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2015 Venetian regional election

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2015 Venetian regional election

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All 51 seats to the Regional Council
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Luca Zaia Alessandra Moretti
Party Northern League Democratic Party
Alliance Centre-right Centre-left
Seats won 29 12
Seat change Decrease 8 Decrease 7
Popular vote 1,108,065 503,147
Percentage 50.10% 22.70%
Swing Decrease 10.06% Decrease 6.38%

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Jacopo Berti Flavio Tosi
Party Five Star Movement Tosi List for Veneto
Alliance LTVAP–Others
Seats won 5 5
Seat change Increase 5 Increase 1
Popular vote 262,749 262,569
Percentage 11.88% 11.87%
Swing Increase 8.72% Increase 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

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.

Luca Zaia, incumbent President (elected in 2010 with 60.2% of the vote) and leading member of the Northern League (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 LN, 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 LN, 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 LN-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.

Electoral system

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The new electoral system of Veneto was regulated by the regional law 5/2012.[2] The assembly was made up of 50 councilors (including the candidate for president who came second), plus the president proclaimed elected. After the elimination of the president's list, the distribution of seats remained proportional (with the D'Hondt method), but with a variable majority premium: the winning coalition is assigned 29 seats if it manages to exceed 50% of the preferences; 28 seats if he got between 40% and 50% of the votes; only 27 if it remained below 40%. A 3% threshold was set for single lists or lists belonging to coalitions that did not exceed 5% of the votes.

Parties and candidates

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Candidates

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Coalitions and parties

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Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
Centre-right coalition Northern LeagueVenetian League (LN–LV) 35.2 18 Luca Zaia
Forza Italia (FI) 24.7 13
Zaia for President (ZP)
Independence We Veneto (INV)
Brothers of Italy (FdI)
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party (PD) 20.3 14 Alessandra Moretti
Autonomous Veneto Project (PVA) 0.2
Moretti for President (MP)
Civic Veneto (incl. PSI, SC and IdV)
New Veneto (SELEuropean GreensSV)
Centrist coalition Popular Area (NCDUDC) 4.9 3 Flavio Tosi
North-East Union (UNE) 1.5 1
Tosi List for Veneto (LTV)
Veneto of Acting
Pensioners' Family (FP)
Breed Piave – Veneto Confederal State
Five Star Movement (M5S) 2.6 Jacopo Berti
The Other Veneto (incl. PRC and PCdI) 1.6 1 Laura Coletti
Venetian Independence (IV) Alessio Morosin

Results

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31 May 2015 Venetian regional election results
Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seat
Luca Zaia 1,108,065 50.09 1
Zaia for President 427,363 23.09 13
Northern LeagueVenetian League 329,966 17.83 10
Forza Italia 110,573 5.97 3
Independence We Veneto 49,929 2.70 1
Brothers of Italy 48,163 2.60 1
Total 965,994 52.19 28
Alessandra Moretti 503,147 22.74 1
Democratic Party 308,438 16.66 8
Moretti for President 70,764 3.82 2
Civic Veneto 26,903 1.45 1
New Veneto (SELEuropean GreensSV) 20,282 1.10
Autonomous Veneto Project 6,242 0.34
Total 432,629 23.37 11
Jacopo Berti 262,749 11.88 Five Star Movement 192,630 10.41 5
Flavio Tosi 262,569 11.87
Tosi List for Veneto 105,836 5.72 3
Popular Area (NCDUDC) 37,937 2.05 1
Veneto of Acting 26,119 1.41 1
Pensioners' Family 14,625 0.79
North-East Union 11,173 0.60
Breed Piave – Veneto Confederal State 3,487 0.19
Total 199,177 10.76 5
Alessio Morosin 55,760 2.52 Venetian Independence 46,578 2.52
Laura Coletti 19,914 0.90 The Other Veneto 13,997 0.76
Total candidates 2,212,204 100.00 2 Total parties 1,851,005 100.00 49
Source: Ministry of the Interior


Council composition

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Distribution of Seats in the Regional Council
Political Group Leader 2015 2020
Liga VenetaLega Nord Nicola Finco 11 12
Zaia for President[a][b] Silvia Rizzotto 13 10
Democratic Party Alessandra Moretti / Stefano Fracasso 9 7
Five Star Movement rotational leadership 5 4
Brothers of Italy[c] Sergio Berlato / Andrea Bassi 1 3
Forza Italia / More Italy!–I Love Veneto[d] Massimiliano Barison / Massimo Giorgetti 3 2
Civic Veneto / United Venetians Pietro Dalla Libera[e] 1 2
Tosi List for Veneto / Veneto for AutonomyForza Italia Stefano Casali / Maurizio Conte[f] 3 1
Moretti President / Civic List for Veneto Franco Ferrari 2 1
NCDUdCPopular Area / Popular AreaForza Italia Marino Zorzato[g] 1 1
Independence We Veneto / We Are Veneto / Party of Venetians Antonio Guadagnini 1 1
Veneto of Acting / Veneto Autonomous Heart Giovanna Negro 1 1
Venetian Centre-Right[h] Stefano Casali / Andrea Bassi 0 0
Mixed Group[i] Piero Ruzzante 0 6

