The 2022 Italian local elections were held in various Italian local communities on 12 June 2022, with a run-off round on 26 June. Local elections in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol were held on 15 May, with a second ballot on 29 May, while local elections in Aosta Valley on 29 May, with a second ballot on 12 June. Elections took place in 980 out of 7,904 municipalities, 26 of which were provincial capitals. Mayors and city councils were elected for the ordinary five-year terms, lasting till 2027.
Voting 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.
Municipal elections Mayoral election results
Region City Population Incumbent mayor Elected mayor 1st round 2nd round Seats Source Votes % Votes % Alessandria Gianfranco Cuttica di Revigliasco (Lega) Giorgio Abonante (PD) 13,805 42.04 14,590 54.41 Asti Maurizio Rasero (FI) Maurizio Rasero (FI) 16,709 55.65 — — Cuneo Federico Borgna (Ind.) Patrizia Manassero (PD) 11,319 46.95 10,467 63.31 Como Mario Landriscina (Ind.) Alessandro Rapinese (Ind.) 8,443 27.32 14,067 55.36 Lodi Sara Casanova (Lega) Andrea Furegato (PD) 11,246 59.03 — — Monza Dario Allevi (FI) Paolo Pilotto (PD) 17,767 40.08 18,307 51.21 Belluno Jacopo Massaro (Ind.) Oscar De Pellegrin (Ind.) 7,780 50.73 — — Padua Sergio Giordani (Ind.) Sergio Giordani (Ind.) 47,777 58.44 — — Verona Federico Sboarina (FdI) Damiano Tommasi (Ind.) 43,106 39.80 50,118 53.40 Gorizia Rodolfo Ziberna (FI) Rodolfo Ziberna (FI) 6,330 42.56 6,372 52.23 Genoa Marco Bucci (Ind.) Marco Bucci (Ind.) 112,457 55.49 — — La Spezia Pierluigi Peracchini (C!) Pierluigi Peracchini (C!) 19,379 53.58 — — Parma Federico Pizzarotti (IiC) Michele Guerra (Ind.) 32,567 44.18 37,319 66.19 Piacenza Patrizia Barbieri (Ind.) Katia Tarasconi (PD) 15,828 39.93 16,935 53.46 Lucca Alessandro Tambellini (PD) Mario Pardini (Ind.) 12,278 34.45 16,920 51.03 Pistoia Alessandro Tomasi (FdI) Alessandro Tomasi (FdI) 20,192 51.49 — — Frosinone Nicola Ottaviani (Lega) Riccardo Mastrangeli (FI) 11,856 49.26 10,794 55.32 Rieti Antonio Cicchetti (FI) Daniele Sinibaldi (FdI) 12,785 52.17 — — Viterbo Antonella Scolamiero Chiara Frontini (Ind.) 10,454 32.82 16,160 64.92 L'Aquila Pierluigi Biondi (FdI) Pierluigi Biondi (FdI) 20,463 54.39 — — Barletta Francesco Alecci Cosimo Cannito (Ind.) 20,276 42.27 22,427 65.03 Taranto Vincenzo Cardellicchio Rinaldo Melucci (PD) 49,807 60.63 — — Catanzaro Sergio Abramo (CI) Nicola Fiorita (Ind.) 14,966 31.71 17,823 58.24 Messina Leonardo Santoro Federico Basile (SV) 44,937 45.56 — — Palermo Leoluca Orlando (PD) Roberto Lagalla (UDC) 98,448 47.63 — — Oristano Andrea Lutzu (FdI) Massimiliano Sanna (RS) 7,987 54.22 — —
See also 2022 Italian referendum
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