| Election Name: | 2013 Lombard regional election |
| Country: | Lombardy |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2010 Lombard regional election |
| Previous Year: | 2010 |
| Next Election: | 2018 Lombard regional election |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
| Seats For Election: | All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy |
| Election Date: | 24–25 February 2013 |
| Turnout: | 76.74% (12.10%) |
| Leader1: | Roberto Maroni |
| Party1: | Northern League |
| Color1: | 0A6BE1 |
| Alliance1: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
| Last Election1: | 49 seats, 56.1% |
| Seats1: | 49 |
| Popular Vote1: | 2,456,921 |
| Percentage1: | 42.8% |
| Swing1: | 13.3% |
| Leader2: | Umberto Ambrosoli |
| Alliance2: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
| Color2: | EF3E3E |
| Seats2: | 22 |
| Seat Change2: | 6 |
| Last Election2: | 28 seats, 33.3% |
| Popular Vote2: | 2,194,169 |
| Percentage2: | 38.2% |
| Swing2: | 4.9% |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | President-elect |
| Before Election: | Roberto Formigoni |
| Before Party: | PdL |
| After Election: | Roberto Maroni |
| After Party: | LN |
The 2013 Lombard regional election took place on 24 and 25 February 2013 and was the first snap election in Lombard political history, and the first one paired with a general election. The 10th term of the Regional Council was chosen.
Lombardy used for the first time its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national Tatarella Law of 1995. The new electoral law was adopted before the resignation of 74 members of the Council on October 26, 2012.[1] While the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councillors, instead of 64 as it was before, are elected by party lists under a form of semi-proportional representation. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the D'Hondt method, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its provincial lists, where candidates are openly selected.
On 16 October 2012, Formigoni announced the dissolution of the regional legislature after one of his commissioners, Domenico Zambetti of the PdL was arrested on accusations he bought votes from the 'Ndrangheta in 2010 and extorted favours and public building contracts, including construction tenders for the World Expo 2015 in Milan.[2] [3]
On 15 December 2012 the center-left primary election took place to decide the official candidate of the coalition in the election. There were three candidates: Umberto Ambrosoli, son of Giorgio killed in 1979, Alessandra Kustermann and Andrea Di Stefano. Umberto Ambrosoli received the 57% of the votes and became the center-left official candidate for the regional election.[4]
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 86,732 | 57.66 | ||
| 34,946 | 23.23 | ||
| 28,744 | 19.11 | ||
| Total | 150,604 | 100.00 |
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| Centre-right coalition | 31.8 | 23 | Roberto Maroni | ||||
| 26.2 | 18 | ||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 2.6 | 1 | |||||
| Others | |||||||
| Centre-left coalition | 22.9 | 21 | Umberto Ambrosoli | ||||
| Italy of Values | 6.3 | 4 | |||||
| 1.4 | 1 | ||||||
| Italian Socialist Party | 0.3 | – | |||||
| Others | |||||||
| Centrist coalition | Union of the Centre | 3.8 | 3 | Gabriele Albertini | |||
| Five Star Movement | 2.3 | – | Silvana Carcano | ||||
| Carlo Pinardi | |||||||
According to the final results, Roberto Maroni was the new President of Lombardy with more than 40% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.
| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seat | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roberto Maroni | 2,456,921 | 42.82 | 1 | |||||||
| The People of Freedom | 904,742 | 16.73 | 19 | |||||||
| Northern League – Lombard League | 700,907 | 12.96 | 15 | |||||||
| Maroni for President | 552,863 | 10.23 | 11 | |||||||
| Brothers of Italy | 83,810 | 1.55 | 2 | |||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 50,843 | 0.94 | 1 | |||||||
| Labour and Freedom List | 27,374 | 0.51 | – | |||||||
| Ecological Alliance | 8,270 | 0.15 | – | |||||||
| Total | 2,328,809 | 43.07 | 48 | |||||||
| Umberto Ambrosoli | 2,194,169 | 38.24 | 1 | |||||||
| Democratic Party | 1,369,440 | 25.33 | 17 | |||||||
| Ambrosoli for President – Civic Pact | 380,241 | 7.03 | 4 | |||||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 97,627 | 1.81 | – | |||||||
| Lombard Popular Centre | 63,885 | 1.18 | – | |||||||
