2024 Emilia-Romagna regional election
All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna
| Majority party | Minority party | |
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| Candidate | Michele De Pascale | Elena Ugolini |
| Party | PD | Independent |
| Alliance | Centre-left | Centre-right |
| Seats won | 34 | 16 |
| Seat change | Increase5 | Decrease3 |
| Popular vote | 922,150 | 650,935 |
| Percentage | 56.8% | 40.1% |
| Swing | Increase5.4% | Decrease3.5% |
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The 2024 Emilia-Romagna regional election took place in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, on 17–18 November 2024.[1]
The elections were called following Stefano Bonaccini's election to the European Parliament, a position incompatible with his post as the regional president. He resigned on 12 July 2024, on the same day, the Democratic Party unanimously nominated Mayor of Ravenna Michele De Pascale as its candidate.[2] On 25 July, the centre-right coalition announced the candidacy of Elena Ugolini, a former undersecretary of state and school principal, without a party affiliation.[3]
De Pascale defeated Ugolini by a 16.7 points margin, winning nearly 57% of the popular vote. The number of seats of the centre-left coalition in the Regional Council increased by 5, giving them a 2/3 supermajority.
Electoral system
[edit ]In Emilia-Romagna, a new electoral law was approved by the Legislative Assembly in July 2014, abolishing the blocked list.
The voter can express one or two preference votes for the candidates on the chosen list; in the case of the expression of two preferences, these must concern candidates of different sex according to "gender preference" (under penalty of annulment of the second preference). As regards the election of the councilors, the law guarantees in any case at least 27 seats on the lists that support the elected president (majority prize), obtaining effects that are very similar to those of the list but acting on the provincial lists. The first 40 seats are distributed on a proportional basis. A seat is then attributed to the candidate for president who came second. The remaining 9 seats are assigned by majority method to the lists that support the elected president if these lists have obtained less than 25 seats with the previous procedure, otherwise the "prize" will be only 4 seats. If, at the end of these assignments, the majority lists have not obtained at least 27 seats, these will be guaranteed by removing some of the seats already assigned to the opposition lists.
Parties and candidates
[edit ]| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | ||||
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| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | 34.7 | 22 | ||||
| Greens and Left Alliance (incl. SI, EV, Pos) | 5.7 | 3 | |||||
| Five Star Movement | 4.7 | 2 | |||||
| Future Emilia-Romagna (incl. Az, +E, PSI, PRI, RI) | 1.5 | – | |||||
| Civics with De Pascale for President (incl. IV, Volt) | – | – | |||||
| Centre-right coalition | League (incl. PdF) | 32.0 | 14 | Elena Ugolini
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| Brothers of Italy | 8.6 | 3 | |||||
| Forza Italia (incl. NM) | 2.6 | 1 | |||||
| Civic Network – Ugolini for President | – | – | |||||
| Emilia-Romagna for Peace, Environment and Labour (incl. PRC, PCI, PaP) | 0.7 | – | Federico Serra
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| Loyalty Coherence Truth (incl. M3V) | 0.5 | – | Luca Teodori
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Opinion polls
[edit ]Candidates
[edit ]| Date | Polling firm/ Client |
Sample size | De Pascale | Ugolini | Others | Undecided | Lead |
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| 18 Oct 2024 | Opinio (exit poll) | – | 53.0–57.0 | 39.0–43.0 | 1.0–4.0 | – | 14.0 |
| 18 Oct 2024 | SWG (exit poll) | – | 54.5–58.5 | 39.5–43.5 | 1.0–3.0 | – | 15.0 |
| 15 Oct 2024 | BiDiMedia | 1,000 | 55.9 | 42.5 | 1.6 | 22.0 | 13.4 |
| 15 Sep 2024 | YouTrend | 1,008 | 56.8 | 43.2 | 0.0 | 48.8 | 13.6 |
| 22 Aug 2024 | Noto | 1,000 | 52.0 | 44.0 | 4.0 | 31.0 | 8.0 |
Results
[edit ]| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||
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| Michele De Pascale | 922,150 | 56.77 | 1 | Democratic Party | 641,704 | 42.94 | 27 | ||
| Greens and Left Alliance | 79,236 | 5.30 | 3 | ||||||
| Civics with De Pascale for President | 57,400 | 3.84 | 2 | ||||||
| Five Star Movement | 53,075 | 3.55 | 1 | ||||||
| Future Emilia-Romagna | 25,729 | 1.72 | – | ||||||
| Total | 857,144 | 57.36 | 33 | ||||||
| Elena Ugolini | 650,935 | 40.07 | 1 | Brothers of Italy | 354,833 | 23.74 | 11 | ||
| Forza Italia | 83,998 | 5.62 | 2 | ||||||
| League | 78,734 | 5.27 | 1 | ||||||
| Civic Network – Ugolini for President | 76,988 | 5.15 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 594,553 | 39.79 | 15 | ||||||
| Federico Serra | 31,483 | 1.94 | – | Emilia-Romagna for Peace, Environment and Labour | 27,337 | 1.83 | – | ||
| Luca Teodori | 19,831 | 1.22 | – | Loyalty Coherence Truth | 15,341 | 1.03 | – | ||
| Total candidates | 1,624,399 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 1,494,375 | 100.00 | 48 | ||
| Blank and invalid votes | 35,643 | ||||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 3,576,427 | 46.42 | |||||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Election in Emilia-Romagna | |||||||||
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Results by province and capital city
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Turnout
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| 12:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | 15:00 | |
| Emilia-Romagna | 11.55% | 31.01% | 35.77% | 46.42% |
| Province | Time | |||
| 12:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | 15:00 | |
| Bologna | 13.06% | 35.00% | 40.58% | 51.66% |
| Ferrara | 11.12% | 28.98% | 32.90% | 43.13% |
| Forlì-Cesena | 11.18% | 30.20% | 34.34% | 45.50% |
| Modena | 11.55% | 31.61% | 36.60% | 47.20% |
| Parma | 10.14% | 27.88% | 32.21% | 42.70% |
| Piacenza | 10.87% | 27.39% | 31.56% | 41.49% |
| Ravenna | 13.14% | 33.72% | 38.52% | 49.72% |
| Reggio Emilia | 11.41% | 30.66% | 35.25% | 45.44% |
| Rimini | 8.95% | 25.80% | 30.17% | 40.73% |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Turnout | ||||
Elected councillors
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- ^ As President of the Region.
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Le elezioni anticipate in Emilia-Romagna saranno il 17 e il 18 novembre, Il Post
- ^ "Michele De Pascale candidato Pd a presidente dell'Emilia Romagna: è ufficiale". Il Resto del Carlino (in Italian). 12 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Elezioni regionali: è ufficiale, la civica Ugolini candidata per il centrodestra. Rai News