Emilia-Romagna regional election, 2010

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March 28–29, 2010

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All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Vasco Errani	Anna Maria Bernini	Giovanni Favia
Party	Democratic Party	People of Freedom	Five Star Movement
Alliance	Centre-left coalition	Centre-right coalition
Last election	32 seats, 62.7%	18 seats, 35.2%	new party
Seats won	32	15	2
Seat change	±0	−3	new party
Popular vote	1,197,789	844,915	161,056
Percentage	52.1%	36.7%	7.0%

Regional election results map. Red denotes provinces with a Democratic plurality, Blue denotes those with a Centre-right plurality.

President before election

Vasco Errani
Democratic Party

President-elect

Vasco Errani
Democratic Party

The Emilia-Romagna regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010.

The two-term incumbent President of the Region, Vasco Errani of the centre-left Democratic Party defeated Anna Maria Bernini (backed by The People of Freedom and Lega Nord Emilia-Romagna) and Gian Luca Galletti (Union of the Centre).

Errani (–10.6% compared to 2005) and the Democrats (–7.7%) lost ground to the Five Star Movement, whose candidate won a surprising 7.0% of the vote, in what was the worst result for the centre-left in a regional election in Emilia–Romagna. The other surprise of the election was Lega Nord, which gained 13.7% of the vote, up from 4.8% in 2005.

The Legislative Assembly of Emilia-Romagna (Assemblea Legislativa dell'Emilia-Romagna) is composed of 50 members. 40 councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while 10 councillors (elected in bloc) come from a "regional list", including the President-elect. One seat is reserved for the candidate who comes second. If a coalition wins more than 50% of the total seats in the Council with PR, only 5 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 45. If the winning coalition receives less than 40% of votes special seats are added to the Council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.

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