Italian local elections, 2016

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5 June and 19 June 2016

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1,343 city mayors and councils

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Matteo Renzi	Beppe Grillo	Silvio Berlusconi
Party	Democratic Party	Five Star Movement	Forza Italia
Leader since	15 December 2013	4 October 2009	16 November 2013
Popular vote	688,557	688,061	266,773
Percentage	20.17%	20.16%	7.82%
Comuni	22	21	24

The 2016 Italian local elections were held on 5 June, with a run-off, where necessary if a candidate for Mayor obtained less than 50 percent of votes in the first round, held on 19 June.

In Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol the elections were held on 8 May (second round on 22 May), in Aosta Valley on 15 May. Municipal councilors and mayors ordinarily serve a term of five years.

All mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 use the same system.

Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for one of the parties of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round two weeks later. The coalition of the elected mayor is guaranteed a majority of seats in the council with the attribution of extra seats, but the majority bonus system is not adopted by the cities of Trentino-Alto Adige. If a Mayor resigns, dies or is ousted from office after more than half the municipal councillors stepped down, an early municipal election (for the Mayor and for all municipal councillors) is called.

The City Council is elected at the same time as the mayor. Voters can vote for a list of candidates and can express up to two preferences for candidates of said list. In case of two preferences, they must be given to candidates of both genders. Seats are the attributed to parties proportionally, and for each party the candidates with the highest number of preferences are elected.

Majority of each coalition in 120 comuni which have a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants:

Notes: almost all political parties (PD, FI, LN, SI, FDI-AN, UDC, CR and other national parties not included in the table above) in local (municipal and regional) elections usually run with the support of some minor allied list active in local politics forming coalitions under the same nominee as the mayoral candidate, only M5S ran in all elections with a single list (that is the list of M5S under the M5S nominee as the mayoral candidate without forming coalitions with minor local lists or other national parties). Civic (lista civica) is a local list.

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