The Ligurian regional election of 2005 took place on 3–4 April 2005. Claudio Burlando ( Democrats of the Left) defeated incumbent

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(an independent close to

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Electoral system

Regional elections in Liguria were ruled by the "Tatarella law" (approved in 1995), which provided for a mixed electoral system: four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in

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constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a

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and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a "single regional constituency", where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare method among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a

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: the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the Region while the other candidates were elected regional councilors. A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which, however, could still have entered the

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if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes. The '' panachage'' was also allowed: the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

Parties and candidates

Results

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