1993 Milan municipal election

1993 Milan mayoral election
	6 and 20 June 1993
	6 and 20 June 1993
Turnout	78.1% (first round) ; 69.3% (second round)
Mayor before election; Claudio Gelati; Special commissioner	Elected Mayor ; Marco Formentini;

Municipal elections were held in Milan on 6 and 20 June 1993 to elect the Mayor of Milan and the 60 members of the City Council.

For the first time under the new electoral law citizens could vote directly the mayor.

Background

After gaining 11 seats in the City Council in 1990 election, for the first time the newborn separatist Lega Nord presented its own mayoral candidate: the partisan and lawyer Marco Formentini. Formentini was a former socialist, politically a left-wing, and for this reason a strong candidate in a city like Milan, historically close to leftist ideas but at the same time attracted by the new proposals of the Lega Nord party. The resentment against Rome's centralism (with the famous slogan Roma ladrona, which loosely means "Rome big thief") and the Italian government, common in northern Italy as many northerners felt that the government wasted resources collected mostly from northerners' taxes, was very strong[1] and resentment against illegal immigrants was widespread. Finally, the Tangentopoli corruption scandals, which started right in Milan and invested most of the established parties, were unveiled from 1992 on and broke the traditional link between the city and the powerful milanese Socialist Party. Then a Lega Nord candidate in Milan was not considered a conservative also because the lombard wing and, more broadly, the bulk of the original Lega Lombarda has tended to be the left-wing of the party. More of the members of the Lega Lombarda hailed from the far-left of the political spectrum, having been active in the Italian Communist Party, il manifesto movement, the Party of Proletarian Unity, Proletarian Democracy and the Greens,[2][3] and conceived Lega Nord as a centre-left (and, to some extent, social-democratic) political force.[4][5]

The main opposition to Formentini was represented by Nando Dalla Chiesa, son of the general Carlo Alberto, killed by the Mafia in 1982. Dalla Chiesa was instead the candidate of a center-left coalition composed by the ex-communist Democratic Party of the Left and some other progressives party (such as the new-born Federation of the Greens and the Communist Refoundation Party).

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.

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.

Results

Although Dalla Chiesa was seen as a man outside the old corrupted parties, Formentini managed to win the election on the second round gaining the support of the moderate and centrist voters of the agonizing Christian Democracy party.

On 20 June 1993 Formentini heavily won the election and became the first directly elected mayor of Milan, the first one from a non-socialist party since 1945.

The future secretary of the Lega Nord party, Matteo Salvini, was firstly elected municipal councillor, aged 20.

Candidate		Party	Coalition	First round		Second round
Candidate		Party	Coalition	Votes	%	Votes	%
	Marco Formentini	LN		346,425	38.82	452,732	57.08
	Nando Dalla Chiesa	PDS	Alliance of Progressives	270,554	30.39	340,708	42.92
	Pietro Bassetti	DC	DC • PSDI	97,095	10.88
	Adriano Teso	PS		60,121	6.74
	Gianpietro Borghini	S&R		54,856	6.15
	Riccardo De Corato	MSI		25,899	2.90
	Others			36,782	4.11

Eligible voters				1,195,257	100.00	1,195,257	100.00
Did not vote				261,197	21.85	367,317	30.73
Voted				934,060	78.15	827,940	69.27
Blank or invalid ballots				54,718	1.7	51,484	1.6
Total valid votes				879,342	98.3	776,456	98.4

Summary of the 1993 Milan City Council election results


Parties and coalitions				Votes	%	Seats

	Lega Nord		LN	307,122	40.9%	36
		Communist Refoundation Party (Rifondazione Comunista)	PRC	85,349	11.4%	6
		Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra)	PDS	66,250	8.8%	5
		The Network (La Rete)	LR	26,884	3.6%	1
		Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi)	FV	23,150	3.1%	1
		Others		10,683	1.4%	0
Dalla Chiesa coalition (Centre-left)				212,316	28.2%	13
		Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana)	DC	70,881	9.4%	5
		Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialdemocratico Italiano)	PSDI	2,790	0.4%	0
		Others		7,356	1.0%	0
Bassetti coalition (Centre)				81,127	10.8%	5
	Segni Pact (Patto Segni)		PS	51,763	6.9%	3
	Socialists and Reformists (Socialisti e Riformisti)		S&R	40,229	5.3%	2
	Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano)		MSI-DN	25,205	3.3%	1
	Others			33,846	4.5%	0

