The 2018 Lombard regional election took place on 4 March 2018. The election took place concurrently with the Italian general election and the Lazio regional election.

Electoral system

Since 2012, Lombardy has adopted its own legislation to elect its Council, very similar to national ''Tatarella Law'' of 1995. While the

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and the

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are still elected

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, 78 councilors are elected by

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s under a form of

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. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of at least 45 seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the

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, as it happens between the losing lists. Each party then distributes its seats to its

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lists, where candidates are openly selected. According to the Law 17 February 1968, no. 108, the Regional Council is elected every five years. The election can take place since the fourth Sunday before the completion of this five years period.

Campaign

On 1 March 2016, President Maroni announced his intention to run for a re-election as president. Nonetheless, on 8 January 2018 he announced he'd not seek a re-election as president, citing personal reasons and launching former mayor of

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as candidate of the center-right coalition. On 1 June 2017

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, the incumbent mayor of

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, announced his decision to run for the presidency for the center-left coalition. On 15 January 2018, Fontana stated that the

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and the Western culture were in danger due to the migration flows from Africa. This created lot of protests and criticisms from the centre-left

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and also the anti-establishment

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Parties and candidates

Results

According to the final results,

was the new

with more than 49% of the votes, obtaining the greater bonus given by the electoral law.

Results by province

Results by capital city

Seats by province

References

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