The Sardinian regional election of 1994 took place on 12 and 26 June 1994.
The election took place under the provision of a new electoral law, which created a new system under which for the first time ever voters could express an indirect choice for the President through voting the candidate's coalition.
The election was won on the second round by the
Progressives' coalition and Federico Palomba (
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) was elected President of the Region for the 1994–1999 term. Although he didn't manage to win a majority of seats in the
Regional Council, he was able to form a government with the external support of centrist and regionalist parties.
New electoral system
As had happened for the
March 1994 national election, also in Sardinia a new electoral system was introduced. The
proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...
established after the end of
World War II
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had been abolished and a new
majoritarian system
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...
based on different pre-electoral coalition was introduced.
For the first time ever Sardinians were asked to choice directly the President of the Region. If no candidates received at least 50% of votes, the top three candidates could go to a second round after two weeks. In this case, the candidate who received more votes would have been elected president.
The election of the
Regional Council was based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote. Sixty-four councillors were elected in
provincial constituencies by
proportional representation
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using the
largest remainder method
The largest remainder method (also known as Hare–Niemeyer method, Hamilton method or as Vinton's method) is one way of allocating seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems. It contrasts with various h ...
with a
Droop quota
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and
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 party's candidates are elected. This is as opposed to closed list, which allows only active members, par ...
s; remained seats and votes were grouped at regional level where a
Hare quota
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was used, and then distributed to provincial party lists. Sixteen councillors were instead elected
at-large
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using a
general ticket
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: parties were required to group in alliances, and the alliance which received a
plurality of votes elected some candidates, its leader becoming the
President of Sardinia
This is the list of presidents of Sardinia since 1949.
;Elected by the Regional Council (1949–1994)
;Directly-elected presidents (since 1994)
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Sar ...
. Also in this case, the number of the seats for each party was determined proportionally.
Results
References
{{Elections in Sardinia
Elections in Sardinia
1994 elections in Italy
June 1994 events in Europe