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2016 Milan mayoral election
← 2011 5 June 2016 (first round)
19 June 2016 (second round)[1]		 2021 →
Turnout54.6% Decrease 13.0 pp (first round)
51.8% Decrease 2.8 pp (second round)
 
Candidate Giuseppe Sala Stefano Parisi
Party Independent Independent
Alliance Centre-left Centre-right
1st Round vote 224,156 219,218
Percentage 41.7% 40.8%
2nd Round vote 264,481 247,052
Percentage 51.7% 48.3%
Result of second round voting by Milan municipalities. Red municipalities are those with most votes for Sala and Azure those for Parisi.
Mayor before election

Giuliano Pisapia

 Elected mayor

Giuseppe Sala

Municipal elections were held in Milan on 5 and 19 June 2016 to elect the Mayor and the 48 members of the City Council, as well as the nine presidents and 270 councillors of the nine administrative zones in which the municipality is divided, each one having one president and 30 councillors.

Incumbent Mayor Giuliano Pisapia choose not to run for re-election for a second term in office.[2]

As no candidate won a majority in the first round, a runoff was held between the top two candidates – Giuseppe Sala, an independent business executive and Milan Expo 2015 CEO, close to the Democratic Party (PD), and Stefano Parisi, former CEO of the telecommunication company Fastweb close to Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) – which Sala won by a narrow margin.

Background

Centre-left primary election

On 22 March 2015, the incumbent Mayor Giuliano Pisapia announced that he had chosen not to run for re-election in 2016 for a second term in office. Following Pisapia's decision, the ruling centre-left coalition decided to call an open primary election to choose a new mayoral candidate.[3]

Four people registered to be candidates in this election: Giuseppe Sala, business executive and Milan Expo 2015 CEO;[4] Francesca Balzani, deputy mayor, responsible for Budget in the Milan's municipal government and former MEP;[5] Pierfrancesco Majorino, responsible for Social Equalities in the municipal government of the city;[6] Antonio Iannetta, former president of UISP (Italian Sport Union for Everyone).

The election took place on 6–7 February 2016:

Candidate Party Votes %
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Giuseppe Sala Independent 25,600 42.33
Francesca Balzani PD 20,516 33.92
Pierfrancesco Majorino PD 13,916 23.01
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Antonio Iannetta Independent 443 0.73
Total 60,475 100.00

Total voters: 60,900

Centre-right candidacy

On 10 February 2016, Stefano Parisi, former City manager of Milan (1997-2001), announced his acceptance to become the centre-right coalition candidate for the mayoral election, a role proposed to him by the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.[7] Parisi is also the former CEO of the telecommunication company Fastweb; Parisi in last 2015 was the manager of Corrado Passera's early mayoral campaign for their party, Unique Italy: Passera retired to run for Major when Parisi resigned after a meeting with Berlusconi.

Others

On 8 November 2015, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement choose its own candidate with a closed primary election. The 52-year-old unemployed activist Patrizia Bedori was chosen as official mayoral candidate. On that date no official data were provided by the movement.[8] However, on 12 March 2016 Bedori stepped down from the candidacy, saying tearful during an assembly that she wasn't the right person to represent the movement. Afterwards on 24 March 2016 with a closed virtual primary on the web, the Five Star Movement choose its new candidate, Gianluca Corrado, who received 632 votes out of 876.[9]

Voting system

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy of cities with a population higher than 15,000. Under this system voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.

For the zones the voting system is the same, not referred to the mayor but to the president of the zones.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

Parties and candidates

This is a list of the major parties (and their respective leaders) which participated in the election.

Political party or alliance Constituent lists Candidate
rowspan=4 style="background-color:Template:Centre-left coalition/meta/color"|
Centre-left coalition
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color" | Democratic Party
Giuseppe Sala
Beppe Sala for Mayor – We, Milan
bgcolor="Template:Orange Movement/meta/color" | Left for Milan
bgcolor="Template:Italy of Values/meta/color" | Italy of Values
rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Centre-right Coalition/meta/color;"|
Centre-right coalition
 bgcolor="Template:Forza Italia (2013)/meta/color" | Forza Italia
Stefano Parisi
bgcolor="Template:Lega Nord/meta/color" | Northern League
bgcolor="Template:Brothers of Italy/meta/color" | Brothers of Italy
bgcolor="Template:New Centre-Right/meta/color" | Popular Area
Unique Italy
bgcolor="Template:Pensioners' Party (Italy)/meta/color" | Pensioners' Party
style="background-color:Template:Five Star Movement/meta/color"| Five Star Movement
Gianluca Corrado
style="background-color:Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color"| Milan in Common (incl. PRC, PCdI, Possible, AET and PU)
Basilio Rizzo
style="background-color:Template:Italian Radicals/meta/color"| Italian Radicals
Marco Cappato

