2021 Rome municipal election
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Municipal elections took place in Rome on 3–4 October 2021 and 17–18 October 2021. Open for election were the office of Mayor of Rome and all the 48 seats of the City Council, as well as the presidents and councils of each of the fifteen municipi in which the city is divided.
Local elections in Italy are usually scheduled between 15 April and 15 June, however on 4 March 2021 the Italian government decided to postpone them to the autumn following a new spike of cases in the coronavirus pandemic.[1]
Roberto Gualtieri, member of the Democratic Party (PD) and former minister, was elected mayor, winning in the runoff against centre-right independent Enrico Michetti with just over 60% of the vote.[2] The incumbent mayor Virginia Raggi was defeated after failing to qualify for the runoff.[3]
Voting system
[edit]The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy's 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.[4]
Background
[edit]Centre-left primary election
[edit]The primary election took place on 20 June 2021:
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roberto Gualtieri | PD | 28,561 | 60.6% | [5] | |
| Giovanni Caudo | Independent | 7,388 | 15.7% | [6] | |
| Paolo Ciani | DemoS | 3,372 | 7.2% | [7] | |
| Imma Battaglia | Free Rome | 2,987 | 6.3% | [8] | |
| Stefano Fassina | SI | 2,625 | 5.6% | [9] | |
| Tobia Zevi | Independent | 1,663 | 3.5% | [10] | |
| Cristina Grancio | PSI | 497 | 1.1% | [11] | |
| Total | 48,624 | 100.0% | |||
Endorsements
[edit]Roberto Gualtieri
[edit]- Monica Cirinnà (PD), Senator (2013-present)[12]
- Enrico Letta (PD), current Secretary of the Democratic Party (2021–today) and former Prime Minister (2013–2014)[13]
- Nicola Zingaretti (PD), President of Lazio (2013–today), former Secretary of the Democratic Party (2019–2021)[14]
Giovanni Caudo
[edit]- Giuseppe Civati, leader of Possible (2016–2018)[15]
- Ignazio Marino, former mayor of Rome (2013–2015)[15]
Parties and candidates
[edit]This is a list of the parties and their respective leaders which will participate in the election.[16]
| Political force or alliance | Constituent lists | Candidate | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M5S coalition | Five Star Movement | Virginia Raggi | ||
| Civic List for Virginia Raggi | ||||
| Ecologist Rome | ||||
| Sportsmen for Rome | ||||
| With Women for Rome | ||||
| Rome Decides | ||||
| Centre-left coalition | Democratic Party | Roberto Gualtieri | ||
| Civic List Gualtieri for Mayor (incl. The Young Rome, MRE) | ||||
| Civic Ecologist Left (incl. SI, Art.1, èViva, PAI, To Free Rome) | ||||
| Future Rome (incl. Pos, Volt, GI, RI, POP) | ||||
| Green Europe | ||||
| Solidary Democracy | ||||
| Italian Socialist Party | ||||
| Centre-right coalition | League | Enrico Michetti | ||
| Brothers of Italy | ||||
| Forza Italia – UDC (incl. NcI, PLI) | ||||
| Civic List Michetti for Mayor | ||||
| Renaissance – Cambiamo (incl. People's Democracy, Animalist Revolution, Italy Worksite) | ||||
| European Liberal Party | ||||
| Calenda for Mayor (incl. Action, Italia Viva, More Europe, PRI, European Italy, Good Right) | Carlo Calenda | |||
| Civic rEvolution | Monica Lozzi | |||
| Rome concerns you (incl. PRC, PdS, Rome for integral ecology) | Paolo Berdini | |||
| Communist Party | Micaela Quintavalle | |||
| Italian Liberists | Andrea Bernaudo | |||
| Gay Party | Fabrizio Marrazzo | |||
| Italy of Values | Rosario Trefiletti | |||
| Reconquer Italy (incl. Italexit, Vox Italy) | Gilberto Trombetta | |||
| Power to the People | Elisabetta Canitano | |||
| The People of Family | Fabiola Cenciotti | |||
