| Election Name: | 2020 Calabrian regional election |
| Country: | Calabria |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2014 Calabrian regional election |
| Previous Year: | 2014 |
| Next Election: | 2021 Calabrian regional election |
| Next Year: | 2021 |
| Seats For Election: | All 31 seats to the Regional Council of Calabria |
| Election Date: | 26 January 2020 |
| Turnout: | 44.3% (0.2%) |
| Candidate1: | Jole Santelli |
| Party1: | Forza Italia (2013) |
| Alliance1: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
| Color1: | 0A6BE1 |
| Seats1: | 20 |
| Seat Change1: | 9 |
| Popular Vote1: | 449,705 |
| Percentage1: | 55.3% |
| Swing1: | 23.0%[1] |
| Candidate2: | Filippo Callipo |
| Party2: | Io Resto in Calabria |
| Alliance2: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
| Color2: | EF3E3E |
| Seats2: | 11 |
| Seat Change2: | 9 |
| Popular Vote2: | 245,154 |
| Percentage2: | 30.1% |
| Swing2: | 31.3% |
| Map Size: | 100px |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | Elected President |
| Before Election: | Mario Oliverio |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party |
| After Election: | Jole Santelli |
| After Party: | Forza Italia |
The 2020 Calabrian regional election took place in Calabria, Italy, on 26 January 2020.[2] The result was the victory of the centre-right coalition and the election of Jole Santelli as President of Calabria.[3]
The election was held concurrently with a regional election in Emilia-Romagna.
Even if a district list is linked to a regional list that exceeds 8% of the vote, the district list must obtain at least 4% of the vote in the whole region in order to elect their own representatives. To ensure governance, the candidate who receives the most votes wins a majority bonus of 55% of the seats.[4]
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | 23.7 | 9 | |||
| Progressive Democrats (incl. Art.1) | 7.3 | 3 | ||||
| bgcolor=#006FC4 | Io Resto in Calabria | |||||
| Centre-right coalition | Forza Italia (FI) | 12.3 | 5 | |||
| House of Freedoms (CdL) | 8.6 | 3 | ||||
| Brothers of Italy (FdI) | 2.5 | – | ||||
| Union of the Centre (UdC) | 2.7 | – | ||||
| League (Lega) | ||||||
| Jole Santelli for President (incl. New CDU) | ||||||
| Aiello for President | Five Star Movement (M5S) | 4.9 | – | |||
| Civic Calabria | ||||||
| Tansi for President | Treasure Calabria | |||||
| Free Calabria | ||||||
| Clean Calabria | ||||||
| Date | Polling firm/ Client | Sample size | Callipo | Santelli | Aiello | Others | Undecided | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jan 2020 | Opinio (exit poll) | – | 31.0–35.0 | 49.0–53.0 | 5.0–9.0 | – | – | 18.0 |
| 7 Jan 2020 | Noto | 1,000 | 34.0 | 52.0 | 10.0 | 2.0 | 18.0 | |
| 12 Dec 2019 | Noto | – | 28.0 | 45.0 | 12.0 | 15.0 | 17.0 | |
| Date | Polling firm | Sample size | Centre-left | M5S | Centre-right | Others | Undecided | Lead | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PD | Other | FI | FdI | Lega | Other | |||||||
| 28 Oct 2019 | Affaritaliani.it | – | 18.5 | 13.5 | 11.4 | 16.2 | 23.1 | 4.6 | ||||
| Sep 2019 | GPF | 600 | 18.7 | 28.2 | – | 53.1 | 9.5 | |||||
| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jole Santelli | 449,705 | 55.29 | 1 | Forza Italia | 96,067 | 12.34 | 5 | ||||
| League | 95,400 | 12.25 | 4 | ||||||||
| Brothers of Italy | 84,507 | 10.85 | 4 | ||||||||
| Jole Santelli for President | 65,816 | 8.45 | 2 | ||||||||
| Union of the Centre | 53,250 | 6.84 | 2 | ||||||||
| House of Freedoms | 49,778 | 6.39 | 2 | ||||||||
| Total | 444,818 | 57.13 | 19 | ||||||||
| Filippo Callipo | 245,154 | 30.14 | 1 | Democratic Party | 118,249 | 15.19 | 5 | ||||
| bgcolor=#006FC4 | Io Resto in Calabria | 61,699 | 7.92 | 3 | |||||||
| 47,650 | 6.12 | 2 | |||||||||
| Total | 227,598 | 29.23 | 10 | ||||||||
| Francesco Aiello | 59,796 | 7.35 | – | Five Star Movement | 48,784 | 6.27 | – | ||||
| Civic Calabria | 8,544 | 1.10 | – | ||||||||
| Total | 57,328 | 7.36 | – | ||||||||
| Carlo Tansi | 58,700 | 7.22 | – | Treasure Calabria | 40,299 | 5.18 | – | ||||
| Free Calabria | 5,329 | 0.68 | – | ||||||||
| Clean Calabria | 3,230 | 0.41 | – | ||||||||
| Total | 48,858 | 6.28 | – | ||||||||
| Blank and invalid votes | 27,208 | 3.24 | |||||||||
| Total candidates | 840,563 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 778,602 | 100.00 | 29 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 1,895,990 | 44.33 | |||||||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Election in Calabria | |||||||||||
| Region | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | ||
| Calabria | 10.50% | 35.54% | 44.33% | |
| Province | Time | |||
| 12:00 | 19:00 | 23:00 | ||
| Catanzaro | 11.86% | 38.00% | 46.78% | |
| Cosenza | 10.58% | 35.86% | 44.14% | |
| Crotone | 9.76% | 32.17% | 39.56% | |
| Reggio Calabria | 10.17% | 35.23% | 45.40% | |
| Vibo Valentia | 9.06% | 33.18% | 41.35% | |
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Turnout | ||||