2021 Bologna municipal election

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2021 Bologna municipal election
← 2016 3 and 4 October 2021
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Candidate Matteo Lepore Fabio Battistini
Party Democratic Party Independent
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
Incumbent Mayor

Virginio Merola
Democratic Party



The municipal elections in Bologna will take place on 3 and 4 October 2021, with a possible run-off on 17 and 18 October 2021.[citation needed] The incumbent Mayor of Bologna is Virginio Merola of Democratic Party, who won the 2016 Bologna municipal election.

Electoral system[]

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. Under this system, voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives 50% of votes during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.[1]

Background[]

Centre-left primary election[]

Candidate Party Votes % Notes
Matteo Lepore Democratic Party 15,750 59.6% [2]
Isabella Conti Italia Viva 10,672 40.4% [3]
Total 26,422 100%

Endorsements[]

Matteo Lepore[]
Isabella Conti[]

Parties and candidates[]

This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.

Political force or alliance Constituent lists Candidate Notes
Centre-left coalition
 Democratic Party (PD)
Matteo Lepore
Five Star Movement (M5S)
Matteo Lepore for Mayor
Civic Coalition for Bologna – Courageous, Ecologist, Supportive (incl. SI, Art.1, Possibile) [23]
You also Count (incl. IV, +Eu)
Green Europe (EV) [24]
PSI – Volt
Centre-right coalition
 Forza Italia – UDC
Fabio Battistini
Lega (League)
Brothers of Italy (FdI)
We like Bologna [25]
The People of Family (PdF)
United Left for Bologna (incl. PRC and PCI)
Dora Palumbo
 [26]
Power to the People
Marta Collot
 [27]
Stefano Sermenghi for Mayor
 Italexit (incl. Vox Italia)
Stefano Sermenghi
[28]
Bolgona Civic Forum [28]
August 24th Movement (M24A)
Luca Labanti
 [28]
Workers' Communist Party (PCL)
Federico Bacchiocchi
 [28]
Movimento 3V – Vaccini Vogliamo Verità (M3V)
Andrea Tosatto
 [29]

Opinion polls[]

Candidates[]

Date Polling firm/
Client 		Sample size Lepore Battistini Others Undecided Lead
15 Sep 2021 YouTrend — 60.1 32.5 4.0–8.0 7.4 27.6
7 Sep 2021 Opinio — 56.0–60.0 35.0–39.0 4.0–8.0 17.4 21.0
27 Aug 2021 BiDiMedia N/A 63.5 28.0 8.5 26.0 35.5
18 Aug 2021 Winpoll 800 61.6 27.1 11.3 N/A 34.5
17 Aug 2021 Opinio N/A 55.0–59.0 36.0–40.0 4.0–8.0 N/A 19.0
3–5 Aug 2021 Demopolis 1,502 46.0–52.0 33.0–39.0 12.0–18.0 38.0 13.0

Parties[]

Date Polling firm Sample size Centre-left Centre-right Others Undecided Lead
PD CC M5S +E IV Az Other Lega FI FdI Other
24–26 Aug 2021 BiDiMedia 822 35.9 10.4 5.1 5.3 7.1 8.3 3.5 13.6 2.7 8.1 23.0 24.8
19–24 Apr 2021 BiDiMedia 1,338 33.2 12.0 1.9 4.5 2.9 3.3 9.6 3.1 11.1 5.3 7.0 6.1 26.0 22.1
16–19 Sep 2020 Quorum 1,010 38.6 9.4 3.0 2.2 1.9 N/A 18.9 18.9 8.3 5.6 6.3 5.8 40.0 19.7

Declined candidates[]

Center-left coalition[]

Withdrawn candidates[]

Center-left coalition[]

See also[]

References[]

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