2001 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

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2001 Italian Senate election in Lombardy

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All 47 Lombard seats in the Italian Senate

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Silvio Berlusconi	Francesco Rutelli
Party	Forza Italia	The Daisy
Alliance	House of Freedoms	The Olive Tree
Last election	27 seats, 57.2% as PPL and LN	19 seats, 34.2%
Seats won	33	11
Seat change	+6	-7
Popular vote	2,557,622	1,924,113
Percentage	44.8%	33.7%
Swing	-12.4%	-0.5%

Majority before election

House of Freedoms

New Majority

House of Freedoms

Lombardy renewed its delegation to the Italian Senate on May 13, 2001. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 2001 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.

The election was won by the centre-right coalition called House of Freedoms, as it happened at the national level. The House was a new alliance formed for Lombard regional election of 2000 between political giants Pole of Freedoms and Lega Nord. All provinces gave a majority or a plurality to the new Prime Minister of Italy.

Background

Silvio Berlusconi was the largely predicted winner of this election. He had a complete victory during the 1999 European election and, more, he strengthened his position with the alliance between his Pole of Freedoms and his former rivals of Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord, forming the House of Freedoms for the 2000 regional election which gave him a landslide victory. In this context, the majoritarian system was ensuring him a literal triumph in Lombardy.

On the other side, The Olive Tree was coming from five years of troubled government, with three different Prime Ministers, and divisions between member parties obliged to give a nomination to a fourth man, Francesco Rutelli.

Electoral system

The intricate electoral system introduced in 1993, called Mattarella Law, provided 75% of the seats in the Senate as elected by first-past-the-post system, whereas the remaining 25% was assigned by a special proportional method that assigned more of the remaining seats to minority parties.

Formally this was an example of mixed-member majoritarian system.

Results


Coalition	votes	votes (%)	seats	Party	seats	change
House of Freedoms	2,557,622	44.8	33	Forza Italia	15	+5
				Lega Nord	9	-2
				National Alliance	7	+2
				Union of Christian and Centre Democrats	1	+1
				Italian Republican Party	1	=
The Olive Tree	1,924,113	33.7	11	Democrats of the Left	4	-8
				Democracy is Freedom	4	-1
				Federation of the Greens	2	=
				Party of Italian Communists	1	+1
Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda	308,559	5.4	1	Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda	1	+1
Communist Refoundation Party	279,152	4.9	1	Communist Refoundation Party	1	=
Italy of Values	180,828	3.2	1	Italy of Values	1	+1
Others	459,023	8.0	-	Others	-	-
Total coalitions	5,709,297	100.0	47	Total parties	47	=