Sources: Regional Council of Veneto – Groups and Regional Council of Veneto – Members

Notes

  1. ^ All the group members were affiliated to Liga VenetaLega Nord. See http://www.larena.it/territori/citt%C3%A0/valdegamberipassa-nel-gruppo-misto-1.5531130.
  2. ^ Three members left the group for technical reasons: Nicola Finco in order to lead the group of Liga VenetaLega Nord, Stefano Valdegamberi to balance the composition of the Mixed Group, and Fabiano Barbisan to help the formation of the Venetian Centre-Right group.
  3. ^ The group was originally composed of just one member, Sergio Berlato, who left in February 2020 in order to become an MEP. He was replaced by Joe Formaggio. Contextually, the group was joined by Andrea Bassi and Stefano Casali, splinters of Tosi List for Veneto and, later, founding members of Venetian Centre-Right. The party counts two more councillors, Elena Donazzan and Massimo Giorgetti, who were splinters from Forza Italia and continue to sit in their original group. Af sixth coincillor, Massimiliano Barison, was a member of Brothers of Italy and the group from January 2018 to June 2019.
  4. ^ The remaining two members of the group, Massimo Giorgetti and Elena Donazzan, were no longer affiliated to Forza Italia by mid 2018, both citing disagreements with the party's regional leadership. In December 2018 Donazzan launched I Love Veneto. In February 2019 Giorgetti joined Brothers of Italy, but chose not to join that party's group and to maintain his affiliation with Donazzan. In March 2019 the name of the group was finally changed. In June 2019 also Donazzan joined Brothers of Italy.
  5. ^ Founding member Piero Dalla Libera was elected as part of the centre-left coalition and then switched its allegiance to the majority led by President Luca Zaia. In June 2019 he was joined by Massimiliano Barison, a former member of Forza Italia and Brothers of Italy.
  6. ^ Maurizio Conte joined Forza Italia in August 2017, but was not able to add the party's name to that of the group until March 2019.
  7. ^ Marino Zorzato joined Forza Italia in November 2018, but was not able to add the party's name to that of the group until March 2019.
  8. ^ The group was formed in May 2017 by Fabiano Barbisan of Liga Veneta, who joined the group for technical purposes, and two splinters of the Tosi List for Veneto, Andrea Bassi and Stefano Casali. In February 2020 the latter two joined Brothers of Italy and the group was thus dissolved.
  9. ^ Final members: Piero Ruzzante, splinter of the Democratic Party and member of Article One; Stefano Valdegamberi, a former member of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats and elect of the Zaia President list in 2015 (he officially joined Liga Veneta in June 2020); Patrizia Bartelle, splinter of the Five Star Movement and member of Italia in Comune; Fabiano Barbisan, a member of Liga Veneta who had been a member of Venetian Centre-Right from May 2017 to February 2020; Cristina Guarda, a member of the Federation of Greens; and Orietta Salemi, a member of Italia Viva. Ruzzante's latest affiliation was with "The Veneto We Want" (a grouping formed by Arturo Lorenzoni; Valdegamberi's Tzimbar Earde, "Cimbrian Land", due to his Cimbrian roots; Bertelle's "Veneto Ecology Solidarity".

Aftermath

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Following the election, Luca Zaia formed his second government, composed of ten ministers, nine of Liga Veneta and one of Forza Italia.


Zaia II Government
Office Name Party
President Luca Zaia Liga Veneta
Vice President Gianluca Forcolin (until August 2020) Liga Veneta
Minister of Budget and Local Government Gianluca Forcolin (until August 2020) Liga Veneta
Minister of Health and Social Programs Luca Coletto (until December 2018) Liga Veneta
Manuela Lanzarin (since January 2019) Liga Veneta
Minister of Economic Development and Energy Roberto Marcato Liga Veneta
Minister of Public Works, Infrastructures and Transports Elisa De Berti Liga Veneta
Minister of Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing Giuseppe Pan Liga Veneta
Minister of Education and Labour Elena Donazzan Forza Italia (until 2018)
Brothers of Italy (since 2019)
Minister of Social Affairs Manuela Lanzarin Liga Veneta
Minister of EU Programs, Tourism and International Trade Federico Caner Liga Veneta
Minister of Environment and Civil Protection Gianpaolo Bottacin Liga Veneta
Minister of Culture, City Planning and Security Cristiano Corazzari Liga Veneta

Source: Veneto Region – Regional Government

References

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  1. ^ Alfano: la data delle regionali è il 31 Maggio La Repubblica, 24 March 2015 (in Italian)
  2. ^ ELEZIONI REGIONALI 2015: LEGGE ELETTORALE, CAMPAGNA ELETTORALE E PAR CONDICIO
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  5. ^ "Tosi si candida in Veneto e attacca Salvini: "Nemmeno Renzi si sarebbe comportato così" - La Stampa". Lastampa.it. 2015-03-14. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
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