Election Name: | 2021 Turin municipal election |
Country: | Turin |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2016 Turin municipal election |
Previous Year: | 2016 |
Election Date: | |
Turnout: | 331,56648.1% (1st round) 290,63242.1% (2nd round) |
Candidate1: | Stefano Lo Russo |
Party1: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
Alliance1: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
Colour1: | EF3E3E |
1Data1: | 140,200 43.9% |
2Data1: | 168,997 59.2% |
Candidate2: | Paolo Damilano |
Party2: | Independent (politician) |
Colour2: | 0A6BE1 |
Alliance2: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
1Data2: | 124,347 38.9% |
2Data2: | 116,322 40.8% |
Mayor | |
Before Election: | Chiara Appendino |
Before Party: | M5S |
After Election: | Stefano Lo Russo |
After Party: | PD |
The 2021 Turin municipal election took place in Turin, Italy, on 3 and 4 October 2021, to elect the mayor and the 38 members of the Turin city council. Since no mayoral candidate won a majority of votes on the first round, a runoff was held on 17 and 18 October 2021.[1] The second round was won by the centre-left coalition candidate Stefano Lo Russo, member of the Democratic Party, who was officially inaugurated as the new mayor of Turin on 27 October 2021.[2] [3] The incumbent mayor of Turin, Chiara Appendino of the Five Star Movement, did not run for re-election.[4]
The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. 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 50% of votes during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.
The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.[5]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stefano Lo Russo | Democratic Party | 4.229 | 37,5% | [6] | |
Francesco Tresso | Independent | 3.932 | 34,9% | [7] | |
Enzo Lavolta | Democratic Party | 2.864 | 25,4% | [8] | |
Igor Boni | More Europe | 257 | 2,3% | [9] | |
Total | 11.325 | 100 |
Political force or alliance | Constituent lists | Candidate | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Centre-right coalition | League | Paolo Damilano | ||
Brothers of Italy | ||||
Forza Italia (incl. UDC, PLI, PU, DC) | ||||
Beautiful Turin | ||||
Progress Turin | ||||
Centre-left coalition | Stefano Lo Russo | |||
Lo Russo for Mayor (incl. DemoS, CD, IV, A, +E, RI, Volt, Monviso Civic List, Alliance for Turin) | ||||
Ecologist Left (SI, Pos) | ||||
Turin Tomorrow | ||||
Art. 1 – PSI | ||||
Sganga coalition | Valentina Sganga | |||
D'Orsi coalition | Common Left (PRC, SA, DemA) | Angelo D'Orsi | ||
Italian Communist Party | ||||
Power to the People | ||||
Di Cristina coalition | Giusi Greta Di Cristina | |||
Turin Future City | ||||
Futura for the Common Goods | Ugo Mattei | |||
Workers' Communist Party | Massimo Chiesi | |||
3V Movement | Paolo Alonge | |||
Turin Environmental Movement (incl. 4th October Movement) | Roberto Salerno | |||
Prohibition to Dismiss | Lorenzo Varaldo | |||
Turin Capital of Europe – Stop ISEE | Emilio Mazza | |||
Verra coalition | Italexit | Ivano Verra | ||
We Citizens | ||||
Balducci coalition | Gay Party | Davide Betti Balducci | ||
Animalist Party | ||||
Date | Polling firm/ Client | Sample size | Sganga | Lo Russo | Damilano | Others | Undecided | Lead |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | 9.0 | 43.9 | 38.9 | 8.2 | - | 5.0 | ||
12–15 Sep 2021 | Noto | 1,000 | 9.0 | 40.0 | 42.0 | 9.0 | 29.0 | 2.0 |
9–15 Sep 2021 | SWG | 1,000 | 9.0 | 42.0 | 42.0 | 7.0 | 21.0 | Tie |
6–11 Sep 2021 | Ipsos | 1,000 | 9.5 | 39.0 | 42.0 | 9.5 | 27.0 | 3.0 |
7–10 Sep 2021 | Quorum | 805 | 8.6 | 42.8 | 43.7 | 4.9 | 43.2 | 0.9 |
3–8 Sep 2021 | Quorum | 808 | 8.3 | 41.4 | 44.2 | 6.1 | 39.6 | 2.8 |
27–29 Aug 2021 | BiDiMedia | 809 | 11.1 | 38.9 | 41.6 | 8.4 | 23.0 | 2.7 |
3–5 Aug 2021 | Demopolis | 1,804 | 13.0 | 34.0 | 41.0 | 12.0 | 37.0 | 7.0 |
29 Jun–12 Jul 2021 | SWG | 1,600 | 8.0 | 43.0 | 44.0 | 5.0 | 22.0 | 1.0 |
25 Jun 2021 | Euromedia Research | 1,000 | 11.9 | 39.6 | 43.7 | 4.8 | 4.1 | |
10–15 May 2021 | BiDiMedia | 1,337 | 12.6 | 38.2 | 40.1 | 9.1 | 30.0 | 1.9 |
Damilano vs. Lo Russo
Date | Polling firm/ Client | Sample size | Damilano | Lo Russo | Abstain | Lead |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9–15 Sep 2021 | SWG | 1,000 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 4.0 | |
