The 2021 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 3 and 4 October 2021, following the dissolution of the regional parliament after the death of regional president

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 ...

. It was originally scheduled to take place on 14 February 2021, then on 11 April 2021, and was delayed due to the

COVID-19 pandemic in Italy The COVID-19 pandemic in Italy was part of the COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 31 January 2 ...

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

This is a list of the parties, and their respective leaders, which will participate in the election.

Potential candidates

Centre-left coalition The centre-left coalition () is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1995, when The Olive Tree was formed under the leadership of Romano Prodi. The centre-left coalition has ruled the c ...

: Jasmine Cristallo, Anna Falcone

Pietro Grasso Pietro Grasso (; born 1 January 1945), also known as Piero Grasso, is an Italian anti-mafia magistrate and politician who served as President of the Senate from 2013 to 2018. Grasso became the Acting President of Italy on 14 January 2015, upon th ...

Marco Minniti Marco Minniti (; born 6 June 1956) is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the government of Italy as Minister of the Interior from 12 December 2016 to 1 June 2018. Previously, he was one of the most prominent cou ...

, Franco Mirabelli, Antonio Viscomi. *

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 ...

Sergio Abramo Sergio Abramo (born 29 March 1958) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He is member of the Forza Italia. He was born in Catanzaro Catanzaro (; or ; ), also known as the "City of the two Seas" (), is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabita ...

, Fulvia Caligiuri, Gianluca Gallo, Maria Limardo,

Mario Occhiuto Mario Occhiuto (born 6 January 1964), is an Italian politician and architect. Occhiuto was born in Cosenza and trained as an architect at the University of Florence, graduating in 1987. He was elected Mayor of Cosenza in 2011 and President of th ...

. *

Five Star Movement The Five Star Movement ( , M5S) is a political party in Italy, led by Giuseppe Conte. It was launched on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a political activist and comedian, and Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web strategist. The party is primarily d ...

: Nicola Morra.

Withdrawn candidates

: Nicola Irto, Maria Antonietta Ventura.

Opinion polls

Candidates

Parties

Results

References

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