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2005 Ligurian regional election

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2005 Ligurian regional election

← 2000 3–4 April 2005 2010 →
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Claudio Burlando Sandro Biasotti
Party DS Forza Italia
Alliance The Union House of Freedoms
Seats won 26 14
Seat change Increase 10 Decrease 10
Popular vote 491,545 434,934
Percentage 52.6% 46.6%
Swing Increase 6.5% Decrease 4.1%


President before election

Sandro Biasotti
FI

Subsequent President

Claudio Burlando
DS

The Ligurian regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005.

Claudio Burlando (Democrats of the Left) defeated incumbent Sandro Biasotti (an independent close to Forza Italia).

Electoral system

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Regional elections in Liguria 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

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Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
House of Freedoms Forza Italia 20.2 8 Sandro Biasotti
National Alliance 10.2 3
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats 4.4 1
Northern League Liguria 4.3 1
New Liguria 2.8 1
Biasotti List
Others
The Union The Olive Tree 35.3 12 Claudio Burlando
Communist Refoundation Party 6.5 2
Federation of the Greens 2.1 1
Party of Italian Communists 1.9
Pensioners' Party 0.7
People of Liguria
Italy of Values
Union of Democrats for Europe
Others
Social Alternative (ASFTFSNFN) Angelo Riccobaldi

Results

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3–4 April 2005 Ligurian regional election results
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seat
Claudio Burlando 491,545 52.64 8
The Olive Tree 279,727 34.35 12
Communist Refoundation Party 53,626 6.59 2
People of Liguria 35,831 4.40 1
Party of Italian Communists 21,877 2.69 1
Federation of the Greens 16,089 1.98 1
Italy of Values 10,611 1.30 1
Union of Democrats for Europe 7,707 0.95
Pensioners' Party 6,926 0.85
Consumers 1,774 0.22
Pact of Liberal Democrats 449 0.06
Total 434,617 53.37 18
Sandro Biasotti 434,934 46.58 1
Forza Italia 160,305 19.69 6
Biasotti List 71,067 8.73 3
National Alliance 58,221 7.15 2
Northern League Liguria 38,060 4.67 1
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats 26,639 3.27 1
New Liguria 5,857 0.72
Socialists and Liberals 5,745 0.71
Consumers' List 4,495 0.55
Pensioners and Disabled – Animalists and Environmentalists 3,888 0.48
Total 374,277 45.96 13
Angelo Riccobaldi 7,313 0.78 Social Alternative 5,441 0.67
Total candidates 933,792 100.00 9 Total parties 814,335 100.00 31
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections