Italian Senate election in Lombardy, 2008

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April 13, 2008

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All 47 Lombard seats in the Italian Senate

	First party	Second party

Leader	Silvio Berlusconi	Walter Veltroni
Party	People of Freedom	Democratic Party
Alliance	PdL & Lega Nord	PD & Italy of Values
Last election	27 seats, 50.4% 57.0% as CdL	20 seats, 27.3% 42.6% as Union
Seats won	30	17
Seat change	3	3
Popular vote	3,139,694	1,823,835
Percentage	55.1%	32.0%
Swing	4.7%	4.7%

Local majority before election

PdL & Lega Nord

New local majority

PdL & Lega Nord

Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on April 13, 2008. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2008 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 between The People of Freedom and Lega Nord, as it happened at the national level. The People of Freedom was the largest party in the election with 34%, ahead of the Democratic Party (28%) and Lega Nord (21%). All provinces gave a majority or a plurality to the new Italian Prime Minister.

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.

Source: Ministry of the Interior

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