Tuscan regional election, 1995

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All 50 seats to the Regional Council of Tuscany

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Vannino Chiti	Paolo del Debbio	Luciano Ghelli
Party	Democratic Party of the Left	Forza Italia	Communist Refoundation
Alliance	The Olive Tree	Pole of Freedoms & Pole of Good Government
Last election	new alliance	new alliance	new party
Seats won	33	13	4
Seat change	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.
Popular vote	1,188,995	855,287	294,128
Percentage	50.1%	36.1%	12.40%
Swing	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.

President of Tuscany before election

Vannino Chiti
Democratic Party of the Left

President of Tuscany

Vannino Chiti
Democratic Party of the Left

The Tuscan regional election of 1995 took place on 23 April 1995.

For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term.

Tuscany used for the first time the national Tatarella Law to elect its Council. Forty 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.

Ten 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 an alliance wins more than 60% of votes, 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 alliance receives less than 50% of votes, special seats are added to the Council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.

In the context of the profound political changes that invested Italy between 1992 and 1994, Italian Parliament changed the regional electoral law, adapting them to new majoritarian principle now in vogue in the country, trim and tend bipolar politics. The new political geography, however, did not fit properly to Tuscany where, besides a garrison of right, assumed insignificant importance the presence of Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord, which, instead of the others regions, substained the center-left candidate. Another major innovation had originated in Tuscany: Silvio Berlusconi' party, Forza Italia, had collected anti-Communist orphans of deceased traditional parties.

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