Mayor of Venice
| Mayor of Venice | |
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since 15 June 2015 | |
| Style | No courtesy, title or style |
| Appointer | Electorate of Venice |
| Term length | 5 years, renewable once |
| Inaugural holder | Daniele Renier (1806) |
| Succession | No later than 15 June 2020 |
| Website | Comune di Venezia |
The Mayor of Venice is an elected politician who, along with the Venice’s City Council of 36 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Venice in northern Italy.
Since 15 June 2015 the conservative businessman Luigi Brugnaro has been mayor of Venice. Previously, the position was held by Giorgio Orsoni, who resigned on 13 June 2014 after a corruption scandal.[1][2]
Overview
According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Venice is member of the Venice's City Council. Although the title Mayor is not held by the heads of the six boroughs of Venice, because they do not actually preside over self-governmental municipalities.
The Mayor is elected by the population of Venice. Citizens elect also the members of the City Council, which also controls Mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence. The Mayor is entitled to appoint and release the members of his government.
Since 1993 the Mayor is elected directly by Florence's electorate: in all mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 the 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 at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.
The seat of the City Council is the city hall Ca' Loredan on the Canal Grande.
List of Mayors of Venice
Podestà (1806–1866)
Podestà of Venice were appointed since 1806 to 1866 by the rulers of the city during the early- to mid-19th century: Napoleon and the Habsburgs.
- 1806–1811 — Daniele Renier
- 1811–1816 — Bartolomeo Gerolamo Gradenigo
- 1817–1818 — Marco Molin
- 1818–1827 — Francesco Calbo Crotta
- 1827–1834 — Domenico Morosini
- 1834–1837 — Giuseppe Boldù
- 1838–1857 — Giovanni Correr
- 1857–1859 — Alessandro Marcello
- 1860–1866 — Pierluigi Bembo
Kingdom of Italy (1866–1946)
In 1860, the nascent Kingdom of Italy created the office of the Mayor of Venice (Sindaco di Venezia), chosen by the City council:
Italian Republic (1946-present)
From 1946 to 1993, the Mayor of Venice was chosen by the City Council:
- Coalitions:
Centrist (DC); Center-left (DC and allies); Leftist (PCI and allies).
- Notes
- ^ Nominated by the Prefect after the Mayor and the members of the City Council resigned in order to hold a new election under the provision of the new local electoral law.
Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Venice is chosen by popular election, originally every four, and later every five years:
| Mayor of Venice | Took office | Left office | Party | Coalition | Election | ||||
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rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | | Massimo Cacciari | 9 December 1993 | 25 January 2000[3] | Independent | style="background: Template:Democratic Party of the Left/meta/color;" | | PDS - PRC - FdV 9 December 1993 – 17 November 1997 |
1993 |
| style="background: Template:Democratic Party of the Left/meta/color;" | | PDS - PPI - PRC - FdV 17 November 1997 – 25 January 2000 |
1997 | |||||||
| Corrado Scivoletto | 25 January 2000 | 30 April 2000 | Special Commissioner | ||||||
| 11 |
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rowspan="1" style="background: Template:Italian Democratic Socialist Party/meta/color;" | | Paolo Costa | 30 April 2000 | 18 April 2005 | PPI / DL | style="background: Template:Democrats of the Left/meta/color;" | | DS - PPI - PRC - FdV - SDI - PdCI 30 April 2000 – 18 April 2005 |
2000 |
| (10) |
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rowspan="1" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" | | Massimo Cacciari | 18 April 2005 | 30 March 2010 | DL / PD | style="background: Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" | | DL / PD 18 April 2005 – 30 March 2010 |
2005 |
| 12 | 
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rowspan="1" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" | | Giorgio Orsoni | 30 March 2010 | 13 June 2014[4] | PD | style="background: Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" | | PD - FdS - FdV 30 March 2010 – 13 June 2014 |
2010 |
| Vittorio Zappalorto | 13 June 2014 | 15 June 2015 | Special Commissioner | ||||||
| 13 | File:Brugnaro 2015.jpg | rowspan="1" style="background: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | | Luigi Brugnaro | 15 June 2015 | incumbent | Independent | style="background: Template:Forza Italia (2013)/meta/color;" | | FI — AP and other right-wing Independents since 15 June 2015 |
2015 |
Timeline
Elections
Mayoral and City Council election, 1993
The election took place in two rounds: the first on November 21 and the second on December 5, 1993.
