The Ligurian regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000. Sandro Biasotti (an independent close to

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) was elected president, defeating incumbent Giancarlo Mori (

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Electoral system

Regional elections in Liguria were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in

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constituencies by

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, using the

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with a

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and

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s, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the

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among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a

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: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors. A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes. The ''

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'' was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

Parties and candidates

Results

References

{{Elections in Liguria 2000 elections in Italy Elections in Liguria