| Italian Communist Party | Cristina Crillo | |||
| Social Idea Movement | Gianluca Gismondi | |||
| Children of Italy, children around the world | Carlo Priolo | |||
| 3V Movement | Luca Teodori | |||
| Workers' Communist Party | Francesco Grisolia | |||
| Libertas Movement | Paolo Oronzo Mogli | |||
| Party of Good Manners | Giuseppe Cirillo | |||
| Active Rome | Margherita Corrado | |||
| Nero List - Roman Historical Movement | Sergio Iacomoni | |||
Opinion polls
[edit]Centre-left primary election
First round
Second round
City Council election – Parties
Results
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| Mayoral candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | Leader's seat |
Parties | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||||||
| Roberto Gualtieri | 299,976 | 27.0 | 565,352 | 60.2 | – | Democratic Party | 166,194 | 16.4 | 18 | ||
| Gualtieri for Mayor | 54,779 | 5.4 | 5 | ||||||||
| Civic Ecologist Left | 20,501 | 2.0 | 2 | ||||||||
| Future Rome | 20,028 | 2.0 | 2 | ||||||||
| Solidary Democracy | 9,610 | 1.0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Green Europe | 9,354 | 0.9 | 1 | ||||||||
| Italian Socialist Party | 2,841 | 0.3 | 0 | ||||||||
| Total | 283,307 | 27.9 | 29[a] | ||||||||
| Enrico Michetti | 334,548 | 30.1 | 374,577 | 39.9 | 
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Brothers of Italy | 176,809 | 17.4 | 5 | ||
| League | 60,183 | 5.9 | 2 | ||||||||
| Forza Italia – Union of the Centre | 36,444 | 3.6 | 1 | ||||||||
| Michetti for Mayor | 25,048 | 2.5 | 0 | ||||||||
| Renaissance – Let's Change Rome | 18,659 | 1.8 | 0 | ||||||||
| European Liberal Party | 1,371 | 0.1 | 0 | ||||||||
| Total | 318,514 | 31.4 | 8 | ||||||||
| Carlo Calenda | 219,878 | 19.8 | – | – |
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Calenda for Mayor | 193,477 | 19.1 | 4 | ||
| Virginia Raggi | 211,936 | 19.1 | – | – |
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Five Star Movement | 111,668 | 11.0 | 3 | ||
| Raggi List | 43,581 | 4.3 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ecologist Rome | 10.328 | 1.0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Sportsmen for Rome | 6,855 | 0.7 | 0 | ||||||||
| With the Women for Rome | 4,895 | 0.5 | 0 | ||||||||
| Rome Decides | 2,255 | 0.2 | 0 | ||||||||
| Total | 179,582 | 17.7 | 4 | ||||||||
| Luca Teodori | 7,139 | 0.6 | – | – | – | 3V Movement | 6,512 | 0.6 | 0 | ||
| Elisabetta Canitano | 6,615 | 0.6 | – | – | – | Power to the People | 6,090 | 0.6 | 0 | ||
| Paolo Berdini | 4,722 | 0.4 | – | – | – | Rome Concerns You (PRC – PdS) | 4,215 | 0.4 | 0 | ||
| Monica Lozzi | 4546 | 0.4 | – | – | – | Civic rEvolution | 4224 | 0.4 | 0 | ||
| Micaela Quintavalle | 3,781 | 0.3 | – | – | – | Communist Party | 3,583 | 0.4 | 0 | ||
| Cristina Cirillo | 3,781 | 0.3 | – | – | – | Italian Communist Party | 3,253 | 0.3 | 0 | ||
| Fabrizio Marrazzo | 2,735 | 0.3 | – | – | – | Gay Party | 2,599 | 0.3 | 0 | ||
| Fabiola Cenciotti | 2,056 | 0.2 | – | – | – | The People of Family | 1,634 | 0.2 | 0 | ||
| Gilberto Trombetta | 1,704 | 0.2 | – | – | – | Reconquer Italy | 1,525 | 0.2 | 0 | ||
| Rosario Trefiletti | 1,598 | 0.1 | – | – | – | Italy of Values | 1,460 | 0.1 | 0 | ||
| Gianluca Gismondi | 1,573 | 0.1 | – | – | – | Social Idea Movement | 1,486 | 0.2 | 0 | ||
| Andrea Bernaudo | 1,046 | 0.1 | – | – | – | Italian Liberists | 944 | 0.1 | 0 | ||
| Sergio Iacomoni | 740 | 0.1 | – | – | – | Nero List | 695 | 0.1 | 0 | ||
| Margherita Corrado | 618 | 0.1 | – | – | – | Civic Project Active Rome | 593 | 0.1 | 0 | ||
| Sergio Iacomoni | 510 | 0.1 | – | – | – | Workers' Communist Party | 477 | 0.1 | 0 | ||
