1995 Tuscan regional election

1995 Tuscan regional election

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All 50 seats to the Regional Council
Turnout	85.2% (4.4%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Vannino Chiti Paolo Del Debbio Party Democratic Party of the Left Forza Italia Alliance Centre-left coalition Centre-right coalition Seats won 33 13 Popular vote 1,188,995 855,287 Percentage 50.1% 36.1%
President of Tuscany before election Vannino Chiti Democratic Party of the Left President of Tuscany Vannino Chiti Democratic Party of the Left

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The Tuscan regional election of 1995 took place on 23 April 1995.

For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term.

Electoral law[]

Tuscany used for the first time the national Tatarella Law to elect its Council Council. The law assigned 80% of the council seats with a proportional mechanism with preferential voting, and 20% with a majoritarian system.

Four fifths of the regional councilors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists while remained seats and votes are grouped at regional level where a Hare quota is used, and then distributed to provincial party lists. This system implies the possible variation of the seats originally assigned to the individual constituencies.

One fifth of the council seats is reserved for regional lists and are allocated with a majoritarian system: the leader of the regional list that obtains the highest number of votes is elected to the presidency of the Region while all the other candidates are elected regional councilors.

Panachage is allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a party not connected to him.

Parties and candidates[]

Results[]

In the context of the profound political changes that invested Italy between 1992 and 1994, Italian Parliament changed the regional electoral law, adapting them to new majoritarian principle now in vogue in the country, trim and tend bipolar politics. The new political geography, however, did not fit properly to Tuscany where, besides a garrison of right, assumed insignificant importance the presence of Umberto Bossi's Northern League, which, instead of the others regions, substained the center-left candidate. Another major innovation had originated in Tuscany: Silvio Berlusconi' party, Forza Italia, had collected anti-Communist orphans of deceased traditional parties.

The central political alliances had not been followed up at Tuscany, with the Communist Refoundation Party in sharp contrast with PDS because of the contrast into the old party of PCI. PRC accused the PDS and at the same time the Lega Nord accused Forza Italia to be the trojan horse for the recycling of the old political class, had led to the arrest of the Northern League's electoral steady ascent, if not also a marked reflux into the consent of the federalist party. Soparadoxically, the Northern League substained Chiti.

Election on April 23 saw the success of the broad leftist coalition, grouping progressive ex-Democrats, ex-socialist, ex-communist and greens, and led to presidency Vannino Chiti that, with the majority premium, was able to give life to the first council in the history of the region that managed to last the entire legislature.

23 April 1995 Tuscan regional election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Vannino Chiti	1,188,995	50.12	10
						Democratic Party of the Left	874,463	40.9	19
						Populars–Democrats–Liberals	135,895	6.35	2
						Federation of the Greens	57,666	2.70	1
						Labour Federation	30,204	1.41	1
						Italian Republican Party	16,395	0.77	–
						Northern League Tuscany	15,049	0.70	–
					Total		1,129,672	52.81	23
	Paolo Del Debbio	855,287	36.05	–
						Forza Italia – The People's Pole	409,266	19.13	7
						National Alliance	281,298	13.15	5
						Christian Democratic Centre	53,291	2.49	1
					Total		743,855	34.77	13
	Luciano Ghelli	294,128	12.40	–		Communist Refoundation Party	237,405	11.10	4
	Vincenzo Donvito	33,856	1.43	–		Pannella List	28,295	1.32	–
Total candidates		2,372,266	100.00	10	Total parties		2,139,227	100.00	40
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections