| Election Name: | 2024 Emilia-Romagna regional election |
| Country: | Emilia-Romagna |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2020 Emilia-Romagna regional election |
| Previous Year: | 2020 |
| Next Election: | 2029 Emilia-Romgna regional election |
| Next Year: | 2029 |
| Seats For Election: | All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna |
| Election Date: | 17–18 November 2024 |
| Candidate1: | Michele De Pascale |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
| Alliance1: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
| Color1: | EF3E3E |
| Candidate2: | Elena Ugolini |
| Party2: | Independent politician |
| Color2: | 0A6BE1 |
| Alliance2: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | Elected President |
| Before Election: | Stefano Bonaccini |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
The 2024 Emilia-Romagna regional election will take place in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, on 17 and 18 November 2024.[1]
The elections were called following Stefano Bonaccini's election to the European Parliament, a position incompatible with his post as the regional president. He resigned on 12 July 2024, on the same day, the Democratic Party unanimously nominated Mayor of Ravenna Michele De Pascale as its candidate.[2]
In Emilia-Romagna, a new electoral law was approved by the Legislative Assembly in July 2014, abolishing the blocked list.
The voter can express one or two preference votes for the candidates on the chosen list; in the case of the expression of two preferences, these must concern candidates of different sex according to "gender preference" (under penalty of annulment of the second preference). As regards the election of the councilors, the law guarantees in any case at least 27 seats on the lists that support the elected president (majority prize), obtaining effects that are very similar to those of the list but acting on the provincial lists. The first 40 seats are distributed on a proportional basis. A seat is then attributed to the candidate for president who came second. The remaining 9 seats are assigned by majority method to the lists that support the elected president if these lists have obtained less than 25 seats with the previous procedure, otherwise the "prize" will be only 4 seats. If, at the end of these assignments, the majority lists have not obtained at least 27 seats, these will be guaranteed by removing some of the seats already assigned to the opposition lists.