2001 Sicilian regional election

2001 Sicilian regional election

June 24, 2001
All 90 seats to the Sicilian Regional Assembly
Majority party Minority party   Leader Salvatore Cuffaro Leoluca Orlando Party CDU The Daisy Alliance House of Freedoms The Olive Tre Seats won 57 29 Popular vote 1,572,178 972,010 Percentage 59.1% 36.6%
President before election Vincenzo Leanza FI President-elect Salvatore Cuffaro UDC

The Sicilian regional election of 2001 was held on 24 June 2001. For the first time the president of Region was elected directly by the citizens.

The election was competed by three competitors: Salvatore Cuffaro, House of Freedoms candidate; Leoluca Orlando, candidate of The Olive Tree and former mayor of Palermo; and Sergio D'Antoni, leader of European Democracy. Cuffaro won by a landslide.

Results

24 June 2001 Sicilian regional election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
rowspan=12 bgcolor="Template:House of Freedoms/meta/color"|	Salvatore Cuffaro	1,572,178	59.1	9
bgcolor="Template:Forza Italia/meta/color"|					Forza Italia	628,020	25.1	20
bgcolor="Template:National Alliance (Italy)/meta/color"|					National Alliance	281,704	11.3	8
					Christian Democratic Centre	223,420	8.9	6
					United Christian Democrats	215,047	8.6	6
					New Sicily	101,368	4.1	3
bgcolor="Template:New Italian Socialist Party/meta/color"|					New Italian Socialist Party	69,697	2.8	2
					Whiteflower	54,550	2.2	1
					Liberal Socialists	24,110	1.0	1
bgcolor="Template:Italian Republican Party/meta/color"|					Italian Republican Party	22,110	0.9	1
bgcolor="Template:Tricolour Flame/meta/color"|					Tricolour Flame	9,224	0.4	–
Total					1,629,250	65.3	48
rowspan=11 bgcolor="Template:The Union (Italy)/meta/color"|	Leoluca Orlando	972,010	36.6	1
bgcolor="Template:Democrats of the Left/meta/color"|					Democrats of the Left	253,522	10.3	10
bgcolor="Template:The Daisy/meta/color"|					Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy	199,303	8.0	7
					The Daisy for Sicily	107,516	4.3	4
bgcolor="Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color"|					Communist Refoundation Party	61,068	2.4	3
bgcolor="Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color"|					Italian Democratic Socialists	46,903	1.9	1
					Sicilian Spring	29,564	1.2	1
					Party of Italian Communists	28,826	1.2	1
					Italy of Values	25,888	1.0	1
					We Sicilians	2,382	0.1	–
Total					754,972	26.1	28
	Sergio D'Antoni	114,799	4.3	–		European Democracy	113,664	4.5	4
Total candidates		2,658,987	100.00	10	Total parties		2,498,244	100.00	80
Source: Sicilian Region