1995 Tuscan regional election

The Tuscan regional election of 1995 took place on 23 April 1995.

1995 Tuscan regional election

23 April 1995

All 50 seats to the Regional Council
Turnout85.2% (4.4%)
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Vannino Chiti Paolo del Debbio
Party Democratic Party of the Left Forza Italia
Alliance Centre-left coalition Centre-right coalition
Seats won 33 13
Popular vote 1,188,995 855,287
Percentage 50.1% 36.1%

President of Tuscany before election

Vannino Chiti
Democratic Party of the Left

President of Tuscany

Vannino Chiti
Democratic Party of the Left

For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term.

Electoral law

Tuscany used for the first time the national Tatarella Law to elect its Council. Forty councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists; remained seats and votes are grouped at regional level where a Hare quota is used, and then distributed to provincial party lists.

Ten councillors are elected at-large using a general ticket: parties are grouped in alliances, and the alliance which receives a plurality of votes elects all its candidates, its leader becoming the President of Lombardy. If an alliance wins more than 60% of votes, only 5 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 45; if the winning alliance receives less than 50% of votes, special seats are added to the Council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.

Results

In the context of the profound political changes that invested Italy between 1992 and 1994, Italian Parliament changed the regional electoral law, adapting them to new majoritarian principle now in vogue in the country, trim and tend bipolar politics. The new political geography, however, did not fit properly to Tuscany where, besides a garrison of right, assumed insignificant importance the presence of Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord, which, instead of the others regions, substained the center-left candidate. Another major innovation had originated in Tuscany: Silvio Berlusconi' party, Forza Italia, had collected anti-Communist orphans of deceased traditional parties.

The central political alliances had not been followed up at Tuscany, with the Communist Refoundation Party in sharp contrast with PDS because of the contrast into the old party of PCI. PRC accused the PDS and at the same time the Lega Nord accused Forza Italia to be the trojan horse for the recycling of the old political class, had led to the arrest of the Northern League's electoral steady ascent, if not also a marked reflux into the consent of the federalist party. Soparadoxically, the Lega Nord substained Chiti.

Election on April 23 saw the success of the broad leftist coalition, grouping progressive ex-Democrats, ex-socialist, ex-communist and greens, and led to presidency Vannino Chiti that, with the majority premium, was able to give life to the first council in the history of the region that managed to last the entire legislature.

23 April 1995 Tuscan regional election results
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seats
Vannino Chiti 1,188,995 50.12 10
Democratic Party of the Left 874,463 40.9 19
PPIPdDFdL 135,895 6.35 2
Federation of the Greens 57,666 2.70 1
Labour Federation 30,204 1.41 1
Italian Republican Party 16,395 0.77
Lega Nord Toscana 15,049 0.70
Total 1,129,672 52.81 23
Paolo del Debbio 855,287 36.05
Forza Italia – The People's Pole 409,266 19.13 7
National Alliance 281,298 13.15 5
Christian Democratic Centre 53,291 2.49 1
Total 743,855 34.77 13
Luciano Ghelli 294,128 12.40 Communist Refoundation Party 237,405 11.10 4
Vincenzo Donvito 33,856 1.43 Pannella List 28,295 1.32
Total candidates 2,372,266 100.00 10 Total parties 2,139,227 100.00 40
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections
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