2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections

The 2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections took place on 22 October 2023.[1] It determined two seats out of 21 in the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces.

2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
provincial elections

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Provincial election in Trentino
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Maurizio Fugatti Francesco Valduga
Party LTLega Campobase
Alliance Centre-right Centre-left
Seats won 21 13
Seat change Steady Increase 5
Popular vote 129,758 93,888
Percentage 51.82% 37.50%
Swing Increase 5.08% Increase 12.10%

President before election

Maurizio Fugatti
LTLega

Elected President

Maurizio Fugatti
LTLega

Provincial election in South Tyrol

All 35 seats to the Landtag of South Tyrol
Party Leader % Seats +/–
SVP Arno Kompatscher 34.5 13 −2
Team K Paul Köllensperger 11.1 4 −2
SFT Sven Knoll 10.9 4 +2
Greens Brigitte Foppa 9.0 3 0
FdI Marco Galateo 6.0 2 +1
JWA List Jürgen Wirth Anderlan 5.9 2 New
dF Sabine Zoderer 4.9 2 0
PD Sandro Repetto 3.5 1 0
FSW Thomas Widmann 3.4 1 0
LAASTLega Christian Bianchi 3.0 1 −3
La Civica Emanuela Albieri 2.6 1 New
Vita Renate Holzeisen 2.6 1 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Governor before Elected Governor
Arno Kompatscher
SVP
Arno Kompatscher
SVP

Background edit

Since the 2018 Italian general election, many changes started to occur in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol political landscape. For the first time since the 1996 Italian general election, the centre-right coalition managed to defeat the centre-left coalition in Trentino in a general election. Shortly thereafter, the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (PATT) decided to run separately (German: Blockfrei), leading to the first victory of the Maurizio Fugatti-led centre-right coalition in a provincial election in Trentino since the start of the Second Italian Republic with the 1994 Italian general election.

In South Tyrol, the traditionally dominant-party system led by the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) lost its majority in the 2013 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections. In the 2018 general election, the SVP and the Democratic Party of the centre-left coalition lost their majority, forcing SVP to form a coalition with Lega Alto Adige Südtirol due to the ethnischer Proporz [it; de] system (Italian: proporzionale etnica). In the 2019 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, the SVP broke their traditional alliance with the PD and joined forces with the centre-right Forza Italia. Similarly in the 2022 general election SVP and PATT decided to run separated from the centre-left and joined forced with some centre-right autonomist parties like Trentino Project.[2]

After Brothers of Italy became largest party in Trentino in the 2022 general election, FdI proposed Francesca Gerosa as the new centre-right candidate.[3] This led to a conflict with PATT, which joined the centre-right coalition in an election for the first time since 2001, which strongly spoke against her.[4]

Trentino edit

In Trentino, the president is elected directly by the people; the candidate who gains the most votes is elected president.

Parties and candidates edit

Political party or alliance Constituent lists Previous result Candidate
Votes (%) Seats
Centre-right coalition[5][6] Trentino League (LT) 27.1 13
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist PartyPopular Autonomists (PATT–AP) (incl. PT) 17.8 6
La Civica (LC) 4.6 2
Forza Italia (FI) 2.8 1
Union of the Centre (UDC) 2.1 0
Brothers of Italy (FdI) 1.4 0
Fassa Association (Fassa) 1.0 1
Fugatti for President
Democratic Alliance for Trentino[7] Democratic Party (PD) (incl. Futura) 13.9 4
Francesco Valduga
Campobase (CB) 4.0 1
Greens and Left Alliance (AVS) 1.4 0
Action (Az)
Italia Viva (IV)
Fascegn
Autonomy House (CA)
Five Star Movement (M5S) 7.2 1
Alex Marini
People's Wave People's Union 0.8 0
Filippo Degasperi
Wave
My Valley
Alliance for Trentino Us with Divina for President (NcD)
Sergio Divina
Popular Alternative (AP)
Youth for Divina
Sovereign Popular Democracy (DSP)
Alternative
Elena Dardo