Opinion polling

Further information: Opinion polling for the Italian local elections, 2016 § Milan

Results

Summary of the 2016 Milan City Council election results
Candidates I round II round Leaders
seats 		Parties Votes % Seats
Votes % Votes %
bgcolor="Template:Centre-left coalition/meta/color" rowspan=5| Giuseppe Sala 224,156 41.70 264,481 51.70 – Democratic Party 145,933 28.97 18
Beppe Sala for Mayor – We, Milan 38,674 7.68 5
Left for Milan 19,281 3.83 2
Ecologist Lay Federalist Radicals (A) 9,390 1.86 –
Italy of Values 3,454 0.69 –
bgcolor="Template:Centre-right coalition/meta/color" rowspan=6| Stefano Parisi 219,218 40.78 247,052 48.30 1 Forza Italia 101,802 20.21 8
Northern League 59,313 11.77 4
Popular Milan 15,803 3.14 1
Parisi List – Unique Milan 15,215 3.02 1
Brothers of Italy 12,197 2.42 –
Pensioners' Party 2,164 0.43 –
bgcolor="Template:Five Star Movement/meta/color" | Gianluca Corrado 54,099 10.06 – – 1 Five Star Movement 52,376 10.40 2
bgcolor="Template:Communist Refoundation Party/meta/color" | Basilio Vincenzo Rizzo 19,143 3.56 – – 1 Milan in Common 17,635 3.50 –
bgcolor="Template:Italian Radicals/meta/color" | Marco Cappato 10,104 1.88 – – – (A)
bgcolor="Template:The People of Family/meta/color" | Nicolò Mardegan 6,018 1.12 – – – The People of Family 5,804 1.15 –
bgcolor="Template:Workers' Communist Party (Italy)/meta/color" | Natale Azzaretto 2,220 0.41 – – – Workers' Communist Party 2,108 0.42 –
bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Luigi Santambrogio 1,483 0.28 – – – Municipal Alternative 1,477 0.29 –
bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Maria Teresa Baldini 1,143 0.21 – – – Fuxia People 1,095 0.22 –
Total 537,584 100.00 511,533 100.00 3 503,721 100.00 45
Eligible voters 1,006,701 100.00 1,006,701 100.00
Voted 550,194 54.65 521,487 51.80
Did not vote 456,507 45.35 485,214 48.20
Blank or invalid ballots 12,610 2.30 9,954 1.90
Total valid votes 537,584 97.70 511,533 98.10
Source: Ministry of the Interior

Note: if a defeated candidate for Mayor obtained over 3% of votes, he/she is automatically elected city councilor.

The candidate elected Major is not a member of the City Council, but has the right to vote in the City Council; if Stefano Parisi will resign, his seat in the City Council will pass to Riccardo De Corato (former Deputy Major, 1997-2011), first candidate of Brothers of Italy (FdI), because this list is the first list in the coalition under the electoral threshold.

Popular vote
PD
 
 28.97%
FI
 
 20.20%
LN
 
 11.77%
M5S
 
 10.39%
Sala list
 
 7.67%
SxM
 
 3.82%
MC
 
 3.50%
MP
 
 3.13%
Others
 
 10.55%
Council Seats
PD
 
 45.83%
FI
 
 18.75%
Sala list
 
 10.42%
LN
 
 8.33%
M5S
 
 6.25%
SxM
 
 4.12%
MC
 
 2.1%
MP
 
 2.1%
Others
 
 2.1%
Popular vote (coalition)
Centre-left
 
 41.16%
Centre-right
 
 40.99%
M5S
 
 10.06%
MC
 
 3.56%
Council Seats (coalition)
Centre-left
 
 60.42%
Centre-right
 
 31.25%
M5S
 
 6.25%
MC
 
 2.10%

Results by municipio

Presidents and Councils

The 9 municipi

After the 2011 election, all nine municipi were governed by the centre-left. Following the 2016 election, five were gained by the centre-right coalition and four by the centre-left.

