The 1995 Lombard regional election took place on 23 April 1995. The 6th term of the Regional Council was chosen. For the first time the President of the Region was directly elected by the people, although the election was not yet binding and the President-elect could have been replaced during the term.

Roberto Formigoni Roberto Formigoni (born 30 March 1947) is a former Italian politician born in Lecco, Italy. He was the President of Lombardy from 1995 to 2013. He is the former unofficial political spokesperson of the Communion and Liberation movement. On 21 Fe ...

(member of the right-wing of the Italian People's Party, on the list of

Forza Italia Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Ital ...

) was elected President of the Region, defeating

Diego Masi Diego Masi (Cremona, February 11, 1947) is an Italian entrepreneur and politician. He overlooked the political scene during the elections of 1994 as a member of the Segni Pact. Before that, he had been city councillor in Milan as part of Chris ...

( Segni Pact) and Francesco Speroni (

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Electoral system

Lombardy used for the first time the national ''Tatarella Law'' to elect its Council. Sixty-four councillors are elected in

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constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a

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and open lists; remained seats and votes are grouped at regional level where a

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is used, and then distributed to provincial party lists. Sixteen councillors are elected

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using a

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: parties are grouped in alliances, and the alliance which receives a

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of votes elects all its candidates, its leader becoming the President of Lombardy. If an alliance wins more than 60% of votes, only 8 candidates from the regional list will be chosen and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 72; if the winning alliance receives less than 50% of votes, special seats are added to the Council to ensure a large majority for the President's coalition.

Council apportionment

According to the official 1991 Italian census, the 64 Council seats which must be covered by proportional representation were so distributed between Lombard provinces. The allocation is not fixed. Remaining seats and votes after proportional distribution, are all grouped at regional level and divided by party lists. The consequent division of these seats at provincial level usually change the original apportionment. Only 41 seats were directly assigned at provincial level, and the final distribution between provinces changed in this way. As it can be seen, the simple

victory of the Pole of Freedoms caused the distribution of ten more seats to the President's majority at provincial level. Brescia and Como and Pavia received two new seats,

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

and Lodi and Milan and Varese one each.

Parties and candidates

Results

In the context of the profound political changes that invested Italy between 1992 and 1994, Italian Parliament changed the regional electoral law, adapting them to new majoritarian principle now in vogue in the country, trim and tend bipolar politics. The new political geography, however, did not fit properly to

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where, besides a garrison of

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, assumed significant importance the presence of Umberto Bossi's

, during the previous five years had not made any secret to aim the conquest of the Regional Presidency as a key step for a transformation of Italy in a federal state. In addition to the League, however, another major innovation had originated in Lombardy in 1994: the descent into the political field of Silvio Berlusconi, who by its movement

had collected anti-

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orphans of deceased traditional parties. The central political alliances had not been followed up at Lombardy, with the League in sharp contrast with Forza Italia, not only for connecting the latter with the newly formed training nationalist and post-

fascist Fascism is a far-right, Authoritarianism, authoritarian, ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist political Political ideology, ideology and Political movement, movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and pol ...

of National Alliance, but mainly because the entrance into the political arena of Forza Italia, accused by the League to be the '' trojan horse'' for the recycling of the old political class, had led to the arrest of the Northern League's electoral steady ascent - which had previously yielded the capture of the City of Milan in 1993 - if not also a marked reflux into the consent of the federalist party. The election on 23 April saw the success of the broad coalition of Berlusconi, grouping ex- Christian Democrats, ex- Socialists, Liberals and post-

, and led to presidency Communion and Liberation's

that, with the majority premium, was able to give life to the first government in the history of the region that managed to last the entire legislature.

Results by province

Results by capital city

References

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