2020 Venice municipal election

A Municipal election was held in Venice, Italy, on 20 and 21 September. It was originally scheduled to take place on May 31, 2020, but it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.[1][2]

2020 Venice municipal election
20–21 September 2020
Turnout62.2% (2.4%)
 
Candidate Luigi Brugnaro Pier Paolo Baretta Marco Gasparinetti
Party Independent Democratic Party Earth and Water 2020
Alliance Centre-right coalition Centre-left coalition Independent
Popular vote 66,750 36,092 5,005
Percentage 54.14% 29.27% 4.06%
Mayor before election

Luigi Brugnaro
Independent (Centre-right)

 Elected Mayor

Luigi Brugnaro
Independent (Centre-right)

Electoral system

The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the cities with a population higher than 15,000 inhabitants. 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 50% of votes during the first round, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The winning candidate obtains a majority bonus equal to 60% of seats. During the first round, if no candidate gets more than 50% of votes but a coalition of lists gets the majority of 50% of votes or if the mayor is elected in the first round but its coalition gets less than 40% of the valid votes, the majority bonus cannot be assigned to the coalition of the winning mayor candidate.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a maximum of two preferential votes, each for a different gender, belonging to the same party list: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally, using D'Hondt seat allocation. Only coalitions with more than 3% of votes are eligible to get any seats.[3]

Parties and candidates

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

Political force or alliance Constituent lists Leader
Centre-right coalition
 Forza Italia (FI)
Luigi Brugnaro
Lega (League)
Brothers of Italy (FdI)
Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor (LBS)
Centre-left coalition
 Democratic Party (PD)
Pier Paolo Baretta
Green Progressive Venice (VVP) (incl. Art.1, EV, SI, Pos and PRC)
Venice is Yours (incl. IV, +Eu and PSI)
Common Idea for Venice and Mestre
Turning Point in Common (incl. Volt and IiC)
Five Star Movement (M5S)
Sara Visman
All the City Together! (TCI) (incl. PaP)
Giovanni Andrea Martini
Earth and Water 2020 (TeA)
Marco Gasparinetti
Party of Venetians (PdV)
Stefano Zecchi
Solidary and Young Italy (IGS)
Maurizio Callegari
Sitran Civic List
Marco Sitran

Opinion polls

Candidates
Date Polling firm/
Client		 Sample size Brugnaro Baretta Visman Martini Zecchi Gasparinetti Others Undecided Lead
10 Aug 2020 Fabbrica Politica[lower-alpha 1] 500 55.0 24.3 5.4[lower-alpha 2] 5.6 7.1 2.6 N/A N/A 30.7

Parties
Date Polling firm Sample size Centre-right Centre-left M5S TCI TeA PdV Others Undecided Lead
Lega FI FdI Other PD IV VVP Other
16 Jun 2020 Quorum[lower-alpha 1] 900 22.6 3.9 7.8 21.1 23.2 1.7 1.7 0.4 5.0 2.4 5.2 3.0 2.0 53.1 0.6
  1. This poll was commissioned by a political party.
  2. In this poll the M5S mayoral candidate was Elena La Rocca

Results
Summary of the 20–21 September 2020 Venice City Council election results
Candidates & parties Votes % Seats
leaders		 Seats
Luigi Brugnaro 66,750 54.14 – 22
Luigi Brugnaro for Mayor 37,914 31.67 → 14
League 14,806 12.37 → 5
Brothers of Italy 7,855 6.56 → 2
Forza Italia 3,255 2.72 → 1
Civic List The Cities 1,148 0.96 → –
Pier Paolo Baretta 36,092 29.27 1 9
Democratic Party 22,962 19.18 → 7
Green Progressive Venice 5,907 4.93 → 1
Venice is Yours 4,308 3.60 → 1
Turning Point in Common 952 0.80 → –
Common Idea for Mestre and Venice 789 0.66 → –
Marco Gasparinetti 5,005 4.06 1 –
Earth and Water 2020 4,847 4.05 → –
Sara Visman 4,822 3.91 1 –
Five Star Movement 4,716 3.94 → –
Stefano Zecchi 4,344 3.52 1 –
Party of Venetians 4,228 3.53 → –
Giovanni Andrea Martini 4,305 3.49 1 –
All the City Together! 3,021 2.52 → –
For Mestre and Venice 1,083 0.90 → –
Alessandro Busetto 807 0.65 – –
Workers' Communist Party 783 0.65 → –
Marco Sitran 605 0.49 – –
Sitran Civic List 553 0.46 → –
Maurizio Callegari 570 0.46 – –
Solidary and Young Italy 570 0.48 → –
Total 128,025 100.00 5 36
Source: Ministry of the Interior


See also

References
  1. "Il governo ha rinviato le elezioni regionali e comunali" (in Italian). Il Post. 20 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. Elezioni Regionali, il 31 Maggio si vota in Toscana, Veneto, Campania, Puglia, Liguria e Marche
  3. "Ministero dell'Interno - Approfondimento". Ministero dell'Interno (in Italian). Retrieved 17 July 2020.


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