| Election Name: | 2010 Tuscan regional election |
| Country: | Tuscany |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2005 Tuscan regional election |
| Previous Year: | 2005 |
| Next Election: | 2015 Tuscan regional election |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
| Turnout: | 60.7% (10.6%) |
| Seats For Election: | All 53 seats to the Regional Council |
| Election Date: | 28–29 March 2010 |
| Leader1: | Enrico Rossi |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
| Alliance1: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
| Color1: | EF3E3E |
| Last Election1: | 39 seats, 57.3% |
| Seats1: | 32 |
| Seat Change1: | 7 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,055,751 |
| Percentage1: | 59.7% |
| Swing1: | 3.4% |
| Leader2: | Monica Faenzi |
| Party2: | The People of Freedom |
| Alliance2: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
| Color2: | 0A6BE1 |
| Last Election2: | 21 seats, 32.8% |
| Seats2: | 19 |
| Seat Change2: | 2 |
| Popular Vote2: | 608,680 |
| Percentage2: | 34.4% |
| Swing2: | 1.6% |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | Elected President |
| Before Election: | Claudio Martini |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
| After Election: | Enrico Rossi |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
The Tuscan regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010.
After two consecutive terms, President Claudio Martini of the Democratic Party chose not run for a third term. His successor, Enrico Rossi, was defeated in a landslide his centre-right opponent Monica Faenzi. The Democrats were by far the largest party, although they lost ground from previous elections.
Minor candidates included Francesco Bosi for the Union of the Centre, Alfonso De Virgilis for the Italian Radicals and Ilario Palmisani for New Force.
Tuscany uses its own legislation of 2004 to elect its Council. The councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and close lists.
In this system parties are grouped in alliances, and the alliance which receives a plurality of votes elects all its candidates, its leader becoming the President of Tuscany.
According to the official 2001 Italian census, the 33 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation are so distributed between Tuscan provinces; the highest number of candidates in each list by province is this:
| AR | FI | GR | LI | LU | MS | PI | PT | PO | SI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| Centre-left coalition | 48.8 | 33 | Enrico Rossi | ||||
| 15.2 | 9 | ||||||
| Italy of Values | 0.9 | – | |||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | |||||||
| Centre-right coalition | 28.1 | 17 | Monica Faenzi | ||||
| Northern League Tuscany | 1.3 | – | |||||
| 3.7 | 3 | Francesco Bosi | |||||
The election was won by President Enrico Rossi of the Democratic Party, supported by the center-left coalition.
Lega Nord Toscana won three seats, its best performance in party history to that point.
The Democratic Party was confirmed as the largest party in the region with 42% of the vote, although with a decline of six points, while The People of Freedom took 27%. The election was the only one other than the 2005 election in which the center-left coalition improved its performance.
| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enrico Rossi | 1,055,751 | 59.73 | 1 | |||||||
| Democratic Party | 641,214 | 42.20 | 23 | |||||||
| Italy of Values | 143,194 | 9.42 | 5 | |||||||
| Federation of the Left – Greens | 80,017 | 5.27 | 3 | |||||||
| Left Ecology Freedom | 57,815 | 3.81 | – | |||||||
| Total | 922,240 | 60.70 | 32 | |||||||
| Monica Faenzi | 608,680 | 34.44 | 1 | |||||||
| The People of Freedom | 412,118 | 27.12 | 15 | |||||||
| Northern League Tuscany | 98,523 | 6.48 | 3 | |||||||
| Total | 510,641 | 33.69 | 19 | |||||||
| Francesco Bosi | 81,106 | 4.59 | 1 | Union of the Centre | 72,548 | 4.77 | 1 | |||
| Alfonso De Virgiliis | 13,892 | 0.79 | – | Bonino-Pannella List | 8,414 | 0.55 | – | |||
| Ilario Palmisani | 7,980 | 0.45 | – | New Force | 5,588 | 0.37 | – | |||
| Total candidates | 1,767,409 | 100.00 | 3 | Total parties | 1,519,431 | 100.00 | 50 | |||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections | ||||||||||