Election Name: | 2001 Sicilian regional election |
Country: | Sicily |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1996 Sicilian regional election |
Previous Year: | 1996 |
Next Election: | 2006 Sicilian regional election |
Next Year: | 2006 |
Seats For Election: | All 90 seats to the Sicilian Regional Assembly |
Election Date: | 24 June 2001 |
Leader1: | Salvatore Cuffaro |
Party1: | CDU |
Alliance1: | House of Freedoms |
Color1: | 0A6BE1 |
Seats1: | 57 |
Popular Vote1: | 1,572,178 |
Percentage1: | 59.1% |
Leader2: | Leoluca Orlando |
Party2: | The Daisy |
Alliance2: | The Olive Tree |
Color2: | EF3E3E |
Seats2: | 29 |
Popular Vote2: | 972,010 |
Percentage2: | 36.6% |
President | |
Posttitle: | President-elect |
Before Election: | Vincenzo Leanza |
Before Party: | FI |
After Election: | Salvatore Cuffaro |
After Party: | UDC |
Turnout: | 63.5% |
The 2001 Sicilian regional election was held on 24 June 2001. For the first time the president of Region was elected directly by the citizens.
The election was competed by three competitors: Salvatore Cuffaro, House of Freedoms candidate; Leoluca Orlando, candidate of The Olive Tree and former mayor of Palermo; and Sergio D'Antoni, leader of European Democracy. Cuffaro won by a landslide.
Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
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Salvatore Cuffaro | 1,572,178 | 59.1 | 9 | |||||||
Forza Italia | 628,020 | 25.1 | 20 | |||||||
National Alliance | 281,704 | 11.3 | 8 | |||||||
Christian Democratic Centre | 223,420 | 8.9 | 6 | |||||||
United Christian Democrats | 215,047 | 8.6 | 6 | |||||||
New Sicily | 101,368 | 4.1 | 3 | |||||||
New Italian Socialist Party | 69,697 | 2.8 | 2 | |||||||
Whiteflower | 54,550 | 2.2 | 1 | |||||||
Liberal Socialists | 24,110 | 1.0 | 1 | |||||||
Italian Republican Party | 22,110 | 0.9 | 1 | |||||||
Tricolour Flame | 9,224 | 0.4 | – | |||||||
Total | 1,629,250 | 65.3 | 48 | |||||||
Leoluca Orlando | 972,010 | 36.6 | 1 | |||||||
Democrats of the Left | 253,522 | 10.3 | 10 | |||||||
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy | 199,303 | 8.0 | 7 | |||||||
The Daisy for Sicily | 107,516 | 4.3 | 4 | |||||||
Communist Refoundation Party | 61,068 | 2.4 | 3 | |||||||
Italian Democratic Socialists | 46,903 | 1.9 | 1 | |||||||
Sicilian Spring | 29,564 | 1.2 | 1 | |||||||
Party of Italian Communists | 28,826 | 1.2 | 1 | |||||||
Italy of Values | 25,888 | 1.0 | 1 | |||||||
We Sicilians | 2,382 | 0.1 | – | |||||||
Total | 754,972 | 26.1 | 28 | |||||||
Sergio D'Antoni | 114,799 | 4.3 | – | European Democracy | 113,664 | 4.5 | 4 | |||
Total candidates | 2,658,987 | 100.00 | 10 | Total parties | 2,498,244 | 100.00 | 80 | |||
Source: Sicilian Region |