Campania regional election, 2010

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All 51 seats to the Regional Council of Campania

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Stefano Caldoro	Vincenzo De Luca
Party	People of Freedom	Democratic Party
Alliance	Centre-right coalition	Centre-left coalition
Last election	22 seats, 34.4%	38 seats, 61.6%
Seats won	38	22
Seat change	16	16
Popular vote	1,579,566	1,252,360
Percentage	54.27%	43.03%

President before election

Antonio Bassolino
Democratic Party

President

Stefano Caldoro
People of Freedom

Antonio Bassolino
Democratic Party

Stefano Caldoro
People of Freedom

The Campania regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010.

The region came out from ten years of undisputed dominance by the centre-left led by Antonio Bassolino (Democrats of the Left/Democratic Party). A former Mayor of Naples and minister, he was re-elected by a landslide 61.6% of the vote in 2005. However, in his second term in office, Bassolino highly disappointed voters and the whole Italy for his bad management of waste and the subsequent crisis.

The centre-left filed as candidate Vincenzo De Luca, a fellow Democrat and popular Mayor of Salerno who had been one of the loudest critics of Bassolino from within his coalition, but it was not able to recover. Stefano Caldoro, a former minister and leader of the New PSI, merged into The People of Freedom in 2009, won by a convincing margin over De Luca thanks to a 20% swing in favour of the centre-right, which included the Union of the Centre led by Ciriaco De Mita, an influent former leader of Christian Democracy converted into the role of local party boss. After the election, De Mita's son, Giuseppe was appointed Vice President by Caldoro.

The People of Freedom was by far the largest party in the region with more than 30% of the vote.

Source: Corriere della Sera

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