The Lazio regional election of 2013 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 24–25 February 2013.

Renata Polverini Renata Polverini (born 14 May 1962) is an Italian politician and trade unionist. She was President of the Lazio region and was formerly Secretary General of the General Labour Union (UGL); she resigned on 24 September 2012 after an expense sc ...

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(PdL), who was elected president in

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, was toppled by an expense scandal in October 2012 which led to her resignation. After that, the candidate of Democratic Party (PD) seemed a shoo-in for victory. In December 2012, the Commissioner of the

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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 ...

, decided to run as Governor of Lazio for 2013 regional election. As Lazio had been a traditional stronghold of

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party, the former president

Francesco Storace Francesco Storace (born 25 January 1959) is an Italian politician and journalist. Biography Born in Cassino, in the Lazio region, Storace began his career at the right-wing newspaper '' Il Secolo d'Italia'' until entering the ranks of the Itali ...

, secretary of the national-conservative party

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and supported by

Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; 29 September 193612 June 2023) was an Italian Media proprietor, media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in three governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a mem ...

's coalition, was chosen for the center-right coalition.Elezioni Regionali Lazio 2013, risultati parziali: (stra)vince Zingaretti
/ref> The other candidates were Davide Barillari ( M5S), who received the 20% of the votes,

Giulia Bongiorno Giulia Bongiorno (born 22 March 1966) is an Italian lawyer and politician who served as the Italian Minister of Public Administration from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. A prominent criminal defense attorney, she has served in both houses of th ...

(

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) and Alessandro Ruotolo (

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Electoral system

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

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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

open list Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a Political party, party's candidates are elected. This is as opposed to closed list, in which party lists ...

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.

Results

References

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