2010 Emilia-Romagna regional election

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All 50 seats to theRegional Council of Emilia-Romagna
Turnout	68.07% (8.6%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Vasco Errani Anna Maria Bernini Party PD PdL Alliance Centre-left Centre-right Seats won 32 15 Seat change 3 Popular vote 1,197,789 844,915 Percentage 52.1% 36.7% Swing 10.6% 1.5%
Map of the election result
President before election Vasco Errani PD President-elect Vasco Errani PD

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TheEmilia-Romagna regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010.

The two-term incumbent President of the Region,Vasco Errani of the centre-leftDemocratic Party defeated Anna Maria Bernini (backed byThe People of Freedom andLega Nord Emilia-Romagna) andGian Luca Galletti (Union of the Centre).

Errani (–10.6% compared to2005) and the Democrats (–7.7%) lost ground to theFive Star Movement, whose candidate won a surprising 7.0% of the vote, in what was the worst result for the centre-left in a regional election in Emilia–Romagna. The other surprise of the election was Lega Nord, which gained 13.7% of the vote, up from 4.8% in 2005.

Regional elections in Emilia-Romagna were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected inprovincial constituencies byproportional representation, using thelargest remainder method with adroop quota andopen lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with theHare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with amajoritarian system: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.

A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered theregional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes.

Thepanachage was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

28–29 March 2010 Emilia-Romagna regional election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seats
	Vasco Errani	1,197,789	52.07	10
						Democratic Party	857,613	40.65	18
						Italy of Values	136,040	6.45	2
						Federation of the Left	58,943	2.79	1
						Left Ecology Freedom –Greens	37,698	1.79	1
						Pensioners' Party	5,310	0.25	–
					Total		1,095,604	51.93	22
	Anna Maria Bernini	844,915	36.73	1
						The People of Freedom	518,108	24.56	10
						Northern League Emilia-Romagna	288,601	13.68	4
						The Right	1,695	0.08	–
					Total		808,404	38.32	14
	Giovanni Favia	161,056	7.00	–		Five Star Movement	126,619	6.00	2
	Gian Luca Galletti	96,625	4.20	–		Union of the Centre	79,244	3.76	1
Total candidates		2,300,385	100.00	11	Total parties		2,109,871	100.00	39
Source:Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections

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