2018 Lombard regional election


The Lombard regional election of 2018 took place on 4 March 2018.
The election took place concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lazio regional election.

Electoral law

Since 2012, Lombardy has adopted its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national Tatarella Law of 1995.
While the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councilors are elected by party lists under a form of semi-proportional representation. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the D'Hondt method, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its provincial lists, where candidates are openly selected.
According to the Law 17 February 1968, no. 108, the Regional Council is elected every five years. The election can take place since the fourth Sunday before the completion of this five years period.

Campaign

On 1 March 2016, President Maroni announced his intention to run for a re-election as president. Nonetheless, on 8 January 2018 he announced he'd not seek a re-election as president, citing personal reasons and launching former mayor of Varese Attilio Fontana as candidate of the center-right coalition.
On 1 June 2017 Giorgio Gori, the incumbent mayor of Bergamo, announced his decision to run for the presidency for the center-left coalition.
On 15 January 2018, Fontana stated that the white race and the Western culture were in danger due to the migration flows from Africa. This created lot of protests and criticisms from the centre-left Democratic Party and also the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.

Parties and candidates

Results

According to the final results, Attilio Fontana was the new President of Lombardy with more than 49% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.



Results by province

ProvinceAttilio FontanaGiorgio GoriDario VioliOnorio RosatiOthersTurnout
ProvinceOthersTurnout
Milan742,685
42.83%		589,969
34.02%		326,040
18.80%		42,123
2.42%		33,169
1.90%		72.03%
Brescia391,419
54.59%		189,426
26.42%		106,845
14.90%		12,498
1.74%		16,786
2.33%		76.55%
Bergamo352,462
54.98%		185,003
28.86%		83,409
13.01%		8,254
1.28%		11,889
1.84%		75.87%
Varese271,614
53.59%		123,917
24.45%		93,234
18.39%		7,985
1.57%		10,064
1.98%		71.06%
Monza and Brianza245,806
48.39%		145,635
28.67%		98,717
19.43%		9,639
1.89%		8,144
1.58%		75.82%
Como194,665
56.23%		85,538
24.70%		56,613
16.35%		5,266
1.52%		4,107
1.17%		70.59%
Pavia153,811
51.42%		76,416
25.55%		56,535
18.90%		5,941
1.98%		6,375
2.12%		69.76%
Mantua99,923
44.53%		64,569
28.77%		49,990
22.27%		4,981
2.21%		4,927
2.19%		70.36%
Cremona105,759
51.67%		55,815
27.26%		34,676
16.94%		3,683
1.79%		4,744
2.31%		73.94%
Lecco103,875
51.85%		60,269
30.08%		30,643
15.29%		3,705
1.84%		1,821
0.89%		75.66%
Lodi66,061
51.86%		32,115
25.21%		25,151
19.74%		2,547
1.99%		1,493
1.15%		75.12%
Sondrio65,290
61.74%		24,695
23.35%		13,131
12.41%		1,785
1.68%		834
0.77%		66.26%

Results by capital city

Seats by province