2006 Italian Senate election in Lombardy
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Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on April 9, 2006. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2006 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.
Differently from the national result, the election was won by the centre-right coalition of the House of Freedoms. Forza Italia was the largest party in the election with 28%, ahead of the Democrats of the Left (12%) and Lega Nord (11%). Eleven provinces gave a majority or a plurality to Silvio Berlusconi's alliance, while voters of the Province of Mantua supported the new Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi.
Background[]
Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms arrived to this election after a series of bad results. Forza Italia had lost 5 points at regional level during the 2004 European election, while the Province of Milan shifted to the left in the same occasion. 2005 regional election had confirmed centre-right Regional President Roberto Formigoni, but its coalition lost more than 8 points.
On the other side, in 2005 Romano Prodi had launched his new larger coalition, The Union, merging in a single alliance quite all oppositions to Berlusconi's majority: The Olive Tree, the Communist Refoundation Party and Antonio Di Pietro's Italy of Values, which in Lombardy were joined by the Lombard Autonomy League.
Electoral law[]
The new electoral law for the Senate was established in 2005 by the Calderoli Law, and it is a form of semi-proportional representation. A party presents its own closed list and it can join other parties in alliances. The coalition which receives a plurality automatically wins at least 26 seats. Respecting this condition, seats are divided between coalitions, and subsequently to party lists, using the largest remainder method with a Hare quota. To receive seats, a party must overcome the barrage of 8% of the vote if it contests a single race, or of 3% of the vote if it runs in alliance.
Results[]
Coalition leader | votes | votes (%) | seats | Party | votes | votes (%) | seats | change |
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Silvio Berlusconi | 3,342,468 | 57.0 | 27 | Forza Italia | 1,623,745 | 27.7 | 14 | -1 |
Lega Nord | 652,047 | 11.1 | 5 | -4 | ||||
National Alliance | 572,242 | 9.8 | 5 | -2 | ||||
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats | 343,269 | 5.9 | 3 | +2 | ||||
Others | 151,165 | 2.5 | - | -1 | ||||
Romano Prodi | 2,501,467 | 42.6 | 20 | Democrats of the Left | 726,105 | 12.4 | 7 | +3 |
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy | 588,856 | 10.0 | 6 | +2 | ||||
Communist Refoundation Party | 407,939 | 7.0 | 4 | +3 | ||||
Together with the Union | 588,856 | 4.8 | 3 | = | ||||
Italy of Values | 150,116 | 2.6 | - | -1 | ||||
Rose in the Fist | 128,849 | 2.2 | - | - | ||||
Others | 220,050 | 3.8 | - | -1 | ||||
Others | 25,193 | 0.4 | - | Others | 25,193 | 0.4 | - | - |
Total coalitions | 5,869,128 | 100.0 | 47 | Total parties | 5,869,128 | 100.0 | 47 | = |
Source: Ministry of the Interior
Lombard delegation to Senate[]
Forza Italia[]
- Roberto Formigoni[1]
- Obliged to resign on July 12. Substituted by .
- Ombretta Colli
- Gianfranco Rotondi
- Marcello Dell'Utri
- Nitto Francesco Palma
- Valerio Carrara
- Egidio Sterpa
Democrats of the Left[]
The Daisy[]
Lega Nord[]
National Alliance[]
Communist Refoundation Party[]
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats[]
Together with the Union[]
Source: Italian Senate
References[]
- ^ According to article 122 of Italian Constitution, nobody can be both member of Parliament and member of a Regional Council. Despite this constitutional provision, ordinary law allows three months of contemporary membership.
- Elections in Lombardy
- 2006 elections in Italy