For the first time under the new electoral law citizens could vote directly the mayor; before this choice was made by the City Council.
For the first time a center-left coalition, composed by the former communist Democratic Party of the Left and some other progressives party (such as the new-born Federation of the Greens and the Communist Refoundation Party), presented its candidate: Massimo Cacciari. He was an independent venetian philosopher, who had been a member of the Italian Communist Party. The main opposition to Cacciari's coalition was represented by Aldo Mariconda. Mariconda was a businessman and member of the regionalist Lega Nord-Liga Veneta, which combined Venetian nationalism and a strong support for fiscal federalism. Liga Veneta, as regional faction of the national Lega Nord party, had a liberal, centrist and economically libertarian outfit due to the political upbringing of its early leaders and a more conservative electoral base.
Despite the strong performance of Mariconda on the first round, Cacciari managed to win the election on the second round gaining the support of the moderate and centrist voters of the agonizing Christian Democracy party. On December 5, 1993 Cacciari won the election and became the first elected mayor of Venice.
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Massimo Cacciari | Alliance of Progressives | 89,034 | 42.29 | 107,497 | 55.37 | |
| Aldo Mariconda | Liga Veneta−Lega Nord | 55,971 | 26.50 | 86,643 | 44.63 | |
| Giovanni Castellani | DC-LAV-PS | 49,224 | 23.38 | |||
| Bruno Canella | MSI-DN | 6,048 | 2.87 | |||
| Others | 10,455 | 4.96 | ||||
| Eligible voters | 270,305 | 100.00 | 270,305 | 100.00 | ||
| Voted | 224,180 | 82.94 | 205,517 | 76.03 | ||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 13,628 | 11,377 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 210,552 | 194,140 | ||||
| Parties and coalitions | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party of the Left/meta/color" | | Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra) | PDS | 33,997 | 20.59% | 16 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | | Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista) | PRC | 10,738 | 6.50% | 5 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Federation of the Greens/meta/color" | | Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi) | FdV | 9,901 | 6.00% | 4 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color" | | Socialist Progress (Progresso Socialista) | PS | 5,824 | 3.53% | 2 | |
| Alliance Venice-Mestre (Alleanza Venezia-Mestre) | AVM | 2,244 | 1.36% | 1 | ||
| The Network (La Rete) | LR | 1,996 | 1.21% | 0 | ||
| Cacciari coalition (Left) | 64,700 | 39.18% | 28 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Lega Nord/meta/color" | | Liga Veneta−Lega Nord | LV–LN | 49,350 | 29.88% | 10 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color" | | Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana) | DC | 20,384 | 12.34% | 5 | |
| Lega Autonomia Veneta | LAV | 8,387 | 5.08% | 1 | ||
| Venice-Mestre Pact (Patto Venezia-Mestre) | PVM | 4,891 | 2.96% | 1 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 2,949 | 1.79% | 0 | ||
| Castellani coalition (Center) | 36,611 | 22.17% | 7 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Italian Social Movement/meta/color" | | Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano) | MSI-DN | 5,580 | 3.38% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | | Others | 8,909 | 5.39% | 0 | ||
| Total | 165,150 | 100% | 46 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 224,180 | 82.94% | ||||
| Registered voters | 270,305 | |||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
Mayoral and City Council election, 1997
The election took place on November 16, 1997.
The outgoing mayor Massimo Cacciari, supported by Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left coalition, heavily defeated Mauro Pizzigati, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's center-right alliance.
| Candidate | Party | First round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | |||
| Massimo Cacciari | PDS-PPI-PRC-FdV | 116,751 | 64.58 | |
| Mauro Pizzigati | FI-AN-CCD | 37,436 | 20.71 | |
| Giovanni Fabris | LV–LN | 18,488 | 10.23 | |
| Others | 8,110 | 4.49 | ||
| Eligible voters | 263,237 | 100.00 | ||
| Voted | 189,592 | 72.02 | ||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 8,807 | |||
| Total valid votes | 180,785 | |||
| Parties and coalitions | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party of the Left/meta/color" | | Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra) | PDS | 30,052 | 23.22% | 12 | |
| Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano) | PPI | 12,287 | 9.49% | 5 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | | Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista) | PRC | 11,135 | 8.60% | 4 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Federation of the Greens/meta/color" | | Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi) | FdV | 10,506 | 8.12% | 4 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 13,193 | 10.20% | 5 | ||
| Cacciari coalition (Left) | 77,173 | 59.63% | 30 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color" | | Forza Italia | FI | 14,608 | 11.29% | 6 | |
| style="background-color:Template:National Alliance (Italy)/meta/color" | | National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale) | AN | 11,039 | 8.53% | 4 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color" | | Christian Democratic Centre (Centro Cristiano Democratico) | CCD | 4,501 | 3.48% | 1 | |
| Pizzigati coalition (Right) | 30,148 | 23.29% | 11 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Lega Nord/meta/color" | | Liga Veneta–Lega Nord | LV–LN | 14,224 | 10.99% | 5 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 878 | 0.68% | 0 | ||
| Fabris coalition | 15,102 | 11.67% | 5 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | | Others | 7,003 | 5.41% | 0 | ||
| Total | 129,426 | 100% | 46 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 189,592 | 72.02% | ||||
| Registered voters | 263,237 | |||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
Mayoral and City Council election, 2000
The election took place in two rounds: the first on April 16 and the second on April 30, 2000.
The snap election was held in April 2000 after the incumbent mayor Massimo Cacciari resigned in January to run as the main center-left candidate for the regional elections. While on the first round about 72% of the venetian voters went to the polls, thanks to the fact that the election took place the same day of the regional elections, on the second round the turnout was extremely low, probably because the election occurred on the first Sunday after Easter, immediately before the International Workers' Day, and most of voters were outside Venice.
The main candidates were Paolo Costa, a member of the center-left Italian People's Party and former Minister of Public Works (1996–1998), and Renato Brunetta, a center-right venetian MEP. Gianfranco Bettin, a notorious environmental activist, run as the main candidate of a leftist coalition. For the first time the regionalist Lega Nord party decided to not present its own mayoral candidate and to be a part of the center-right alliance.
In the first round of the election, Brunetta got 39% of the votes and Costa 38%. Then on the second round Bettin, who got 16% of the votes on the first round, decided to officially sustain Costa and signed a pre-electoral alliance with him just a week before the run-off. On April 30 Costa easily defeated Brunetta and, since on the first round no coalition obtained more than the 50% of the votes, the majority bonus granted by the electoral law was given to the center-left coalition and its fresh leftist allies despite the center-right had received more votes.
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Paolo Costa | DS-PPI-SDI-PdCI | 62,755 | 37.67 | 68,229 | 55.96 | |
| Renato Brunetta | FI-AN-CCD-CDU-LN | 64,956 | 38.99 | 53,686 | 44.04 | |
| Gianfranco Bettin | PRC-FdV | 27,086 | 16.26 | |||
| Others | 11,785 | 7.06 | ||||
| Eligible voters | 246,962 | 100.00 | 246,962 | 100.00 | ||
| Voted | 177,510 | 71.88 | 124,370 | 50.36 | ||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 10,928 | 2,455 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 166,582 | 121,915 | ||||
| Parties and coalitions | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color" | | Forza Italia | FI | 34,261 | 25.30% | 13 | |
| style="background-color:Template:National Alliance (Italy)/meta/color" | | National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale) | AN | 9,489 | 7.01% | 3 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Lega Nord/meta/color" | | Lega Nord | LN | 5,212 | 3.85% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color" | | United Christian Democrats (Cristiani Democratici Uniti) | CDU | 2,807 | 2.07% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Christian Democracy (Italy)/meta/color" | | Christian Democratic Centre (Centro Cristiano Democratico) | CCD | 2,428 | 1.79% | 0 | |
| Sgarbi Liberal List (Liberal Sgarbi) | LS | 1,139 | 0.84% | 0 | ||
| Brunetta coalition (Right) | 55,336 | 40.86% | 18 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Democrats of the Left/meta/color" | | Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra) | DS | 28,984 | 21.40% | 13 | |
| Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano) | PPI | 10,630 | 7.85% | 4 | ||
| Italian Democratic Socialists (Socialisti Democratici Italiani) | SDI | 7,058 | 5.21% | 3 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Party of Italian Communists/meta/color" | | Party of Italian Communists (Partito dei Comunisti Italiani) | PdCI | 2,604 | 1.92% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 976 | 0.72% | 0 | ||
| Costa coalition (Center-left) | 50,252 | 37.09% | [5]21 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | | Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista) | PRC | 10,440 | 7.71% | 5 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Federation of the Greens/meta/color" | | Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi) | FdV | 4,724 | 3.49% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 4,192 | 3.10% | 1 | ||
| Bettin coalition (Left) | 19,356 | 14.30% | [6]7 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | | Others | 10,499 | 7.75% | 0 | ||
| Total | 135,433 | 100% | 46 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 177,510 | 71.88% | ||||
| Registered voters | 246,962 | |||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
Mayoral and City Council election, 2005
The election took place on two rounds: the first on April 3–4, the second on April 17–18, 2005.
The candidates were in total eleven, some supported by independent lists. The main candidates were: the philosopher and former mayor Massimo Cacciari, who were supported by the center-left moderate party The Daisy; the magistrate Felice Casson, who was supported by a broad center-left coalition; and the businessman Cesare Campa, who was supported by a center-right alliance between Forza Italia and Union of Christian and Centre Democrats. Differently from the precedent election, both the main coalitions were completely divided: the former center-right coalition was now fragmented between three different candidates, while the center-left was broken in two part, one moderate and one radical.
After an hard battle, Massimo Cacciari was able to obtain 23% of the votes, overtaking Campa in order to participate in the run-off election with Casson. Despite the first round result, after a shocking vote counting, Casson was narrowly defeated by Cacciari who probably gained the support of the center-right voters. Two years later, however, when Democrats of the Left and The Daisy merged into the Democratic Party, Cacciari had a majority even greater in the City Council.
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Massimo Cacciari | DL-UDEUR | 37,488 | 23.22 | 64,315 | 50.53 | |
| Felice Casson | DS-PRC-FdV-SDI-PdCI | 60,837 | 37.68 | 62,974 | 49.47 | |
| Cesare Campa | FI-UdC | 32,726 | 20.27 | |||
| Raffaele Speranzon | AN | 10,021 | 6.21 | |||
| Augusto Salvadori | PNE | 6,905 | 4.28 | |||
| Alberto Mazzonetto | LN | 5,419 | 3.36 | |||
| Others | 8,069 | 4.99 | ||||
| Eligible voters | 233,316 | 100.00 | 233,316 | 100.00 | ||
| Voted | 168,087 | 72.04 | 129,885 | 55.67 | ||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 6,622 | 2,596 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 161,465 | 127,289 | ||||
| Parties and coalitions | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color:Template:Democrats of the Left/meta/color" | | Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra) | DS | 26,531 | 21.15% | 6 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | | Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista) | PRC | 8,509 | 6.78% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Federation of the Greens/meta/color" | | Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi) | FdV | 4,882 | 3.89% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Party of Italian Communists/meta/color" | | Party of Italian Communists (Partito dei Comunisti Italiani) | PdCI | 2,661 | 2.12% | 0 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Italy of Values/meta/color" | | Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori) | IdV | 2,544 | 2.03% | 0 | |
| Italian Democratic Socialists (Socialisti Democratici Italiani) | SDI | 1,630 | 1.30% | 0 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 4,463 | 3.56% | 1 | ||
| Casson coalition (Left) | 51,220 | 40.84% | 10 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Forza Italia/meta/color" | | Forza Italia | FI | 25,726 | 20.51% | 5 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Union of the Centre (2002)/meta/color" | | Union of the Centre (Unione di Centro) | UdC | 3,966 | 3.16% | 0 | |
| Campa coalition (Center-right) | 29,692 | 23.67% | 5 | |||
| The Daisy (La Margherita) | DL | 16,855 | 13.44% | 26 | ||
| Union of Democrats for Europe (Unione Democratica per l'Europa) | UDEUR | 1,784 | 1.42% | 2 | ||
| Cacciari coalition (Center-left) | 18,639 | 14.86% | [7]28 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:National Alliance (Italy)/meta/color" | | National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale) | AN | 8,490 | 6.77% | 1 | |
| Salvadori List–North-East Project (Progetto NordEst) | PNE | 5,141 | 4.10% | 1 | ||
| Lega Nord | LN | 4,955 | 3.95% | 1 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | | Others | 7,280 | 5.80% | 0 | ||
| Total | 125,417 | 100% | 46 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 168,087 | 72.04% | ||||
| Registered voters | 233,316 | |||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
Mayoral and City Council election, 2010
The election took place on March 28–29, 2010.
Giorgio Orsoni, supported by a center-left coalition formed by Democratic Party, Italy of Values, Federation of the Left, Federation of the Greens and the Italian Socialist Party, challenged the minister Renato Brunetta, supported by the center-right governmental coalition formed by The People of Freedom and Lega Nord.
Unexpectedly, Orsoni won the election on the first round.
| Candidate | Party | First round | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | |||
| Giorgio Orsoni | PD-IdV-FdV-FdS-PSI | 75,403 | 51.13 | |
| Renato Brunetta | PdL-LN-PP | 62,833 | 42.61 | |
| Marco Gavagnin | M5S | 4,608 | 3.12 | |
| Others | 4,621 | 3.13 | ||
| Eligible voters | 220,791 | 100.00 | ||
| Voted | 151,554 | 68.64 | ||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 4,089 | |||
| Total valid votes | 147,465 | |||
| Parties and coalitions | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color" | | Democratic Party (Partito Democratico) | PD | 37,027 | 28.89% | 17 | |
| Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori) | IdV | 8,628 | 6.73% | 4 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Federation of the Greens/meta/color" | | Federation of the Greens–Bettin List (Federazione dei Verdi) | FdV | 4,816 | 3.76% | 2 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color" | | Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano) | PSI | 4,800 | 3.75% | 2 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | | Federation of the Left (Federazione della Sinistra) | FdS | 4,244 | 3.31% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 6,177 | 4.82% | 2 | ||
| Orsoni coalition (Left) | 65,692 | 51.26% | 28 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color" | | The People of Freedom (Il Popolo della Libertà) | PdL | 29,179 | 22.77% | 10 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Lega Nord/meta/color" | | Lega Nord | LN | 14,297 | 11.16% | 4 | |
| Brunetta List (Lista Brunetta) | LB | 8,499 | 6.63% | 2 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 2,381 | 1.86% | 0 | ||
| Brunetta coalition (Right) | 54,356 | 42.41% | 17 | |||
| style="background-color:Template:Five Star Movement/meta/color" | | Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle) | M5S | 4,189 | 3.27% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | | Others | 3,928 | 3.07% | 0 | ||
| Total | 128,165 | 100% | 46 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 151,554 | 68.64% | ||||
| Registered voters | 220,791 | |||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
Mayoral and City Council election, 2015
These elections were held on two rounds: the first on May 31, the second on June 14, 2015.
These elections occurred after a year during which the city were governed by a special commissioner after the incumbent mayor Giorgio Orsoni resigned in June 2014 amid a wider investigation into alleged corruption over new flood barriers MOSE Project.
The official candidate of the center-left coalition was the left-wing magistrate and senator Felice Casson, who failed to win the election in 2005. Cause of his opposition to Matteo Renzi's political line, Casson was generally considered as a representative of the extreme left parties, and based his campaign on the break with the old and corrupted politicians who were investigated the past year. The main opposition to Casson's coalition was the center-right independent Luigi Brugnaro, a businessman and president of the Reyer Venezia Mestre basketball club. Brugnaro was sustained by a coalition between Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the conservative Popular Area alliance.
