Venetian regional election, 2010

2005 ←

28–29 March 2010

→ 2015

All 60 seats to the Regional Council

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Luca Zaia	Giuseppe Bortolussi
Party	Northern League	Democratic Party
Alliance	Centre-right coalition	Centre-left coalition
Seats won	37	19
Seat change	2	0
Popular vote	1,528,386	738,761
Percentage	60.16%	29.08%
Swing	9.58%	13.27%

Electoral results for area: blue for Zaia, orange for Bortolussi

President before election

Giancarlo Galan
Forza Italia

Subsequent President

Luca Zaia
Lega Nord

Giancarlo Galan
Forza Italia

Luca Zaia
Lega Nord

The Venetian regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010, as part of Italy's big round of regional elections.

Luca Zaia, rising star of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, was elected President by a landslide. With the support of 60.2% of Venetians, he was the most voted President of Veneto since direct election was introduced in 1995. Liga Veneta became the largest in the region with 35.2%. The total score of Venetist parties (also including North-East Union, Party of the Venetians, Venetian National Party and Liga Veneto Autonomo) was 37.6%, the highest so far. The People of Freedom of the outgoing President Giancarlo Galan came second with 24.7% of the vote and the Democratic Party third with 20.3%.

Liga Veneta managed the highest swing ever in a regional election in Veneto (+20.5%), gaining from almost every side of the political spectrum, but mainly from The People of Freedom (–7.5%), the Democrats (–8.6%) and North-East Union (–5.1%), whose main member parties were North-East Project (5.4% in 2005) and Liga Veneta Repubblica (1.2%).

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