| Paolo Oronzo Magli | 408 | 0.0 | – | – | – | Libertas Political Movement | 395 | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| Giuseppe Cirillo | 340 | 0.0 | – | – | – | Party of Good Manners | 253 | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| Carlo Priolo | 190 | 0.0 | – | – | – | Children of Italy, Children Around the World | 166 | 0.0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 1,109,912 | 100 | 939,929 | 100 | 3 | Total parties | 1,014,838 | 100 | 45 | ||
| Total valid votes | 1,109,912 | 96.91 | 939,929 | 97.93 | |||||||
| Blank or invalid ballots | 35,356 | 3.09 | 19,889 | 2.07 | |||||||
| Turnout | 1,145,268 | 48.54 | 959,818 | 40.68 | |||||||
| Eligible voters | 2,359,248 | 100.00 | 2,359,248 | 100.00 | |||||||
| Source: Ministry of the Interior (first round Archived 2021-10-16 at the Wayback Machine, second round Archived 2021-11-09 at the Wayback Machine) | |||||||||||
- Notes
- ^ Even if the coalition didn't receive the majority of votes, no other alliance was able to obtain overall more than 50% of votes. Once its mayoral candidate won the second round, the coalition was awarded the majority bonus granted by the electoral law to the alliance whose candidate is elected mayor.
Results in the Municipi
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Municipi are governed by a president and a council of four members who are elected by its residents every five years. The municipi frequently cross the boundaries of the traditional, non-administrative divisions of the city.
All presidents of municipi were elected at the second round. The centre-left won 14 Municipi whereas the centre-right gained only Municipio VI. Table below shows the results for each municipio with the percentage for each coalition on the second round:
| Municipio | Centre-left | Centre-right | M5S | Elected President | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 65.9 | 34.1 | — | Lorenza Bonaccorsi | PD |
| II | 64.0 | 36.0 | — | Francesca Del Bello | PD |
| III | 62.4 | 37.6 | — | Paolo Emilio Marchionne | PD |
| IV | 59.3 | 40.7 | — | Massimiliano Umberti | PD |
| V | 59.5 | 40.5 | — | Mauro Caliste | PD |
| VI | — | 61.0 | 39.0 | Nicola Franco | FdI |
| VII | 63.7 | 36.3 | — | Francesco Laddaga | PD |
| VIII | 70.1 | 29.9 | — | Amedeo Ciaccheri | SI |
| IX | 58.8 | 41.2 | — | Teresa Maria Di Salvo | PD |
| X | 53.3 | 46.7 | — | Mario Falconi | PD |
| XI | 59.5 | 40.5 | — | Gianluca Lanzi | PD |
| XII | 66.5 | 33.5 | — | Elio Tomassetti | PD |
| XIII | 55.5 | 45.5 | — | Sabrina Giuseppetti | PD |
| XIV | 59.1 | 40.9 | — | Marco Della Porta | PD |
| XV | 51.5 | 48.5 | — | Daniele Torquati | PD |
Source: Municipality of Rome - Electoral Service
Declined candidates
[edit]Centre-left coalition
[edit]- Fabrizio Barca, former Minister of Regional Affairs and Territorial Cohesion (2011–2013)[17]
- Federico Lobuono, The Young Rome (2021-present)[18]
- Monica Cirinnà, Senator (2013-present)[19]
- Giuseppe Conte, former Prime Minister of Italy (2018–2021)[20]
- Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy (2013–2014)[21]
- David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament since 2019[22]
- Nicola Zingaretti, President of Lazio since 2013[23]
Centre-right coalition
[edit]- Andrea Abodi, businessman[24]
- Guido Bertolaso, head of Civil Protection (2001–2010)[25]
- Rita dalla Chiesa, journalist[26]
- Massimo Giletti, journalist[27]
- General Claudio Graziano, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee since 2018[28]
- Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy[29]
- Nicola Porro, journalist[30]
See also
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