| Election Name: | 2006 Milan municipal election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flag Image: | Flag of Milan.svg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | presidential | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ongoing: | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous Election: | 2001 Milan municipal election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous Year: | 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next Election: | 2011 Milan municipal election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Next Year: | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Election Date: | 28–29 May 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout: | 67.5% 14.8 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Municipal elections were held in Milan on 28–29 May 2006, to elect the Mayor of Milan and the 60 members of the City Council.
The incumbent Mayor Gabriele Albertini was term-limited and could not run for a third term.
The main candidates were the incumbent Minister of Education Letizia Moratti, supported by Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition House of Freedoms, and the former prefect of Milan Bruno Ferrante, supported by the centre-left coalition The Union.
As a result of the election, Letizia Moratti was officially proclaimed new Mayor of Milan on 1 June 2006, becoming the first female to fill the office.[1]
In December 2005 the centre-left coalition decided to call an open primary election to choose its mayoral candidate.[2] Four people registered to be candidates in this election: Bruno Ferrante, former prefect of Milan (2000–2005); Dario Fo, playwright and 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature; Milly Moratti, environmentalist activist; and Dario Corritore, an independent business executive.
The election took place on 29 January 2006:[2]
| Candidate | Supported by | Votes (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruno Ferrante | DS, DL | 67.85% | |
| Dario Fo | PRC | 23.09% | |
| Milly Moratti | FdV | 5.78% | |
| Davide Corritore | none | 3.28% | |
| Total | 100.00 | ||
The semipresidential voting system was the one used for all mayoral elections in Italy of cities with a population higher than 15,000 for the fourth time. 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 at least 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.
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 losing party is determined proportionally.
This is a list of the major parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Candidate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centre-left coalition (The Union) | Bruno Ferrante | |||
| Centre-right coalition (House of Freedoms) | Letizia Moratti | |||
| Candidates | Votes | % | Leader's seat | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letizia Moratti | 353,410 | 51.97 | – | Forza Italia | 194,995 | 32.22 | 24 | |||
| National Alliance | 51,801 | 8.56 | 6 | |||||||
| Letizia Moratti List | 30,781 | 5.09 | 3 | |||||||
| Northern League | 22,702 | 3.75 | 2 | |||||||
| Union of Christian and Centre Democrats | 14,713 | 2.43 | 1 | |||||||
| Pensions and Work | 3,537 | 0.58 | – | |||||||
| 2,560 | 0.42 | – | ||||||||
| Social Action | 2,305 | 0.38 | – | |||||||
| Tricolour Flame | 1,634 | 0.27 | – | |||||||
| Young people for Milan | 1,418 | 0.23 | – | |||||||
| New Italian Socialist Party | 920 | 0.15 | – | |||||||
| Pensioners and Disabled | 879 | 0.15 | – | |||||||
| S.O.S. Italy | 230 | 0.04 | – | |||||||
| Total | 328,475 | 54.28 | 36 | |||||||
| Bruno Ferrante | 319,487 | 46.98 | The Olive Tree | 133,315 | 22.03 | 14 | ||||
| Ferrante List | 45,501 | 7.52 | 4 | |||||||
| Communist Refoundation Party | 25,252 | 4.17 | 2 | |||||||
| Federation of the Greens | 20,346 | 3.36 | 2 | |||||||
| United with Dario Fo | 12,821 | 2.12 | 1 | |||||||
| Party of Italian Communists | 9,345 | 1.54 | – | |||||||
| 8,843 | 1.46 | – | ||||||||
| Rose in the Fist | 8,563 | 1.41 | – | |||||||
| 3,654 | 0.60 | – | ||||||||
| Union of Democrats for Europe | 1,989 | 0.33 | – | |||||||
| Consumers' List | 603 | 0.10 | – | |||||||
| Total | 270,232 | 44.65 | 23 | |||||||
| Giorgio Ballabio | 1,329 | 0.20 | – | Your Milan | 1,323 | 0.22 | – | |||
| Cesare Fracca | 1,220 | 0.18 | – | Living Milan | 1,169 | 0.19 | – | |||
| Gabriele Pagliuzzi | 1,187 | 0.17 | – | Liberal Right – Federal Europe | 935 | 0.15 | – | |||
| Ambrogio Crespi | 1,086 | 0.16 | – | Liberal-Democratic Socialists – No ICI | 853 | 0.14 | – | |||
| Valerio Colombo | 752 | 0.11 | – | 696 | 0.12 | – | ||||
| Alberto Beniamino Saiabene | 676 | 0.10 | – | This is a City | 690 | 0.11 | – | |||
| Sante Gaiardoni | 523 | 0.08 | – | Sante Gaiardoni List | 435 | 0.07 | – | |||
| Pietro Vangeli | 392 | 0.06 | – | Communist List | 370 | 0.06 | – | |||
| Total | 680,062 | 100.00 | 1 | align=right colspan=2 | 605,178 | 100.00 | 59 | |||
| Eligible voters | 100.00 | |||||||||
| Did not vote | 32.48 | |||||||||
| Voted | 67.52 | |||||||||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 2.3 | |||||||||
| Total valid votes | 97.7 | |||||||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||||||