Although Casson was ahead after the first round, on June 14 Brugnaro won the election and became the first directly-elected conservative mayor of the city. However, the victory of Brugnaro occurred thanks to his great popularity across the city: his own independent list resulted the first party and gained 17 of 36 seats in the City Council, while Forza Italia and Popular Area obtained together no more than 5% of the votes.
After the election, Brugnaro said he considered himself as an independent, totally free from parties' influence, and a supporter of Matteo Renzi's policy.[8]
| Candidate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Luigi Brugnaro | FI-AP | 34,790 | 28.57 | 54,405 | 53.21 | |
| Felice Casson | PD-SEL-FdV-PSI-CD | 46,298 | 38.02 | 47,838 | 46.79 | |
| Davide Scano | M5S | 15,348 | 12.60 | |||
| Gian Angelo Bellati | LN | 14,482 | 11.89 | |||
| Francesca Zaccariotto | FdI-AN | 8,292 | 6.81 | |||
| Others | 2,567 | 2.11 | ||||
| Eligible voters | 211,720 | 100.00 | 211,720 | 100.00 | ||
| Voted | 126,631 | 59.81 | 103,827 | 49.04 | ||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 4,854 | 1,584 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 121,777 | 102,243 | ||||
| Parties and coalitions | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casson List (Lista Casson) | LC | 19,991 | 17.10% | 4 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color" | | Democratic Party (Partito Democratico) | PD | 19,667 | 16.83% | 4 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Left Ecology Freedom/meta/color" | | Left Ecology Freedom-Greens (Sinistra Ecologia e Libertà - Verdi) | SEL-FdV | 1,845 | 1.58% | 0 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | | Venice Common Good (Venezia Bene Comune) | VBC | 1,562 | 1.34% | 0 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color" | | Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano) | PSI | 618 | 0.53% | 0 | |
| Democratic Centre (Centro Democratico) | CD | 365 | 0.31% | 0 | ||
| Casson coalition (Left) | 44,058 | 37.69% | 8 | |||
| Brugnaro List (Lista Brugnaro) | LB | 24,352 | 20.83% | 17 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Forza Italia (2013)/meta/color" | | Forza Italia | FI | 4,405 | 3.77% | 3 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Popular Area/meta/color" | | Popular Area (Area Popolare) | AP | 1,870 | 1.60% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | | Others | 2,818 | 2.41% | 1 | ||
| Brugnaro coalition (Center-right) | 33,445 | 28.61% | [9]22 | |||
| Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle) | M5S | 15,009 | 12.84% | 3 | ||
| Lega Nord | LN | 13,997 | 11.97% | 2 | ||
| style="background-color:Template:Brothers of Italy/meta/color" | | Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) | FdI | 7,847 | 6.71% | 1 | |
| style="background-color:Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | | Others | 2,530 | 2.16% | 0 | ||
| Total | 116,886 | 100% | 36 | |||
| Votes cast / turnout | 126,631 | 59.81% | ||||
| Registered voters | 211,720 | |||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||
References
- ^ Mayor of Venice resigns after corruption inquiry, BBC 13 June 2014
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/15/venice-mayoral-poll-cruise-ships-luigi-brugnaro
- ^ Resigned in order to participate to the regional elections.
- ^ Resigned after a corruption scandal. Completely acquitted of all charges in 2017. Mayor of Venice resigns after corruption inquiry, BBC 13 June 2014.
- ^ As a result of the majority bonus granted by the electoral law to the candidate who wins the run-off competition if no coalition reaches more than 50% of the votes on the first round.
- ^ As a result of the pre-electoral agreement with the center-left coalition.
- ^ As a result of the majority bonus granted by the electoral law to the candidate who wins the run-off competition if no coalition reaches more than 50% of the votes on the first round.
- ^ Brugnaro, l'imprenditore un po' leghista e un po' grillino: "Mi piace Renzi", La Stampa 16 June 2015.
- ^ As a result of the majority bonus granted by the electoral law to the candidate who wins the run-off competition if no coalition reaches more than 50% of the votes on the first round.