The 2023 Lazio regional election took place on 12 and 13 February 2023. It was held concurrently with the 2023 Lombard regional election, as decided by the

Italian government The government of Italy is that of a democratic republic, established by the Italian constitution in 1948. It consists of Legislature, legislative, Executive (government), executive, and Judiciary, judicial subdivisions, as well as of a head of ...

on 9 December 2022. On 12 October 2022, the president of Lazio

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 step down, having been elected to the national parliament. The election saw 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 ...

win with a majority of the popular vote, gaining a 11-seat majority and taking control of the

Regional Council of Lazio The Regional Council of Lazio () is the legislative assembly of Lazio. It was first elected in 1970, when the ordinary regions were instituted, on the basis of the Constitution of Italy of 1948. Composition The Regional Council of Lazio was ...

for the first time since the 2010 Lazio regional election.

Electoral system

The

is elected with a mixed system: 39 councilmembers are chosen with a form of

proportional representation Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...

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, while 11 councilmembers are elected with a

plurality-at-large voting Plurality block voting is a type of block voting method for multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of seats to be filled. The candidates with the most votes are elected. The usual result when the candidates div ...

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.

Political parties and candidates

Below are listed the parties and candidates for the election.

Opinion polling

Candidates

Hypothetical candidates

Political parties

Results

References

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