Lombard regional election, 2005

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3-4 April 2005

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All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy

Turnout

72.97% (

2.62%)

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Roberto Formigoni	Riccardo Sarfatti
Party	Forza Italia	The Union
Alliance	House of Freedoms	The Union
Last election	51 seats, 62.4%	26 seats, 31.5%
Seats won	52	28
Seat change	1	2
Popular vote	2,841,883	2,278,173
Percentage	53.9%	43.2%
Swing	8.5%	11.7%

President before election

Roberto Formigoni
FI

President-elect

Roberto Formigoni
FI

The Lombard regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005. The 8th term of the Regional Council was chosen.

Roberto Formigoni (Forza Italia) was re-elected for the third time in a row President, defeating Riccardo Sarfatti.

Lombardy uses national Tatarella Law of 1995 to elect its Council, not having written its own legislation. Sixty-four councillors are elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists; remained seats and votes are grouped at regional level where a Hare quota is used, and then distributed to provincial party lists.

Sixteen councillors are elected at-large using a general ticket: parties are grouped in alliances, and the alliance which receives a plurality of votes elects all its candidates, its leader becoming the President of Lombardy. If a coalition wins more than 50% of the total seats in the Council with PR, only 8 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 72; if the winning alliance receives less than 50% of votes, special seats are added to the Council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.

According to the official 2001 Italian census, the 64 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation were so distributed between Lombard provinces.

It must be underlined that this allocation is not fixed. Remained seats and votes after proportional distribution, are all grouped at regional level and divided by party lists. The consequent division of these seats at provincial level usually change the original apportionment. Only 37 seats were directly assigned at provincial level, and the final distribution between provinces changed in this way.

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