24-25 February 2013 2018 → 49 seats, 56.1% 28 seats, 33.3% 2,456,921 2,194,169 | Turnout 76.74% (12.10%) 49 22 42.8% 38.2% | |
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The Lombard regional election of 2013 took place on February 24 and 25, 2013 and was the first snap election in Lombard political history, and the first one paired with a general election. The 10th term of the Regional Council was chosen.
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Electoral law
Lombardy used for the first time its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national Tatarella Law of 1995. The new electoral law was adopted before the resignation of 74 members of the Council on October 26, 2012. While the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councillors, instead of 64 as it was before, are elected by party lists under a form of semi-proportional representation. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the D'Hondt method, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its provincial lists, where candidates are openly selected.
Center-left primary election, 2012
On December 15, 2012, took place the center-left primary election to decide the official candidate of the coalition in the election. There were three candidates: Umberto Ambrosoli, son of Giorgio killed in 1979, Alessandra Kustermann and Andrea Di Stefano. Umberto Ambrosoli received the 57% of the votes and became the center-left official candidate for the regional election.
Candidates for President
Opinion polls
This is a list of opinion polls taken from January 2012. The data are expressed in %.
By party or joint electoral list
The following table shows opinion polls broken down by individual party, providing insight into the intra-coalition balance of power.
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Results
According to the final results, Roberto Maroni was the new President of Lombardy with more than 40% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.
Source: Region Lombardy