Election Name: | 2019 Sardinian regional election |
Country: | Sardinia |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | No |
Previous Election: | 2014 Sardinian regional election |
Previous Year: | 2014 |
Next Election: | 2024 Sardinian regional election |
Next Year: | 2024 |
Seats For Election: | All 60 seats to the Regional Council of Sardinia |
Election Date: | 24 February 2019 |
Turnout: | 53.8% (1.5%)[1] |
Image1: | Christian Solinas datisenato 2018 (cropped).jpg |
Image1 Size: | 160x160px |
Candidate1: | Christian Solinas |
Party1: | Sardinian Action Party |
Alliance1: | Centre-right coalition (Italy) |
Color1: | 0A6BE1 |
Seats1: | 36 |
Seat Change1: | 12 |
Popular Vote1: | 364,059 |
Percentage1: | 47.8% |
Swing1: | 8.2% |
Image2 Size: | 160x160px |
Candidate2: | Massimo Zedda |
Party2: | Progressive Camp |
Alliance2: | Centre-left coalition (Italy) |
Color2: | EF3E3E |
Seats2: | 18 |
Seat Change2: | 18 |
Popular Vote2: | 250,797 |
Percentage2: | 32.9% |
Swing2: | 11.5% |
Image3: | Francesco Desogus (cropped).jpg |
Image3 Size: | 160x160px |
Candidate3: | Francesco Desogus |
Party3: | Five Star Movement |
Alliance3: | None |
Color3: | FFEB3B |
Seats3: | 6 |
Seat Change3: | new |
Popular Vote3: | 85,342 |
Percentage3: | 11.2% |
Swing3: | new |
Map Size: | 160px |
President | |
Posttitle: | Elected President |
Before Election: | Francesco Pigliaru |
Before Party: | PD |
After Election: | Christian Solinas |
After Party: | PSd'Az |
The 2019 Sardinian regional election took place in this Italian region on 24 February 2019.[2] The election was for all 59 elected seats of the Regional Council of Sardinia as well as the President of the Region who, along with the second placed presidential candidate, would also become members of the Regional Council.
This was the first Sardinian regional election with the participation of League and M5S. The incumbent President (Francesco Pigliaru, PD) did not run for a second term.
The ballot resulted in the election of Christian Solinas, the centre-right candidate, as President of the Regional Council with 47.8% of the votes.[3] The centre-left candidate, Cagliari Mayor Massimo Zedda, came in second with 33 percent.[4] The Five Star Movement candidate, Francesco Desogus, received 11 percent of the vote.[4]
The candidate who obtains a plurality of the votes is elected President of Sardinia. If the elected candidate obtains at least 25% of the votes, the majority of the seats on the board are guaranteed on the lists who support him.[5] The law provides for a single round, with a list vote, the possibility of expressing a preference within the chosen list, and voting for the presidential candidate, on a single card. It is possible to vote for a list and for a candidate who is not connected to each other (Article 9). The candidate who has obtained the relative majority is elected president (Article 1, paragraph 4). To the lists connected to the president-elect, a majority prize may be awarded in the following measure: 60% of the seats if the president-elect obtained a percentage of preference above 40%; 55% of the seats if the elected president has obtained a percentage of preferences between 25% and 40%, while no majority prize is awarded if the president is elected with less than 25% (Article 13). The law provides for a 10% threshold for coalitions, and 5% for non-coalitized lists (Article 1, paragraph 7). No barriers are foreseen for the lists within the coalitions that have exceeded 10%.[6]
On 13 February certain groups of dairy farmers within the region announced an ultimatum that if the decrease in prices is not prevented then they would block entrances to the polling stations on election day.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Political party or alliance | Constituent lists | Previous result | Candidate | |||
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Votes (%) | Seats | |||||
Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party (PD) | 22.1 | 18 | |||
Christian Popular Union–Italian Socialist Party (UPC–PSI) | 3.1 | 2 | ||||
