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Municipal elections were held in Turin, northern Italy, in May 2016. Chiara Appendino, the candidate of the Five Star Movement, was elected after defeating former mayor Piero Fassino in the runoff.
Voting system
The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city 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, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.
The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.
Parties and candidates
This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.[1]
| Political force or alliance | Constituent lists | Leader | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Left-wing coalition | Turin in common (incl. SEL, PRC, PCdI, AET and FaS) | Giorgio Airaudo | ||
| Turin environment (Possible – Green Italia) | ||||
| Civic list | ||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | Piero Fassino | ||
| Moderates | ||||
| Civic lists | ||||
| Five Star Movement | Five Star Movement (M5S) | Chiara Appendino | ||
| Centrist coalition | Rosso for Mayor (incl. CoR) | Roberto Rosso | ||
| Union of the Centre – Popular Area (UDC–AP) | ||||
| Democratic Alliance (AD) | ||||
| Moderates in Revolution (MIR) | ||||
| Centre-right coalition | Forza Italia (FI) | Osvaldo Napoli | ||
| Civic lists | ||||
| Right-wing coalition | Northern League (LN) | Alberto Morano | ||
| Brothers of Italy (FdI) | ||||
Opinion polling
Results
| Candidates | I round | II round | Leaders seats |
Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||
| Chiara Appendino | 118,273 | 30.92 | 202,764 | 54.56 | – | Five Star Movement | 107,680 | 30.01 | 24 | |
| Piero Fassino | 160,023 | 41.84 | 168,880 | 45.44 | 1 | Democratic Party | 106,818 | 29.77 | 8 | |
| Moderates | 21,307 | 5.94 | 1 | |||||||
| Fassino list | 14,898 | 4.15 | 1 | |||||||
| Left for the City | 7,253 | 2.02 | – | |||||||
| Alberto Morano | 32,103 | 8.39 | – | – | 1 | Northern League | 20,769 | 5.79 | 1 | |
| Brothers of Italy | 5,259 | 1.47 | – | |||||||
| Morano list | 4,983 | 1.39 | – | |||||||
| Osvaldo Napoli | 20,349 | 5.32 | – | – | 1 | Forza Italia | 16,684 | 4.65 | – | |
| Let's save the Ophthalmic | 2.435 | 0.68 | – | |||||||
| A Dream for Turin | 567 | 0.16 | – | |||||||
| Roberto Rosso | 19,334 | 5.05 | – | – | 1 | Rosso list | 11,339 | 3.16 | – | |
| Union of the Centre – Popular Area | 5,114 | 1.43 | – | |||||||
| Pensioners' Union | 1,568 | 0.44 | – | |||||||
| Democratic Alliance | 409 | 0.11 | – | |||||||
| Moderates in Revolution | 321 | 0.09 | – | |||||||
| Giorgio Airaudo | 14,166 | 3.70 | – | – | 1 | Turin in common | 10,115 | 2.82 | – | |
| Turin environment (Possible – Green Italia) | 2,244 | 0.63 | – | |||||||
| Pensioners and Disabled | 1,077 | 0.30 | – | |||||||
| Gianluca Noccetti | 5,251 | 1.37 | – | – | – | Piedmont Padanian League | 2,937 | 0.82 | – | |
| 4-Legged Friends | 1,321 | 0.37 | – | |||||||
| Forza Toro | 484 | 0.13 | – | |||||||
| Unemployed. Precarious and Exiled | 363 | 0.10 | – | |||||||
| Motorist list | 98 | 0.03 | – | |||||||
| Marco Rizzo | 3,323 | 0.87 | – | – | – | Communist Party | 3,192 | 0.89 | – | |
| Marco Racca | 2,082 | 0.54 | – | – | – | CasaPound | 1,985 | 0.55 | – | |
| Vitantonio Colucci | 2,032 | 0.53 | – | – | – | The People of Family | 1,996 | 0.56 | – | |
| Mario Cornelio Levi | 1,337 | 0.35 | – | – | – | Italy of Values | 1,327 | 0.37 | – | |
| Anna Battista | 980 | 0.26 | – | – | – | It's enough! | 927 | 0.26 | – | |
| Pier Carlo Devoti | 915 | 0.24 | – | – | – | The Square | 1.089 | 0.30 | – | |
| Roberto Usseglio | 690 | 0.18 | – | – | – | New Force | 672 | 0.19 | – | |
| Alessio Ariotto | 628 | 0.16 | – | – | – | Workers' Communist Party | 615 | 0.17 | – | |
| Lorenzo Varaldo | 584 | 0.15 | – | – | – | Abrogation! | 546 | 0.15 | – | |
| Guglielmo Del Pero | 433 | 0.11 | – | – | – | We are Turin | 413 | 0.12 | – | |
| Total | 382,503 | 100.00 | 371,644 | 100.00 | 5 | 358,805 | 100.00 | 35 | ||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||||||
According to the Italian electoral law of 1993 for the Municipalities, if a defeated candidate for mayor obtains over 3% of votes, the mayoral candidate is automatically elected communal councillor (on this case: Fassino, Morano, Napoli, Rosso and Airaudo). The candidate elected mayor votes on communal council, but is not a member of it.
See also
- Municipal elections in Turin
References
- ↑ A. Grandi (27 April 2016).Turin mayoral election redraws political boundaries between left and right. Il Sole 24 Ore.