| Ethical to the Left | 52,152 | 0.96 | – | |||||||
| Italy of Values | 35,141 | 0.65 | – | |||||||
| Italian Socialist Party | 16,624 | 0.31 | – | |||||||
| Total | 2,015,110 | 37.27 | 21 | |||||||
| Silvana Carcano | 782,007 | 13.63 | – | Five Star Movement | 775,211 | 14.34 | 9 | |||
| Gabriele Albertini | 236,597 | 4.12 | – | |||||||
| Civic Lombardy | 133,435 | 2.47 | – | |||||||
| Union of the Centre | 85,721 | 1.59 | – | |||||||
| Total | 219,156 | 4.05 | – | |||||||
| Carlo Pinardi | 68,133 | 1.19 | – | Act to Stop the Decline | 68,469 | 1.27 | – | |||
| Total candidates | 5,737,827 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 5,406,755 | 100.00 | 78 | |||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | ||||||||||
| Province | Roberto Maroni | Umberto Ambrosoli | Silvana Carcano | Gabriele Albertini | Carlo Pinardi | Turnout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan | 654,388 (36.25%) | 795,290 (44.18%) | 245,753 (13.65%) | 84,136 (4.67%) | 20,456 (1.14%) | 76.48% | |
| Brescia | 346,234 (47.52%) | 250,248 (34.25%) | 93,315 (12.81%) | 29,215 (4.01%) | 9,608 (1.32%) | 80.58% | |
| Bergamo | 315,372 (49.16%) | 221,301 (34.50%) | 72,608 (11.32%) | 22,861 (3.56%) | 9,330 (1.45%) | 78.59% | |
| Varese | 241,138 (47.49%) | 169,966 (33.47%) | 70,661 (13.92%) | 21,024 (4.14%) | 5,010 (0.99%) | 73.11% | |
| Monza and Brianza | 216,112 (42.14%) | 193,041 (37.64%) | 76,307 (14.88%) | 20,856 (4.07%) | 6,559 (1.28%) | 78.95% | |
| Como | 166,302 (48.70%) | 114,630 (33.57%) | 43,532 (12.75%) | 13,230 (3.87%) | 3,762 (1.10%) | 72.20% | |
| Pavia | 138,333 (43.78%) | 114,386 (36.20%) | 49,300 (15.60%) | 10,646 (3.37%) | 3,308 (1.05%) | 74.59% | |
| Mantua | 89,032 (37.38%) | 95,268 (40.00%) | 42,975 (18.04%) | 8,170 (3.43%) | 2,738 (1.15%) | 76.84% | |
| Cremona | 92,458 (43.30%) | 79,934 (37.43%) | 30,769 (14.41%) | 8,081 (3.78%) | 2,305 (1.08%) | 78.27% | |
| Lecco | 86,685 (43.24%) | 77,326 (38.58%) | 25,217 (12.58%) | 8,497 (4.24%) | 2,726 (1.36%) | 77.41% | |
| Lodi | 56,278 (42.91%) | 48,750 (37.17%) | 19,994 (15.24%) | 4,888 (3.73%) | 1,255 (0.96%) | 79.19% | |
| Sondrio | 54,589 (51.37%) | 34,026 (32.02%) | 11,576 (10.89%) | 4,993 (4.70%) | 1,076 (1.01%) | 68.54% |
| City | Roberto Maroni | Umberto Ambrosoli | Silvana Carcano | Gabriele Albertini | Carlo Pinardi | Turnout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan | 246,918 (34.45%) | 346,495 (48.35%) | 71,430 (9.97%) | 41,890 (5.85%) | 9,910 (1.38%) | 73.63% | |
| Brescia | 42,623 (38.71%) | 49,453 (44.91%) | 11,993 (10.89%) | 4,391 (3.99%) | 1,659 (1.51%) | 79.76% | |
| Monza | 27,150 (38.09%) | 30,696 (43.07%) | 9,037 (12.68%) | 3,237 (4.54%) | 1,154 (1.62%) | 77.59% | |
| Bergamo | 25,709 (37.55%) | 32,108 (46.90%) | 6,184 (9.03%) | 3,007 (4.39%) | 1,449 (2.12%) | 77.06% | |
| Como | 18,567 (40.68%) | 19,168 (42.00%) | 5,115 (11.21%) | 2,203 (4.83%) | 590 (1.29%) | 67.47% | |
| Varese | 20,853 (46.84%) | 16,774 (37.68%) | 4,227 (9.61%) | 2,084 (4.68%) | 530 (1.19%) | 70.02% | |
| Pavia | 16,704 (38.72%) | 19,111 (44.30%) | 4,993 (11.57%) | 1,675 (3.88%) | 658 (1.53%) | 76.60% | |
| Cremona | 15,258 (36.18%) | 18,583 (44.06%) | 6,281 (14.89%) | 1,585 (3.76%) | 467 (1.11%) | 78.16% | |
| Mantua | 8,326 (29.65%) | 14,063 (50.08%) | 4,235 (15.08%) | 994 (3.54%) | 462 (1.65%) | 75.49% | |
| Lecco | 10,829 (38.50%) | 12,470 (44.34%) | 3,101 (11.03%) | 1,335 (4.75%) | 390 (1.39%) | 76.33% | |
| Lodi | 10,208 (39.53%) | 11,358 (43.99%) | 2,800 (10.84%) | 1,130 (4.38%) | 325 (1.26%) | 78.78% | |
| Sondrio | 4,749 (37.30%) | 5,369 (42.17%) | 1,672 (13.13%) | 700 (5.50%) | 242 (1.90%) | 71.29% |
| Province | PD | LN/Maroni List | PdL | M5S | Ambrosoli List | FdI | Others | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 24 | |
| Brescia | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 10 | |
| Bergamo | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 9 | |
| Varese | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 7 | |
| Monza and Brianza | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 7 | |
| Como | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 5 | |
| Pavia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | |
| Cremona | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Lecco | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Mantua | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Lodi | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Sondrio | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Total | 17 | 26 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 78 |