Opinion polling edit

Candidates edit

Political parties edit

Results edit

2023 Trentino provincial election results
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Candidates Votes % Seats Parties Votes % Seats +/−
Maurizio Fugatti 129,758 51.82 1
Trentino League 30,347 13.05 5 –8
Brothers of Italy 28,714 12.35 5 +5
Fugatti for President 24,953 10.73 4 New
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party 19,011 8.18 3 –3
La Civica 11,285 4.85 2 ±0
Forza Italia 4,708 2.02 0 –1
Fassa Association 2,018 0.87 1 ±0
Union of the Centre 1,362 0.59 0 ±0
Total 122,398 52.64 20 –3
Francesco Valduga 93,888 37.50 1
Democratic Party 38,689 16.64 7 +3
Campobase 19,553 8.41 3 +2
Autonomy House 9,968 4.29 1 New
Greens and Left Alliance 7,565 3.25 1 +1
Fascegn 3,634 1.56 0 ±0
Italia Viva 3,399 1.46 0 New
Action 3,302 1.42 0 New
Total 86,110 37.03 12 +5
Filippo Degasperi 9,533 3.81 1
Wave 5,864 2.52 0 New
My Valley 1,204 0.52 0 New
People's Union 1,088 0.47 0 ±0
Total 8,156 3.51 0
Marco Rizzo 5,651 2.26 0 Sovereign Popular Democracy 5,457 2.35 0 New
Sergio Divina 5,558 2.22 0
Popular Alternative 2,261 0.97 0 New
Us with Divina for President 1,845 0.79 0 New
Youth for Divina 642 0.28 0 New
Total 4,748 2.04 0
Alex Marini 4,796 1.92 0 Five Star Movement 4,523 1.95 0 –1
Elena Dardo 1,205 0.48 0 Alternative 1,121 0.48 0 New
Total candidates 250,389 100 3 Total parties 232,513 100 32 ±0
Source: Autonomous Province of Trento

South Tyrol edit

Parties edit

Name Ideology Leading
candidate(s)
2018 result Current seats
Votes (%) Seats
SVP South Tyrolean People's Party Christian democracy
Regionalism
Arno Kompatscher[1] 41.9%
15 / 35
14 / 35
TK Team K Liberalism
Regionalism
Paul Köllensperger
Maria Elisabeth Rieder[8]
15.2%
6 / 35
4 / 35
Lega League – United for Alto Adige Right-wing populism
Regionalism
Christian Bianchi[9] 11.4%
4 / 35
3 / 35
V–G–V Greens (incl. SI) Eco-socialism
Regionalism
Brigitte Foppa[10] 6.8%
3 / 35
3 / 35
dF Die Freiheitlichen National conservatism
Separatism
Sabine Zoderer[11] 6.2%
2 / 35
2 / 35
STF South Tyrolean Freedom National conservatism
Separatism
Sven Knoll[12] 6.2%
2 / 35
2 / 35
PD Democratic Party (incl. PSI) Social democracy Sandro Repetto[13] 3.8%
1 / 35
1 / 35
M5S Five Star Movement Populism Diego Nicolini 2.4%
1 / 35
1 / 35
FdI Brothers of Italy National conservatism Marco Galateo 1.7%
1 / 35
1 / 35
FI Forza Italia (incl. UdC) Liberal conservatism Carlo Vettori 1.0%
0 / 35
1 / 35
FSmW For South Tyrol with Widmann Christian democracy
Regionalism
Thomas Widmann[14]
DNE
1 / 35
Enzian Enzian COVID-19 scepticism
Regionalism
Josef Unterholzner[15]
DNE
1 / 35
Vita Vita COVID-19 scepticism
Anti-establishment
Renate Holzeisen[16]
DNE
0 / 35
JWA JWA List Separatism
Right-wing populism
Jürgen Wirth Anderlan[17]
DNE
0 / 35
CD Centre-Right Conservatism Filippo Maturi[18]
DNE
0 / 35
LC La Civica (incl. Az, IV) Liberalism Emanuela Albieri
DNE
0 / 35

Opinion polling edit

Local regression trend line of poll results

Results edit

 
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
South Tyrolean People's Party97,09234.5313−2
Team K31,20111.094−2
South Tyrolean Freedom30,58310.884+2
Greens25,4459.053±0
Brothers of Italy16,7475.962+1
JWA List16,5965.902New
Die Freiheitlichen13,8364.922±0
Democratic Party9,7073.451±0
For South Tyrol with Widmann9,6463.431±0
League–United for Alto Adige8,5413.041−3
La Civica7,3012.601New
Vita7,2222.571New
Five Star Movement2,0860.74−1
Enzian1,9900.71New
Forza Italia1,6250.58±0
Centre-Right1,6010.57New
Total281,219100.0035
Valid votes281,21996.87
Invalid/blank votes9,0803.13
Total votes290,299100.00
Registered voters/turnout429,84167.54
Source: Official Results
Popular vote
SVP
34.53%
TK
11.09%
STF
10.88%
Grüne
9.05%
FdI
5.96%
JWA
5.90%
dF
4.92%
PD
3.45%
Widmann
3.43%
Lega
3.04%
Civica
2.60%
Vita
2.57%
M5S
0.74%
Enzian
0.71%
FI
0.58%
CD
0.57%

References edit

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