The 2020 Calabrian regional election took place in
Calabria
Calabria is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by the region Basilicata to the north, the Ionian Sea to the east, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian S ...
,
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
, on 26 January 2020. The result was the victory of the
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 ...
and the election of
Jole Santelli
Jole Santelli (28 December 1968 – 15 October 2020) was an Italian politician. A member of Forza Italia, she was the President of Calabria from 15 February 2020 until her death eight months later.
Biography
After graduating in Law at the Sap ...
as President of Calabria.
The election was held concurrently with a
regional election in Emilia-Romagna.
Electoral system
Even if a district list is linked to a regional list that exceeds 8% of the vote, the district list must obtain at least 4% of the vote in the whole region in order to elect their own representatives. To ensure governance, the candidate who receives the most votes wins a
majority bonus
A majority bonus system (MBS, also called a minority-friendly majoritarian system) is a mixed-member, partly-proportional electoral system that gives extra seats in a legislature to the party with a plurality or majority of seats. Typically, th ...
of 55% of the seats.
Parties and candidates
Opinion polls
Candidates
Parties
Results
Voter turnout
See also
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2020 Italian regional elections
The 2020 Italian regional elections took place in nine regions of Italy during 2020. Elections took place on 26 January 2020 in Emilia-Romagna and Calabria, and on 20 and 21 September in Aosta Valley, Campania, Liguria, Marche, Apulia, Tuscany, ...
References
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Elections in Calabria
2020 elections in Italy
January 2020 in Italy