Table below shows the results for each municipio with the percentage for each candidate and president elected:

Municipio Centre-left Centre-right M5S Others Elected President Party
style="background:Template:Centre-left coalition/meta/color;" colspan="2"| style="background:Template:Centre-right coalition/meta/color;" colspan="2"| style="background:Template:Five Star Movement/meta/color;" colspan="2"| style="background:Template:Other/meta/color;" colspan="2"|
votes % votes % votes % votes %
1 18,081 45.2 16,515 41.3 2,422 6.1 2,984 6.4 Fabio Luigi Arrigoni PD
2 20,795 38.5 23,314 43.1 6,269 11.6 3,682 6.9 Samuele Piscina LN
3 25,956 43.7 23,068 38.8 5,701 9.6 4,696 7.8 Caterina Antola PD
4 25,149 41.2 25,368 41.6 6,392 10.5 4,111 6.8 Paolo Guido Giancarlo Maria Bassi LN
5 19,563 40.7 19,684 41.0 5,676 11.8 3,104 8.4 Alessandro Bramanti NCD
6 24,738 41.7 23,860 40.2 6,800 11.5 3,942 6.7 Santo Minniti PD
7 27,019 39.7 28,852 42.3 7,740 11.4 4,496 6.6 Marco Bestetti FI
8 30,526 42.6 28,836 40.2 7,904 11.0 4,432 6.1 Simone Zambelli SI
9 26,295 38.9 27,638 40.9 8,720 12.9 4,904 7.2 Giuseppe Antonio Lardieri FI

Source: Municipality of Milan - Electoral Service

Table below shows the seats for each coalition in every Municipal Council:

Municipio Centre-left Centre-right M5S Others Total
style="background:Template:Centre-left coalition/meta/color;" | style="background:Template:Centre-right coalition/meta/color;" | style="background:Template:Five Star Movement/meta/color;" | style="background:Template:Other/meta/color;" |
1 18 11 1 – 30
2 9 18 3 – 30
3 18 10 2 – 30
4 10 18 2 – 30
5 10 18 2 – 30
6 18 10 2 – 30
7 10 18 2 – 30
8 18 10 2 – 30
9 9 18 3 – 30
Total 120 131 19 – 270

Source: Municipality of Milan - Electoral Service

Mayoral votes

Second round

Table below shows the results of the votes for mayoral candidates on the second round (19 June 2016) in each municipio:

Municipio Giuseppe Sala Stefano Parisi Turnout
style="background:Template:Centre-left coalition/meta/color;"| style="background:Template:Centre-right coalition/meta/color;"|
1 21,966
(52.6%) 		19,808
(47.4%) 		50.7%
2 25,527
(49.6%) 		25,948
(50.4%) 		51.8%
3 32,367
(55.0%) 		26,452
(45.0%) 		54.2%
4 30,506
(51.4%) 		28,801
(48.6%) 		52.0%
5 23,936
(52.2%) 		21,929
(47.8%) 		50.7%
6 29,941
(52.5%) 		27,074
(47.5%) 		50.7%
7 32,701
(50.2%) 		32,386
(49.8%) 		52.1%
8 35,041
(50.9%) 		33,735
(49.1%) 		52.1%
9 32,402
(51.1%) 		31,016
(48.9%) 		51.4%

See also

References

  1. ^ According to the Italian Law, the first round of local elections in Italy must always be held on a sunday between 15 April and 15 June. The second round must always be held on a sunday after 14 days from first round.
  2. ^ Oriana Liso (March 22, 2015). "L'annuncio di Pisapia: "Non mi ricandido"". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  3. ^ Oriana Liso (December 8, 2015). "Milano, il centrosinistra ha deciso: primarie il 7 febbraio". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Oriana Liso (December 22, 2015). "Milano, Giuseppe Sala ai blocchi di partenza". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  5. ^ Oriana Liso (December 16, 2015). "Milano, la vicesindaco Balzani si candida". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  6. ^ Oriana Liso (December 22, 2015). "Primarie Milano, Majorini ce l'ha fatta". La Repubblica. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  7. ^ Sergio Rame (February 10, 2016). "Parisi in campo a Milano: sarà lui il candidato del centrodestra". Il Giornale. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  8. ^ Luca De Vito (November 8, 2015). "Milano, I grillini hanno scleto". La Repubblica. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
  9. ^ Andrea Monatanri (March 24, 2016). "M5S, referendum a Milano". La Repubblica. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
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