2015 Venetian regional election

The Venetian regional election of 2015 took place in Veneto on 31 May 2015,[1] as part of a big round of regional elections in Italy. Venetian voters elected their President and their Regional Council, whose members had been reduced to 51, including the President.

2015 Venetian regional election

31 May 2015
All 51 seats to the Regional Council
Majority party Minority party   Leader Luca Zaia Alessandra Moretti Party League Democratic Party Alliance Centre-right coalition Centre-left coalition Seats won 29 12 Seat change 8 7 Popular vote 1,108,065 503,147 Percentage 50.10% 22.70% Swing 10.06% 6.38%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Jacopo Berti Flavio Tosi Party Five Star Movement Tosi List for Veneto Alliance None LTV–AP–Others Seats won 5 5 Seat change 5 1 Popular vote 262,749 262,569 Percentage 11.88% 11.87% Swing 8.72% 5.48%
Electoral results for area: blue for Zaia, orange for Moretti, light blue for Tosi
President before election Luca Zaia Lega Nord Subsequent President Luca Zaia Lega Nord

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Luca Zaia, incumbent President (elected in 2010 with 60.2% of the vote) and leading member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord (LV–LN), was re-elected by a reduced majority, due to a split occurred within his party in the run-up of the election, but, despite this, his victory over Alessandra Moretti of the Democratic Party (PD), who fared quite badly, was still a landslide: 50.1% to 22.7%. The election was a personal triumph for Zaia, who was the most voted President among the seven elected on 31 May. Other two candidates, Jacopo Berti of the Five Star Movement (M5S) and Flavio Tosi of the Tosi List for Veneto (LTV), the splinter group from the LV, got more than 10% of the vote and finished both at 11.9%. A fifth, Alessio Morosin of Venetian Independence (IV), and a sixth, Laura Coletti of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), won 2.5% and 0.9% of the vote, respectively.

Among the parties, the LV, which presented an official list and a list named after Zaia (however composed mainly of party members), improved its 2010's performance, by gaining 40.9% of the vote (combined result of the two lists, which obtained 17.8% and 23.1%, respectively). If the two LV-related lists are counted together, the PD came second with 16.7% of the vote (20.5% if Moretti's personal list is counted) and the M5S third with 10.4%. The combined score of the two lists connected to the LTV was 7.1%, while the once-mighty Forza Italia (heir of The People of Freedom and, before that, the original Forza Italia) stopped at 6.0%.

The total score of Venetist and regional parties, a diverse field including the Liga Veneta, the LTV, Venetian Independence, Independence We Veneto, the North-East Union, Autonomous Veneto Project and Veneto Confederal State, was 54.3%, then a record.