Total				751,608	100%	60

Votes cast / turnout				934,060	78.1%
Registered voters				1,195,257

Source: Ministry of the Interior

Popular vote

LN			40.9%
PRC			11.4%
DC			9.4%
PDS			8.8%
PS			6.9%
S&R			5.3%
LR			3.6%
MSI			3.3%
FdV			3.1%

Council Seats

LN			60.0%
PRC			10.0%
DC			8.3%
PDS			8.3%
PS			5.0%
S&R			3.3%
LR			1.7%
MSI			1.7%
FdV			1.7%

Popular vote (coalition)

LN			40.9%
Centre-left			28.2%
Centre			10.8%
Others			15.4%

Council seats (coalition)

LN			60.0%
Centre-left			21.7%
Centre			8.3%
Others			10.0%

Results by zones

Second round

Table below shows the results of the votes for mayoral candidates on the second round in each zona:[6]

Zona	Marco Formentini	Nando Dalla Chiesa	Turnout
Zona			Turnout
1	30,706 (64.6%)	16,808 (35.4%)	64.4%
2	24,953 (59.3%)	17,161 (40.7%)	69.0%
3	18,454 (61.4%)	11,587 (38.6%)	66.7%
4	23,708 (58.9%)	16,573 (41.1%)	67.8%
5	20,493 (56.9%)	15,527 (43.1%)	68.4%
6	39,426 (63.9%)	22,309 (36.1%)	69.6%
7	9,943 (54.5%)	8,302 (45.5%)	70.0%
8	15,341 (54.9%)	12,602 (45.1%)	70.4%
9	15,435 (52.0%)	14,234 (48.0%)	71.5%
10	29,741 (54.1%)	25,243 (45.9%)	69.2%

Zona	Marco Formentini	Nando Dalla Chiesa	Turnout
Zona			Turnout
11	36,194 (61.1%)	23,080 (38.9%)	69.0%
12	10,103 (56.2%)	7,884 (43.8%)	71.9%
13	8,325 (54.1%)	7,068 (45.9%)	70.2%
14	24,670 (56.8%)	18,763 (43.2%)	70.5%
15	16,892 (52.3%)	15,384 (47.7%)	71.0%
16	17,300 (51.4%)	16,387 (48.6%)	72.3%
17	27,724 (58.0%)	20,076 (42.0%)	68.6%
18	26,061 (50.6%)	25,440 (49.4%)	70.7%
19	32,047 (55.8%)	25,436 (44.2%)	70.9%
20	25,216 (54.7%)	20,844 (45.3%)	67.8%

Notes

Rumiz, Paolo (2001). La secessione leggera. Dove nasce la rabbia del profondo Nord. Milan: Feltrinelli. pp. 10–13.
Signore, Adalberto; Trocino, Alessandro (2008). Razza padana. Milan: BUR. pp. 22–23, 57.
De Lucia, Michele (2011). Dossier Bossi-Lega Nord. Milan: Kaos. p. 1.
Fregonara, Gianna (8 May 1995). "Bossi riaccoglie Maroni e torna alle origini". Milan: Corriere della Sera.
Ballardin, Gianfranco (28 January 1995). "Maroni: solo, ma vado al congresso". Milan: Corriere della Sera.
Municipality of Milan – Electoral archive

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[1] Rumiz, Paolo (2001). La secessione leggera. Dove nasce la rabbia del profondo Nord. Milan: Feltrinelli. pp. 10–13.

[2] Signore, Adalberto; Trocino, Alessandro (2008). Razza padana. Milan: BUR. pp. 22–23, 57.

[3] De Lucia, Michele (2011). Dossier Bossi-Lega Nord. Milan: Kaos. p. 1.

[Corriere_della_Sera1-4] Fregonara, Gianna (8 May 1995). "Bossi riaccoglie Maroni e torna alle origini". Milan: Corriere della Sera.

[5] Ballardin, Gianfranco (28 January 1995). "Maroni: solo, ma vado al congresso". Milan: Corriere della Sera.

[6] Municipality of Milan – Electoral archive