2000 Emilia-Romagna regional election
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All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Seat totals by Province. As this is a PR election, seat totals are determined by popular vote in each province. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.
Vasco Errani (Democrats of the Left), who had replaced Pier Luigi Bersani in 1999, was re-elected President, defeating Gabriele Cané, the candidate of Forza Italia
Electoral system
[edit]Regional elections in Emilia-Romagna 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
[edit]| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
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| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democrats of the Left | 43.0 | 20 | Vasco Errani | ||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 7.6 | 3 | ||||
| Italian People's Party – Italian Renewal – UPR | 5.6 | 2 | ||||
| Federation of the Greens | 3.2 | 1 | ||||
| Italian Republican Party | 1.3 | – | ||||
| The Democrats | — | — | ||||
| Party of Italian Communists | — | — | ||||
| Italian Democratic Socialists | — | — | ||||
| Union of Democrats for Europe | — | — | ||||
| Centre-right coalition | Forza Italia | 18.2 | 7 | Gianfranco Morra | ||
| National Alliance | 10.3 | 4 | ||||
| Northern League Emilia-Romagna (LNE+LNR) | 3.4 | 1 | ||||
| Christian Democratic Centre | 2.3 | 1 | ||||
| United Christian Democrats | — | — | ||||
| Others | — | — | ||||
| Bonino List | 1.3 | – | Sergio Stanzani | |||
Results
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| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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| Vasco Errani | 1,451,468 | 56.47 | 10 | ||||||
| Democrats of the Left | 869,242 | 36.10 | 16 | ||||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 138,464 | 5.75 | 2 | ||||||
| The Democrats | 113,132 | 4.70 | 2 | ||||||
| Italian People's Party – Italian Renewal – Union for the Republic | 70,808 | 2.94 | 1 | ||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 64,005 | 2.66 | 1 | ||||||
| Party of Italian Communists | 49,686 | 2.06 | 1 | ||||||
| Italian Democratic Socialists | 29,934 | 1.24 | – | ||||||
| Italian Republican Party | 21,625 | 0.90 | – | ||||||
| Union of Democrats for Europe | 1,363 | 0.06 | – | ||||||
| Total | 1,358,259 | 56.41 | 23 | ||||||
| Gabriele Cané | 1,036,660 | 40.33 | 1 | ||||||
| Forza Italia | 509,084 | 21.14 | 10 | ||||||
| National Alliance | 274,420 | 11.40 | 4 | ||||||
| Northern League Emilia-Romagna | 79,714 | 3.31 | 1 | ||||||
| Christian Democratic Centre | 47,664 | 1.98 | 1 | ||||||
| United Christian Democrats | 42,548 | 1.77 | – | ||||||
| Socialist Party | 9,507 | 0.39 | – | ||||||
| Governing Emilia Romagna | 8,094 | 0.34 | – | ||||||
| The Liberals Sgarbi | 6,810 | 0.28 | – | ||||||
| Total | 977.841 | 40.61 | 16 | ||||||
| Sergio Stanzani | 70,655 | 2.75 | – | Bonino List | 62,611 | 2.60 | – | ||
| Carlo Rasmi | 11,447 | 0.45 | – | Popular Action | 9,080 | 0.38 | – | ||
| Total candidates | 2,570,230 | 100.00 | 11 | Total parties | 2,407,791 | 100.00 | 39 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | |||||||||