| Election Name: | 2018 Lombard regional election |
| Country: | Lombardy |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2013 Lombard regional election |
| Previous Year: | 2013 |
| Next Election: | 2023 Lombard regional election |
| Next Year: | 2023 |
| Seats For Election: | All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy |
| Election Date: | 4 March 2018 |
| Turnout: | 73.10% (3.64%) |
| Leader1: | Attilio Fontana |
| Party1: | Lega (political party) |
| Color1: | 0A6BE1 |
| Alliance1: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
| Last Election1: | 49 seats, 42.8% |
| Seats1: | 49 |
| Popular Vote1: | 2,793,370 |
| Percentage1: | 49.8% |
| Swing1: | 7.5% |
| Leader2: | Giorgio Gori |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
| Alliance2: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
| Color2: | EF3E3E |
| Seats2: | 18 |
| Seat Change2: | 4 |
| Last Election2: | 22 seats, 38.2% |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,633,367 |
| Percentage2: | 29.1% |
| Swing2: | 9.1% |
| Leader3: | Dario Violi |
| Party3: | Five Star Movement |
| Seats3: | 13 |
| Seat Change3: | 4 |
| Last Election3: | 9 seats, 13.6% |
| Popular Vote3: | 974,984 |
| Percentage3: | 17.4% |
| Swing3: | 3.8% |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | President-elect |
| Before Election: | Roberto Maroni |
| Before Party: | LN |
| After Election: | Attilio Fontana |
| After Party: | Lega |
The 2018 Lombard regional election took place on 4 March 2018.
The election took place concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lazio regional election.
Since 2012, Lombardy has adopted its legislation to elect its Council, very similar to the national Tatarella Law of 1995.
While the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councilors 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.
According to the Law 17 February 1968, no. 108, the Regional Council is elected every five years. The election can take place on the fourth Sunday before the completion of five years period.
On 1 March 2016, President Maroni announced his intention to run for re-election as president.[1] Nonetheless, on 8 January 2018 he announced he'd not seek a re-election as president, citing personal reasons and launching former mayor of Varese Attilio Fontana as a candidate of the center-right coalition.
On 1 June 2017 Giorgio Gori, the incumbent mayor of Bergamo, announced his decision to run for the presidency for the center-left coalition.[2]
On 15 January 2018, Fontana stated that the white race and the Western culture were in danger due to the migration flows from Africa.[3] This created lot of protests and criticisms from the centre-left Democratic Party and also the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.[4]
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| Centre-right coalition | Forza Italia (FI) | 16.7 | 19 | ||||
| League (Lega) | 13.0 | 15 | |||||
| Brothers of Italy (FdI) | 1.6 | 2 | |||||
| Us with Italy–UDC (NcI–UDC) | 1.6 | – | |||||
| Pensioners' Party (PP) | 0.9 | 1 | |||||
| Energies for Lombardy (EpL) | |||||||
| Fontana for President (FP) | |||||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | 25.3 | 17 | ||||
| Together (PSI – Greens – AC) | |||||||
| More Europe (+E) | |||||||
| Popular Civic List (CP) | |||||||
| Progressive Lombardy (LP) | |||||||
| Gori for President (GP) | |||||||
| Lombardy for Autonomies Target (OLA) | |||||||
| Five Star Movement (M5S) | 14.3 | 9 | |||||
| Free and Equal (LeU) | |||||||
| Great North (GN) | |||||||
| CasaPound (CPI) | |||||||
According to the final results, Attilio Fontana was the new President of Lombardy with more than 49% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.
| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attilio Fontana | 2,793,370 | 49.75 | 1 | |||||||
| League – Lombard League | 1,553,514 | 29.64 | 28 | |||||||
| Forza Italia | 750,628 | 14.32 | 14 | |||||||
| Brothers of Italy | 190,804 | 3.64 | 3 | |||||||
| Fontana for President | 76,637 | 1.46 | 1 | |||||||
| Us with Italy – UDC | 66,355 | 1.26 | 1 | |||||||
| Energies for Lombardy | 27,967 | 0.53 | 1 | |||||||
| Pensioners' Party | 20,259 | 0.38 | – | |||||||
| Total | 2,686,610 | 51.29 | 48 | |||||||
| Giorgio Gori | 1,633,367 | 29.09 | 1 | |||||||
| Democratic Party | 1,008,496 | 19.24 | 15 | |||||||
| Gori for President | 158,671 | 3.02 | 2 | |||||||
| More Europe | 108,743 | 2.07 | – | |||||||
| Lombardy for the Autonomies Target | 62,840 | 1.19 | – | |||||||
| Together | 35,071 | 0.66 | – | |||||||
| Popular Civic List | 20,668 | 0.39 | – | |||||||
| Progressive Lombardy | 20,036 | 0.38 | – | |||||||
| Total | 1,414,674 | 26.99 | 17 | |||||||
| Dario Violi | 974,984 | 17.36 | – | Five Star Movement | 933,243 | 17.80 | 13 | |||
| Onorio Rosati | 108,407 | 1.93 | – | Free and Equal | 111,296 | 2.12 | – | |||
| Angela De Rosa | 50,368 | 0.89 | – | CasaPound | 45,416 | 0.86 | – | |||
| Massimo Gatti | 38,194 | 0.68 | – | Left for Lombardy | 35,713 | 0.68 | – | |||
| Giulio Arrighini | 15,791 | 0.28 | – | Great North | 13,769 | 0.26 | – | |||
| Total candidates | 5,614,481 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 5,240,126 | 100.00 | 78 | |||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | ||||||||||
| Province | Attilio Fontana | Giorgio Gori | Dario Violi | Onorio Rosati | Others | Turnout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan | 742,685 42.83% | 589,969 34.02% | 326,040 18.80% | 42,123 2.42% | 33,169 1.90% | 72.03% | |
| Brescia | 391,419 54.59% | 189,426 26.42% | 106,845 14.90% | 12,498 1.74% | 16,786 2.33% | 76.55% | |
| Bergamo | 352,462 54.98% | 185,003 28.86% | 83,409 13.01% | 8,254 1.28% | 11,889 1.84% | 75.87% | |
| Varese | 271,614 53.59% | 123,917 24.45% | 93,234 18.39% | 7,985 1.57% | 10,064 1.98% | 71.06% | |
| Monza and Brianza | 245,806 48.39% | 145,635 28.67% | 98,717 19.43% | 9,639 1.89% | 8,144 1.58% | 75.82% | |
| Como | 194,665 56.23% | 85,538 24.70% | 56,613 16.35% | 5,266 1.52% | 4,107 1.17% | 70.59% | |
| Pavia | 153,811 51.42% | 76,416 25.55% | 56,535 18.90% | 5,941 1.98% | 6,375 2.12% | 69.76% | |
| Mantua | 99,923 44.53% | 64,569 28.77% | 49,990 22.27% | 4,981 2.21% | 4,927 2.19% | 70.36% | |
| Cremona | 105,759 51.67% | 55,815 27.26% | 34,676 16.94% | 3,683 1.79% | 4,744 2.31% | 73.94% | |
| Lecco | 103,875 51.85% | 60,269 30.08% | 30,643 15.29% | 3,705 1.84% | 1,821 0.89% | 75.66% | |
| Lodi | 66,061 51.86% | 32,115 25.21% | 25,151 19.74% | 2,547 1.99% | 1,493 1.15% | 75.12% | |
| Sondrio | 65,290 61.74% | 24,695 23.35% | 13,131 12.41% | 1,785 1.68% | 834 0.77% | 66.26% |
| City | Attilio Fontana | Giorgio Gori | Dario Violi | Onorio Rosati | Others | Turnout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan | 273,261 40.16% | 279,821 41.12% | 96,639 14.20% | 18,712 2.75% | 11,986 1.75% | 68.39% | |
| Brescia | 45,453 43.38% | 38,680 36.92% | 15,405 14.70% | 2,984 2.84% | 2,244 2.13% | 74.37% | |
| Monza | 30,841 44.93% | 24,285 35.38% | 10,892 15.87% | 1,553 2.26% | 1,060 1.52% | 73.07% | |
| Bergamo | 27,463 41.51% | 28,652 43.30% | 7,518 11.36% | 1,364 2.06% | 1,159 1.74% | 73.09% | |
| Como | 20,958 46.77% | 15,501 34.59% | 6,902 15.40% | 933 2.08% | 510 1.12% | 64.47% | |
| Varese | 23,348 53.13% | 13,228 30.10% | 5,927 13.48% | 744 1.69% | 693 1.56% | 68.72% | |
| Pavia | 17,035 43.22% | 14,863 37.66% | 5,530 14.03% | 1,194 3.02% | 811 2.05% | 68.02% | |
| Cremona | 17,579 44.92% | 12,710 32.48% | 6,575 16.80% | 1,166 2.97% | 1,099 2.97% | 72.13% | |
| Mantua | 9,262 35.70% | 10,126 39.03% | 4,986 19.22% | 866 3.33% | 698 2.68% | 68.46% | |
| Lecco | 12,857 46.55% | 9,915 35.90% | 3,955 14.32% | 665 2.40% | 225 0.80% | 73.83% | |
| Lodi | 11,593 47.35% | 8,040 32.84% | 3,932 16.06% | 607 2.47% | 307 1.24% | 72.86% | |
| Sondrio | 6,038 50.47% | 3,998 33.42% | 1,514 12.65% | 313 2.61% | 99 0.81% | 66.93% |
| Province | Lega | PD | FI | M5S | FdI | Others | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 24 | |
| Brescia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | |
| Bergamo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |
| Varese | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | |
| Monza and Brianza | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 7 | |
| Como | 2 | 1 | 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 | 28 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 78 |