The Lazio regional election of 2018 took place in

Lazio Lazio ( , ; ) or Latium ( , ; from Latium, the original Latin name, ) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy, administrative regions of Italy. Situated in the Central Italy, central peninsular section of the country, it has 5,714,882 inhabitants an ...

, Italy, on 4 March 2018, concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lombard regional election. The election was won by centre-left incumbent President

Nicola Zingaretti Nicola Zingaretti (; born 11 October 1965) is an Italian politician who served as President of Lazio from March 2013 to November 2022 and was List of Secretaries of the Democratic Party (Italy), Secretary of the Democratic Party (Italy), Democra ...

, with just under a third of the vote, over the centre-right one

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, who gain 31%, and the

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's candidate Roberta Lombardi with 27%.

Electoral system

The Regional Council is elected with a mixed system: 39 MPs are chosen with a form of

proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...

using a

largest remainder method Party-list proportional representation Apportionment methods The quota or divide-and-rank methods make up a category of apportionment rules, i.e. algorithms for allocating seats in a legislative body among multiple groups (e.g. parties or f ...

with

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s and a 5%

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, while 11 MPs are elected with a

block voting Block or bloc voting refers to a class of electoral systems where multiple candidates are elected simultaneously. They do not guarantee minority representation and allow a group of voters (a voting bloc) to ensure that only their preferred candi ...

system with

closed list Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively vote for only political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some in ...

s. One seat is for the elected president.

Parties and candidate

Opinion polls

Results

Aftermath

2018 motion of no confidence

On 1 December 2018, a motion of no confidence in the government of Nicola Zingaretti tabled by

centre-right coalition The centre-right coalition () is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed the party. It has mostly competed with the centre-left c ...

was defeated 22 to 26, with one no-vote of Forza Italia and a few absent.

References

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