Election Name: | 2000 Ligurian regional election |
Country: | Liguria |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1995 Ligurian regional election |
Previous Year: | 1995 |
Next Election: | 2005 Ligurian regional election |
Next Year: | 2005 |
Election Date: | 16 April 2000 |
Leader1: | Sandro Biasotti |
Party1: | Forza Italia |
Alliance1: | Pole for Freedoms |
Color1: | 0A6BE1 |
Seats1: | 24 |
Seat Change1: | 8 |
Popular Vote1: | 475,308 |
Percentage1: | 50.7% |
Swing1: | 6.1%[1] |
Leader2: | Giancarlo Mori |
Party2: | Italian People's Party (1994) |
Alliance2: | The Olive Tree (Italy) |
Color2: | EF3E3E |
Seats2: | 16 |
Seat Change2: | 13 |
Popular Vote2: | 431,743 |
Percentage2: | 46.1% |
Swing2: | 5.0%[2] |
President | |
Posttitle: | Subsequent President |
Before Election: | Giancarlo Mori |
After Election: | Sandro Biasotti |
Before Party: | PPI |
After Party: | FI |
The Ligurian regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.
Sandro Biasotti (an independent close to Forza Italia) was elected president, defeating incumbent Giancarlo Mori (PPI).
Regional elections in Liguria were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian system: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.
A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes.
The panachage was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.
Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
Centre-left coalition | 30.3 | 14 | Giancarlo Mori | ||||
Communist Refoundation Party | 8.0 | 2 | |||||
Italian People's Party – UDEUR | 5.7 | 3 | |||||
2.9 | 1 | ||||||
Italian Democratic Socialists – Italian Republican Party | |||||||
The Democrats | |||||||
Party of Italian Communists | |||||||
For Italy | |||||||
Centre-right coalition | 24.4 | 9 | Sandro Biasotti | ||||
11.2 | 4 | ||||||
6.5 | 2 | ||||||
2.7 | 1 | ||||||
Pensioners' Party | 1.6 | – | |||||
New Liguria | |||||||
Animalist Liguria | |||||||
Pannella List | 1.5 | – | Mario Tarantino | ||||
Irene Menghini |
Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seat | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sandro Biasotti | 475,308 | 50.71 | 8 | |||||||
Forza Italia | 240,789 | 27.27 | 10 | |||||||
National Alliance | 90,396 | 10.24 | 3 | |||||||
Northern League Liguria | 38,104 | 4.32 | 1 | |||||||
New Liguria | 24,943 | 2.83 | 1 | |||||||
Christian Democratic Centre | 22,959 | 2.60 | 1 | |||||||
United Christian Democrats | 15,837 | 1.79 | – | |||||||
Animalist Liguria | 11,984 | 1.36 | – | |||||||
Pensioners' Party | 6,488 | 0.73 | – | |||||||
Total | 451,500 | 51.14 | 16 | |||||||
Giancarlo Mori | 431,743 | 46.07 | 1 | |||||||
Democrats of the Left | 231,496 | 26.22 | 9 | |||||||
Communist Refoundation Party | 57,619 | 6.53 | 2 | |||||||
Italian People's Party – UDEUR | 37,351 | 4.23 | 1 | |||||||
The Democrats | 25,285 | 2.86 | 1 | |||||||
Federation of the Greens | 18,541 | 2.10 | 1 | |||||||
17,284 | 1.96 | 1 | ||||||||
Party of Italian Communists | 16,507 | 1.87 | – | |||||||
For Italy | 2,806 | 0.32 | – | |||||||
Total | 406,889 | 46.09 | 15 | |||||||
Mario Tarantino | 24,168 | 2.58 | – | Bonino List | 20,962 | 2.37 | – | |||
Irene Menghini | 6,028 | 0.64 | – | Humanist Party | 3,473 | 0.39 | – | |||
Total candidates | 937,247 | 100.00 | 9 | Total parties | 882,824 | 100.00 | 31 | |||
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections |