2020 Venice municipal election
A Municipal election was held in Venice, Italy, on 20 and 21 September. It was originally scheduled to take place on May 31, 2020, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.[1][2]
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Electoral system
The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system, 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 50% of votes during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.
The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.[3]
Parties and candidates
This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.
| Political force or alliance | Constituent lists | Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forza Italia (FI) | ||||
| Lega (League) | ||||
| Brothers of Italy (FdI) | ||||
| Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor (LBS) | ||||
| Democratic Party (PD) | ||||
| Green Progressive Venice (VVP) (incl. Art.1, EV, SI, Pos and PRC) | ||||
| Venice is Yours (incl. IV, +Eu and PSI) | ||||
| Common Idea for Venice and Mestre | ||||
| Turning Point in Common (incl. Volt and IiC) | ||||
| Five Star Movement (M5S) | ||||
| All the City Together! (TCI) (incl. PaP) | ||||
| Earth and Water 2020 (TeA) | ||||
| Party of Venetians (PdV) | ||||
| Solidary and Young Italy (IGS) | ||||
| Sitran Civic List | ||||
Opinion polls
Candidates
| Date | Polling firm/ Client |
Sample size | Brugnaro | Baretta | Visman | Martini | Zecchi | Gasparinetti | Others | Undecided | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Aug 2020 | Fabbrica Politica[lower-alpha 1] | 500 | 55.0 | 24.3 | 5.4[lower-alpha 2] | 5.6 | 7.1 | 2.6 | N/A | N/A | 30.7 |
Parties
| Date | Polling firm | Sample size | Centre-right | Centre-left | M5S | TCI | TeA | PdV | Others | Undecided | Lead | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lega | FI | FdI | Other | PD | IV | VVP | Other | ||||||||||
| 16 Jun 2020 | Quorum[lower-alpha 1] | 900 | 22.6 | 3.9 | 7.8 | 21.1 | 23.2 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 53.1 | 0.6 |
- This poll was commissioned by a political party.
- In this poll the M5S mayoral candidate was Elena La Rocca
Results
| Candidates & parties | Votes | % | Seats leaders |
Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luigi Brugnaro | 66,750 | 54.14 | – | 22 | |
| Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor | 37,914 | 31.67 | → | 14 | |
| League | 14,806 | 12.37 | → | 5 | |
| Brothers of Italy | 7,855 | 6.56 | → | 2 | |
| Forza Italia | 3,255 | 2.72 | → | 1 | |
| Civic List The Cities | 1,148 | 0.96 | → | – | |
| Pier Paolo Baretta | 36,092 | 29.27 | 1 | 9 | |
| Democratic Party | 22,962 | 19.18 | → | 7 | |
| Green Progressive Venice | 5,907 | 4.93 | → | 1 | |
| Venice is Yours | 4,308 | 3.60 | → | 1 | |
| Turning Point in Common | 952 | 0.80 | → | – | |
| Common Idea for Mestre and Venice | 789 | 0.66 | → | – | |
| Marco Gasparinetti | 5,005 | 4.06 | 1 | – | |
| Earth and Water 2020 | 4,847 | 4.05 | → | – | |
| Sara Visman | 4,822 | 3.91 | 1 | – | |
| Five Star Movement | 4,716 | 3.94 | → | – | |
| Stefano Zecchi | 4,344 | 3.52 | 1 | – | |
| Party of Venetians | 4,228 | 3.53 | → | – | |
| Giovanni Andrea Martini | 4,305 | 3.49 | 1 | – | |
| All the City Together! | 3,021 | 2.52 | → | – | |
| For Mestre and Venice | 1,083 | 0.90 | → | – | |
| Alessandro Busetto | 807 | 0.65 | – | – | |
| Workers' Communist Party | 783 | 0.65 | → | – | |
| Marco Sitran | 605 | 0.49 | – | – | |
| Sitran Civic List | 553 | 0.46 | → | – | |
| Maurizio Callegari | 570 | 0.46 | – | – | |
| Solidary and Young Italy | 570 | 0.48 | → | – | |
| Total | 128,025 | 100.00 | 5 | 36 | |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | |||||
See also
References
- "Il governo ha rinviato le elezioni regionali e comunali" (in Italian). Il Post. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- Elezioni Regionali, il 31 Maggio si vota in Toscana, Veneto, Campania, Puglia, Liguria e Marche
- "Ministero dell'Interno - Approfondimento". Ministero dell'Interno (in Italian). Retrieved 17 July 2020.