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Italian Senate election in Lombardy, 2001

Italian Senate election in Lombardy, 2001
Lombardy
← 1996 May 13, 2001 2006 →

All 47 Lombard seats in the Italian Senate
  Majority party Minority party
  Silvio Berlusconi.jpg Rutelli per wikipedia.jpg
Leader Silvio Berlusconi Francesco Rutelli
Party Forza Italia The Daisy
Alliance House of Freedoms The Olive Tree
Last election 27 seats, 57.2%
as PPL and LN
19 seats, 34.2%
Seats won 33 11
Seat change +6 -7
Popular vote 2,557,622 1,924,113
Percentage 44.8% 33.7%
Swing -12.4% -0.5%

Majority before election

House of Freedoms

New Majority

House of Freedoms


House of Freedoms

House of Freedoms

Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on May 13, 2001. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2001 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

The election was won by the centre-right coalition called House of Freedoms, as it happened at the national level. The House was a new alliance formed for Lombard regional election of 2000 between political giants Pole of Freedoms and Lega Nord. All provinces gave a majority or a plurality to the new Italian Prime Minister.

Silvio Berlusconi was the largely predicted winner of this election. He had a complete victory during the 1999 European election and, more, he strengthened his position with the alliance between his Pole of Freedoms and his former rivals of Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord, forming the House of Freedoms for the 2000 regional election which gave him a landslide victory. In this context, the majoritarian system was ensuring him a literal triumph in Lombardy.


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