2016 Turin municipal election

Municipal elections were held in Turin, northern Italy, in May 2016. Chiara Appendino, the candidate of the Five Star Movement, was elected after defeating former mayor Piero Fassino in the runoff.

2016 Turin municipal election

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Candidate Chiara Appendino Piero Fassino
Party Five Star Movement Democratic Party
Alliance Centre-left
Popular vote 118,273 160,023
Percentage 30.92% 41.83%
Popular vote (2nd) 202,764 168,880
Percentage (2nd) 54.56% 45.44%

Mayor before election

Piero Fassino
Democratic Party

Elected mayor

Chiara Appendino
Five Star Movement

Voting system

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The voting system is used for all mayoral elections in Italy, in the city 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, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. This gives a result whereby the winning candidate may be able to claim majority support, although it is not guaranteed.

The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

Parties and candidates

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This is a list of the parties (and their respective leaders) which will participate in the election.[1]

Political force or alliance Constituent lists Leader
Left-wing coalition Turin in common (incl. SEL, PRC, PCdI, AET and FaS) Giorgio Airaudo
Turin environment (PossibleGreen Italia)
Civic list
Centre-left coalition Democratic Party (PD) Piero Fassino
Moderates
Civic lists
Five Star Movement Five Star Movement (M5S) Chiara Appendino
Centrist coalition Rosso for Mayor (incl. CoR) Roberto Rosso
Union of the CentrePopular Area (UDC–AP)
Democratic Alliance (AD)
Moderates in Revolution (MIR)
Centre-right coalition Forza Italia (FI) Osvaldo Napoli
Civic lists
Right-wing coalition Northern League (LN) Alberto Morano
Brothers of Italy (FdI)

Opinion polling

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Results

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Summary of the 5–19 June 2016 Turin City Council election results
Candidates I round II round Leaders
seats
Parties Votes % Seats
Votes % Votes %
Chiara Appendino 118,273 30.92 202,764 54.56 Five Star Movement 107,680 30.01 24
Piero Fassino 160,023 41.84 168,880 45.44 1 Democratic Party 106,818 29.77 8
Moderates 21,307 5.94 1
Fassino list 14,898 4.15 1
Left for the City 7,253 2.02
Alberto Morano 32,103 8.39 1 Northern League 20,769 5.79 1
Brothers of Italy 5,259 1.47
Morano list 4,983 1.39
Osvaldo Napoli 20,349 5.32 1 Forza Italia 16,684 4.65
Let's save the Ophthalmic 2.435 0.68
A Dream for Turin 567 0.16
Roberto Rosso 19,334 5.05 1 Rosso list 11,339 3.16
Union of the CentrePopular Area 5,114 1.43
Pensioners' Union 1,568 0.44
Democratic Alliance 409 0.11
Moderates in Revolution 321 0.09
Giorgio Airaudo 14,166 3.70 1 Turin in common 10,115 2.82
Turin environment (PossibleGreen Italia) 2,244 0.63
Pensioners and Disabled 1,077 0.30
Gianluca Noccetti 5,251 1.37 Piedmont Padanian League 2,937 0.82
4-Legged Friends 1,321 0.37
Forza Toro 484 0.13
Unemployed. Precarious and Exiled 363 0.10
Motorist list 98 0.03
Marco Rizzo 3,323 0.87 Communist Party 3,192 0.89
Marco Racca 2,082 0.54 CasaPound 1,985 0.55
Vitantonio Colucci 2,032 0.53 The People of Family 1,996 0.56
Mario Cornelio Levi 1,337 0.35 Italy of Values 1,327 0.37
Anna Battista 980 0.26 It's enough! 927 0.26
Pier Carlo Devoti 915 0.24 The Square 1.089 0.30
Roberto Usseglio 690 0.18 New Force 672 0.19
Alessio Ariotto 628 0.16 Workers' Communist Party 615 0.17
Lorenzo Varaldo 584 0.15 Abrogation! 546 0.15
Guglielmo Del Pero 433 0.11 We are Turin 413 0.12
Total 382,503 100.00 371,644 100.00 5 358,805 100.00 35
Source: Ministry of the Interior

According to the Italian electoral law of 1993 for the Municipalities, if a defeated candidate for mayor obtains over 3% of votes, the mayoral candidate is automatically elected communal councillor (on this case: Fassino, Morano, Napoli, Rosso and Airaudo). The candidate elected mayor votes on communal council, but is not a member of it.

Popular vote
M5S
29.96%
PD
29.78%
M
5.94%
LN
5.77%
FI
4.65%
PF
4.15%
RS
3.40%
TC
2.81%
Mayor (1st round)
Fassino
41.83%
Appendino
30.92%
Morano
8.39%
Napoli
5.31%
Rosso
5.05%
Airaudo
3.70%
Mayor (2nd round)
Appendino
54.56%
Fassino
45.44%

See also

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References

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