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| Turnout | 63.85% ( 4.63pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held inSan Marino on 11 November 2012.[1] The 60 seats in theGrand and General Council were up to be reshuffled. The previous election,held in 2008, provided theSammarinese Christian Democratic Party with the largest single parliamentary group. TheParty of Socialists and Democrats, although winning more votes than the former, became the main opposition party.
However, for the 2012 elections, the two parties decided to run together, under the banner of the coalitionSan Marino Common Good. They were joined by thePopular Alliance. Meanwhile, the remaining major parties formed the coalitionsAgreement for the Country andActive Citizenship, politically placed in thecenter and on theleft, respectively.
The incumbentSammarinese Christian Democratic Party (PDCS) is leading a coalition calledSan Marino Common Good. It was contested by another coalition under the bannerAgreement for the Country and a third coalition is calledActive Citizenship. Apart from the coalitions, there are also three more parties running on their own:For San Marino, theRETE Movement andSan Marino 3.0.[2]
There were 356 candidates for the 60 seats.[2]
Voting centres were open from 7:00 to 20:00.
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| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| San Marino Common Good | Christian Democrats–We Sammarineses | 5,828 | 29.47 | 21 | ||
| Party of Socialists and Democrats | 2,832 | 14.32 | 10 | |||
| Popular Alliance | 1,319 | 6.67 | 4 | |||
| Coalition votes | 49 | 0.25 | – | |||
| Total | 10,028 | 50.70 | 35 | |||
| Agreement for the Country | Socialist Party | 2,393 | 12.10 | 7 | ||
| Union for the Republic | 1,651 | 8.35 | 5 | |||
| Sammarinese Moderates | 340 | 1.72 | 0 | |||
| Coalition votes | 23 | 0.12 | – | |||
| Total | 4,407 | 22.28 | 12 | |||
| Active Citizenship | United Left | 1,808 | 9.14 | 5 | ||
| Civic 10 | 1,325 | 6.70 | 4 | |||
| Coalition votes | 46 | 0.23 | – | |||
| Total | 3,179 | 16.07 | 9 | |||
| RETE Movement | 1,244 | 6.29 | 4 | |||
| For San Marino | 556 | 2.81 | 0 | |||
| San Marino 3.0 | 364 | 1.84 | 0 | |||
| Total | 19,778 | 100.00 | 60 | |||
| Valid votes | 19,778 | 93.57 | ||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,360 | 6.43 | ||||
| Total votes | 21,138 | 100.00 | ||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 33,106 | 63.85 | ||||
| Source:San Marino State Secretary of Internal Affairs | ||||||
Twenty MPs were new to the council, and 10 MPs were women.[3] Additionally, 1,356 of the voting cards had obscene drawings on them, a total of 6.41%, and a high number of void ballots led to accusations of a scandal.[4]
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