| Election Name: | 2018 Lazio regional election |
| Country: | Lazio |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2013 Lazio regional election |
| Previous Year: | 2013 |
| Next Election: | 2023 Lazio regional election |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
| Seats For Election: | All 51 seats to the Regional Council of Lazio |
| Election Date: | 4 March 2018 |
| Turnout: | 66.6% (5.4%) |
| Leader1: | Nicola Zingaretti |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
| Alliance1: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
| Color1: | EF3E3E |
| Seats1: | 25 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,018,736 |
| Percentage1: | 32.9% |
| Swing1: | 7.8% |
| Leader2: | Stefano Parisi |
| Party2: | Energies for Italy |
| Alliance2: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
| Color2: | 0A6BE1 |
| Seats2: | 15 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 964,418 |
| Percentage2: | 31.2% |
| Swing2: | 1.9% |
| Leader3: | Roberta Lombardi |
| Party3: | Five Star Movement |
| Alliance3: | None |
| Seats3: | 10 |
| Seat Change3: | 3 |
| Popular Vote3: | 834,995 |
| Percentage3: | 27.0% |
| Swing3: | 6.8% |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | President-elect |
| Before Election: | Nicola Zingaretti |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
| After Election: | Nicola Zingaretti |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
The Lazio regional election of 2018 took place in Lazio, Italy, on 4 March 2018,[1] concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lombard regional election.
The election was won by centre-left incumbent President Nicola Zingaretti, with just under a third of the vote, over the centre-right one Stefano Parisi, who gain 31%, and the Five Star Movement's candidate Roberta Lombardi with 27%.[2] [3]
The Regional Council is elected with a mixed system: 39 MPs are chosen with a form of proportional representation using a largest remainder method with open lists and a 5% threshold, while 11 MPs are elected with a block voting system with closed lists. One seat is for the elected president.
| RM | LT | VT | FR | RT | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 39 |
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| Centre-left | 29.7 | 13 | |||||
| Zingaretti List | 4.5 | 2 | |||||
| Centre-right | Forza Italia (incl. Cuoritaliani) | 21.2 | 9 | ||||
| League | |||||||
| 3.8 | 1 | ||||||
| Us with Italy – UDC | |||||||
| 16.6 | 7 | ||||||
| Pirozzi for President | Pirozzi list | ||||||
| PLI – PRI | |||||||
| 0.7 | – | ||||||
| Power to the People | |||||||
| Reconquer Italy | |||||||
| Date | Polling firm | Zingaretti | Parisi | Lombardi | Pirozzi | Others | Lead | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Feb 2018 | Index Research | 37.0 | 27.0 | 25.5 | 7.5 | 3.0 | 10.0 | |
| 13 Feb 2018 | Termometro Politico | 30.9 | 25.0 | 27.0 | 10.7 | 6.4 | 3.9 | |
| 12 Feb 2018 | Ipsos | 33.0 | 22.0 | 29.0 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | |
| 8 Feb 2018 | Index Research | 39.0 | 26.0 | 23.5 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 13.0 | |
| 2 Feb 2018 | Piepoli | 40.0 | 17.0 | 26.5 | 7.0 | 9.5 | 13.5 | |
| Izi | 36.6 | 23.2 | 25.7 | 11.7 | 2.8 | 10.9 | ||
| 18 Jan 2018 | Index Research | 45.0 | 20.0 | 20.0 | 11.0 | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| 8–10 Jan 2018 | Index Research | 44.0 | 25.0 | 20.0 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 19.0 |
| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicola Zingaretti | 1,018,736 | 32.93 | 1 | |||||||
| Democratic Party | 539,131 | 21.25 | 18 | |||||||
| Zingaretti List | 110,080 | 4.34 | 3 | |||||||
| Free and Equal | 88,416 | 3.48 | 1 | |||||||
| 52,451 | 2.07 | 1 | ||||||||
| Solidary Centre | 48,872 | 1.93 | 1 | |||||||
| Together | 28,443 | 1.12 | – | |||||||
| Total | 867,393 | 34.19 | 24 | |||||||
| Stefano Parisi | 964,757 | 31.18 | 1 | |||||||
| Forza Italia | 371,155 | 14.63 | 6 | |||||||
| League | 252,772 | 9.96 | 4 | |||||||
| Brothers of Italy | 220,460 | 8.69 | 3 | |||||||
| Us with Italy–UDC | 41.234 | 1.63 | 1 | |||||||
| Energies for Italy | 37,043 | 1.46 | – | |||||||
| Total | 922,664 | 36.37 | 14 | |||||||
| Roberta Lombardi | 835,137 | 26.99 | – | Five Star Movement | 559,752 | 22.06 | 10 | |||
| Sergio Pirozzi | 151,339 | 4.89 | – | |||||||
| Sergio Pirozzi for President | 93,942 | 3.70 | 1 | |||||||
| Nathan List (PLI–PRI) | 3,443 | 0.14 | – | |||||||
| Total | 97,385 | 3.84 | 1 | |||||||
| Mauro Antonini | 59,898 | 1.94 | – | CasaPound | 42,609 | 1.68 | – | |||
| Elisabetta Canitano | 43,895 | 1.42 | – | Power to the People | 33,372 | 1.32 | – | |||
| Jean Leonard Touadi | 7,708 | 0.25 | – | Popular Civic List | 6,073 | 0.24 | – | |||
| Giovanni Paolo Azzaro | 7,614 | 0.25 | – | Christian Democracy | 5,325 | 0.21 | – | |||
| Rosati Stefano | 4,952 | 0.16 | – | Reconquer Italy | 2,565 | 0.10 | – | |||
| Total candidates | 3,094,036 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 2,537,138 | 100.00 | 49 | |||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||||||
On 1 December 2018, a motion of no confidence in the government of Nicola Zingaretti tabled by centre-right coalition was defeated 22 to 26, with one no-vote of Forza Italia and a few absent.
| Motion of no confidence | |||
| Ballot → | 1 December 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Required majority → | 26 out of 51 | ||
| Abstentions | |||
| Sources[4] [5] | |||