6–11 Sep 2021 | Ipsos | 1,000 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 4.0 | |
7–10 Sep 2021 | Quorum | 805 | 47.4 | 52.6 | 44.9 | 5.2 |
3–8 Sep 2021 | Quorum | 808 | 46.9 | 53.1 | 47.8 | 6.2 |
27–29 Aug 2021 | BiDiMedia | 809 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 4.0 | |
16 Jul 2021 | SWG | 1,600 | 48.0 | 52.0 | 4.0 | |
25 Jun 2021 | Euromedia Research | 1,000 | 50.2 | 49.8 | 37.3 | 0.4 |
10–15 May 2021 | BiDiMedia | 1,337 | 47.0 | 53.0 | 6.0 | |
Date | Polling firm | Sample size | Centre-left | Centre-right | M5S-EV | Others | Lead | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PD | A | IV | +E | Volt | Mod | SI | Others | FdI | LSP | BT | FI | C! | Others | M5S | EV | |||||
- | 28.6 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 10.5 | 9.8 | 11.9 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 8.0 | 0.9 | 8.0 | 18.1 | ||||||
9–15 Sep 2021 | SWG | 1,000 | 25.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 8.3 | 10.7 | 19.4 | 2.1 | 8.3 | 1.5 | 7.6 | 1.6 | 7.6 | 6.5 | |||||
6–11 Sep 2021 | Ipsos | 1,000 | 31.2 | 4.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 9.5 | 20.0 | 2.5 | 9.2 | 1.8 | 8.9 | 1.0 | 8.3 | 11.2 | |||||
3–8 Sep 2021 | Quorum | 808 | 32.3 | 8.2 | 14.7 | 19.4 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 7.4 | 1.4 | 7.6 | 12.9 | ||||||||
27–29 Aug 2021 | BiDiMedia | 809 | 26.5 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 6.3 | 15.8 | 13.4 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 9.2 | 2.2 | 8.2 | 10.7 | ||||
29 Jun–12 Jul 2021 | SWG | 1,600 | 30.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 5.5 | 11.0 | 21.5 | 2.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 4.5 | 9.0 | |||||
10–15 May 2021 | BiDiMedia | 1,337 | 23.2 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 15.4 | 14.7 | 5.0 | 3.9 | 0.6 | 12.7 | 1.9 | 9.0 | 7.8 | |
- | 29.8 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | 5.9 | DNP | 6.8 | 1.5 | 5.8 | DNP | 4.7 | DNP | 4.2 | 30.0 | DNP | 11.9 | 0.2 | ||
Candidate | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||||||
Stefano Lo Russo | 140,200 | 43.86 | 168,997 | 59.23 | – | 85,890 | 28.56 | 17 | ||||
15,013 | 4.99 | 2 | ||||||||||
10,807 | 3.59 | 2 | ||||||||||
10,177 | 3.38 | 2 | ||||||||||
7,960 | 2.65 | 1 | ||||||||||
2,407 | 0.80 | – | ||||||||||
Total | 132,254 | 43.97 | 24 | |||||||||
Paolo Damilano | 124,347 | 38.90 | 116,322 | 40.77 | 1 | 35,658 | 11.86 | 4 | ||||
31,490 | 10.47 | 3 | ||||||||||
29,593 | 9.84 | 3 | ||||||||||
15,951 | 5.30 | 2 | ||||||||||
2,236 | 0.74 | – | ||||||||||
1,320 | 0.44 | – | ||||||||||
1,305 | 0.43 | – | ||||||||||
Total | 117,553 | 39.08 | 12 | |||||||||
Valentina Sganga | 28,785 | 9.01 | – | – | 1 | 24,058 | 8.00 | 2 | ||||
2,711 | 0.90 | – | ||||||||||
Total | 26,769 | 8.90 | 2 | |||||||||
Angelo d'Orsi | 8,095 | 2.53 | – | – | – | 3,512 | 1.17 | – | ||||
1,838 | 0.61 | – | ||||||||||
1,656 | 0.55 | – | ||||||||||
Total | 7,006 | 2.33 | – | |||||||||
Ugo Mattei | 7,406 | 2.32 | – | – | – | 6,975 | 2.32 | – | ||||
Francesco Ivano Verra | 2,677 | 0.84 | – | – | – | 2,353 | 0.78 | – | ||||
240 | 0.08 | – | ||||||||||
Total | 2,593 | 0.86 | – | |||||||||
Davide Betti | 2,241 | 0.70 | – | – | – | 1,336 | 0.44 | – | ||||
775 | 0.26 | – | ||||||||||
Total | 2,111 | 0.70 | – | |||||||||
Greta Giusi Di Cristina | 2,123 | 0.66 | – | – | – | 1,552 | 0.52 | – | ||||
454 | 0.15 | – | ||||||||||
Total | 2,006 | 0.67 | – | |||||||||
Paolo Alonge | 1,666 | 0.52 | – | – | – | 1,609 | 0.53 | – | ||||
Roberto Salerno | 910 | 0.28 | – | – | – | 792 | 0.26 | – | ||||
Lorenzo Varaldo | 545 | 0.17 | – | – | – | 493 | 0.16 | – | ||||
Massimo Chiesi | 384 | 0.12 | – | – | – | 360 | 0.12 | – | ||||
Emilio Mazza | 264 | 0.08 | – | – | – | 262 | 0,09 | – | ||||
Total candidates | 319,643 | 100 | 285,319 | 100 | 2 | Total parties | 300,783 | 100 | 38 | |||
Total valid votes | 96.40 | 98.17 | ||||||||||
Blank or invalid ballots | 3.60 | 1.83 | ||||||||||
Turnout | 48.08 | 42.14 | ||||||||||
Eligible voters | 100.00 | 100.00 | ||||||||||
Source: Ministry of the Interior (first round, second round) |