| Election Name: | 2005 Basilicata regional election |
| Country: | Basilicata |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2000 Basilicata regional election |
| Previous Year: | 2000 |
| Next Election: | 2010 Basilicata regional election |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
| Seats For Election: | All 30 seats to the Regional Council of Basilicata |
| Election Date: | 17–18 April 2005 |
| Turnout: | 67.16% (5.50%) |
| Leader1: | Vito De Filippo |
| Party1: | The Daisy |
| Alliance1: | The Union |
| Color1: | EF3E3E |
| Seats1: | 20 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Popular Vote1: | 236,479 |
| Percentage1: | 67.0% |
| Swing1: | 2.7% |
| Leader2: | Cosimo Latronico |
| Party2: | Forza Italia |
| Alliance2: | House of Freedoms |
| Color2: | 0A6BE1 |
| Seats2: | 10 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 101,725 |
| Percentage2: | 28.8% |
| Swing2: | 6.3% |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | President-elect |
| Before Election: | Angelo Raffaele Dinardo |
| Before Party: | Italian People's Party (1994) |
| After Election: | Vito De Filippo |
| After Party: | The Daisy |
The 2005 Basilicata regional election took place on 17–18 April 2005. The election was for all 30 seats of the Regional Council of Basilicata and the president of Basilicata, who automatically became a member of the council alongside two other seats, plus that of the second-placed candidate. It was the third-last election of the 2005 Italian regional elections. Due to some legal issues with the presentation of the list of Social Alternative, Basilicata did not vote along with the other Italian regions in on 3–4 April 2005 regional elections but a couple of weeks later instead. The victory of The Union coalition, which obtained more than two thirds of the vote, was the largest in Italy and Vito De Filippo of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, the youngest president of Basilicata and the most voted president of a region in percentage terms, was elected president by a landslide. As part of what became a over 20-year rule of the centre-left coalition, the results in Basilicata reflected their comparison as the political equivalent of the left-wing Emilia-Romagna region in Southern Italy.[1] [2] [3]
| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vito De Filippo | 236,479 | 67.00 | 3 | The Olive Tree | 133,104 | 38.65 | 10 | ||||
| UDEUR | 38,042 | 11.05 | 3 | ||||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 19,592 | 5.69 | 1 | ||||||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 15,992 | 4.64 | 1 | ||||||||
| Party of Italian Communists | 14,332 | 4.16 | 1 | ||||||||
| Italy of Values | 9,511 | 2.76 | 1 | ||||||||
| Pact of Liberal Democrats | 6,006 | 1.74 | 0 | ||||||||
| Total | 236,579 | 68.70 | 17 | ||||||||
| Cosimo Latronico | 101,725 | 28.82 | 1 | Forza Italia | 43,658 | 12.68 | 4 | ||||
| Union of Christian and Centre Democrats | 27,100 | 7.87 | 3 | ||||||||
| National Alliance | 22,553 | 6.55 | 2 | ||||||||
| Federation of the Centre (PRI–DCU–DCA–PLI) | 3,124 | 0.91 | align=right | - | |||||||
| Total | 96,435 | 28.00 | 9 | ||||||||
| Margherita Torrio | 8,780 | 2.49 | – | Socialist Party – New PSI | 7,979 | 2.32 | 0 | ||||
| Roberto Fiore | 3,547 | 1.00 | – | Social Alternative | 2,335 | 0.68 | 0 | ||||
| Angela Mancuso | 2,436 | 0.69 | – | Popular Unity | 1,014 | 0.29 | 0 | ||||
| Total candidates | 352,967 | 100.00 | 4 | Total parties | 344,342 | 100.00 | 26 | ||||
| Registered voters | 372,256 | 67.16 | |||||||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Results | |||||||||||