| Election Name: | 2015 Venetian regional election |
| Country: | Veneto |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2010 Venetian regional election |
| Previous Year: | 2010 |
| Next Election: | 2020 Venetian regional election |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
| Seats For Election: | All 51 seats to the Regional Council |
| Election Date: | 31 May 2015 |
| Leader1: | Luca Zaia |
| Party1: | Northern League |
| Alliance1: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
| Color1: | 0A6BE1 |
| Seats1: | 29 |
| Seat Change1: | 8 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,108,065 |
| Percentage1: | 50.10% |
| Swing1: | 10.06% |
| Leader2: | Alessandra Moretti |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (Italy) |
| Alliance2: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
| Color2: | EF3E3E |
| Seats2: | 12 |
| Seat Change2: | 7 |
| Popular Vote2: | 503,147 |
| Percentage2: | 22.70% |
| Swing2: | 6.38% |
| Leader4: | Jacopo Berti |
| Party4: | Five Star Movement |
| Seats4: | 5 |
| Seat Change4: | 5 |
| Popular Vote4: | 262,749 |
| Percentage4: | 11.88% |
| Swing4: | 8.72% |
| Leader5: | Flavio Tosi |
| Party5: | Tosi List for Veneto |
| Alliance5: | LTV–AP–Others |
| Seats5: | 5 |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Popular Vote5: | 262,569 |
| Percentage5: | 11.87% |
| Swing5: | 5.48% |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| President | |
| Posttitle: | Subsequent President |
| Before Election: | Luca Zaia |
| After Election: | Luca Zaia |
| Before Party: | Lega Nord |
| After Party: | Lega Nord |
The Venetian regional election of 2015 took place in Veneto on 31 May 2015,[1] as part of a big round of regional elections in Italy. Venetian voters elected their President and their Regional Council, whose members had been reduced to 51, including the President.
Luca Zaia, incumbent President (elected in 2010 with 60.2% of the vote) and leading member of the Northern League (LN), was re-elected by a reduced majority, due to a split occurred within his party in the run-up of the election, but, despite this, his victory over Alessandra Moretti of the Democratic Party (PD), who fared quite badly, was still a landslide: 50.1% to 22.7%. The election was a personal triumph for Zaia, who was the most voted President among the seven elected on 31 May. Other two candidates, Jacopo Berti of the Five Star Movement (M5S) and Flavio Tosi of the Tosi List for Veneto (LTV), the splinter group from the LN, got more than 10% of the vote and finished both at 11.9%. A fifth, Alessio Morosin of Venetian Independence (IV), and a sixth, Laura Coletti of the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), won 2.5% and 0.9% of the vote, respectively.
Among the parties, the LN, which presented an official list and a list named after Zaia (however composed mainly of party members), improved its 2010's performance, by gaining 40.9% of the vote (combined result of the two lists, which obtained 17.8% and 23.1%, respectively). If the two LN-related lists are counted together, the PD came second with 16.7% of the vote (20.5% if Moretti's personal list is counted) and the M5S third with 10.4%. The combined score of the two lists connected to the LTV was 7.1%, while the once-mighty Forza Italia (heir of The People of Freedom and, before that, the original Forza Italia) stopped at 6.0%.
The total score of Venetist and regional parties, a diverse field including the Liga Veneta, the LTV, Venetian Independence, Independence We Veneto, the North-East Union, Autonomous Veneto Project and Veneto Confederal State, was 54.3%, then a record.
The new electoral system of Veneto was regulated by the regional law 5/2012.[2] The assembly was made up of 50 councilors (including the candidate for president who came second), plus the president proclaimed elected.After the elimination of the president's list, the distribution of seats remained proportional (with the D'Hondt method), but with a variable majority premium: the winning coalition is assigned 29 seats if it manages to exceed 50% of the preferences; 28 seats if he got between 40% and 50% of the votes; only 27 if it remained below 40%.A 3% threshold was set for single lists or lists belonging to coalitions that did not exceed 5% of the votes.
| Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||
| Centre-right coalition | Northern League – Venetian League (LN–LV) | 35.2 | 18 | Luca Zaia | |||
| Forza Italia (FI) | 24.7 | 13 | |||||
| Zaia for President (ZP) | |||||||
| Independence We Veneto (INV) | |||||||
| Brothers of Italy (FdI) | |||||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | 20.3 | 14 | Alessandra Moretti | |||
| Autonomous Veneto Project (PVA) | 0.2 | – | |||||
| Moretti for President (MP) | |||||||
| Civic Veneto (incl. PSI, SC and IdV) | |||||||
| New Veneto (SEL – European Greens – SV) | |||||||
| Centrist coalition | Popular Area (NCD – UDC) | 4.9 | 3 | Flavio Tosi | |||
| North-East Union (UNE) | 1.5 | 1 | |||||
| Tosi List for Veneto (LTV) | |||||||
| Veneto of Acting | |||||||
| Pensioners' Family (FP) | |||||||
| Breed Piave – Veneto Confederal State | |||||||
| Five Star Movement (M5S) | 2.6 | – | Jacopo Berti | ||||
| The Other Veneto (incl. PRC and PCdI) | 1.6 | 1 | Laura Coletti | ||||
| Venetian Independence (IV) | Alessio Morosin | ||||||
| Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seat | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luca Zaia | 1,108,065 | 50.09 | 1 | |||||||
| Zaia for President | 427,363 | 23.09 | 13 | |||||||
| Northern League – Venetian League | 329,966 | 17.83 | 10 | |||||||
| Forza Italia | 110,573 | 5.97 | 3 | |||||||
| Independence We Veneto | 49,929 | 2.70 | 1 | |||||||
| Brothers of Italy | 48,163 | 2.60 | 1 | |||||||
| Total | 965,994 | 52.19 | 28 | |||||||
| Alessandra Moretti | 503,147 | 22.74 | 1 | |||||||
| Democratic Party | 308,438 | 16.66 | 8 | |||||||
| Moretti for President | 70,764 | 3.82 | 2 | |||||||
| Civic Veneto | 26,903 | 1.45 | 1 | |||||||
| 20,282 | 1.10 | – | ||||||||
| Autonomous Veneto Project | 6,242 | 0.34 | – | |||||||
| Total | 432,629 | 23.37 | 11 | |||||||
| Jacopo Berti | 262,749 | 11.88 | – | Five Star Movement | 192,630 | 10.41 | 5 | |||
| Flavio Tosi | 262,569 | 11.87 | – | |||||||
| Tosi List for Veneto | 105,836 | 5.72 | 3 | |||||||
| 37,937 | 2.05 | 1 | ||||||||
| Veneto of Acting | 26,119 | 1.41 | 1 | |||||||
| Pensioners' Family | 14,625 | 0.79 | – | |||||||
| North-East Union | 11,173 | 0.60 | – | |||||||
| Breed Piave – Veneto Confederal State | 3,487 | 0.19 | – | |||||||
| Total | 199,177 | 10.76 | 5 | |||||||
| Alessio Morosin | 55,760 | 2.52 | – | Venetian Independence | 46,578 | 2.52 | – | |||
| Laura Coletti | 19,914 | 0.90 | – | 13,997 | 0.76 | – | ||||
| Total candidates | 2,212,204 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 1,851,005 | 100.00 | 49 | |||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior | ||||||||||
See also: Members of the Regional Council of Veneto, 2015–2020.
Notes
Following the election, Luca Zaia formed his second government, composed of ten ministers, nine of Liga Veneta and one of Forza Italia.