2015 Venetian regional election


The Venetian regional election of 2015 took place in Veneto on 31 May 2015, as part of a big round of regional elections in Italy. Venetian voters elected their President and their Regional Council, whose members had been reduced to 51, including the President.
Luca Zaia, incumbent President and leading member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, was re-elected by a reduced majority, due to a split occurred within his party in the run-up of the election, but, despite this, his victory over Alessandra Moretti of the Democratic Party, who fared quite badly, was still a landslide: 50.1% to 22.7%. The election was a personal triumph for Zaia, who was the most voted President among the seven elected on 31 May. Other two candidates, Jacopo Berti of the Five Star Movement and Flavio Tosi of the Tosi List for Veneto, the splinter group from the LV, got more than 10% of the vote and finished both at 11.9%. A fifth, Alessio Morosin of Venetian Independence, and a sixth, Laura Coletti of the Communist Refoundation Party, won 2.5% and 0.9% of the vote, respectively.
Among the parties, the LV, which presented an official list and a list named after Zaia, improved its 2010's performance, by gaining 40.9% of the vote. If the two LV-related lists are counted together, the PD came second with 16.7% of the vote and the M5S third with 10.4%. The combined score of the two lists connected to the LTV was 7.1%, while the once-mighty Forza Italia stopped at 6.0%.
The total score of Venetist and regional parties, a diverse field including the Liga Veneta, the LTV, Venetian Independence, Independence We Veneto, the North-East Union, Autonomous Veneto Project and Veneto Confederal State, was 54.3%, the highest ever.

Candidates


Council composition

Notes

Aftermath

Following the election, Luca Zaia formed his second government, composed of ten ministers, nine of Liga Veneta and one of Forza Italia.