2013 Lombard regional election

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All 80 seats to the Regional Council of Lombardy
Turnout	76.74% (12.10%)
Majority party Minority party   Leader Roberto Maroni Umberto Ambrosoli Party Northern League Independent Alliance Centre-right Centre-left Last election 49 seats, 56.1% 28 seats, 33.3% Seats won 49 22 Seat change 6 Popular vote 2,456,921 2,194,169 Percentage 42.8% 38.2% Swing 13.3% 4.9%
President before election Roberto Formigoni PdL President-elect Roberto Maroni LN

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The 2013 Lombard regional election took place on 24 and 25 February 2013 and was the first snap election in Lombard political history, and the first one paired with a general election. The 10th term of the Regional Council was chosen.

Lombardy used for the first time its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national Tatarella Law of 1995. The new electoral law was adopted before the resignation of 74 members of the Council on October 26, 2012.^[1] While the President of Lombardy and the leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 78 councillors, instead of 64 as it was before, 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.

On 16 October 2012, Formigoni announced the dissolution of the regional legislature after one of his commissioners, Domenico Zambetti of the PdL was arrested on accusations he bought votes from the 'Ndrangheta in 2010 and extorted favours and public building contracts, including construction tenders for the World Expo 2015 in Milan.^[2][3]

On 15 December 2012 the center-left primary election took place to decide the official candidate of the coalition in the election. There were three candidates: Umberto Ambrosoli, son of Giorgio killed in 1979, Alessandra Kustermann and Andrea Di Stefano. Umberto Ambrosoli received the 57% of the votes and became the center-left official candidate for the regional election.^[4]

According to the final results, Roberto Maroni was the new President of Lombardy with more than 40% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.

24–25 February 2013 Lombard regional election results

Candidates		Votes	%	Seats	Parties		Votes	%	Seat
	Roberto Maroni	2,456,921	42.82	1
						The People of Freedom	904,742	16.73	19
						Northern League – Lombard League	700,907	12.96	15
						Maroni for President	552,863	10.23	11
						Brothers of Italy	83,810	1.55	2
						Pensioners' Party	50,843	0.94	1
						Labour and Freedom List	27,374	0.51	–
						Ecological Alliance	8,270	0.15	–
					Total		2,328,809	43.07	48
	Umberto Ambrosoli	2,194,169	38.24	1
						Democratic Party	1,369,440	25.33	17
						Ambrosoli for President – Civic Pact	380,241	7.03	4
						Left Ecology Freedom	97,627	1.81	–
						Lombard Popular Centre	63,885	1.18	–
						Ethical to the Left	52,152	0.96	–
						Italy of Values	35,141	0.65	–
						Italian Socialist Party	16,624	0.31	–
					Total		2,015,110	37.27	21
	Silvana Carcano	782,007	13.63	–		Five Star Movement	775,211	14.34	9
	Gabriele Albertini	236,597	4.12	–
						Civic Lombardy	133,435	2.47	–
						Union of the Centre	85,721	1.59	–
					Total		219,156	4.05	–
	Carlo Pinardi	68,133	1.19	–		Act to Stop the Decline	68,469	1.27	–
Total candidates		5,737,827	100.00	2	Total parties		5,406,755	100.00	78
Source: Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections