The 2000 Piedmontese regional election took place on 16 April 2000. Enzo Ghigo of (FI) was re-elected for the second time in a row as the

president of Piedmont The president of Piedmont is the head of the government of the region. The presidents elected between 1970 and 1995 were elected by the Regional Council of Piedmont. Later they were directly elected by the population. This is the list of president ...

, defeating

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of the

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(DS). His re-election resulted in a landslide, as this time he was also supported also by (Northern League). FI was confirmed as the largest party in the region with an historic 30.8% of the vote, while the DS were the second largest party with 17.7%. Piedmont was confirmed as a stronghold of

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, whose leader

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was candidate for president and took 5.7% of the vote.

Electoral system

Regional elections in

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were ruled by the Tatarella law, which was approved in 1995 and provided for a

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. Four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in

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constituencies by

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, using the

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 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

majoritarian representation Majoritarianism is a political philosophy or ideology with an agenda asserting that a majority, whether based on a religion, language, social class, or other category of the population, is entitled to a certain degree of primacy in society, a ...

system, in which 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 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 ''

panachage Panachage (, from French meaning "blend, mixture") is a mixed single vote variant of list proportional representation. In panachage, voters support individual candidates (rather than parties). Voters have multiple votes, which they can split betw ...

'' 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

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