with more than 45% of the vote). If no candidate gets more than 40% of the votes, a run-off is held fourteen days later, where the two top candidates from the first round run against each other. The winning candidate is then ensured a majority in the Regional Council.[4]

Council apportionment

According to the official 2011 Italian census, the 40 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation are so distributed between Tuscan provinces. The number of seats to be assigned in each province is the following:

 AR   FI   GR   LI   LU   MS   PI   PT   PO   SI 
4 11 2 4 4 2 4 3 3 3

The Province of Florence is further divided into smaller electoral colleges.

Parties and candidates

Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party (PD) (incl. DemoS) 45.9 24 Eugenio Giani
Italia Viva – More Europe (IV – +E) — —
Civic Ecologist Left (incl. Art.1) — —
Proud Tuscany for Giani (incl. PSI, PRI, CD and IdV) — —
Green Europe (EV) — —
Svolta! (IiC – Volt – Tuscany in the Heart) — —
Centre-right coalition League (Lega) 16.0 4 Susanna Ceccardi
Forza Italia (FI) 8.4 1
Brothers of Italy (FdI) 3.8 1
Civic Tuscany (incl. C! and FN[5]) — —
Five Star Movement (M5S) 15.0 4 Irene Galletti
Tuscany to the Left (incl. SI, PRC, PaP, SA, èViva) 6.3 1 Tommaso Fattori
Communist Party (PC) — — Salvatore Catello
Italian Communist Party (PCI) — — Marco Barzanti
3V Movement (M3V) — —
Tiziana Vigni

Opinion polls

Candidates

Hypothetical candidates

Parties

  1. ^ a b c d e This poll was commissioned by a political party.
  2. ^ Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna (Independent)
  3. ^ Giovanni Donzelli (FdI)

Results

20–21 September 2020 Tuscan regional election results
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seats
Eugenio Giani 864,310 48.62 1 Democratic Party 563,116 34.69 22
Italia Viva – More Europe 72,649 4.48 2
Civic Ecologist Left 48,410 2.98 –
Proud Tuscany for Giani 47,778 2.94 –
Green Europe 26,924 1.66 –
Svolta! 5,246 0.32 –
Total 764,123 47.08 24
Susanna Ceccardi 719,266 40.46 2 League 353,514 21.78 7
Brothers of Italy 219,165 13.50 4
Forza Italia – UDC 69,456 4.28 1
Civic Tuscany for Change 16,923 1.04 –
Total 659,058 40.60 12
Irene Galletti 113,796 6.40 1 Five Star Movement 113,836 7.01 1
Tommaso Fattori 39,684 2.23 – Tuscany to the Left 46,514 2.87 –
Salvatore Catello 17,007 0.96 – Communist Party 17,032 1.05 –
Marco Barzanti 16,078 0.90 – Italian Communist Party 15,617 0.96 –
Tiziana Vigni 7,668 0.43 – 3V Movement 6,974 0.43 –
Total candidates 1,777,809 100.00 4 Total parties 1,623,154 100.00 37
Source: Tuscany Region – Electoral Services


Popular vote – Parties
PD
 
 34.69%
League
 
 21.78%
FdI
 
 13.50%
M5S
 
 7.01%
IV
 
 4.48%
FI
 
 4.28%
SCE
 
 2.98%
PT
 
 2.94%
TaS
 
 2.87%
Others
 
 5.47%
Popular vote – President
Giani
 
 48.62%
Ceccardi
 
 40.46%
Galletti
 
 6.40%
Fattori
 
 2.23%
Others
 
 2.29%
Regional Council – Seats summary
Centre-left
 
 60.97%
Centre-right
 
 34.15%
M5S
 
 4.88%

Results by province and capital city

Turnout

Region Time
20 Sep 21 Sep
12:00 19:00 23:00 15:00
Tuscany 14.60% 36.29% 45.89% 62.60%
Province Time
20 Sep 21 Sep
12:00 19:00 23:00 15:00
Arezzo 13.63% 35.60% 45.50% 64.60%
Florence 16.60% 39.74% 49.96% 66.47%
Grosseto 14.41% 33.68% 41.87% 60.87%
Livorno 14.59% 32.87% 40.95% 57.33%
Lucca 12.39% 32.97% 41.34% 56.64%
Massa and Carrara 12.22% 30.98% 39.33% 54.91%
Pisa 15.27% 37.77% 48.65% 65.57%
Pistoia 13.90% 35.77% 45.75% 61.66%
Prato 15.61% 39.69% 49.79% 64.79%
Siena 13.98% 36.22% 46.53% 64.84%
Source: Tuscany Region – Turnout


See also

References

  1. ^ The swing comes from the combined result of LN–FdI (20.0%), Forza Italia (9.1%) and UdC (1.3%) in the 2015 regional election.
  2. ^ "Il governo ha rinviato le elezioni regionali e comunali". Il Post (in Italian). 20 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. ^ Elezioni Regionali, il 31 Maggio si vota in Toscana, Veneto, Campania, Puglia, Liguria e Marche
  4. ^ "Articolo » Raccolta Normativa Regione Toscana". Raccoltanormativa.consiglio.regione.toscana.it. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
  5. ^ Elezioni regionali Toscana, il Pd: “Candidato di Forza Nuova a Siena nella lista per Ceccardi”
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