Sources: Italian Senate

Constituencies


N°	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes %	Losers
1	Milan Central	Marcello Dell'Utri	Forza Italia	46.1%	A. Onofrio (Ulivo) 30.1%
2	Milan East	Gianpiero Cantoni	Forza Italia	49.2%	G. Malagoli (Ulivo) 33.9%
3	Milan West	Riccardo De Corato	National Alliance	51.2%	Felice Besostri (Ulivo) 33.2%
4	Milan South	Raffaele Iannuzzi	Forza Italia	46.3%	A. Duva (Ulivo) 34.0%
5	Milan North	Sergio Travaglia	Forza Italia	44.0%	Gianfranco Pagliarulo (Ulivo) 35.9% Luigi Malabarba (PRC) 6.8%
6	Sesto San Giovanni	Antonio Del Pennino	Italian Republican Party	42.9%	Antonio Pizzinato (Ulivo) 38.7%
7	Lodi	Romano Comincioli	Forza Italia	43.5%	Gianni Piatti (Ulivo) 36.2%
8	Rozzano	Antonino Caruso	National Alliance	46.2%	Ornella Piloni (Ulivo) 36.0%
9	Abbiategrasso	Francesco Servello	National Alliance	46.4%	G. Mainini (Ulivo) 33.0%
10	Rho	Giuseppe Valditara	National Alliance	44.2%	Roberto Biscardini (Ulivo) 35.3%
11	Bollate	Cesarino Monti	Lega Nord	44.5%	A. Pollio (Ulivo) 35.3%
12	Cinisello Balsamo	Alberto Zorzoli	Forza Italia	41.5%	Patrizia Toia (Ulivo) 40.6%
13	Seregno	Enrico Rizzi	Forza Italia	49.4%	L. Mariani (Ulivo) 29.6%
14	Monza	Alfredo Mantica	National Alliance	46.1%	Emanuela Baio (Ulivo) 35.4%
15	Melzo	Luigi Scotti	Forza Italia	41.5%	Loris Maconi (Ulivo) 38.4%
16	Cologno Monzese	Enrico Pianetta	Forza Italia	44.8%	Natale Ripamonti (Ulivo) 36.4%
17	Varese	Piero Pellicini	National Alliance	45.8%	M. Marzaro (Ulivo) 31.1%
18	Gallarate	Luigi Peruzzotti	Lega Nord	46.9%	M. Ampollini (Ulivo) 30.4%
19	Busto Arsizio	Antonio Tomassini	Forza Italia	46.6%	G. Canziani (Ulivo) 29.7%
20	Como	Celestino Pedrazzini	Lega Nord	48.4%	A. Rinaldi (Ulivo) 29.5%
21	Cantù	Graziano Maffioli	Union of Christian and Centre Democrats	45.7%	G. Ballabio (Ulivo) 31.0%
22	Brescia	Paolo Guzzanti	Forza Italia	42.8%	Pierluigi Petrini (Ulivo) 37.0%
23	Lumezzane	Guglielmo Castagnetti	Forza Italia	41.8%	A. Bonomelli (Ulivo) 33.6%
24	Desenzano del Garda	Francesco Tirelli	Lega Nord	44.8%	A. Zanelli (Ulivo) 32.5%
25	Chiari	Sergio Agoni	Lega Nord	45.7%	D. Buizza (Ulivo) 30.6%
26	Suzzara	Franco Danieli	Democracy is Freedom	38.6%	M. Pini (CdL) 37.5%
27	Mantua	Anna Donati	Federation of the Greens	42.1%	F. Scopelliti (CdL) 38.3%
28	Cremona	Lamberto Grillotti	National Alliance	41.8%	A. Rescaglio (Ulivo) 35.0%
29	Pavia	Luigi Fabbri	Forza Italia	44.8%	T. Montagna (Ulivo) 34.9%
30	Vigevano	Domenico Contestabile	Forza Italia	47.4%	M. Donato (Ulivo) 32.2%
31	Bergamo	Vittorio Pessina	Forza Italia	40.8%	G. Zilio (Ulivo) 33.7%
32	Albino	Roberto Calderoli	Lega Nord	44.2%	D. Carminati (Ulivo) 28.8% Elidio De Paoli (LAL) 11.5% Valerio Carrara (Italy of Values) 4.7%
33	Treviglio	Ettore Pirovano	Lega Nord	43.6%	C. Bonfichi (Ulivo) 28.4%
34	Sondrio	Fiorello Provera	Lega Nord	52.1%	E. Dioli (Ulivo) 28.0%
35	Lecco	Roberto Castelli	Lega Nord	41.7%	I. Bruseghini (Ulivo) 35.2%

Additional senators

The Olive Tree

Patrizia Toia (Democracy is Freedom, 40.6%)^[1]
Antonio Pizzinato (Democrats of the Left, 38.7%)
Loris Maconi (Democrats of the Left, 38.4%)
Pierluigi Petrini (Democracy is Freedom, 37.0%)
Natale Ripamonti (Federation of the Greens, 36.4%)
Gianni Piatti (Democrats of the Left, 36.2%)
Ornella Piloni (Democrats of the Left, 36.0%)
Gianfranco Pagliarulo (Party of Italian Communists, 35.9%)
Emanuela Baio (Democracy is Freedom, 35.4%)

Autonomous Lombard Alliance

Elidio De Paoli (Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda, 11.5%)

Communist Refoundation Party

Luigi Malabarba (Communist Refoundation Party, 6.8%)

Italy of Values

Valerio Carrara (Italy of Values, 4.7%)

Notes

^ She resigned in 2004 when she became MEP. She was then substituted by Roberto Biscardini (SDI).

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