Italian regional elections, 2005
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Elected Presidents: The House of Freedoms The Union | |||||||
The Italian regional elections of 3–4 April 2005 were a major victory (11-2) for the centre-left The Union coalition, led by Romano Prodi. The centre-right coalition, governing in the national government, was defeated in all the regions it held, except for its strongholds in Lombardy and Veneto, whose population is anyway a fourth of Italian population. The elections resulted in the national government, led by Silvio Berlusconi, to acknowledge defeat and open a crisis, which resulted in the formation of Berlusconi III Cabinet, with some ministers being substituted.
Due to a series of bureaucratic issues involving the presentation of the list of Social Alternative in Basilicata, the election there would have been held two weeks later. There, the victory of the centre-left coalition brought the tally to 12-2.
The fact that the centre-left was particularly strong in small regions led to the even result of the 2006 general election.
Summary of results
Region | Candidates | Incumbent | |||
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The Union L'Unione |
House of Freedoms Casa delle Libertà |
Social Alternative Alternativa Sociale |
Other | ||
Piedmont Piemonte |
Mercedes Bresso 1,234,354 (50.9%) |
Enzo Ghigo 1,143,993 (47.1%) |
Ludovico Ellena 24,650 (1.0%) |
Gianfranco Rotondi (Christian Democracy) 25,017 (1.0%) |
Enzo Ghigo |
Lombardy Lombardia |
Riccardo Sarfatti 2,126,189 (43.6%) |
Roberto Formigoni 2,606,687 (53.4%) |
Gianmario Invernizzi 134,596 (2.7%) |
Marco Marsili (Liberal Democrats) 13,099 (0.3%) |
Roberto Formigoni |
Veneto Veneto |
Massimo Carraro 1,143,935 (42.4%) |
Giancarlo Galan 1,364,839 (50.5%) |
Roberto Bussinello 29,083 (1.1%) |
Giorgio Panto (North-Eastern Project) 162,009 (6.0%) |
Giancarlo Galan |
Liguria Liguria |
Claudio Burlando 492,352 (52.6%) |
Sandro Biasotti 435,601 (46.6%) |
Angelo Riccobaldi 7,328 (0.8%) |
Sandro Biasotti | |
Emilia-Romagna Emilia-Romagna |
Vasco Errani 1,585,714 (62.7%) |
Carlo Monaco 889,231 (35.2%) |
Gianni Correggiari 25,394 (1.0%) |
Bruno Barbieri (Consumers) 27,220 (1.1%) |
Vasco Errani |
Tuscany Toscana |
Claudio Martini 1,185,264 (57.4%) |
Alessandro Antichi 678,254 (32.8%) |
Marzio Gozzoli 20,853 (1.0%) |
Luca Ciabatti (Communist Refoundation) 151,657 (7.3%) Renzo Macelloni |
Claudio Martini |
Umbria Umbria |
Maria Rita Lorenzetti 319,109 (63.0%) |
Pietro Laffranco 170,357 (33.6%) |
Luca Romagnoli 7,410 (1.5%) |
Marcello Ramadori (Socialist Party New PSI) 9,561 (1.9%) |
Maria Rita Lorenzetti |
Marche Marche |
Gian Mario Spacca 499,793 (57.7%) |
Francesco Massi 333,635 (38.6%) |
Vincenzo Rosini 12,273 (1.4%) |
Angelo Tiraboschi (Democratic Pact) 19,802 (2.3%) |
Vito d'Ambrosio |
Lazio Lazio |
Piero Marrazzo 1,628,486 (50.7%) |
Francesco Storace 1,522,198 (47.4%) |
Alessandra Mussolini 62,352 (1.9%) |
Francesco Storace | |
Abruzzo Abruzzo |
Ottaviano Del Turco 455,307 (58.1%) |
Giovanni Pace 317,976 (40.6%) |
Fabrizio Bosio 10,221 (1.3%) |
Giovanni Pace | |
Campania Campania |
Antonio Bassolino 1,896,664 (61.6%) |
Italo Bocchino 1,057,523 (34.4%) |
Alessandra Mussolini 59,652 (1.9%) |
Gianfranco Rotondi (Christian Democracy) 64,483 (2.1%) |
Antonio Bassolino |
Apulia Puglia |
Nichi Vendola 1,165,536 (49.8%) |
Raffaele Fitto 1,151,405 (49.2%) |
Gianfelice Galassi 10,973 (0.5%) |
Laura Scalabrini (Christian Democracy) 10,477 (0.5%) |
Raffaele Fitto |
Calabria Calabria |
Agazio Loiero 662,722 (59.0%) |
Sergio Abramo 446,634 (39.7%) |
Fortunato Aloi 12,577 (1.1%) |
Giuseppe Bilello (Green Democrats) 2,593 (0.2%) |
Giuseppe Chiaravallotti |
Note: The Communist Refoundation Party presented its own candidate in Tuscany, even though it is full member of left-wing coalition The Union, as well as what New Italian Socialist Party, member of right-wing House of Freedoms, did in Umbria.
Results by region
- Abruzzo regional election, 2005
- Apulian regional election, 2005
- Basilicata regional election, 2005
- Calabrian regional election, 2005
- Campania regional election, 2005
- Emilia-Romagna regional election, 2005
- Lazio regional election, 2005
- Ligurian regional election, 2005
- Lombard regional election, 2005
- Piedmontese regional election, 2005
- Marche regional election, 2005
- Tuscan regional election, 2005
- Umbrian regional election, 2005
- Venetian regional election, 2005