2021 Turin municipal election
← 2016 3 and 4 October 2021 (1st round)
17 and 18 October 2021 (2nd round)
Turnout331,566 · 48.1% (1st round)
290,632 · 42.1% (2nd round)
 
Candidate Stefano Lo Russo Paolo Damilano
Party Democratic Party Independent
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
First round 140,200
43.9% 		124,347
38.9%
Second round 168,997
59.2% 		116,322
40.8%
Mayor before election

Chiara Appendino
M5S

Elected Mayor

Stefano Lo Russo
PD

The 2021 Turin municipal election took place in Turin, Italy, on 3 and 4 October 2021, to elect the mayor and the 38 members of the Turin city council. Since no mayoral candidate won a majority of votes on the first round, a runoff was held on 17 and 18 October 2021.[1] The second round was won by the centre-left coalition candidate Stefano Lo Russo, member of the Democratic Party, who was officially inaugurated as the new mayor of Turin on 27 October 2021.[2][3] The incumbent mayor of Turin, Chiara Appendino of the Five Star Movement, did not run for re-election.[4]

Electoral system

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system, voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.[5]

Background

Centre-left primary election

Candidate Party Votes % Notes
Stefano Lo Russo Democratic Party 4.229 37,5% [6]
Francesco Tresso Independent 3.932 34,9% [7]
Enzo Lavolta Democratic Party 2.864 25,4% [8]
Igor Boni More Europe 257 2,3% [9]
Total 11.325 100

Parties and candidates

This is a list of the parties and their respective leaders which took part in the election.[10]

Political force or alliance Constituent lists Candidate
Centre-right coalition League Paolo Damilano
Brothers of Italy
Forza Italia (incl. UDC, PLI, PU, DC)
Beautiful Turin
Progress Turin
Yes TAV Yes Work – Renaissance
The People of Family
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party Stefano Lo Russo
Lo Russo for Mayor (incl. DemoS, CD, IV, A, +E, RI, Volt, Monviso Civic List, Alliance for Turin)
Ecologist Left (SI, Pos)
Moderates
Turin Tomorrow
Art. 1 – PSI
Sganga coalition Five Star Movement Valentina Sganga
Green Europe
D'Orsi coalition Common Left (PRC, SA, DemA) Angelo D'Orsi
Italian Communist Party
Power to the People
Di Cristina coalition Communist Party Giusi Greta Di Cristina
Turin Future City
Futura for the Common Goods Ugo Mattei
Workers' Communist Party Massimo Chiesi
3V Movement Paolo Alonge
Turin Environmental Movement (incl. 4th October Movement) Roberto Salerno
Prohibition to Dismiss Lorenzo Varaldo
Turin Capital of Europe – Stop ISEE Emilio Mazza
Verra coalition Italexit Ivano Verra
We Citizens
Balducci coalition Gay Party Davide Betti Balducci
Animalist Party

Declined candidates

Withdrew

Centre-left coalition

Declined

Centre-left coalition

Five Star Movement

Opinion polls

First round

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Date Polling firm/
Client 		Sample size Sganga Lo Russo Damilano Others Undecided Lead
4 October 2021 Election result - 9.0 43.9 38.9 8.2 - 5.0
12–15 Sep 2021 Noto 1,000 9.0 40.0 42.0 9.0 29.0 2.0
9–15 Sep 2021 SWG 1,000 9.0 42.0 42.0 7.0 21.0 Tie
6–11 Sep 2021 Ipsos 1,000 9.5 39.0 42.0 9.5 27.0 3.0
7–10 Sep 2021 Quorum 805 8.6 42.8 43.7 4.9 43.2 0.9
3–8 Sep 2021 Quorum 808 8.3 41.4 44.2 6.1 39.6 2.8
27–29 Aug 2021 BiDiMedia 809 11.1 38.9 41.6 8.4 23.0 2.7
3–5 Aug 2021 Demopolis 1,804 13.0 34.0 41.0 12.0 37.0 7.0
29 Jun–12 Jul 2021 SWG 1,600 8.0 43.0 44.0 5.0 22.0 1.0
25 Jun 2021 Euromedia Research 1,000 11.9 39.6 43.7 4.8 — 4.1
10–15 May 2021 BiDiMedia 1,337 12.6 38.2 40.1 9.1 30.0 1.9

Second round

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Damilano vs. Lo Russo

Date Polling firm/
Client 		Sample size Damilano Lo Russo Abstain Lead
9–15 Sep 2021 SWG 1,000 48.0 52.0 — 4.0
6–11 Sep 2021 Ipsos 1,000 48.0 52.0 — 4.0
7–10 Sep 2021 Quorum 805 47.4 52.6 44.9 5.2
3–8 Sep 2021 Quorum 808 46.9 53.1 47.8 6.2
27–29 Aug 2021 BiDiMedia 809 48.0 52.0 — 4.0
16 Jul 2021 SWG 1,600 48.0 52.0 — 4.0
25 Jun 2021 Euromedia Research 1,000 50.2 49.8 37.3 0.4
10–15 May 2021 BiDiMedia 1,337 47.0 53.0 — 6.0