bgcolor=F7921C | Progressive Camp Sardinia (CPS) | |||||
Free and Equal Sardinia (LeU) | ||||||
We, Sardinia | ||||||
Sardinia in Common (incl. Futura, Pos, +E, FdV, Sardinian Radicals) | ||||||
Common Future | ||||||
Communist Project for Sardinia (PCS) | ||||||
Centre-right coalition | Forza Italia (FI) | 18.5 | 10 | Christian Solinas | ||
Union of the Centre (UdC) | 7.6 | 4 | ||||
Sardinian Reformers (RS) | 6.0 | 3 | ||||
Sardinian Action Party (PSd'Az) | 4.7 | 3 | ||||
Brothers of Italy (FdI) | 2.8 | 1 | ||||
Union of Sardinians (UDS) | 2.6 | 1 | ||||
Fortza Paris (FP) | 0.7 | – | ||||
League (Lega) | ||||||
Energies for Italy (EpI) (incl. ALI, PRI and PLI) | ||||||
Sardinia 20Twenty (S20V) | ||||||
Civic Sardinia (SC) | ||||||
Five Star Movement (M5S) | Francesco Desogus | |||||
Free Sardinians (incl. ProgReS, Unidos and Free Sardinia) | 5.6 | – | Mauro Pili | |||
Autodeterminatzione (ADN) (incl. RM, iRS and SNI) | 3.4 | 3 | Andrea Murgia | |||
Party of Sardinians (PdS) | 2.7 | 2 | Paolo Maninchedda | |||
Communist Refoundation–Italian Communists–Sardinian Left (PRC–PCI–SS) | 2.0 | 2 | Vindice Lecis | |||
Date | Polling firm | Zedda | Solinas | Desogus | Pili | Others | Lead | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
24 Feb 2019 | Election Result | 32.9 | 47.8 | 11.2 | 2.3 | 5.8 | 14.9 | |
24 Feb 2019 | Consorzio Opinio | 35.0–39.0 | 36.5–40.5 | 13.5–17.5 | 1.5 | |||
29 Jan 2019 | SWG | 31.0 | 35.0 | 24.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | |
26 Nov 2018 | Euromedia | 29.3 | 43.7 | 27.0 | 14.4 | |||
Oct 2018 | SWG | 29.0 | 38.0 | 28.0 | 5.0 | 9.0 |
Candidates | Votes | % | Seats | Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Christian Solinas | 364,059 | 47.78 | 1 | League | 81,421 | 11.40 | 8 | ||||
Sardinian Action Party | 70,434 | 9.86 | 7 | ||||||||
Forza Italia | 57,430 | 8.04 | 5 | ||||||||
Sardinian Reformers | 36,299 | 5.08 | 4 | ||||||||
Brothers of Italy | 33,716 | 4.72 | 3 | ||||||||
Sardinia 20Twenty | 29,473 | 4.12 | 3 | ||||||||
Union of the Centre | 26,948 | 3.77 | 3 | ||||||||
Civic Sardinia | 11,689 | 1.63 | 1 | ||||||||
Fortza Paris | 11,611 | 1.62 | 1 | ||||||||
Union of Sardinians | 7,828 | 1.09 | – | ||||||||
Energies for Italy | 3,505 | 0.49 | – | ||||||||
Total | 370,354 | 51.87 | 35 | ||||||||
Massimo Zedda | 250,797 | 32.92 | 1 | Democratic Party | 96,235 | 13.47 | 8 | ||||
Free and Equal Sardinia | 27,077 | 3.79 | 2 | ||||||||
bgcolor=F7921C | Progressive Camp Sardinia | 22,671 | 3.17 | 2 | |||||||
We, Sardinia | 20,011 | 2.80 | 2 | ||||||||
Common Future | 18,750 | 2.62 | 2 | ||||||||
Sardinia in Common | 17,566 | 2.46 | 1 | ||||||||
Christian Popular Union–Italian Socialist Party | 9,275 | 1.30 | – | ||||||||
Communist Project for Sardinia | 3,075 | 0.43 | – | ||||||||
Total | 214,660 | 30.06 | 17 | ||||||||
Francesco Desogus | 85,342 | 11.20 | – | Five Star Movement | 69,573 | 9.74 | 6 | ||||
Paolo Maninchedda | 25,559 | 3.35 | – | Party of Sardinians | 26,216 | 3.67 | – | ||||
Mauro Pili | 17,593 | 2.31 | – | Free Sardinians | 15,234 | 2.13 | – | ||||
Andrea Murgia | 13,955 | 1.83 | – | Autodeterminatzione | 13,657 | 1.91 | – | ||||
Vindice Lecis | 4,528 | 0.59 | – | Communist Refoundation–Italian Communists–Sardinian Left | 4,308 | 0.60 | – | ||||
Invalid votes | 30,440 | – | |||||||||
Total candidates | 790,709 | 100.00 | 2 | Total parties | 706,020 | 100.00 | 58 | ||||
Registered voters | 1,470,401 | 53.77 | |||||||||
Source: Autonomous Region of Sardinia – Results (1,833 of 1,840 President; 1,825 of 1,840 Lists); Seats |
Region | Time | |||
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12:00 | 19:00 | 22:00 | ||
Sardinia | 16.77% | 43.78% | 53.77% | |
Province | Time | |||
12:00 | 19:00 | 22:00 | ||
Cagliari | 18.58% | 45.25% | 55.52% | |
Nuoro | 15.78% | 43.36% | 53.18% | |
Oristano | 14.85% | 41.87% | 51.25% | |
Sassari | 16.04% | 44.28% | 54.65% | |
Medio Campidano | 15.30% | 40.41% | 50.85% | |
Carbonia Iglesias | 16.61% | 42.00% | 51.35% | |
Ogliastra | 16.24% | 44.46% | 54.26% | |
Olbia Tempio | 16.28% | 43.47% | 52.73% | |
Source: Autonomous Region of Sardinia – Turnout |