Parties

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Date Polling firm Sample size Centre-left Centre-right M5S-EV Others Lead
PD A IV +E Volt Mod SI Others FdI LSP BT FI C! Others M5S EV
4 October 2021 Election result - 28.6 5.0 3.4 3.6 3.5 10.5 9.8 11.9 5.3 1.6 8.0 0.9 8.0 18.1
9–15 Sep 2021 SWG 1,000 25.9 — — — — 3.8 3.2 8.3 10.7 19.4 2.1 8.3 — 1.5 7.6 1.6 7.6 6.5
6–11 Sep 2021 Ipsos 1,000 31.2 4.6 1.5 — 1.5 9.5 20.0 2.5 9.2 — 1.8 8.9 1.0 8.3 11.2
3–8 Sep 2021 Quorum 808 32.3 — — — — — — 8.2 14.7 19.4 — 4.2 — 4.8 7.4 1.4 7.6 12.9
27–29 Aug 2021 BiDiMedia 809 26.5 — — — — 3.4 3.4 6.3 15.8 13.4 4.5 3.7 1.5 1.9 9.2 2.2 8.2 10.7
29 Jun–12 Jul 2021 SWG 1,600 30.5 1.5 1.5 — — 3.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 21.5 2.5 8.0 — — 8.5 — 4.5 9.0
10–15 May 2021 BiDiMedia 1,337 23.2 2.7 2.5 1.5 0.8 3.1 2.2 1.8 15.4 14.7 5.0 3.9 0.6 — 12.7 1.9 9.0 7.8
5 June 2016 Election result - 29.8 DNP DNP DNP DNP 5.9 DNP 6.8 1.5 5.8 DNP 4.7 DNP 4.2 30.0 DNP 11.9 0.2

Results

Candidate First round Runoff Seats Parties Votes % Seats
Votes % Votes %
Stefano Lo Russo 140,200 43.86 168,997 59.23 – Democratic Party 85,890 28.56 17
Lo Russo List 15,013 4.99 2
Ecologist Left 10,807 3.59 2
Moderates 10,177 3.38 2
Turin Tomorrow 7,960 2.65 1
Article One – PSI 2,407 0.80 –
Total 132,254 43.97 24
Paolo Damilano 124,347 38.90 116,322 40.77 1 Beautiful Turin 35,658 11.86 4
Brothers of Italy 31,490 10.47 3
League 29,593 9.84 3
Forza Italia – UDC – PLI 15,951 5.30 2
Turin Progress 2,236 0.74 –
The People of Family 1,320 0.44 –
Yes TAV Yes Work – Renaissance 1,305 0.43 –
Total 117,553 39.08 12
Valentina Sganga 28,785 9.01 – – 1 Five Star Movement 24,058 8.00 2
Green Europe 2,711 0.90 –
Total 26,769 8.90 2
Angelo d'Orsi 8,095 2.53 – – – Left in Common (PRC – DemA – SA) 3,512 1.17 –
Italian Communist Party 1,838 0.61 –
Power to the People 1,656 0.55 –
Total 7,006 2.33 –
Ugo Mattei 7,406 2.32 – – – Futura 6,975 2.32 –
Francesco Ivano Verra 2,677 0.84 – – – Italexit 2,353 0.78 –
We Citizens 240 0.08 –
Total 2,593 0.86 –
Davide Betti 2,241 0.70 – – – Gay Party 1,336 0.44 –
Italian Animalist Party 775 0.26 –
Total 2,111 0.70 –
Greta Giusi Di Cristina 2,123 0.66 – – – Communist Party 1,552 0.52 –
Turin Future City 454 0.15 –
Total 2,006 0.67 –
Paolo Alonge 1,666 0.52 – – – 3V Movement 1,609 0.53 –
Roberto Salerno 910 0.28 – – – Turin Environmental Movement 792 0.26 –
Lorenzo Varaldo 545 0.17 – – – Prohibition of Dismissing 493 0.16 –
Massimo Chiesi 384 0.12 – – – Workers' Communist Party 360 0.12 –
Emilio Mazza 264 0.08 – – – Turin Capital of Europe 262 0,09 –
Total candidates 319,643 100 285,319 100 2 Total parties 300,783 100 38
Total valid votes 319,643 96.40 285,319 98.17
Blank or invalid ballots 11,923 3.60 5,313 1.83
Turnout 331,566 48.08 290,632 42.14
Eligible voters 689,684 100.00 689,684 100.00
Source: Ministry of the Interior (first round Archived 2021-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, second round Archived 2022-01-03 at the Wayback Machine)

See also

References

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